August 22, 2007

Daily Bankruptcy News

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Law:

Fox Rothschild Puts Brakes on First-Year Salary Hikes
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Lawyers Gear Up Grand New Fees
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O'Melveny Adds Restructuring Partner
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Identifying Trends Helps Keep Client Teams Effective
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Plaintiffs Bar Eyes Big False Claims Case
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A Judge Judy in Waiting?
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X-Summers: Loose Lips Sink Offers
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Say What?!
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Facebook Costs, Benefits Firms
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Winning the Race to a Paperless Office
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Insurers Taking Stock of E-Discovery Costs
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Controversy Escalates Over Mich. Law School's Move
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New Norm: Sending Legal Work Abroad
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Law Firms: Outsourcing's Next Victim?
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The India Law Industry - And Why US Law Firms Love It
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Wikiscanning Orrick, MoFo and OMM
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Firm Editing on Wikipedia
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US Associate Heads South of Border in Novel Exchange Program
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Shearman & Sterling Adds Two Derivatives Counsel
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Do Lawyers Know Anything?
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Real Estate:

Home Foreclosures Almost Double in July as Rates Rise
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Mortgage applications fall 5.5%
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MGIC, Threatening to Scrap Deal, Sues Radian for Data
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Foreclosure's Building Problem
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Big Mortgage Lender in Chapter 11 Filing
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Job cuts add to cost of loans fiasco
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Lender's failure puts Tucsonans' lives in flux
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No paychecks, but assistance promised for First Magnus workers
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First Magnus revises assistance offer
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Home buyers left in lurch by lender's bankruptcy
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Other lenders eager to offer mortgages
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Mortgage Counseling Hits Roadblocks
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Surge in US home repossessions
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Legal Claims Proliferate From Mortgage Meltdown
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So Many Deals, So Much Debt
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California leads nation in foreclosures
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Florida foreclosure activity drops, but state is still a national leader
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Georgia among tops in US foreclosures
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Arizona foreclosures up in July
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Home foreclosures up 60% in Hawaii
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Del. foreclosure filings rise
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Foreclosure wave hits Iowa hard
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Nevada leads sharp rise in US foreclosures
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Capital One Shutters Mortgage Business
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Countrywide stock moves up on talk of Buffet purchase
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Judge Approves HomeBanc Deal To Help Lawyers
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Ailing builder bets on NJ
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3 ways to help borrowers without bailing them out
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Subprime Profiteers Go Belly Up
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American Home Mortgage "Bombarded" by Demands From Lenders
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Accredited Home Lenders announced plans to sharply curtail operations and cut more than half its staff, amid troubles in the nonprime mortgage industry
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Mortgage defaults still a threat
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Toll Brothers Posts Lower Quarterly Profit
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Real estate market can't support agent numbers
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Beazer tries to block creditors
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Builder, wife to serve time in prison
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Subprime Mess, Credit Excess - This Ain't My American Dream!
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The White House is looking to the FHA to help homeowners who are at risk of falling behind on their payments
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Carlyle Rescues Mortgage Fund
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Edgewater awarded disputed buildings
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American Woodmark Cuts Profit Outlook
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Harry Macklowe, the highflying New York developer, may be getting his wings clipped
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Money Centers' Landlords Are Nervous
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Bankruptcy Crimes:

District judge sets aside bankruptcy fraud convictions
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Couple pleads not guilty to bankruptcy fraud charges
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Lawyers withdraw from Teutul's case
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Food/Drink:

Trustee probes tip Giant Eagle threatened rival
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Debts kill off wine maker
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Autos:

Ford Stays the Course, Wherever It May Lead
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Chrysler willing to cut deeper
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Chrysler May Revisit Recovery Plan
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Federal judge dismisses suit against 2 Dana execs
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Economy:

Bernanke's Strategy of Increasing Liquidity Survives
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Paulson fails to quell Dow jitters
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Fed May Avoid Rate Cut as Liquidity Bid Bears Fruit
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Volatility no reason for rate cuts, Fed's Lacker says
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Investors Say That Fed Must Do More for Markets
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No quick fix says Paulson as volatility hits bonds
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Bush Tries to Calm Skittish Investors
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Feds inject $3.75 billion into wobbly markets
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Dodd urges government to do more about credit crunch
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Fed Is Hopeful on Steps So Far
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2005 Incomes, on Average, Still Below 2000 Peak
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Sentinel:

Sentinel OKd to Distribute $300M
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Sentinel Can Pay $312 Million to Clients, Barred From Sales
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Publishing:

