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The Glannon Guide to Bankruptcy: Guide to Bankruptcy (Glannon Guides)

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The consensus seems to be that this is better than the E&E competitor. I can't comment on that, because this is the only guide I bought.

Better or not, though, it needs improvement.

There are a surprising number of typos for a second edition*, including numbers in the examples that conflict with those used in the explanatory text, but its problems only start there.

It's badly organized. It seems like it was set up to reflect the progression of a very specific class. Issues aren't dealt with in one place exhaustively, but touched on in several. If you're using the book for end of semester review, or as a reference, this is frustrating because you can't just turn to one place for a complete answer.

Explanations of bankruptcy concepts are necessarily tricky sometimes, but I'm not sure that excuses chestnuts like this one on page 239: "One aspect of feasibility is quite stringent, namely that the payments proposed under the plan must actually add up to enough money to make the payments proposed in the plan." You can read that as many times as you like, but it'll still be as assertion that X=X under the bankruptcy code.

The book's most serious failings, though, is that it was clearly revised in a hurry to incorporate the 2005 Amendments. The speculative analysis of how the law was likely to develop after those changes was probably helpful in 2006, a year before this was published, but the rest of us would have been well served by an equally hurried effort to get a third edition out to encapsulate the actual case law. The cover's promise that the book's been "revised for the 2005 amendments" is misleading in 2009, when students should reasonably expect better than four year old speculations.

I'm giving it three stars because the bar for law school study aids is really low. This could actually be the best one on the topic.


* I appreciate that any review criticizing typos is sure to have at least six of them in it, so feel free to count

This is one of the few legal supplements/guides out there that has the 2005 code updates in it. Thank goodness it's out there.

The Glannon Guide to Bankruptcy lays it out fairly simply. It broke everything down into easy 10-15 page chapters, used charts, and had mini quizzes at the end of every chapter, with an analysis of the correct and wrong answers. I just found it much more user friendly. I also found the explanations to be much, much clearer. Maybe I'm just bankruptcy-challenged, but I loved this guide and it really helped with my final exam.

I tried the Examples and Explanations guide to Bankruptcy at the same time I got this one -- what a waste of money, with regard to the E&E. I like my supplements to be clear and easy to read. The E&E is more for people who want something in the beginning of the semester, and want to have an extra bit of reading and analysis with their reading. Just not my thing.

I never relied on commercial outlines in law school, but I did use my share during my three years to help study for finals. This outline was easily the worst... by far. It was so bad I sent it back to Amazon after a first read. The Bankruptcy Nutshell is far, far superior.

First, the information in the book is lacking any depth and explanation of the concepts. It gives you no more of an explanation than you can find by searching Google. Indeed, an outline is supposed to condense lots of info and make it understandable, but this outline gives so little info you can't understand the material without already having a strong knowledge of the topic or supplementing it with another commercial outline.

Second, the problems were a joke. There were a few throughout the book, and they were so easy they hardly teach you anything (if anything they decrease your knowledge of bankruptcy). If these problems are indicative of what the professor who wrote this book considers law school level problems, then she needs to be fired. Law school exams should never be that easy.

I ended up with an A in my Bankruptcy class, but it was not a result of perusing this worthless book. Reading the textbook, making my own outline, and the Nutshell Bankruptcy book were the keys to my success.

Truthfully, I used this guide to help me get some last minute studying done for my Debtor-Creditor class. I also used the Nutshell that's been updated for the 2005 amendments. Of the two, the Nutshell is much better.

The pluses of this guide is that covers the material in a lot of depth, especially where the Nutshell didn't get into too much detail on some of the new provisions of the bankruptcy code. The downside is that even though it has questions, the questions are very simplistic and not at all like the kind you're going to get on your exam. Many of the questions try to trick you with the wording so it can teach you to read the question carefully. Frankly, I'm not sure my professors think that hard about the wording of the question--they seem to want to know if you could actually do the work for a real client by identifying the issues and the possible solutions. So in that sense, I found the questions totally useless.

One other advantage--it covers Ch7, Ch13 and Ch11 which are the biggies and the chapters are short. Not a bad resource, but not the best.

The guide was easy to follow and the multiple choice questions helped solidify the information and my knowledge of it.

Professor Martin has done a great job with this book. Law students will find it very helpful. For students and business people looking for an introduction to Chapter 11 reorganiztions, I also highly recommend Attorney Alderman's book:Chapter 11 Business Reorganizations: For Business Leaders, Accountants And Lawyers.

Bought this book for my bankruptcy class and found it very helpful. The author explained the legal concepts and policies in a clear and concise way so you can get a very good overall picture of bankruptcy law. The problems can help you test your understanding of the code and prepare for the exam, too.

I was having difficulty applying many of the concepts in the course. Bankruptcy is definitely not intuitive and this book nicely breaks down the law and is great for understanding and excelling in your final. It really helped me with my MC section.

This supplement is very helpful to understand the underlying rational of the U.S. Bankruptcy system (Chapter 7, 13 and 11). Very organized, plain English, clear explanation. I recommend this book especially for LL.M. student like me.

I really liked this book - served its purpose (to teach me bankruptcy for my final)