For Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys
A peer-led platform from longtime bankruptcy attorney Matt McCune, sharing practical insights, experiments, and lessons on AI, automation, and where the practice of consumer bankruptcy is going next.
Weekly. Practical. No hype. No spam.
Why This Matters
The Code is complex. The stakes are human. And yet, for most firms, the day-to-day work still looks the way it did twenty years ago: paper, PDFs, re-keyed data, duplicated intake, and tools that don't talk to each other.
Clients fill out forms, staff re-enter the data, and everyone loses time. The information is right there — it just isn't connected.
Bank records, tax returns, paystubs, schedules, 341 prep — scattered across tools, inboxes, and folders no system actually understands.
Most firms are still answering the same ten questions a hundred times a week, by phone, when better systems could meet clients where they are.
AI isn't replacing bankruptcy lawyers. But the firms that understand how to use it well will operate very differently in five years.
"The opportunity isn't to automate bankruptcy. It's to remove the friction around it — so attorneys can actually do the work that requires judgment, and clients get a better experience in one of the worst moments of their financial lives." — Matt McCune
The Platform
BankruptcyAttorney.ai is where practicing consumer bankruptcy attorneys can follow real experiments and practical ideas about AI, workflow, and the systems underneath a modern practice. Peer-to-peer. Practical. Open.
What large language models can actually do inside a consumer bankruptcy practice — and where they quietly fall apart. Specific, tested, and honest.
Intake, case prep, document handling, client communication, matter management. The operational layer that decides how much leverage a firm actually has.
How consumer bankruptcy should feel to the person going through it — and how better systems make better lawyering possible, not the other way around.
What is being built, broken, re-built. Breakdowns of tools that work. Interviews with attorneys, operators, and builders shaping the next version of this practice area.
Data, integrations, document automation, and the quiet plumbing of a bankruptcy firm. Not glamorous. Enormously consequential.
Honest commentary on where legal tech, AI, and consumer bankruptcy intersect — and what it means for solo and small-firm attorneys over the next few years.
About Matt McCune
Matt has spent roughly twenty-five years practicing consumer bankruptcy law and has handled thousands of Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 matters. He's not writing about this from the sidelines. He's writing about it from inside the practice — from intake forms to 341 meetings, from software evaluations to late-night workflow rewrites.
Over the last few years, much of his focus has shifted to the systems underneath the work: how AI, automation, and better infrastructure can let bankruptcy attorneys do the parts of the job that actually require a lawyer — and let everything else take less time and cause less friction.
BankruptcyAttorney.ai is the home for those ideas — shared openly, with other attorneys who are asking the same questions.
Featured Video
A short introduction to BankruptcyAttorney.ai and why AI, workflow, and better systems are going to matter in consumer bankruptcy practice.
Watch Matt's introduction to BankruptcyAttorney.ai — what this is, who it's for, and what you can expect from the newsletter and the broader community around it.
What You'll Get
Short, substantive emails with practical ideas — the kind of thing you'd want a thoughtful colleague to send you. No hype, no filler, no "10x your firm."
What actually works inside a bankruptcy practice — prompts, tools, pipelines, and the places where AI is worse than a paralegal.
Intake redesigns, document handling systems, matter-status dashboards. Things that are being tested in a real firm, not theorized.
What's worth using, what's overhyped, and what's quietly become table stakes. Built for solo and small-firm realities.
Small, high-leverage changes in how clients interact with your firm — and why the "customer" side of bankruptcy matters more than ever.
Conversations with attorneys, operators, and builders who are actually shipping interesting things in bankruptcy and adjacent practice areas.
A clear-eyed read on the direction of legal tech, AI, and consumer bankruptcy — so you can make decisions with a longer horizon.
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