• Photos from the October CLE Luncheon. Do you have other event photos? Please send to [email protected]!
• Pro Bono Week events from the court
• Celebrate Pro Bono Week with 1 hour of FREE CLE
• Administrative Order FLMB-2025-1 Prescribing Procedures for Chapter 13 Cases Filed on or After October 1, 2025, was entered yesterday. The amendment reflects information for new Standing Chapter 13 Trustee Daryl Smith.
• Reassignment of Fort Myers Division Cases. On October 2, 2025, the Honorable Luis E. Rivera II was sworn in as the Middle District of Florida’s newest bankruptcy judge. Although Judge Rivera’s duty station is in Tampa, he will preside over Fort Myers Division cases and plans to sit in Fort Myers every other week. Over the next two months, Fort Myers cases and hearings will be transitioned from Judge Delano to Judge Rivera. Full memo can be found here.
• Attached is a position announcement for two Judicial Law Clerk positions with the Honorable Luis E. Rivera II in the Tampa Division.
• New Administrative Order on Pro Bono Service. The 13th Judicial Circuit has issued Administrative Order S-2025-048, effective October 1, 2025, regarding Pro Bono Service. This order supersedes Administrative Order S-2023-038. Please review the attached document for full details.
• Jeff Schlerf has assumed the leadership of the in-person TBBBA Pro Bono Clinic and needs your help! The clinic is open every Wednesday afternoon from 2 – 4 pm on the 9^th floor of the Federal Courthouse and there are plenty of volunteer slots to fill. Here is the sign up link:  Tampa Bay Bankruptcy Bar Association: Pro Bono Clinic In-Person Volunteer Sign Up. Thanks to those who regularly volunteer.  We encourage all TBBBA members to contribute time to this very worthwhile service to the community.
• Registration is now open for View from the Bench. The Tampa program will be on November 6 with the reception on November 5.

Champion	Sponsors
Leadership	Partnership
Friend of the Bar

Video Library

A wealth of CLE videos from our monthly CLE luncheons and other programs are available on-demand to our members.

What is the TBBBA?

The Tampa Bay Bankruptcy Bar Association is a voluntary bar organization with members representing debtors, creditors and trustees in bankruptcy.  All attorneys who practice in the Middle District of Florida are invited to join. Membership is also open to our panel trustees, members of the bar at large, and law students.

The Association sponsors monthly luncheons with speakers and frequent seminars which qualify for Florida Bar continuing legal education credit.  In addition, there are monthly informal consumer attorney meetings to discuss practice pointers, often with the participation of one or more of the local bankruptcy judges.

A goal of the Association is to provide its members with information necessary to the bankruptcy practice in the Tampa Division.  In addition to the Cramdown, a quarterly publication, periodic e-mail messages keep the membership informed of current bankruptcy issues.

Members are actively involved in a range of projects.  One project designed to assist debtors that cannot afford attorney representation is the Pro Se Assistance Clinic, which provides an opportunity for free information and guidance on a limited basis at set times at the courthouse.  Another is working with the judiciary and the clerk’s office to promote communication and meet the needs of all parties in the bankruptcy system.

Working together, through pro bono, educational, and social activities, Association members have developed a camaraderie among bankruptcy practitioners in this division that is noteworthy.  Please join us in this endeavor and we welcome your thoughts and ideas on how the Association can better serve its members, the Bankruptcy Court, and the community.