July 11, 2014

The Daily Bankruptcy News

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Law:

Cahill Gordon announces summer bonuses of $5K to $15K --- Summer Bonuses At Cahill Gordon Once Again
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Norton Rose Fulbright increases salaries
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Top 100 Turnaround Professionals
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Best Firms for the Summer (and After) --- The Law Firms Where Summer Associates Have The Most Fun (2015)
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Big Law Finds its Inner Rock Star in Battle of the Bands
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Managing Partners Take Survey; What Happens Next… Won’t Amaze You
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Instead of telling everyone you’re the ‘Best & Brightest,’ listen more to the people in the trenches
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Reinventing The Law Business: On Competition
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More Partner Defections Hit Dickstein Shapiro
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Today’s Tech: How A California Attorney Uses Google Glass
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5 Ways To Increase Your Biglaw Salary
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The 1981 Slaughter & May Video: Where Are They Now?
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Life Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be For Biglaw Attorneys At ‘Club Fed’
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MI: Panic over plan to house immigrant kids, call for border minefield
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How To Become A Morning Person
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5 Office Hacks To Improve Your Workspace
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5 Signs You Should Quit Your Job Today
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How To Look Good In A T-Shirt
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Scary Side Effects Of Frequently Checking Email
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Everything You Need To Know About The iPhone 6
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The Right Way To Pack A Suitcase
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Lawyer who complained of microchip behind her left ear is suspended from practice
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Man shoots wife because he ‘got tired of her’
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Volunteers work to identify bodies of dead children --- Unaccompanied children not fleeing violence, says Guatemala's first lady --- Few Children Are Deported --- The Crisis on the Border
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Cops Search For Person Who Donated 3 Human Skulls To Thrift Store
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Long Island man finds arm in front yard
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Boehner Sues Obama
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Teacher suspended for getting drunk... Teaching middle schoolers how to twerk... Getting lapdance from child
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Woman billed $5K for hospital body cavity searches gets $1.1M settlement
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Police raid law office, wire client in ‘bizarre’ probe of claimed lawyer effort to aid client escape
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Jury says Dodgers must pay $13.9M in Giants fan’s beating case
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Lawyer suspended over sexting shame
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Solo lawyer says someone hijacked her bar number for rogue legal filing in high-profile federal case
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Man arrested for karate kicking police horse
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Cops: Woman Strips, Does Yoga In Road
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Judges:

Harry Reid Blames Justice Roberts on Hobby Lobby
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A Judge Won His Election By A Coin Toss
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Wall Street:

US futures rise, fresh earnings ahead; Dow Jones up 0.20%
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U.S. Shares Recover After Market Jolt Hits Europe
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Wall Street edges lower on Portugal bank worry
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The Ugliest Part Of Wall Street Is About To Be Revealed For All The World To See
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Layoffs:

 

National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Corporate Reform:

BNP Paribas Pleads Guilty to Criminal Charge in Federal Court
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Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer: Financial Sector Reform: How Far Are We?
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U.S. bank penalties now exceed the GDP of most countries
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Art:

Detroit Museum Appraisal Offers Glimpse Into the Finicky Art Market
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Student Debt:

Seniors Stung by Student Loan Co-Signing
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Banking:

How to Overcome Your Fear of “Commitment” If You Are a Bank Holding Company
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Why We Need to Restructure the Big Bank Holding Companies
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A Difficult Quarter Again Seen for Banks
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Celebs:

'Real Housewives Of New Jersey' Star Teresa Giudice Scared Of Prison?
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Telecoms:

Harbinger RICO suit against DISH, Ergen over LightSquared seeks $4B
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Magazines:

AMI’s saviors not unloading publisher’s debt in takeover
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Economy:

First-time jobless claims jump in NJ, while the nation sees overall dip --- Jobless claims near lowest level ever — compared to size of workforce
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A Closer Look at House Republicans' Record on Jobs
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Economist Looks At Gen Y and X Where we are and how we got here
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Credit card debt is on the rise. Here’s why that’s not a bad thing.
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Bank Card Delinquencies Fall Significantly in First Quarter
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Corporate America Now Running on Junk Rated Debt
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A Devastating Pattern Of Homelessness Among Late Baby Boomers Could Repeat In Millennials
(DBN)

Picking Up Food Stamps in My Mercedes
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2 Economists Have A Radical Proposal To Make It Legal To Steal Other People's Ideas
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Fischer Says Financial Stability Panel Needs More Power --- Fed vice chairman suggests including financial stability among chief goals
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Partisan Divide Over Fed on Display as Congressional Panel Considers Bill
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How Major U.S. Industries Break Down by Race and Sex
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The other minimum wage in America, and why it makes no sense
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How A 'Genius' Hedge Fund Almost Caused A Global Financial Meltdown
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

