You Have Got To Love The Northern District Of Texas

Bankruptcy courts come with all sorts of efficiencies (or lack thereof).  Most bankruptcy judges are geniuses in the application of the law, but some are just terrible at overseeing or management duties.  They simply tend to promulgate systems and rules that just do not work well in practice.

From a litigation standpoint nobody much beats the Northern District of Texas in how it efficiently processes adversary proceedings.  For example, my office filed an adversary proceeding this morning.  About an hour later the office of the Bankruptcy Clerk had already prepared a summons and a comprehensive scheduling order to serve with the pleadings, and sent them to me via email.  This afternoon the pleadings will be in the mail on their way to the Defendants.

With the increasing sophistication of technology, we will soon be able to package these documents together in a PDF format, upload it through the Postal Service website, and serve the summons, order and Complaint by certified mail over the computer without even leaving the desk.  With the Northern District of Texas it will take a half a day tops to get this done.

The worst Bankruptcy Court in Texas in this regard?  I had better not say.