June 11, 2007

Daily Bankruptcy News

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Aviation:

AirTran extends Midwest tender offer to August 10
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Majority of Midwest shareholders open to AirTran's advances
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Flight attendants feel wrath of fliers
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Payments to Northwest Attendants Held Up
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Airline industry in a jam
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Memo to Airlines, Give Us Workspace!
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For Airlines, 'Aloha' Means Dogfight
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Company turnaround lifts morale
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Law:

Jenner & Block Will De-Equitize Partners
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All's Not Sunny for San Diego Firms
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More Firms Hike Associate Pay
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Pay Raise Watch: Atlanta
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Dewey Adds Bankruptcy Partner
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Summer Camp Time
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Judge Dispenses Poetic Justice
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Are Law Students Emotional Wrecks?
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Senate Debate On Lack of Confidence In Gonzales
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Robins Kaplan Attorney Admits to Tampering with Documents
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Lawyer presses Lerach for referral fee
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What's In a Name Partner? Not as Much as You'd Think, Firm Says
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London Firms Rally to Oppose Government Oversight
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White House Staffs Up Its "Great Little Law Firm"
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Wealth, prestige gone, a lawyer faces prison term - Spent $52M in six months
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Firm Opens Fifth California Office in Just Over a Year
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Attorney to Seek New Trial After Theft Conviction for Demanding Payment From Wife's Lovers
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Avvo-cadabra; It's Got Me As A Cadaver
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"Our Lawyers Are Our Future:" But We Don't Really Care
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Say What?!
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Keep It Simple, Stupid
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If This Doesn't Violate the Eighth Amendment, What Does?
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Don't Let Your E-Evidence Get Trashed
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Supreme Court Justices' Financial Reports Show Most to Be Millionaires
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Summer Associates: A Failure to Communicate
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Student Debt:

Private Loans Deepen a Crisis in Student Debt
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More Than a Rabble Rouser?
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Senator Wants to Make Private Student Loans Dischargeable in Bankruptcy
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Senator to seek private student loan crackdown
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Another Look at Student Lending
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Financial Literacy:

Schools to offer money lessons
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Why your kids expect to be rich
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Distressed-debt specialists are looking for new ways to squeeze as much as they can out of a market parched by a default rate
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Autos:

GM Shares Rise On Hopes Of Imminent Delphi Labor Deal
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EU OKs Carl Icahn Group's Bid for Lear
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Lear Holder Blames Fear for Icahn Deal
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Dana, Citation Reach Settlement on Parts
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Impossible to organize?
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Big 3 weigh health care fund
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Real Estate:

Warren: The "R" Word
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Oak Street Mortgage slides into bankruptcy
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Disconnect between rising foreclosures in the subprime mortgage market and the statistics on personal bankruptcy filings
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AIG Settles Over Mortgage Loans
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Foreclosure rate rising
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Americans spend too much money on houses and too little on retirement savings
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Bloody Toto in Mortgage Fraud Land
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Latest Mortgage Casualties
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Greenspan blocked a proposal to increase scrutiny of subprime lenders while he was Fed chairman
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Economists See Housing Slump Lasting Longer
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Sellers drop prices, wait longer for offers as shoppers seek a better deal
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Met Mortgage ex-exec guilty in fraud trial
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New Century: Don't Seize Our Computers
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Corporate Reform:

Environmental Activist Federici Pleads Guilty, Agrees to Cooperate in Abramoff Probe
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Don't Be Fooled by $1 Salaries
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SEC Plans to Fine Nortel Up to $100M For Alleged Fraud
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Poverty:

The Poverty Platform
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Economy:

Coming, a slew of economic data that could help clarify whether the bond market's recent bloodbath was justified
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Maritime:

Bankruptcy fog is lifting on Queen Mary
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Telecoms:

Bankruptcy Filing May Delay Pornography on Cellphones
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Garbled signals: H'w'd and Amp'd
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Satmex Rejects Acquisition Offers, Suspends Auction
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Debt Collection:

Debt Collectors' Threats Drive Woman To Suicide
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Mass Torts:

Avandia - the birth of a mass tort
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Hedge Funds:

Funds seek expert advice for millisecond advantage
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Predatory Lending:

Robin Hood in Reverse
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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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Judge Meredith Jury Named to Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel
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Are US companies headed for a credit crunch?
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A Big Jump In U.S. Corporate Bankruptcies Is Predicted For 2007
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More Bang Left in Private-Equity Boom
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Entertainment:

Own a bit of Pearlman lore
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Religion:

Judge allows challenges to church property in abuse suits
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Environmental:

One code enforcement proves costly
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Credit Cards:

Bankruptcy reform bill provides no interest rate relief
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Credit cards with rewards also invite more headaches
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Are Disclosures Enough?
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Health Care:

Healthcare Costs to Climb 11 Percent
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Textiles:

Greystone to Lead Bids for Joan Fabrics
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Food/Drink:

Sewer authority approves settlement with brewery
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Retro beer trend bodes well for Pittsburgh Brewing's new owners
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LeNature CEO's mansion up on auction block
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Pensions:

Pension funds take risky gamble
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UK:

Home fit for an ex-bankrupt
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Taxman promises 'no compromise' court cases
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S&P warns on riskier mortgage lending
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Taiwan:

Taiwan passes bankruptcy law for individuals
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Taiwan banking shares fall on personal bankruptcy law
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Australia:

New loans raise the financial red flag
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Dubai:

Debtors' Prison - Pursuit of Dubai dream often ends with citizens in prison
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