In an opinion written by the U.S. Supreme Court's newest justice, Sonia Sotomayor, the Court held last term that attorneys who provide bankruptcy advice to assisted persons are debt relief agencies under the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA), the Illinois Bar Journal reports. As the National Law Journal notes, this was one of "an unusually large number of cases last term involving how lawyers do their jobs."