Newly released numbers bear out the feeling that a long-awaited bump in bankruptcy filings has arrived this summer, as submissions under chapter 11 rose 77% in July. There were 637 filings under chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code last month across the U.S., according to statistics from Epiq Systems, compared with 359 at the same time last year. It is the most monthly new chapter 11 filings in nearly three years. That excludes April 2014, an outlier month during a very slow restructuring year, when a spike was driven by Energy Future Holdings Corp.’s massive 71-petition filing. But the summer pickup in filings might not be a permanent return to the time before low-interest rates and high filing costs kept many away from the bankruptcy courts. Shaunna Jones, bankruptcy lawyer at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP described this summer as one that has “pockets of business but still feels […]