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Bankruptcy Bench Bar Conference · E.D. Tex. · 6 November 2026
Implementation of Artificial Intelligence in an Actual Complex Chapter 11 Proceeding in 2026
Or, how to hire special counsel to handle the stuff in this speech
The talk
John Henry speaks at the Eastern District of Texas Bankruptcy Bench Bar Conference, at the Westin Dallas Stonebriar, on Friday, 6 November 2026, about what it actually takes to use AI in a contested bankruptcy case — not in a demo, but in a live Chapter 11 with a trustee, a creditor body and deadlines.
The talk is drawn from In re EEE Development, LLC, No. 26-80006-sgj11 (Bankr. N.D. Tex.), an involuntary Chapter 11 before Chief Judge Stacey G. Jernigan.
What the case required
- 438 loan obligations across 189 lenders, reconstructed from the original contracts alone — advances from 2016 against maturities out to 2027.
- The usurious excess computed on every obligation under Texas Finance Code chapter 305.
- A notice of default and demand to cure on each one, every notice carrying its own limitations date, so that no claim was lost to the running of time.
What we built, and the rule we hold it to
The firm runs on software it built for itself: a case portal where clients and co-counsel work behind two-factor sign-in, a library of Texas decisions read every court day, and an intake that screens for conflicts before anyone here reads a document.
One rule governs every model it uses. A model may cite a statute or a rule — text a lawyer can check in fifteen seconds. It may not tell us what a case held. A holding is marked verified only when the opinion itself was retrieved and read, or a lawyer signs off. That is the line between a tool and a sanctions motion.
Hire the counsel in the speech
If your estate, your client or your case has a data problem the size of this one — hundreds of contracts, claims or transactions that have to be turned into a pleading — we take the work as special litigation counsel or co-counsel.
Presentation materials will be posted on this page after the conference.