Lawyers, particularly women, might find offensive an erotic scene under the table in Gwen’s office, reaching orgasm while negotiating an important assignment on the telephone. Patton, who is usually brilliant in small offbeat roles, is miscast here in the underwritten role of the bland husband we never get a sense of the kind of marriage the Warwicks have. As Martin, gifted character actor Coleman is wasted in an unrewarding role, while Wirth mostly acts on his handsome looks as the stranger with a “mysterious” motive. Judicial Consent is too obvious and too conscious of its genre.(Reuters) - For the chief judge of one of the busiest bankruptcy courts in the country, doing right by the debt-burdened individuals who appear before her is critical for many reasons. But the one she tries to keep top of mind is that those people often can’t afford to appeal a ruling they think is wrong.
That approach has served as a guiding principle for Chief Judge Cecelia Morris of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York throughout her judicial career, which has largely focused on consumer cases rather than corporate ones. Twenty-one years after joining the bench, she has retained her passion for working with people who seek help via bankruptcy.
“So one of the things you want to do as much as you possibly can – and I think this is true of all judges but I really feel very committed to it in a consumer case – you want to get it right.” “Most of the people that come before us that are consumer filers do not have the resources to appeal,” Morris said in a recent interview with Reuters. Watching a lawyer who is not making the best case for a bankrupt client can be heartbreaking in her eyes – though she says most of the attorneys she sees are competent and caring. On the other hand, if the debtor is presenting his own case, she can sometimes help guide that person, she said. With the exception of an occasional high-profile commercial bankruptcy, like that of luxury department store Barneys New York Inc in 2019, Morris oversees mostly consumer bankruptcies in Poughkeepsie, New York.