June 21, 2010

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Law:

Simmons Confirms Mayer Brown Merger Talks
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Claims that Kaye Scholer is ‘reeling’ are wide of the mark
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Nixon Peabody Hit by New York Exodus to Pillsbury
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Are Cash Bonuses the Wrong Way to Incentivize Lawyers?
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Last Week in Biglaw
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Post-Recession Prospects for Law Firms
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Deferred and Demoted
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In-House Counsel Seeking Money? Try Brazil, Dubai
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After Losing 20 Lawyers Since March, Venerable Calif. Firm Plans to Close
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Lawyer of the Day: Deferred Associates Claim Brooklyn ADA is a Meanie
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Fried Frank Secretary Alleges Firm Discriminated Against Older Staffers in Layoffs
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How Edward Bennett Williams Built the World’s Most Powerful Law Firm
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Bryan Cave: They’re Getting a Raise
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Lucrative Law Firm Must Dissolve, Court Rules, Because Partnership Agreement Wasn’t Updated
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HP Decides to Hire, Train Fresh Law School Graduates
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Skadden Looks for People Who Really Want to Be Lawyers, But Not Necessarily Partners
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Plaintiffs Lawyers Size Up Obstacle Course for Toyota Class Action
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Pls Hndle Thx: The Most Insane Question You’ve Ever Read, Guaranteed
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N.Y. High Court Allows Estates to Sue Attorneys for Malpractice
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Real Estate Attorney Indicted re $1.5M in Personal Loans His Lawyer Says Are Paid Up
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Former Attorney General Gonzales Planning a Memoir
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Ex-Office Manager Gets House Arrest for Stealing $75K from Law Firm Trust Account
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The Fastest Biglaw Lawyer in New York
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Firing Squad Executes Ronnie Lee Gardner
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Judges:

Did Kagan Compare the NRA with the KKK?
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ABA Wants the Supreme Court to Show Judges the Money
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Sharon Keller Case in Hands of Judicial Conduct Commission
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"Ignorance has never stopped a federal judge from expressing an opinion"
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Supreme Court Litigation Clinic wins hat trick
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Women Lawyers Need to Exude More Confidence, Federal Judge Says
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Wall Street:

Futures jump as yuan move fuels world markets
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Layoffs:

Unemployment Rate Is Dropping In Most States
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Unemployment Rates by State: Nevada Overtakes Michigan for Nation’s Worst
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Calif. Jobless Fosters Doubt on Recovery
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Obama says Republicans making life harder for the jobless
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Corporate Reform:

Bair: Congress should take up Fannie, Freddie reform after Wall Street bill
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Bank Lobbyists Make Run at Reform Measures
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Rating Agencies:

Rating Agencies Quick On The Draw With BP, Greece Cuts
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Packaging:

Smurfit-Stone Reorg Good For Creditors, Shareholders, Executives And Tree-Eating Bugs
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Tax:

Swiss Parliament Clears the Way for Handover of UBS Names
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Senate Moves to End Punitive Damages Tax Deduction
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Autos:

Ford Comments on GM Bailout
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New UAW Members Not Top Wage Earners
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Fraud:

Mystery and Millions in North Beach
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Celebrity Adviser Starr Used Name-Dropping in His Alleged Fraud
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Municipalities:

Central Falls withdraws state bankruptcy petition
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Judge OKs state takeover of Central Falls city finances
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To bankruptcy - & beyond!
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California on Verge of Financial Failure
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Harrisburg, Pa., Incinerator Burns Hole In City Pocket
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Harrisburg, Pa., other cities overwhelmed by economic downturn and debt
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Economy:

Greenspan Says U.S. May Soon Reach Borrowing Limit
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Obama: If Recovery Weakens, More Stimulus
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Is the Fed Out of Bullets?
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Americans Defaulting on Foreigners
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TARP starts grooving like bad ’80s remix
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The Benefits of the Bust
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Economic Stress Map
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Economy Tracker Map
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US Debt Clock
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Recovery Index
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Bailout Tracker
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Real Estate:

Cost of Seizing Fannie and Freddie Surges for Taxpayers
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Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac Now Own More Houses Than There Are In Seattle
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Mortgages and the state of nature
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Could We Have Prevented Widespread Mortgage Fraud?
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1200 charged in federal mortgage-fraud probe
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Close to 100 Texans arrested for mortgage fraud, financial crimes
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Mortgage case twist: Bankers and bribes
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Mortgage Fraud Operation Sweeps Ga., US
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The Inflatable Loan Pool
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Housing Market Slows as Buyers Get Picky
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LV: distressed land sales jump
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Ex-politician, Summerville lawyer Goodstein files $61 million bankruptcy
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Real Estate Investors Face Building Shortage
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Realtors, Brokers Target Home-Appraisal Rule
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‘Sting Operations’ at Real Estate Closings Help Feds Nab Mortgage Fraud Suspects
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FDIC: US Home Policy Has Failed
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Foreclosure Nightmare Alleged in Maryland
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Oil/Gas:

