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Year In Review…..SC Bankruptcy Law and My Office, 2007 (Part One)

January 20th, 2008    •  by Showell    •   Comments Off

Well, one of my goals for 2007 was to Blog daily, because so many things are happening in the field of bankruptcy law these day, and I’m doing several things to try to keep ahead. However, I failed miserably at Blogging. So, I came up with the bright idea of at least doing a Year-End ......

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Good day world! We are happy to be here…and happy to have the new SC Homestead Exemption.

March 11th, 2007    •  by Showell    •   Comments Off

Well, if you have ever been to this site, you’ll note that it launched on 11/25/06. I really was hoping to do a general announcement that we were, you know, happy to be here hopefully providing a motherload of general and some specific information about bankruptcy law, instead of just being a cyberyellowpagead. Well, I’m ......

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Website Presentation Coming Soon

September 25th, 2006    •  by Showell    •   Comments Off

I’m working on finalizing my outline of my presentation about Bankruptcy Law on October 3, 2006 at York Technical College as part of the SC Bar Association’s Law School for Non-Lawyers. I’m going to give an hour and a half presentation as sort of an intro to bankruptcy law for any members of the general ......

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Handling Changes

September 24th, 2006    •  by Showell    •   Comments Off

Well, I’m working like crazy to get this website up and running, proofing, changing things to fit the law as it is this week. And I do mean “as it is this wee”. I went to the Mecklenburg County Bar Association’s Bankruptcy Seminar two days ago. It had a law professor from Wake Forest School ......

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National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys

September 18th, 2006    •  by Showell    •   Comments Off

Today I heard from the Board of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys and they have chosen me to be their South Carolina Representative. As I understand it, basically, I am going to do two things: first, work on membership by trying to get the SC members to stay being members, and trying to ......

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