As the legal and technology markets continue to converge, spurring the formation of new alternative service providers, Christopher Updike has joined Bankruptcy Management Solutions Inc. as general counsel.

Updike is a former corporate-restructuring attorney with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft and, more recently, with Debevoise & Plimpton. BMS is an Irvine, California-based provider of software and services for consumer and corporate bankruptcies.