Hollinger bondholders seek hike
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Barnes & Noble Won't Stock OJ Simpson's "If I Did It"
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Book chains plan for release of 'If I Did It'
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Mass Torts:

Law Firm to Clients: Unfortunately, You're Healthy
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Plaintiffs Find Payday Elusive in Vioxx Cases
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Software:

Halo Technology seeks bankruptcy protection
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Banking:

FDIC reports on banks, thrifts
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Chase Cutting 450 Employees
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Corporate Reform:

Ex-official gets four years for mail fraud
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Former Illinois Governor To Begin Jail Sentence
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Health Care:

Foundation submits offer for Kessler
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Report: Bankruptcy hasn't hurt care
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Greater Southeast disputes claim in lawsuit over bankruptcy restructuring
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Fed judge prods state to decide BMC future
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Bankruptcy judge, health commissioner weigh ailing hosp's fate
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Grady seeks $100M backed by Fulton, DeKalb
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Utilities:

Calpine said likely to reject investment plan
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Ferns back in bankruptcy court
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County to pursue Dillon receivership
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Horse Racing:

NYRA might not clear bankruptcy until next year
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NYRA defends costly integrity deal
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Environmental:

NJ moves to head of Marcal claim line
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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Business Bankruptcies Are On The Rise
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Business Bankruptcy Rates Continue to Rise in 2007
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Wall Street:

Fed officials are cautiously optimistic that markets are stabilizing, but many on Wall Street are more pessimistic
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Wall Street bonuses may take a cut for the first time in five years
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On Wall Street, all eyes on commercial paper market as barometer of credit squeeze
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With $550 billion in commercial paper coming due, borrowers must act
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Tax:

Pottow & Zywicki: Together at Last!
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Bankruptcy Reform:

Bankruptcy reform gaining momentum in Congress
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Sentinel repays some clients
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Bankruptcy Court gets a new home
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
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Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory

Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings
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Bankruptcy Jobs:

(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12)
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Damages for Deepening Insolvency: Judges Posner and Kaplan Consider the Elements of Proof
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Aviation:

Delta Names Richard Anderson As CEO
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Delta's New CEO: No Plan To Merge With Northwest
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Surprise CEO Pick at Delta
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Delta turnaround exec expected to leave
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US Airways Pilots Split on Contract; Some Walk out of Talks
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Retailing:

Target shrugs off economic woes
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Refco:

Trusts Seek $2 Billion From Advisers to Refco
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Refco Trusts Seek $2 Billion From Banks, Auditors
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Credit Cards:

Credit Crunch Moves Beyond Mortgages - Individuals See Higher Rates, Harsher Terms on Credit Cards
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M&A:

Can Private Equity Firms Get Out of Buyouts?
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Tough times for high-profile IPOs
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Hedge Funds:

Hedge funds see opportunities in distressed debt
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Solent Capital, Avendis Ratings Cut by S&P Amid Subprime Rout
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GLG Down As Largest Strategy Falls Hardest
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Hedge Fund Manager, Intent on Market, Misses Maserati
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Hedge Funds Eye Shareholder Moves
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Fund manager found in Greece
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Troubled Quants
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Fitness:

Bally works out new plan to finance bankruptcy exit
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Rating Agencies:

From First Amendment Absolutism to Financial Meltdown?
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Fraud:

Looking for Fraud in All the Right Places
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Following Electronic Trails to Evidence of Fraud
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Spotting and Curing Real Estate Fraud
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9th Circuit Confirms Ride Through Doctrine
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Split Re Bankruptcy Court's Power to Grant Nondebtor Release
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UK:

Vulture fund leaked documents to human rights group
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Number of blacklisted Britons to reach 8.6m
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Banks could be sued by IVA companies
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ChoicesUK calls in administrators
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The unravelling credit line
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Cheeky Girls face bankruptcy
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Will subprime turmoil hit UK mortgages?
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China:

China Raises Interest Rates to Cool Its Heated Economy
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Poland:

Polish court grants Elektrim bankruptcy protection
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Historic Gdansk shipyard struggles for survival
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Canada:

Stinson must wait to find fate of Toronto hotel operation
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Notorious e-mail scam plucks unlikely pigeon
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New Zealand:

Watson creditor scheme fails
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'Unfair' to pin blame on advisers for Nathans loss
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Australia:

Evans and Tate into receivership
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Israel:

Heftsiba's Boaz Yona seen at Bucharest eatery
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