Just plain awful … Bankruptcy Lawyer Loses Clients their Home Judge John R. Hawkinson of District Court in Grand Rapids has ruled in favor of Thomas and Sandra May in a civil suit they brought against a Park Rapids attorney. The judge has ordered Bill Jones to pay the couple $49,721.50 in damages plus interest...Read More

No smart-ass tagline needed on this one … Lawyer Disbarred for Bankruptcy Ebezzlement Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday disbarred a Gulf Coast attorney sentenced in January to 26 months in prison for bankruptcy embezzlement. William S. Boyd III of Gulfport pleaded guilty last fall in federal court in Gulfport,...Read More

From the U.S. Department of Poetic Justice, Cruel Irony Division … AmeriDebt Files for Chapter 11 Protection Credit-counseling company AmeriDebt, charged by federal regulators with using deceptive marketing to bilk hundreds of thousands of customers, filed for bankruptcy yesterday, the company announced. Christine Kraly, a spokeswoman for the Germantown-based company, said the filing for Chapter...Read More