Our law firm Phillips & Thomas, LLC continues its winning record in student loan litigation with two recent cases decided in Federal Court in Kansas in July 2025. The first case was tried before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Kansas, and the Court’s ruling was handed down on July 16, 2025.
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Our law firm, Phillips & Thomas LLC, was recently interviewed by Tara S. Bernard, a financial journalist at the New York Times, in relation to student loan discharge issues in bankruptcy. The article is entitled “Discharging Student Loan Debt Is Supposed to Be Easier Than Before,” and appeared the Times on August 9, 2023.
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In early October 2022, Phillips & Thomas LLC successfully litigated a student loan adversary proceeding that arose out of a Chapter 7 bankruptcy case in the District of Kansas. The case was In Re Vasko (Adv. No. 21-6020, District of Kansas, June 7, 2021). The facts were as follows.
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Our Johnson County, Kansas law firm located in Leawood is a veteran-owned business. One of our attorneys and owners, George Thomas, had a prior career as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps before attending law school and becoming an attorney. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) on a Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) scholarship from 1986 to 1990.
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We have moved our bankruptcy, criminal defense, and traffic law firm to a new location in Leawood, Kansas. After spending the past 22 years located in Prairie Village, Phillips & Thomas, LLC, will now be located in beautiful Park Place in Leawood, Kansas. Park Place is located just one block north of Town Center Plaza Shopping Center and also is close to the former Sprint Campus. We are also near the busy intersection of 119th Street and Nall and are also just a few minutes south of I-435. The new address is:
Our phone number of 913-385-9900 and email addresses will remain the same. We look forward to serving you at our new location!
We have received many calls lately asking how bankruptcy can help during the financial crisis triggered by the the Covid-19 virus outbreak. As everyone knows, recent months have seen unprecedented events disrupt the normal patterns of life all across the globe in the wake of the pandemic. This turbulence has left many of us feeling apprehensive, uneasy, and insecure. It has also caused a great deal of financial hardship for both businesses and individuals. Many people are out of work, or have seen their incomes go down dramatically.
The “means test” Form 122A in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy case is surrounded by myth, flawed perceptions, and misinformation. For many people it can be a scary prospect. You hear a lot of conflicting talk in the media about the means test, and everyone seems to have an opinion about one thing or another. Some people say it means one thing, and some people say it means something else. A book says one thing, a website says another. Everyone’s an expert, right? Wrong.
Distressed homeowners in Kansas and Missouri should be aware that there are major differences in how the foreclosure process operates in their respective states. The procedures and processes are very different. We will sketch the general outlines here of how things works in both states.
The official bankruptcy forms and schedules underwent significant changes to their appearance, layout, and presentation on December 1, 2015. It was one of the most important overhauls of the forms in their history.
What does this mean for you? Or does it make any difference at all? We will explore some of the answers here.
You want your case to be a success, and we want your case to be a success. And to ensure that this happens, I wanted to go over some tips and pointers that experience has shown to be some of the best ways to make sure that success happens.
I’ll start with the pre-bankruptcy phase of things, then talk about things to be aware of during the case. And then I’ll talk about things to be mindful of after your case. OK?
All right. Here we go.
Kansas City Bankruptcy And Criminal Case Defense Information 