January 6, 2011

The Daily Bankruptcy News

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Law:

Toyota Awarded $2.6M Over Attorney/Whistleblower's Claims
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Bonus Watch: Vinson & Elkins is Treating All of Its Employees
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Le-Nature's Trustee's $500 Million Malpractice Suit Against K&L Gates Dismissed
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Pls Hndle Thx: The Informant
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Borders GC Resigns, as Four Am Law 100 Firms Surround Ailing Bookseller
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As 6 Partners Leave Fla. Trial Firm, Ex-Associates Get Top Billing
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Firm Saves 5 Million With Flex Scheme and Outsourcing
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Law Firm Web Design: Build It and They Will Come. Or Maybe They Won't.
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Rancor and Filing
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Lawyer Resolutions That Will Likely Be Broken
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K&L Gates Sues U of Wash. Prof, Says He Threatened Partner Over His Wife’s Divorce
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Galleon, Google, Anadarko, Madoff, BayernLB in Court News
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Looking for a Law Job? Consider the Country
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Watch Out for ‘Brian Willmer’ of ‘Willmer Hale’
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Hot Women Lawyers
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Follow the money - Hot job in 2011: Lawyer
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You Are Now Free to Curse in Pennsylvania
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Holiday Card Contest: The Finalists!
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In Win for Gucci, Judge Says Privilege Applies to Lawyer Who's Not 'Active'
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Federal Judge Won't Recognize 'Self-Critical Analysis' Privilege
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Female Law Students More Likely than Males to Cite Fear Factor as Motivator
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Want to Lose Weight? Try Visiting This Law Prof’s Contracts Website
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A Millionaire Paul Weiss Partner Might Get Money from His Ex-Wife — Thanks to Bernie Madoff
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Citizen Superhero Crime-Fighter Changes Into Costume in Secret Comic Store Room
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Mystery Deepens re Ex-GOP Aide Yale Law Grad, Disoriented and Coatless Before Murder
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Teen in a Coma After Accident, Gets Jaywalking Ticket At Hospital
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Judges:

Scalia Accepts Invite of Tea Party Leader, Criticized for ‘Exceedingly Poor Judgment’
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Obama Renominates More Than 40 Judicial Candidates
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Court vacancies here to stay?
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Moving Right Along: Annual Slowpoke Report Examines Pending Motions, Civil Cases
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Wall Street:

Stock futures indicate slightly higher open for Wall Street
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European Stocks Rise to Two-Year High
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Stocks Continue to Roll, Adding 31.71 Points
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Dow Gains For Fourth Straight Day
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Why Are Taxpayers Subsidizing Facebook, and the Next Bubble?
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A Goldman Unit Is Said to Have Rejected Facebook
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Facebook Is Much More Profitable Than Everyone Thought
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Facebook doesn't care where Goldman gets its funds
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500-Investor Threshold Debated for Its 47-Year History
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Mark Zuckerberg shares his info only with . . .
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Does Goldman’s Facebook investment violate the Volcker Rule?
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Goldman Flooded With Facebook Orders
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JPMorgan Legal Bills Soar in Financial Crisis Aftermath, Menacing Profits
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Layoffs:

Private payrolls leap 297000 in December: ADP
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Another Look at the Surprising ADP Jobs Data
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3 Ways to Count Unemployment, at a Glance
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2010: Fewest Planned US Job Cuts in 13 Years
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Reason for Jobs Optimism?
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Fraud:

Lawyer, Two of His Former Firms Sued for $10 Million in Ponzi Mess
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Ex-Madoff Aide Bongiorno Asks US Appeals Court to Free Her From Jail
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Bahamian fights subpoena over $82 million scheme
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Former top associate of Lou Pearlman sentenced to prison
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Ralph Janvey Wants Golfer David Toms to Pay Back the $905,087 He Got From Allen Stanford - Dallas News - Unfair Park
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Cedar Funding investors to vote on its fate
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Estate of Denny Hecker ally wants seized $10,000 returned
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Stanford Investors Face Urgent Deadline
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Judge to look at whether to delay Stanford's trial
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Maui man pleads guilty to 24-year Ponzi
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Economy:

US added 300,000 jobs in December
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Sharp Rise in World Food Prices
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The Brighter Outlook
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'Tax cut' and 'rich' may not mean what you think
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The richest person from all the world's major countries
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Obama Re-Nominates Nobel Prize Winner to Fed
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Paul Volcker Is Leaving The White House
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Number of Poor May be Millions Higher
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Bubbles Galore Will Make 2011 Year to Remember
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GOP’s Lame Excuse to Break a Spending Cut Campaign Promise
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The GOP's First Act In Congress Was To Make Deficit Spending Easier
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Fiscal Shock
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Biden to 7 year old: 'We need jobs!'
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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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Bailout Recipients
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Real Estate:

