NEW YORK – JUNE 2, 2021 – Epiq, a global technology-enabled services leader to the legal services industry and corporations, released its May 2021 bankruptcy filing statistics from its AACER bankruptcy information services business. The new filings for May dropped to 34,734 across all chapters. This is a 15% drop from the April 2021 new filings count of 40,913. Non-commercial consumer filings across all chapters totaled 32,958, down 15% from 38,830 in April. Commercial filings across all chapters were also down in May with a total of 1,776 new filings, down 15% from 2,083 in April.
