Courting Failure : How Competition for Big Cases Is Corrupting the Bankruptcy Courts / / Lynn M. LoPucki.

• Author: LoPucki, Lynn M.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (335 p.)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

"LoPucki provides a scathing attack on reorganization practice. Courting Failure recounts how lawyers, managers and judges have transformed Chapter 11. It uses empirical data to explore how the interests of the various participants have combined to create a system markedly different from the on...

Table of Contents

• New York's game : 1980-86
• The rise of Delaware : 1990-96
• The federal government strikes back
• Failure
• The competition goes national
• Corruption
• The competition goes global
• Global and out of control?
• Ideology.