This case involves yet another collision between traditional methods of providing – and policing – legal services to consumers for bankruptcy matters and attempts by attorneys and creative online marketers to tap into that market on a high-volume, multi-jurisdictional basis. ...

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A former Virginia lawyer seeking to regain his license cannot dis­charge his financial obligation to the Virginia State Bar in bank­ruptcy court, a judge has ruled. Martinsville’s Rickey Gene Young has been trying to return to the ranks of Virginia ...

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A recently launched net­work of bankruptcy law­yers billed as a “nation­wide online law firm” is under fire in a Virginia court. A regional U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee is suing a network of entities operating as “UpRight Law,” including two of the ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Darren Delafield John C. Morgan Jr. Judge Paul M. Black U.S. Bankruptcy Court UpRight