Home prices end up 4.1% lower in 2010, more declines ahead
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Apartment Vacancy Rates decline in Q4
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Judge sanctions Chase Home Finance for trying to delay foreclosure
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Largest Condo Project in Northwest goes back to Lenders
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The 10 Scariest Housing Scenarios For 2011 And Beyond
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A Struggle Over Rating Mortgage Bonds
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Attorney General Tom Miller Reneges on Promise to Prosecute Mortgage Fraud
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Hope Now: November mortgage modifications doubled foreclosure sales
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One Day After Reported Settlement, Florida AG Releases Blistering Must Read Presentation On Fraudclosure
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Homebuilders, developer spar over Inspirada bankruptcy
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Beacon Pointe in Duluth Files For Bankruptcy
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Home for sale: But it may look a bit strange
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CMBS delinquencies hit record high in December
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Litigation:

Discovery: Linear Review is an Outdated Methodology
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Tax:

Americans spend 6.1 billion hours on their taxes
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I.R.S. Watchdog Calls for Tax Code Overhaul
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Report: IRS Tactics Needlessly Harm Taxpayers
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Corporate-Tax Overhaul on Horizon
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Food/Drink:

Pizza Huts Around La. Closed Over Lawsuit
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Tasty Baking seeks covenant amendment again
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Aviation:

Delta Reaches Accord to Settle Claims Related to Mesa Air Bankruptcy Case
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Mexicana resumes ticket sales
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Airlines bet oil will correct; stay away from hedging
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Small Business:

How Six Companies Failed to Survive 2010
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Music:

Album Sales Continue Downward Spiral
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Consumer Finance:

Hot Pursuit of Customers: The Real Reason More People are Turning to Payday Loans
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Religion:

Crystal Cathedral bankruptcy hearing postponed
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Archdiocese gets until Feb. 7 to file financial data
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Celebs:

Bankruptcy Shakes Up Elvis' Palm Springs Estate
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IRS Has Its Eyes on 'Fockers' Actress
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Paul Hogan to Sue Australian Government
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Education:

Why A PhD is often a waste
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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 Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
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Bankruptcy Jobs:

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Miscellaneous:

A&P, Workflow, Schutt, Mesa Air, Loehmann's, GSC: Bankruptcy
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The Bankruptcy Files: Another Diocese Descends Into Chapter 11
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Jurisdiction:

The Delaware Bankruptcy Court Explores the Limits of Bankruptcy Jurisdiction and Holds that It Cannot Exercise Supplemental Jurisdiction
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Finance:

Microlenders, Honored With Nobel, Are Struggling
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Banking:

Fewer Bank Failures? Chapter 11 Sale Offers a New Way
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BofA Tests Wider Choices, Prices on Accounts
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Derivatives:

Lehman: When (derivatives) counterparties collapse
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Mass Torts:

Commission Blames BP, Industry in Spill
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Oil Spill Panel Slams Everyone in Report
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BP, Transocean Blow off Scathing Report
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Insurance:

The Top Ten D&O Stories of 2010
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Retailing:

Loehmann's to put bankruptcy plan to creditor vote
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Borders Group bankruptcy filing may be inevitable
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Anchor Blue shuts down corporate operations
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Corporate Reform:

Here Are All The Names Of The Hedge Funds That Donated $10 Million To Fend Off Financial Regulation
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is all about plain English. So why is its press release a 69-word sentence?
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Municipalities:

Busting Unions With Bankruptcy Isn't Chapter 9 Way
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Detroit Public Schools Not Considering Chapter 9 Bankruptcy
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Detroit School System May Use GM-Style Restructuring
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Tycoon offers help to debt-laden California
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Someone Has To Stop This Shameful Attack on Public Employees
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The myth of Texas immunity to the recession
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Lehman:

San Mateo County sued by schools over Lehman bust
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Alvarez & Marsal, Lehman's Liquidator, Hires Whyte
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Golf:

Yes! Golf assets to be auctioned off on January 18
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UK:

Swelling bankruptcy 'a concern'
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Old, female and going bankrupt
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EU:

Ponzi socialism
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Western Europe Sovereign Debt Now Riskier Than Emerging Markets
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European Credit Markets Are About To Hear Word The H Word
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Ireland:

David Drumm's bankruptcy hearing continues in the US
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Drumm transferred €550000 into wife's account
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Germany:

PrimaCom to be sold on as creditors take control
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Japan:

Japan's Fiscal Situation `Approaching the Edge of a Cliff,' Sengoku Says
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