The courts are flooded with bankruptcy litigation, and a case halfway across the country could make or break the one you're working on now:

·Bankruptcy court jurisdiction is expanding so that even peripheral issues are 'core.'

· Exemptions: The push for Congressional bankruptcy reform is about to change the way debtors' and creditors' attorneys calculate Chapter 11 assets.

· Enronitis is an epidemic, with corporate lawyers nationwide scrambling to learn newstrategies from the mess.

· Automatic stays are becoming less automatic - and debtors stand to lose big.

· Bankruptcy partners are jumping ship from powerhouse firms - you'll be surprised where they're going, and why.

· Visa and Mastercard are still clamoring for modifications of personal bankruptcy laws, and Congress is lending a receptive ear.

· The Federal Arbitration Act could be your clients' Achilles' heel.

· DIP-financing: You could be throwing good money after bad with super-priority schemes.

How can you keep on top of it all? Now there's a way: the National Litigation Bureau's Bankruptcy Law & Litigation Report. We scour the world of bankruptcy litigation - in and beyond bankruptcy courts - to bring you the most significant points of law.