Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026As Semafor reports, sometimes it takes a group of bankruptcy geeks to tell the difference between an easter egg and a time bomb. This letter by a group of law professors explains the risks of the "insolvency safe harbor" in the pending crypto bill. cdn.sanity.io/files/ifn0l6... 000
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Everybody seems to think that they are the marginal white male… 020
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Here's a link to Jason Iuliano's empirical study, cited in the article: www.ablj.org/bridging-the...ablj.orgBridging the Student Loan Bankruptcy Gap – Vol. 99, Issue 3 – PDFBridging the Student Loan Bankruptcy Gap Download PDF 010
Reposted by Ted JangerJen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 28/12/2025“Now I have the financial freedom to pursue my dreams of homeownership,” Ms. Howdyshell said. ‘It was a scary process but worth the gamble.’ “She is just one among the small fraction of borrowers who file adversary proceedings.” 14114
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 28/12/2025More Student Loan Borrowers Are Shedding Debts in Bankruptcy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/b... Important information here. Great work by Jason Iuliano.nytimes.comMore Student Loan Borrowers Are Shedding Debts in Bankruptcy 2228
Reposted by Ted JangerRebekah Young @rebekahwyoung.bsky.social · 19/12/2025I think this is exactly right … I’m just old enough to have had a beloved great aunt with numbers tattooed on her arm. Her explanation of how she got them forever changed my little kid brain 031
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Thank you (et al) for writing the book. You guys did the hard work!! 000
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Thank you, Ed Boltz, for a very generous reading of my essay reviewing "Debt's Grip" by @proffoohey.bsky.social, @boblawless.bsky.social, and Deb Thorne. ncbankruptcyexpert.com/2025/12/02/l...ncbankruptcyexpert.comLaw Review: Janger, Edward J., Consumer Bankruptcy, Household Debt, and the Big Picture -- Pamela Foohey, Bob Lawless and Deborah Thorne, Debt’s Grip (November 24, 2025). Brooklyn Law School, Legal St...Available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5798042 Abstract: 011
Reposted by Ted JangerSam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Judge Sooknanan is giving a master class in judging during the Trump Administration -- but really in how judges should always value the people whose lives are affected by their decisions. 237065
Reposted by Ted Jangeredboltz.bsky.social @edboltz.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Law Review: @dalie.bsky.social , Missing Strugglers: Debt's Reach, Bankruptcy's Limits, and a Proxy for Who's Left Out (July 31, 2025). dlvr.it/TMbV4ndlvr.itLaw Review: Jiménez, Dalié, Missing Strugglers: Debt's Reach, Bankruptcy's Limits, and a Proxy for Who's Left Out (July 31, 2025). | Your North Carolina Bankruptcy ExpertAvailable at: SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5377387 Summary: 122
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Not defending tariffs (at all), but the story is a bit more complicated: “The British Parliament passed the Tea Act in May 1773 to help the company. This gave the East India Company a tax break on their tea, which made it cheaper than tea that was being smuggled into the colonies from other places.”jyfmuseums.org 000
Reposted by Ted JangerPeople’s Parity Project @peoplesparity.bsky.social · 07/05/2025🚨 Registration is LIVE! 🚨 There has never been a more important time for pro-people, pro-democracy lawyers and law students to get organized. actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve... 1104
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Meritocracy is a myth; but basic competence would be refreshing. 030
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 29/04/2025"President Trump’s China tariffs are threatening Christmas." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b....nytimes.comRetailers Fear Toy Shortages at Christmas as Tariffs Freeze Supply ChainToy makers and stores are freezing holiday orders, predicting shortages and higher prices. Some are consulting bankruptcy lawyers, fearing their firms won’t survive. 010
Reposted by Ted JangerJoanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 09/04/2025It has nothing to do with antisemitism. That’s a cover—for whatever the heck they want to do. And using Jews as a partisan ploy? THAT’S antisemitic. 10686129
Reposted by Ted JangerTimothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Law students say they want to work for the firms standing up to Trump www.politico.com/news/2025/04...politico.comLaw students say they want to work for the firms standing up to TrumpLaw students are weighing whether to take jobs at firms that have either capitulated to Trump or are fighting him in court. 210336
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 10/04/2025“Anyone who knows Susman Godfrey knows we believe in the rule of law, and we take seriously our duty to uphold it,” the firm said on Wednesday. “There is no question that we will fight this unconstitutional order.”” 000
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 10/04/2025“On Wednesday, Mr. Trump hit another firm, Susman Godfrey, with an executive order. The firm, which plans to fight Mr. Trump’s order, represented Dominion, a manufacturer of voting machines that lawyers allied with Mr. Trump falsely attacked.” 100
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 10/04/2025As one would predict re Susman (and others). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...nytimes.comTrump Close to Winning Concessions From More Law FirmsFour or five firms could soon agree to deals that would be unveiled as a package, in an escalation of the president’s crackdown on an industry that has drawn his ire. 100
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Now we get to see what happens when they sue a litigation boutique (Susman, Godfrey). 100
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Whelp, this "event study" appears to be bearing out your hypothesis: www.law.com/newyorklawjo...law.comAmicus Brief Supporting Perkins Coie Gets 170 Signatures so Far, but Few Am Law 100 FirmsAs of Sunday, only a handful of Am Law 100 firms have signed onto the amicus brief, sources say 110
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 01/04/2025This song is stuck in my head today: Arlo Guthrie singing a song by his dad youtu.be/qu-duTWccyI?...youtu.beDeportee (Plane Crash At Los Gatos) Woody GuthrieYouTube video by Colin Wright 010
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 29/03/2025One key lesson of the PW and Skadden debacles may be that a law firm should not let their transactional lawyers determine their litigation tactics… 1140
