September 14, 2007
Daily Bankruptcy News
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Law:
How Associates Become Rainmakers
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What's GCs' Biggest Beef With Outside Counsel?
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Best Reason for a Law Firm Name Change Ever
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Kilpatrick First-Years Join the $145,000 Club
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Qualcomm Drops Day Casebeer From Nokia Case
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Cameron Diaz at Cadwalader!
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Firm shamed over associate debt claim
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Chemerinsky Controversy Zigs and Zags
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Law Profs Back Embattled Ave Maria Faculty
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Reprimand Sought for Attorney Who Wrote Scare Letter to Ethics Grievant
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Firm ties up its lawyers
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Latham Tops Calif.'s Prestigious Firms in Associate Survey
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9th Circuit Judges Define Moral Turpitude
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Judge Rejects Fee Totaling Two-Thirds of Settlement
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Hourly Billing Stays as Standard Fee Arrangement
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How Are Lawyers Like Firefighters? Let the Chief Justice Explain It to You
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The Elusive Perjury Charge (Yeah, Yeah, That's the Ticket!)
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Five Traits of an Effective Managing Partner
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Top NY Firm Adds Space for 100 More Staffers at Surging London Office
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Judge files for bankruptcy
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UK lawyers are the happiest workers
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Justice' Mule Mascot Found - In Pieces
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Say What?!
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Economy:
US Jobless Claims Rise Modestly In Latest Week
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Greenspan Says He Failed to Foresee Subprime Rout
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Ex-Fed chief was slow to see credit risk
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Greenspan Comes Out Swinging
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Former Fed chief Alan Greenspan says Bernanke 'doing excellent job'
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Real Estate:
Freddie Mac sues AHM in effort to ensure loan service
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First Magnus seeks sale of loans
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The Bust Hits Home
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US mortgage rates drop below year-ago levels
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Rates on 30-Year Mortgages Drop Sharply
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Case of Pet-Ridden House Nudges Law on Setting Aside Foreclosure Sales
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Appeal Stalls Transfer Of Queen Mary Lease
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WaMu to cut 1,000 jobs
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Florida, Epicenter of the Housing Bust
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Lone Star extends offer to buy Accredited Home Lenders
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Calls for Countrywide to account for subprime loans
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Bankrupt mortgage company fails to pay taxes for property owners
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Bankruptcy Court Approves Maplewood Homebuilders' Reorganization
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Retailing:
Target's Credit-Card Sale: Bad Timing?
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Cash Management:
Sentinel, Lake Shore Asset probes intertwined
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Aviation:
NWA gets 47% stake in Midwest
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Business bankruptcies predicted by Moody's
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Five Mistakes to Avoid After Bankruptcy
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Autos:
UAW steps up strike prep
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Health Fund at Heart of Auto Talks
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UAW sets Friday deadline for GM deal
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GM Becomes UAW's Target in Labor Talks
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Ford and UAW Continue To Negotiate
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Auto town braces for concessions
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UAW contract with Ford about to expire
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Automakers must win right to run companies
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Relief for GM and Ford as UAW sends a signal
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Report: Union, automakers near retiree deal
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GM, Ford, And The UAW Back The Wrong Horse
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UAW locals rally, fear loss of work
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Health care? Pay? 'I just want my job,' worker says
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Losing the 'auto' in United Auto Workers
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Delphi seeks court OK to pay up to $37 million in executive bonuses
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Theme Parks:
Bank agrees to give potential Wild West buyer more time
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Rides to Stay at Wild West World
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Parks America gets two more weeks to finish Wild West offer
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Horse Racing:
Guv picking NYRA shocks boro officials
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Stronach's horse-race dream hits debt wall
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Insurance:
Booker T. Washington Insurance Co. Goes Into Receivership
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Accounting:
SEC charges 37 audit firms with failing to register
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Lending:
Commercial Paper Slump Eases; Asset-Backed Drop Slows
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Wall Street:
Futures fall on credit worry as data eyed
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US stocks rally on signs of more plentiful financing
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Telecoms:
From Bad to Worse at Alcatel-Lucent
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Publishing:
Why the Goldmans Did It: To Punish OJ
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After 'yuck,' the farce of O.J. Simpson's book
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The ethics of buying OJ Simpson's book
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Utilities:
Shareholders Slam Calpine
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Rumford creditors seeking $3 1/4 million
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Food/Drink:
End to Pittsburgh Brewing's bankruptcy on horizon
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Interstate Bakeries threatens to liquidate
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Financial Literacy:
Students get lesson in finances
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Celebrity:
Sammy Kershaw Auctioning Off Tour Buses
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Arizona filings rise 65% since '06, top US pace
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Credit Cards:
Broke Borrowers Are Best
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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:
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Bankruptcy Claim Auctions
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Warren: Visualizing Bankruptcy
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Publishing:
Goldmans Discuss OJ Book on `Oprah'
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Municipalities:
Cockrell Hill facing possible bankruptcy
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Executory Contracts:
Assumption And Assignment - When Is Assurance Of Future Performance Adequate?
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Hedge Funds:
Private equity chiefs warn on tax proposals
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Did Bear Stearns Soft-Pedal The Risks?
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Court dismisses parts of Huizenga suit vs Ritchie Capital
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UK:
Countdown to a crisis
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Mortgage banks hit hard
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Northern Rock warns of £100m profits fall
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Anxious bank customers queue on street
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Crisis of confidence could engulf banking sector
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Mortgage borrowers told not to panic
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Banks drag down European shares amid Northern Rock crisis
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The Northern Rock fallout
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Northern Rock takeover speculation mounts
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Customers line up to withdraw funds
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Northern Rock woes spark housing recession fears
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UAE:
Thule regains limited access to its rigs
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Japan:
Japan Alters Economic View to Recognize Weak Business Spending
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Credia Files for Bankruptcy With Debts of 75.8 Billion Yen
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Germany:
Kirch Prevails in Lawsuit Brought by Insolvency Administrator
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Cayman Islands:
Hedge fund must prove Cayman Islands is best for bankruptcy
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Italy:
Parmalat sees trial against Citigroup starting in March 2008
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Parmalat profit jumps on higher prices, settlements
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Canada:
Think the ABCP mess is bad? Rising default rates could spark the next deluge
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Hospital placed under informal trusteeship
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