BP Relied on Cheaper Wells
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BP Protected from Liability with $20B Fund
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BP's Future: Is the Barrel Half Empty or Half Full?
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$7-a-gallon gas?
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Pascal Spills It on BP, Sporkin, and the Disaster in the Gulf
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At The End of the World, Waiting for the Oil to Come
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Anadarko Says BP Should Pay After Being Reckless
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BP oil spill caused by 'negligence or misconduct', says drilling partner
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Investigating the Cause of the Deepwater Horizon Blowout
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Anadarko downgraded after BP Gulf oil spill
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BP to raise $50 bln, sue Anadarko: reports
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Battle Brewing Between BP,Partners?
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BP says it's paid $104 million to Gulf residents
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As Pay Czar Promises Money, Workers Turned Away From BP Claims Center
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BP Oil Leak: Despite Cap Efforts, No End in Sight
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BP oil-capturing vessel restarts after vent problem, storm
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Oil spill containment efforts approach their current capacity
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Health care problems from BP oil spill to last years, experts say
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BP's Gulf well holds enough oil to spew out for two years, claim experts
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Who Is In Charge Of Oil Spill
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Can BP's New Pointman Make a Difference?
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Federal approval still flowing for flawed Gulf drilling plans
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The real villain of the Gulf oil-spill disaster: not BP but PC
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Perspective on the Spill (Before It Began)
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BP set for overhaul as it seeks cash to pay for oil spill
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A crude awakening - who's really to blame?
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Ban on Gulf drilling has its foes
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'This is not the death of the Gulf,' biologist says of oil spill
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Oil spill documents are urgent and should be public
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Cleanups of Spill and an Agency Test Salazar
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More Florida beaches face tar ball and oil threat
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Gulf residents outraged by BP CEO's yacht outing
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Future looks bleak for Gulf
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Why BP should survive
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How Much Did Joe Barton Change Oil-Spill Politics?
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For proud BP employees, an awkward new reality
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BP's Robert Dudley Signals U.S. to Stay Cornerstone of Its Business
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Celebs:

Suge Knight Suing Kanye West For 2005 Shooting, Pair Face-Off In New York
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Health Care:

For Neighbors, a Hospital's Demise Leaves a Hole
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(1 new opinion today)

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 Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
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Bankruptcy Jobs:

(1)- (2)- (3)- (4)- (5)- (6)- (7)- (8)- (9)- (10)
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)

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Mass Torts:

Domestic Distributor of Chinese Drywall Found Negligent
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Banking:

Bank failure pace more than double last year
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Can’t Tell Your Banking Crisis Without a Scorecard
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The Town That Loved Its Bank
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Miscellaneous:

Abitibi, Bashas', US Concrete, Penn Traffic, Edscha, Gems TV: Bankruptcy
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Pensions:

States Take Aim at Pension Costs
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Credit Counseling:

Peddling Relief, Firms Put Debtors in Deeper Hole
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Lehman:

The really juicy details behind the Lehman Bros. collapse
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Barclays bosses to appear in Lehman bankruptcy case
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Barclays to deny foul play in bid
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Trucking:

Assets of Arrow Trucking operations consolidated
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Politics:

TX GOP struggling to pay off its debt
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Oklahoma state Rep. Randy Terrill got home loan during bankruptcy
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Corporate Governance:

Key Delaware Corporate and Commercial Cases from the First Five Months of 2010
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Telecoms:

Bankruptcy could end for FairPoint
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Baseball:

The MLB odds of going bankrupt
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Gambling:

Kerkorian's Ex-Dealmaker Seeks Casinos With Onex Buyout Fund
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Food/Drink:

Luby's to Purchase Fuddruckers out of Bankruptcy
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Litigation:

Assessing the Changing World of Civil Procedure Post-'Twombly,' 'Iqbal'
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UK:

UK to Dodge Greek Fate With Tough Budget: Osborne
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There is no logic to the brutish cuts that George Osborne is proposing
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Goldman Will be Hit Hardest by Reforms
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EU:

Winners Emerge from European Debt Crisis
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Greece:

Greece confident of progress - Kapetanos
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Russia Expects Greece To Fall Short On Obligations
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Clampdown on tax evasion
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Moody's See Risk of Greek Default At 7% Over 5-Yrs
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Spain:

Mediapro Unit Files For Bankruptcy
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Spanish football clubs affected by bankruptcy of Mediapro
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Vatican:

Italian corruption scandal spreads to touch Vatican
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Middle East:

Administrator files $720m claim against Algosaibi bank
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Russia:

Russian court starts TNK-BP's Kovykta bankruptcy
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Bulgaria:

Bulgaria's Largest Cities Register Boom of Bankruptcy Claims
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