Forty million student debtors are waiting anxiously for President Biden's loan forgiveness plan to kick in. Biden wants to knock off $1...

  I grew up in a small Oklahoma town before the era of the big box stores. If my family wanted to buy a small appliance, a birthday present,...

Years ago, I traveled through central Uganda in a Land Rover, accompanied by a native guide. As we came around a curve in the road, we surpr...

 President Biden signed t he  Bankruptcy Threshold Adjustment and Technical Corrections Act yesterday, and congressional leaders are pattin...

The White House  is extending the pause on student-loan payments until August 31st--an extraordinary development. By the time this pause en...

 When Joe Biden was running for President, he said he would cancel $10,000 of every college borrower's student debt if Congress consent...

Quite a few country songs are about guys who made a big mistake when they were young and went to prison. Merle Haggard tells a story about a...

 According to a recent report by the Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS), the 2020 class of college graduates has amassed $136...

 Vista College, a chain of for-profit college campuses, closed and  went bankrupt a few days ago.  Most Vista campuses are in Texas, but th...

A common saying when I was young (in the last century) was the old adage that lawyers are people who wish to make a lot of money but are ris...

 Many years ago, when I was a fledgling attorney, my senior partner gave me some advice I never forgot.  He told me that a competent attorne...

 Is this the year of Jubilee? Is this the year that distressed student-loan debtors finally get to shake off mountainous debt in the bankrup...

  A little good news. The COVID relief bill that Congress passed a few days ago includes  modest tax relief  for student debtors whose colle...

Laurina Kim Bukovics enrolled as a freshman at the University of Wisconsin in 1985 and graduated five years later. She took out about $20,00...

As John Lennon famously observed, "Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans." Certainly, Mr. Shenk, a mil...

Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, asked seven big-bank executives an ignorant question when she...

Let me begin by saying I recognized global warning a long time ago--before Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was born. I lived in Alask...

By Steve Rhode .  November 27, 2017 One of our very own student loan attorneys,  Austin Smith , recently scored an important victory on...