February 14, 2014

The Daily Bankruptcy News

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Due to the Presidents Day holiday, The Daily Bankruptcy News will not publish on Monday February 17

Law:

An Update On Goings-On At Kirkland & Ellis
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Voluntary Buyout Watch: Stepping On Toes To Prune Personnel
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The 2014 Lateral Partner Market Seems To Be On The Rise, Especially In Los Angeles
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Contract Attorney Sues Staffing Agency For Overtime, What Happens Next Will Make You Chuckle
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Partner Profits and the Fight Over Cash Accounting
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Business of Law
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Think Your Job Is Killing You? How To Survive The Profession In 3 Easy Steps
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Valentine's Day Special
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How Did Two Young Lawyers Get To Have Dinner With The Obamas?
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Sorry, SMU Law — You’re Just Not ‘Brilliant’ Enough For Wendy Davis
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Greenberg Traurig Elevates 33 Attorneys to Shareholder, 11 to Of Counsel
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3 practice leaders exit Dorsey & Whitney
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Who Better To Reform Higher Ed Laws Than Some Law School Graduates?
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As Snow Blankets The East Coast, The Freeze At DOJ Is Over
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Bankruptcy lawyer’s wife also dies of injuries from mailbox package bomb
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Maximizing Your Blog’s Potential
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UK Firm of the Year 2014: Toilets
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Dumb Starbucks: Power of a gimmick and it's time law firms experimented
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Ninth Circuit Recognizes Right to Bear Arms Outside the Home
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Woman Cuts Off Tattoo of Cheating Boyfriend's Name, Mails it to Him
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10-Year-Old Steals Parents' Car, Crashes It, Tells Cops He's a Dwarf
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Police ID Stolen Truck Driver As Tyson Beckford's Nephew
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Heroin Smuggler Comes Up With the Worst Cover Story Ever
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Woman Goes On Bloody Rampage After Boyfriend Refuses Her
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Say What?!
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Judges:

NJ Bankruptcy Judge Stern Passes Away
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ED PA BK Court Closed --- Newark and Trenton BK Courts Closed
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Eleventh Circuit Seeks Comment on Columbus Bankruptcy Judge
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Posner tells BigLaw chief, ‘stop babbling,’ threatens to end argument
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Judge appeals sanction for his relationship with prosecutor
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Judge pulls over to aid crash victim, a defendant on the way to her court
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Wall Street:

Stock futures waver ahead of confidence, factory data
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Stocks close higher; Nasdaq extends gains into 6th session
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How High-Speed Trading Lets Wall Street Cheat
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Oesterle on Disclosure of Bankruptcy Planning & Securities Regulation
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‘Young Money’: How Wall Street Turns its Pups into Wolves
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Layoffs:

 

National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Mass Torts:

Defense attorney: Judges should look for asbestos claims fraud
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Asbestos defense attorney says more transparency needed between trusts and courts
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Garlock Ruling a Blow for Double Dippers
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Awards:

Weil’s London Restructuring team wins “Restructuring Team of the Year” at the 2014 Legal Business Awards
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Television:

Judge Marvin Isgur Treated The Astros Like Nolan Ryan Treated Robin Ventura - "The Astros bankruptcy attorneys struck out like Chris Carter did 212 times last season"
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Is KCET Going Bankrupt ?
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Celebs:

Brandi Glanville: Kyle Richards is source of Lisa Vanderpump's bankruptcy story --- Brandi Glanville: Lisa Vanderpump is Not Bankrupt ... Probably
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Shane Heal digs in to defend loans
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Aviation:

American to Shrink Regional Unit After Pilots Reject Contract --- American Eagle President: Forget Planes, We'll Grow Ground Handling Business
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American to seek other carriers to fly new jets, regional unit says
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A Record Number Of Flights Have Been Canceled This Winter
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Gambling:

Fitch: Possible Caesars Transaction Unlikely to be Savior
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Distressed Investing:

Wilbur Ross Announces Major Position in Navigator, Reduction of Callidus Software
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Economy:

U.S. initial jobless claims rise by 8,000 last week to 339,000
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US business inventories rise as expected in December
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Middle Class: Throwaway Americans
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Check Out How Banks Have Slashed GDP Estimates In The Past Few Days
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Drop in retail sales bodes ill for GDP reports
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Fed Taper on ‘Auto-Pilot,’ Economists Say
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Price Slowdown Widens in U.S., Complicating Fed’s Drive to Fight Deflation
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America’s 1% live in relative poverty compared to the .01%
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Stocks lift 401(k)s, but many Americans are unprepared for retirement
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How The Recession Changed Gen Y
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A High School Diploma Just Doesn’t Cut It
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How the Economy Would've Looked in Normal Weather
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Silicon Valley VC Tom Perkins Still Thinks 'The Parallel Holds' Between Persecution Of Jews And The 1% --- Perkins: Taxes Will Kill the 1%
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A New IMF Paper Shreds Reinhart & Rogoff's Claim That High Debt Levels Slow Growth
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Poll: Gov't Greatest Threat to America
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Poll: American Dream Seen Out of Reach
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

