September 17, 2007

Daily Bankruptcy News

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Law:

Skadden Tops List of Go-To Firms
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Source: Bush Picks Retired Federal Judge Mukasey for Attorney General
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Law firms get ready for uptick in subprime business
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Behavior of judges is not always judicious - Bankruptcy jude makes attorney write "I will not disrespect the court" 50 times
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Who Did Associates Rank as the Left-Coast's Most Prestigious Firms?
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Perk Watch: Lactation Rooms
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More First-Years Getting More Pay, Higher Billing Targets
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How Associates Become Rainmakers
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The Managing Partner's Duties on the Practice's Administrative Side
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Discovering Evidence in Internet Communications
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Weil "Sexy?"
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Say What?!
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A Small Firm Raises Its Profile With Tony Soprano's Help
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Learning to Make Rain
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Firm Fired by Client in High-Tech Litigation
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Five reasons I miss being a dean, and ten reasons I don't
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UC Irvine Official on Hot Seat in Dean Case
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Warren: Conservatives Welcome, Liberals Not
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Chemerinsky Wanted Back
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L'Affaire Chemerinsky: A Battle in the LA Times
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Judge Rejects Fee Totaling Two-Thirds of Settlement
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Lawyers Scammed by Fake Job Ad
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Events for women attorneys and their female clients move beyond the boys-and-their-toys model
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Biovail Rehires Kasowitz Benson
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Reprimand Sought for Attorney Who Wrote Scare Letter to Ethics Grievant
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AMD Tees Off Over Intel Discovery Errors
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Federal Judges to Appellate Attorneys: What's Your Point?
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How Close to Your Clients Dare You Get?
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Wachtell, Cravath Rated Most Prestigious
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Judge Says No Bail For O.J. Simpson
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Probate Judge Files For Bankruptcy
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Tough Times for Andrew Speaker, Esq.
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Mass Torts:

Nationally Known Mass Torts Lawyer Headed for the Trial Nobody Wants
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Hedge Funds:

Fitch highlights hedge fund risk to credit boom
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Hedge Funds and Private Equity Alter Career Calculus
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Young finance pros have no time for an MBA
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Where will the young lions turn now?
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Goldman Ex-Partner, Hedge-Fund Chief Sender Fight Over Church
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Auto Racing:

Racer in tragedy files for bankruptcy
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Celebrity:

Democrats chide Kershaw finances
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Kerry Katona Threatened With Bankruptcy
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Trustee lists McLean assets, creditors
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Horse Racing:

Breeder files Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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Cash Management:

Bears tickets fumbled in Sentinel fire sale
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Forest Products:

MAXXAM enters PALCO bankruptcy
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Rating Agencies:

Fitch CEO: Don't Blame Us
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Rating agency critic set to launch attack on Sept. 27
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Food/Drink:

RJ Gators sale to local partners gets nod
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Archeology:

February trial date scheduled for T. rex lawsuit
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Golf:

Trustee will now decide future of Ravines golf course
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Rose Hill property owners vote to buy closed golf course
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Publishing:

Goldman, Brown families at odds over OJ book
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Utilities:

Shareholders Slam Calpine
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Calpine Bondholders Seek Administrator
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Real Estate:

Bank of America unveils mortgage refinance offer
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Credit Counselor Refuses to Issue Credit Counseling Certificate to Debtor Facing Impending Foreclosure
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Housing slump creeps into Houston market
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When's a default not a default? Ask Beazer
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Mortgage Broker Reveals Predatory Practices
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Mortgage woes mount after Katrina
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Government shouldn't just jump into fixing mortgage mess
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Execs in scandal at Met Mortgage settle with SEC
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Ailing lender's checks bounce
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American Home stops using public relations firm
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Bankrupt firm operated on faith
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How Someone Else's Bankruptcy Could Take your Home
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Merrill Says Fair Value Adjustments Made for Subprime
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Mortgage lender seeks court approval to sell construction loans
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Shareholder lawsuits are heading upward again. Thanks to what else? - subprime
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Beazer asks court to bar trustees' default notices
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Bankruptcy court approves financing, appoints examiner in TransLand Financial case
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Mortgage insurers get subprime boost
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Foreclosure Sale Nixed Over 142 Stinky Pets
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Autos:

GM close to healthcare deal with unions
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Health trust opens risks, opportunities for UAW
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GM Workers Return as Talks Sour
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General Motors, Union Discuss Strike
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GM-UAW Talks at Critical Point
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Changing benefits brings challenges
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UAW, GM must get it done -- now
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UAW, GM tangle on key issues
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GM-UAW Bargaining Ends Early
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GM Proposes Cap on Worker Health Costs, Pay Freeze
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UAW, Big Three are bargaining for survival
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A Look at UAW's Health-Care Gains
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Car buyers get dumber, and dumber, and dumber
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Auto Delinquencies Keep Rising
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Economy:

Futures fall on credit worries, Fed eyed
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Consumer confidence took a big hit this month
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A cryptic look back, and a shot for Bush
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Greenspan's Memoir Shows Dangers of Irrational Book Advances
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Double Warning That a Recession May Be on the Way
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Financial turbulence will persist but global economy strong: Paulson
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Credit crisis will force Fed into a cut
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Software:

SCO, a Software Maker, Is Seeking Bankruptcy
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Unix company files for bankruptcy
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Suspense builds ahead of SCO's bankruptcy hearing
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SCO's bankruptcy is no real surprise
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SCO's Darl McBride Plans to Stiff Novell Over Unix Licensing Fees
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Telecoms:

Judge's ruling in bankruptcy case being ignored by USVI official
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Credit Cards:

Broke but Still Borrowing
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High fees and interest rates bring credit-card companies under scrutiny
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Aviation:

Pension payouts favor young, senior Delta pilots complain
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Troubled Alitalia cannot sustain 2 hubs
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Philippine Airlines Expects To Climb Out Of Receivership By Oct
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Layoffs:

The ones left behind
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Health Care:

Insured but Not Covered
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Panel mulls hospital controls
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Doctors' fiscal woes take turn for the worse
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Road to recovery
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Executory Contracts:

Are "Termination On Bankruptcy" Contract Clauses Enforceable?
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Compensation:

Bonuses: Out. Non-equity incentive comp: In. And how.
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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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Warren: Would Credit Restrictions Hurt Low Income Borrowers?
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A High Grade for High-Grade
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Enron:

Enron rides again
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Student Debt:

Easy money for college students -- Hard sell, harder realities
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Mining:

Feds oppose Grupo power over Asarco deals
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Retirement:

Retirement funds gone as firms go bankrupt
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Religion:

Parishes raises nearly $5 Million for bankruptcy settlement
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Finance:

Funds seek $30bn for turnaround financing
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Firms caught in money lockup
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Will Henry Kravis blink?
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Credit crisis means unclogging of PIPEs
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Theme Parks:

Etheredge Owed $325000 in Taxes Before Wild West World Opened
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Mulberry Co. Makes Bid on Cypress Gardens
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Corporate Reform:

SEC enforcement choke seen as key commish departs
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Intellectual Property:

Trademark Values in Corporate Restructuring
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UK:

Northern Rock Bailout Creates More Problems Than it Solves
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Subprime crisis forces hand of Bank of England chief
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King, BOE Face 'Crisis of Confidence' Over Subprime Collapse
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All options open to save Northern Rock
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Overnight Cost of Pounds Soars as Northern Rock Crisis Deepens
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Northern Rock shares fall another 30% as mortgage panic spreads
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Europe's banking shares tumble on Northern Rock fallout
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Bonus hunters, burn-outs and boffins -- no wonder banks go belly-up
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Darling Says Northern Rock Deposits `Backed' By Bank of England
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Why didn't the debt alarm bells ring?
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Meltdown!
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Rock customers queue to collect funds
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Bank on the Rocks?
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Northern Rock shares tumble as deposits disappear
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Mortgage banks suffer second day of losses
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Northern Rock frantically tries to find buyer
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Northern Rock suitors 'will not get guarantees from Bank'
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I hope I'm wrong but I've a very bad feeling
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Loan Industry Not Cleaned Up As Debt Numbers Increase
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When net income won't cover gross habits
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Desperate debtors risk all with secured loans
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Japan:

Japanese Housewives Sweat in Secret as Markets Reel
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Credia Files for Bankruptcy With Debts of 75.8 Billion Yen
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Japanese Corporate Bailouts Will Decrease
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Canada:

Reform of bankruptcy laws a 30-year struggle
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India:

Turnaround specialist Wilbur L Ross joins IFCI race
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Italy:

Parmalat sees trial against Citigroup starting March 2008
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