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By Adina Pollan, Pollan Legal Originally published in The Bar Bulletin in the Jacksonville Daily Record On August 11, 2020, Stein Mart announced it had filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11, following an extensive list of prestigious retail brands that had done the same in 2020: Tailored Brands, Lord & Taylor, Neiman Marcus, Brooks Brothers, to name...Read More

by Erich Durlacher, Burr & Forman Seven Stars on the Hudson Corp., Case No. 19-17544-SMG (Bankr. S.D. Fla. Aug. 7, 2020) PDF version with footnotes “Timing in Life Is Everything” – John Sculley Relying on a plain reading of Sections 1188 and 1189 of the Bankruptcy Code, Bankruptcy Judge Scott M. Grossman dismissed the Seven...Read More

By Erin Hoskins, Esq., Law Clerk to the Honorable Peter D. Russin, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Florida Florida state and federal courts have increasingly been asked to interpret the terms of reverse mortgage documents to decide whether documents contemporaneously executed along with the mortgage can alter the defined terms of the mortgage.  The...Read More