Reposted by Ted JangerRick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 28/03/2025WilmerHale was polite, professional, and direct. BigLaw could learn. Now, WilmerHale needs to actually fight this thing out. These orders are blatantly, insanely unconstitutional. 12991852100
Reposted by Ted Jangermjburnett.bsky.social @mjburnett.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Less than 10 state bar associations signed onto this ABA statement in support of the rule of law? www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...americanbar.org 201
Reposted by Ted JangerCyberDean07 ⚖️🏛️ @cyberdean07.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Statement of U.S. law deans, 26 March 2025 011
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Re-upping this!! It's going to be great. If you want to see the full agenda, and/or RSVP, here's the link: www.brooklaw.edu/news-and-eve...brooklaw.eduBrooklyn Law School - Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law Annual Symposium: Debt in the Real World 051
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 26/03/2025To this end, the firm seeks to attract lawyers reflecting a wide variety of religious, political, ethnic, cultural, gender, sexual orientation and social backgrounds characteristic of the city of its home." 010
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 26/03/2025 Its partners are committed to providing excellence in the rendition of legal services at the pinnacle of the profession while remaining actively engaged in matters of social consequence. 110
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The firm’s governance is dedicated to the principle of one partner/one vote, no matter seniority or client appeal, and to universal service in all aspects of firm administration, with attendant transparency in firm management and collegiality in firm culture. 110
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 26/03/2025through such practice to earn a living and to derive the stimulation and pleasure of worthwhile adventure; and in all things to govern ourselves as members of a free democratic society with responsibilities both to our profession and our country.” 110
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 26/03/2025"The goal, Simon Rifkind wrote in 1963 in the Statement of Firm Principles, is “to achieve the highest order of excellence in the practice of the art, the science and the profession of the law; backgrounds characteristic of the city of its home." 120
Reposted by Ted JangerBrad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 25/03/2025<saves to show FOIA office> 20865281058
Reposted by Ted JangerThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025WARNER: “Were you in the group chat?” GABBARD: “I won’t get into specifics.” WARNER: “Is that because it’s classified?” 🎯 🔥 Warner rightly dragging them for an unbelievable situation. 🎪 28692422128
Reposted by Ted JangerSpencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 21/03/2025Hate having to share a Substack, but here's one to read. Anyways, the "Not in Our Name" letter has been signed by more than 2,600 US Jewish academics (I'm #144). And frankly, I don't know if there's ever been that much collective consensus by Jews about... anything. docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comNot In Our NameSign the Statement March 11, 2025 Not in our name. We are Jewish professors, staff members, and students from universities across the United States. We hold various views about Israel and Palestine... 13115
Reposted by Ted JangerBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 21/03/2025A friend’s disgusted reaction to Paul, Weiss: “So many non-profit lawyers have been so busy working on cases against the unconstitutional actions of the Administration, because the big firm lawyers with multiple houses and cars and boats and every other damn thing are too fucking weak to do it.” 884264911
Reposted by Ted JangerPeter M. Shane @petermshane.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Just to be clear, the executive branch has no constitutional authority to refuse a court appearance on the ground of a unilateral determination that the law favors the president’s position. If the courts don’t push back, the rule of law, always precarious, never perfectly realized, is dead. 1236
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 14/03/2025One word: Filibuster! www.schumer.senate.gov/contact/mess...schumer.senate.govMessage Chuck | U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer of New YorkThe Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Chuck Schumer of New York 120
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Thank you for posting Dalie!! Can’t wait to see you all! 010
Reposted by Ted JangerDalié Jiménez @dalie.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Very excited to participate in this amazing symposium at @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social organized by @tjanger.bsky.social celebrating/discussing 5 forthcoming books on consumer debt and bankruptcy! check out the all star panels! Registration and full agenda here: www.brooklaw.edu/news-and-eve... 223
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 11/03/2025You can't make this stuff up . . . www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXeW...youtube.comRobin Williams Blame Canada HQ High Quality Oscars 2000 HDYouTube video by tpacey1 000
Reposted by Ted JangerSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Never forget this day, February 28, 2025, when an American president abused and betrayed a democratic ally in the midst of a barbaric war with Russia. This grotesque stain will never wash away. 10044240310832
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 28/02/2025@jbf1755.bsky.social -- This is the question of the day! 000
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 17/02/2025I have been puzzling over whether a judgment for contempt issued by a federal could be enforced in state court by state officials. 010
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Yes. Trump reveals that it has always been a mistake to fetishize the paper, rather than the institutional structure (and disbursed allocation of power) it created. That structure appears to be crumbling . . . 000
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Law professor friends, this letter is making the rounds. No doubt, many of you have already seen it. I have signed it. We all should. It seems to me that it merely states the obvious, but sometimes it is necessary to shout the obvious from the rooftops. . . docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.com“We Are in a Constitutional Crisis”: Statement of Law Professors and Law Teachers[Please read, sign, and circulate to colleagues as you see fit. Letter and list of signatories will be released to media on or about February 24. Many thanks.] The undersigned are professors and teach... 042
Ted Janger @tjanger.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Hot off the presses! scholarship.law.marquette.edu/mulr/vol108/... 010