September 29, 2009

The Daily Bankruptcy News

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Law:

Bingham’s Billing Battle (Plus offer rate and real estate news.)
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Schulte Roth Feeling Good About 2011
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Chadbourne & Parke: Indefinite Deferral for Half Its Class
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More on Chadbourne Deferring the Already Deferred
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Last Week In Layoffs
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Partner Track? Boring! Race Track? Now You're Talking!
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Contract attorneys suffer Biglaw refugees flood the market
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Stars from Shearman & Sterling and Baker Botts Defect to Start Litigation Boutique
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The View From Your Recession
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The Bankruptcy Files: Simmons, Velocity Sold in Chapter 11
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Attorney Who Accused Toyota Is Referred to Calif. Bar for Possible Discipline
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In-House Lawyers Have Their Own Problems, Citigroup Says
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Who Was the Real Bully, BofA or the U.S. Government?
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Partners are Now Yellow, Associates Green on Ballard Spahr Website
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Bad Behavior as Airline Passenger Grounds Attorney from Law Practice
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The Law Firm Reconstructed: As BigLaw Is Hit Hard, Exiles Become Entrepreneurs
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Double Whammy: First Their Client Sues Them, Then Their Insurer Quits Them
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Cooley Godward Associate Develops iPhone App to Link Names and Photos
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Canadian lawyers celebrate sleepless nights as markets 'on fire'
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Citigroup GC Has No Sympathy for Law Firms Seeking Premium Fees
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Law Prof Says Students Saved His Life
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Cutting Law School Debt
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Bookkeeper Accused of Embezzling $1.7M from Nashville Law Firm
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Court Clerk Sells Ad Space to Law Firms on Office Web Site
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Say What?!
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Judges:

Supreme Court Sets Oral Argument on Remaining Two Bankruptcy Cases this Term
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Sotomayor Recounts Trying to "Calm My Beating Heart" Taking Late Call From Obama on Nomination
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After Five Justices Are Seated, Supreme Court Docket Falls ‘Off a Cliff’
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Attorney Says Judge M-------- at Mediation & Carried Out Vendetta When She Complained
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Wall Street:

Futures Drift Lower After Previous Day's Rally
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Layoffs:

National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Employers increasingly use applicants' credit histories in determining job future
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Banking:

BofA, execs owe "billions" in lawsuit, Ohio says
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How BofA Used Merrill Losses to Bully the Government
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When Bank of America Considered the Nuclear Option
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Federal scrutiny on overdraft fees growing
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BNP Paribas to Raise $6.27 Billion to Repay Bailout
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Newspapers:

Pension Regulator Gets Involved in Philadelphia Newspapers
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Newspaper companies out of bankruptcy protection
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Morris Publishing Group working to restructure outside bankruptcy
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Bankruptcy Tourism:

Bankruptcy Tourism
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Pensions:

Pensions Ticking 'Time Bomb' for Publishers
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Economy:

World Bank Head Sees Dollar's Role Diminishing
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Look Beyond Big Numbers for Hints to Fed Policy
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Kotlikoff: US Government Going Broke
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Pimco's Clarida Says US Savings Rate May Exceed 8%
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Economic Stress Index
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Economy Tracker Map
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US Debt Clock
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Recovery Index
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Real Estate:

 

 

Fla. magnate's empire collapsed before shooting
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Fraud:

Madoff investigator goes after the family
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Picard: Could be bankruptcy for Madoff clan
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Banged up, Allen Stanford back in jail after brawl
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Financier Wins a Transfer After Having a Fight in Jail
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SEC sues Mich. man linked to alleged Ponzi scheme
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Ponzi scheme leader sentenced to 100 years
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Le-Nature's Podlucky Indicted in $800 Million Fraud
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A New York lawyer is accused of running an adoption Ponzi scheme
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Lehman:

Europe arm to claim $200 bln from Lehman
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Lehman living will would have helped: PwC
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Retailing:

Filene's seeks to wipe out $70 mln in claims
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Gambling:

Station Casinos wants 'breathing room' from employee wage suit
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Credit Cards:

Woman Ignites Debtors' Revolt, Beats Big Bank
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Credit card debt stress climbs as salaries fall
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Religion:

Papal nuncio says bankruptcy court's lawsuit against him is not valid
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Debt Collection:

Thou Shalt Not Sue
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M&A:

Big Merger Deals Signal Restored Confidence
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Accounting:

Big Four exposed to negligence claims
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Accountancy student crowned Miss Ireland
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Municipalities:

Up Next: Securities Suits Against Municipalities?
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Oil/Gas:

Oil Producers to Learn from SemGroup BK
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Corporate Reform:

The Fight to Fix the Financial System Comes Down to This
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Health Care:

Large disease-management firm files for bankruptcy
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Celebs:

Pamela Anderson Dispels Debt Rumors
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Pitbull Released from TVT's Cage
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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)
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Restructuring wave seen set to continue
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Unprecedented U.S. corporate default seen for '09
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Telecoms:

FairPoint in talks with lenders
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Autos:

Auto-parts maker Holley files for bankruptcy
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GM retirees pinching pennies
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Leftover Chrysler assets still a burden
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Dealerships: Chrysler's termination of franchise agreements un-American, unfair
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September Auto Sales Expected to Tank
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China's MOC sets conditions on GM- Delphi deal
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Study says Delphi cuts could be "catastrophic"
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YSU professor releases report on Delphi retirees
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Delphi Suit Doesn't Faze Town, City
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Radio:

Bankruptcy : The word Sirius investors fear the most
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Poll says bankruptcy for Sirius XM – so what?
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Enron:

Ex-Enron broadband exec gets 16 months in prison
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Private Equity:

When Private Equity Limited Partners Fail
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Agriculture:

Feds investigate solvency of livestock auctions
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Telecoms:

FairPoint shares take a hit on lender talks
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Nortel crippled by ongoing sell-off: prof
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FairPoint shares plunge, may file for Ch. 11
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UK:

Darling Targets Bonuses, Says Rich Will Pay More Tax
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Q2 final GDP revised up, mortgages steady
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UK is the "best place" in Europe for insolvency
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EU:

The specter of Socialism's slow collapse
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Canada:

Lawyers turn to 'reverse M&As' to help distressed companies
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Earl Jones fraud trial pushed back
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Italy:

Restructuring of indebtedness: Italian tax points
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Japan:

Deflation Puts Some Retailers At Risk
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