August 28, 2013

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Law:

U.S. Bank Legal Bills Exceed $100 Billion
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The Dean Of The Bankruptcy Bar Will Exorcise Your Demons
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Sullivan & Cromwell, Goodwin, Gibson: Business of Law
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Two former Diamond McCarthy bankruptcy partners open Dallas office of Reid Collins & Tsai
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Biglaw’s Statistical Shortcomings
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Washington University Schooling Attorneys in Business
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If Trump Had Started A Law School, Nobody Would Have Stopped Him
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ATL Law Firm Ratings: D.C. Edition
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Baker Loses Top Global 100 Spot Despite Record Revenues
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Has This Top Litigator Lost His Powers?
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Luck runs out for gambling lawyer
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Hip Akerman Goes Trendy With New LAB Miami Office
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Mom charged with homicide after giving birth in sports bar bathroom, dumping baby in toilet before returning to watch wrestling match
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Crusader Requires A Jewish OR Muslim Lawyer: Apparently We’re Going After The 16th-Century Vatican In SCOTUS!!
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Former Teacher Who R---- Suicidal Student, Gets 30 Days Jail
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Remote texter can be held liable for distracted driver’s crash, appeals court rules
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Victim’s dad offers stranded juror a ride home, judge declares mistrial
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Prosecuting attorney is accused of dismissing charges in exchange for s--
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Looks Like The World Has Been Spared Viewing Photos Of Liberace's Autopsied Corpse
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Mug Shots
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Lawyer: Federal Agents In Wild Costumes Are Swarming The Nevada Desert This Week
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Kidnappers Give Money To Their Victim After Learning Her Family Was Too Poor To Pay A Ransom
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Say What?!
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Judges:

VA: Bankruptcy judge joins court's local division
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Reports: Prison gang threatened judge in connection with probe of superintendent’s slaying
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Ex-judge gets 6 years in bribe case as ex-DA awaits sentencing; murder victim’s mom gets no apology
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Ex-judge takes plea in Oxycodone case
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Wall Street:

U.S. Stock Futures Little Changed Before Home-Sales Data
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S&P 500 Drops Most in 9 Weeks Amid Tension Over Syria
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Layoffs:

Who Are the Long-Term Unemployed?
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Set Back by Recession, and Shut Out of Rebound
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Fewer airline jobs: US carriers trim ranks by 2.4% --- American Airlines Cut 8.4 Percent of Jobs in June, Leading U.S. Airlines in Trims
(DBN)

The Geography of Jobs: Smart Policies Are Good, but Oil Is Better
(DBN)

Two Graphs Showing, Decisively, That Obamacare Is Not Creating a Permanent Part-Time America
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Valuable Transferable Skills Of The Future
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California Cutting Jobs At Employment Office
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Banking:

Ex-JPMorgan ' Whale ' banker arrested --- Ex-JPMorgan Trader Released, Opposing U.S. Extradition
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JPMorgan woes deepen as US demands $6bn penalty
(DBN)

One Bank of America Suit Tossed, But Spat With FDIC Continues
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Autos:

Bidders Vie For Former Assets Of Bankrupt Auto Parts Giant Fenco
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Celebs:

How Low Can She Go? ‘Real Fraudwife’ Teresa Giudice Stiffed Fertility Doctor $12,000
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Girls Gone Wild's Joe Francis jailed and ordered to undertake anger management
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Health Care:

Covenant Health to Lay Off 49
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Fairbanks behavioral health center plans bankruptcy filing
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Museums:

Slavery museum sale postponed, private offer to buy land made
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Economy:

Consumer Confidence Index in US Increases to 81.5 --- Surprises Economists
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Middle Class Jobs Vanishing the Fastest
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Wages Struck in the Doldrums
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Jack Lew: Obama 'Won't Negotiate' Over The Debt Limit --- The Threat Of Debt Ceiling Crises Is Over --- Don’t Worry Too Much About the Debt Ceiling
(DBN)

Readying for Massive Interest Rate Shock
(DBN)

The Astonishing Decline of Homelessness in America
(DBN)

Lessons Learned from Fed's $745Bn Mistake
(DBN)

The Great Lesson from the Great Recession
(DBN)

The Great Lesson from the Great Recession
(DBN)

States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
(DBN)

El-Erian: Lehman's Morbid Legacy --- El-Erian: Economy Can't Handle More Uncertainty
(DBN)

Number of U.S. households with an unemployed parent soared from 2005 to 2011
(DBN)

Six Reasons the U.S. Will Dominate
(DBN)

Bank Executive Admits to Using Bailout Money to Buy Condo
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

US home prices rise at marginally slower pace --- Case-Shiller Home Price Index Misses Expectations --- The Index
(DBN)

Misrepresentations to a Mortgagee: Does Assignment of a Loan Constitute a Get Out Of Jail Free Card for Fraud?
(DBN)

US seeking $6 billion from JPMorgan to settle mortgage claims: source
(DBN)

Liberace's Once Opulent Vegas Mansion Sells for Measly $500,000
(DBN)

Just A Handful Of New York City Apartment Buildings Have An Actual 'Poor Door'
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Municipalities:

Judge Rhodes speeds up Detroit's eligibility hearing
(DBN)

Union calls bankruptcy judge's rescheduling 'hasty,' vows to continue pension arguments
(DBN)

Swaps deal, secret database under consideration at Detroit bankruptcy hearing
(DBN)

‘Big Cat’ Causing Stir In Detroit Is Shot Dead, Owners Distraught
(DBN)

What could still go wrong with Harrisburg's debt plan: an analysis
(DBN)

Harrisburg Plan A 'Template'?
(DBN)

Haircuts Help Fuel Harrisburg Recovery Plan
(DBN)

Harrisburg Seeks Court Approval For Plan To Shed Debt
(DBN)

San Bernardino Bankruptcy Judge Streamlines Eligibility Contest
(DBN)

Wall Street Journal profiles Jefferson County lawyer Ken Klee: Energy healer, exorcist, bankruptcy specialist
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Student Debt:

Which Colleges Should We Blame for the Student-Debt Crisis?
(DBN)

Why You Should Stay in School, in 1 Chart
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Fraud:

Raj Rajaratnam's Prison Experience Sounds Terrible, Except For The Manservant, Balcony, TV, Private Toilet...
(DBN)

Trump's 'Hand-Picked' Instructors Were Allegedly Spectacularly Unqualified --- 8 Cringeworthy Allegations From The New Lawsuit Against Donald Trump
(DBN)

GE Capital still on the hook in Petters suit
(DBN)

Couple Files Bankruptcy To Avoid Ponzi "Clawback" Lawsuit
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Aviation:

AMR-US Airways Trial Should Wait Till March, U.S. Says --- Here’s the DOJ memo that explains why it needs until March 2014 to try the antitrust case against US Airways and American Airlines
(DBN)

AMR Pays More Than $15 Million a Month in Bankruptcy Fees
(DBN)

JetBlue Takeover Appeal Grows Amid AMR Limbo
(DBN)

Airline stocks fall as oil prices rise
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Alternative Energy:

Suntech Directors Quit Saying Solar Maker Has No Plan
(DBN)

Obama may revive $25 billion auto loan program
(DBN)

LDK Solar says will miss debt payment; shares down
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Corporate Reform:

U.S. Oversight of Financial Markets Praised
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Regulatory Enforcement: Using FIRREA to Prosecute Financial Fraud
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FHFA Said to Seek $6 Billion Minimum for JPMorgan Bad Loans
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Tax:

Switzerland Close to Resolving Undeclared U.S. Accounts
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Wildlife:

Bankrupt Sanctuary to Euthanize Hundreds of Tortoises
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(7 new opinions today - DBN)

Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory

Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings (19 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (8 new filings today)
(DBN)

Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
(large downloads)

UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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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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Bankruptcy Statistics:

 

Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Jurisdiction:

Stern Files: Seventh Circuit Sides with Sixth Circuit in Holding that Consent Does Not Cure Bankruptcy Courts’ Lack of Final Constitutional Authority
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Cross-Border:

Irish Bank Resolution Corp. Files for Bankruptcy in US
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Magazines:

Is the Playboy Brand About to Disappear?
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Autos:

U.S. to Revive Loan Program That Backed Tesla, Fisker
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Electricity:

Doctors, environmental groups want tighter emissions limits on Energy Future Holdings’ coal plants
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Ethanol:

Lender acquires bankrupt ethanol plant
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Food/Beverage:

Trustee wants Chapter 7 bankruptcy for beef plant
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Private Equity:

After mega-LBO boom, a massive private equity cleanup
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Telecoms:

LightSquared Lenders Seek Auction to End Falcone Control
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Hollywood:

LA Mayor Panics on Hollywood Productions
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Sovereigns:

Second Circuit Rules Against Argentina, Grants Stay for Certiorari Petition
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More on an Argentine debt swap (and why it doesn't matter whether the "no workaround" injunction is stayed)
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Vulture Funds: Current bond holders will be paid in Argentina according to new proposal
(DBN)

CFK slams court ruling in favor of creditors
(DBN)

New York-to-Buenos Aires Bond Swap Is Proposed
(DBN)

Argentina bond risk up as proposed debt swap undercuts US ruling
(DBN)

Argentine roulette
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Market shock after ‘vulture fund’ win on Argentina debt
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Don't Cry for Me Argentine Bondholders: The Second Circuit Rules
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EU:

Debt levels on big buyouts hit five-year high
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PIIGS:

Italy: Rising Bankruptcies And Suicide Rates As Recession Drags On
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Spaniards Fleeing Jobless Scourge Seek Jobs in Morocco
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EU’s Rehn Says ‘Premature’ to Put Numbers on Greek Financing Gap
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Canada:

Western Plains Files Notice of Intention under Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act
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Law school still a good bet for future earnings: report
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MENA:

'A Slow Death': How the War Is Destroying Syria's Economy
(DBN)

Dubai Market Tumbles Again
(DBN)

Arab League Turns Against Syria
(DBN)

Assad’s Brother Seen Linked to Syria Chemical Attack
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Africa:

All 24,000 Applicants Failed The Entry Test For A Major University
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