The most recently filed bankruptcy case filed in the Rochester Division of the Western District of New York (today, March 2) is the 349th case filed in 2011.  Bankruptcy case filings were way down in the first three weeks of January, as attorneys were holding off filing, waiting for the exemption law change effective January 21. But even with the larger number of cases filed since then, the local cases are way down from prior years.  In 2010, case #349 was filed February 25, while in the three years prior to that the same case number was filed Feb. 17, Feb. 19 and Feb. 16.