No Rents for You! Bankruptcy Court Finds Assigned Rents Are Not Property of the Estate
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Freddie Mac: Mortgage rates edge higher; 30-year average is 4.28%
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Gap Between Most, Least Expensive Housing Markets Still Wide
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Should You Buy Or Rent A Home?
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Is U.S. Housing Unaffordable? It Depends on How You Chart It
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The Most Expensive Places To Rent An Apartment In The US
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Wells Fargo edges back into subprime as U.S. mortgage market thaws
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Couple Tried to Have Their Neighbor Committed to Boost Property Value
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Municipalities:

Motor City madness
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Detroit retirees, banks fight for assets
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Bankruptcy may prove beneficial to Duggan
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Detroit in the dark: How the city's streetlights went out and the plan to get them back on
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Court Complaint: See the updated challenge to Michigan’s EM law
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Talking Term Limits and Detroit Bankruptcy
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Projection puts Stockton $10M in black
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Two New Bills Would Help Normandy Avert Bankruptcy
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The 10 Happiest Mid-Sized Cities In America
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Pension Trusts and Municipal Bankruptcy
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Retailing:

Retail Sales Unexpectedly Tumble 0.4%
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JC Penney CFO Departs As Turnaround Stalls --- J.C. Penney appoints former Stage Stores executive as CFO
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Brookstone Contemplating Bankruptcy Filing Within Weeks
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The Decline of Department Store Sales
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I Can't Stop Looking at This Dead Mall's Abandoned Food Court
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Retail Jobs Going Up, Sales Going Down
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Lehman:

Lehman settles with Freddie Mac over $1.2 billion claim --- Freddie Mac gets (some) money back from Lehman
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Lehman Deal With Freddie Frees Up Cash for Creditors
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Furniture:

Finger Furniture closing its remaining two Houston stores
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Autos:

Chrysler bankruptcy trust gives 105-acre former plant to Kenosha
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Health Care:

Bankruptcy may be best for NRMC
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The Collapse of Big Law: A Cautionary Tale for Big Med
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Lifeguard Air Ambulance parent files for bankruptcy
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Rumors of Obamacare's death: Greatly exaggerated
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New billing standards to help patients with debt
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Health Care Shift: Some Doctors Go Salaried
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Alternative Energy:

Delaware bankruptcy judge will weigh results of Fisker auction
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Adult Entertainment:

'Girls Gone Wild's Bankruptcy Showcases Super Classy Trashy Domain Names
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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 (38 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (6 new filings today)
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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:

Tennessee led the US in bankruptcies in 2013
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Executory Contracts:

What Rights Do You Have If Specific Performance Is Your Only Remedy Under a Rejected Contract? Possibly None.
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Sales:

Delaware Court Puts the Brakes on Hybrid Tech’s Credit Bid for Bankrupt Fisker Automotive’s Assets
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Setoffs:

'Triangular Setoff' Held Unenforceable in Bankruptcy Cases
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Recent Pleadings:

Tronox Says Anadarko Owes $20B, Plus Legal Costs
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Litigation:

Don’t Forget to Produce Email Attachments
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Small Business:

Zombies Are Attacking Florida's Small Businesses
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Golf:

Cheval Golf Club files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization
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Food/Beverage:

Audit: Benda helped increase beef plant grant
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10 Rules To Follow At A Bar, From A Bartender
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Accounting:

PwC Faces Malpractice Trial in SemGroup Case
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Turnarounds:

A New Year Brings New Challenges
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Personal Finance:

How Working Too Hard Could Sabotage Your Career
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15 Surprising Tips For Standing Out At Work
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UK:

Official statistics may not tell the whole truth on insolvencies - R3
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Emmerdale star declared bankrupt - again
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EU:

Cyprus utility, port workers strike over privatisation plans
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PIIGS:

BPE CoCo bond plunges after S&P downgrade
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Italy's Economy Grows For The First Time Since 2011, Eurozone Recovery Accelerates
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France:

Ignoring internet puts you out of business, study shows
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Germany:

Solarstrom changes insolvency horse
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Israel:

Israel to Rescue Cash-Strapped Hadassah Still Ailing From Madoff
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Australia:

Australia’s housing bubble ready to burst, US investment guru claims
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Death of Auto Industry Brings Recession Fears
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Korea:

Korea to set up system allowing local governments to declare bankruptcy
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Ukraine:

Ukraine Is On The Brink
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