In October 2005, LexBlog went live with my Bankruptcy Litigation Blog, then the internet’s first bankruptcy-related blog and only the 16th blog that LexBlog had taken live.

The blog had a strong run, earning more than 1.5 million substantive hits, including from courts in every federal district as well as the United States Supreme Court. Each year, new friendships developed, many of which have stood the test of time.

Nine years after my last post, I’ve decided to restart the blog. The impulse is the same one I described when I launched the blog in 2005: a determination to stay current with the law as it develops, inspired by my mentor, Judge Diane Wood, while avoiding the all-too-common temptation to engage in pointless and incessant barking.

I won’t pretend to know how often I’ll post or how long this experiment will last, but I hope each post proves worthy of a few minutes of your time.