Bankruptcy cases filed in federal courts for fiscal year 2009 rose 34.5 percent, when compared to FY 2008 filings. Bankruptcy and other court units experiencing a rise in filings will receive just over $5 billion in appropriations under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2010.

As bankruptcies have surged in the past few years, Colorado Springs attorney John Turner was forced to do something almost unheard of lately: He hired people to help keep up with business, the Gazette newspaper reports.

Married Colorado bankruptcy attorneys Gailyn and Michael Wink , co-founders of Wink & Wink, P.C., announce that they recently began blogging about consumer rights, Colorado bankruptcy law news and commentary, and the joys of working with your spouse on “He Said, She Said”.