FNC: Residential Property Values increased 8.2% year-over-year in May
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Trulia: Asking House Prices up 8.1% year-over-year in June
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Housing Economist Warns That The US Home Price Slowdown Is Here To Stay
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New Manhattan building nearly empty as foreign investors buy units to park cash
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The State Of The US Housing Market
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Fannie-Freddie Propose Liquidity Rules for Mortgage Insurers
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Sacramento Housing in June: Total Sales down 4% Year-over-year, Equity Sales up 13%, Active Inventory increases 91%
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Municipalities:

Detroit to shed $7B in debt during bankruptcy, says internal report
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Today's voting deadline sets stage for final Detroit bankruptcy showdown --- What to expect in Detroit's $18 billion bankruptcy vote due today
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Why Michigan's emergency manager law stirs contempt, lack of cooperation
(DBN)

Miller Buckfire to collect $28 million for Detroit bankruptcy work
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Report reveals 34 percent recovery for Detroit limited-tax GO bonds
(DBN)

Can Puerto Rico Keep the Lights On?
(DBN)

Puerto Rico's willingness to honor debt "should be unquestioned" -officials
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Puerto Rico pushes plan as it seeks to regain market access
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Atlantic City mayor: Painful shift from gambling
(DBN)

San Bernardino bankruptcy case creeps forward
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Lawyer for Holyoke fights Geriatric Authority's try for bankruptcy protection
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Municipal Credit Default Swap Activity Jumps, But Overall Market Is Still Thin
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Gambling:

Revel Casino, Still Shiny and New, Teeters on the Edge
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Tax:

U.S. Judge Orders IRS to Explain How it Lost Lerner’s Emails
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Education:

Alarm Bells Were Ringing at Corinthian
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There Are Now 50 Colleges That Charge More Than $60,000 Per Year
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Is College Worth The Skyrocketing Costs?
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Personal Finance:

Money Management Tips For Your 30s And 40s
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Food/Beverage:

Crumbs cupcake shops may be resurrected by investor --- Stock Is Going Ballistic
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Investors Circle Shuttered Cupcake Chain
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Crumbs Cupcakes May Survive On New Recipe From CNBC Reality Show Host
(DBN)

Magnolia CEO: Crumbs May Die, But the Cupcake Lives On
(DBN)

Still no ruling on beef plant lien
(DBN)

Judge confirms C&K Market bankruptcy emergence plan
(DBN)

Texas shipper indicted for fraud, money laundering
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Fraud:

The Trouble With Insider Trading Prosecutions
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Finance:

Steven Mandis, Subprime Lending's Mr. Rogers
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Hotels:

Hotels: Occupancy Rate up 4.4%, RevPAR up 9.0% in Latest Survey
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Former Trenton hotel financial adviser seeks back payment of more than $1.5M
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(3 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 (23 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:

 

Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Secured Debt:

Small Formalities, Big Consequences in Secured Credit Law
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Recent Pleadings:

 

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TBTF:

Fed's Fischer sees little benefit from breaking up too-big banks
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Insurance:

Court Holds Professional Liability Insurance Covers Restitutionary Settlement
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Retailing:

Businessweek Has A Brilliant Response To The Downfall Of American Apparel CEO Dov Charney
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Family Dollar Sales Fall, Management Blames The Economy --- Profit falls by a third as competition stiffens
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Shipping:

Why Is The Shipping Industry Underwater?
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Mass Torts:

Asbestos Defendant Fights Back Against Claims of Fraud
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West Virginia Chemical Spill Claims Trickling In
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Religion:

Religious group Redemptorist Order to pay sex-abuse victims
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Ruling on confession rankles Catholics
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Brokers:

Auditors at PwC May Share Blame for MF Global Collapse
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Healthcare:

Meadowlands Hospital slashing 102 jobs as patient count plummets
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Awards:

The American Lawyer Chooses 2014 Global Legal Award Winners
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Autos:

Plaintiffs Lawyers Pursue GM Defect Claims Along Two Paths
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Plaintiffs' Lawyers Meet GM Mediator in Atlanta With Mixed Results
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Ford June US Vehicles Sales Down 6%
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Pensions:

These pensions could fail
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Sovereigns:

Pollack says Argentina, hold-outs and legal representatives will meet on Friday
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Remember the legal fundamentals on Argentina's debt
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How to Tame Argentina's Debt Vultures
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JP Morgan requests 'clarification' from Judge Griesa to pay Japanese bondholders
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Argentines also passionate about debt default debacle
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Argentina to send technocrats to debt talks
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UK:

Bank of England holds rates as pressure to hike in 2014 builds
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Pre-pack administration: recommendations for a better procedure
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PIIGS:

Portugal's BES steadies nerves, losses still a puzzle --- Portugal's Troubled Banco Espirito Santo Finally Offers Some Clarity --- Does Asia face Portugal-style debt risks?
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Mexico:

Oceanografia Receives Bankruptcy Protection Amid Criminal Probe
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Netherlands:

Bankruptcy rate reaches three year low
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Serbia:

Serbia 'not on brink of bankruptcy': PM
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