July 31, 2007

Daily Bankruptcy News

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Law:

Sidley Austin Names New Bankruptcy Partner
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Clifford Chance wannabe partners to cut their teeth overseas
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Summer horror days for Freshfields
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Chief Justice Hospitalized After Fall
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Chief Justice Described as Fully Recovered in Hospital After Seizure, Fall
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Pink slips and p--- czars
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Can Job Sharing Work in Law Firms, Big or Small?
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Career Coach Aids Anxious Associates
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Lawyers Find Real Revenue in Virtual World
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Bulk of Legal Service Market Belongs to Midrange Law Firms
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Firm Resolves Dispute in KPMG Tax Probe
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Anxious Associates: Come In, Let's Talk
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McNulty to Join Baker & McKenzie
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Is Manipulating Expert Witness Testimony a New Corporate Tactic?
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Firms Struggle to Keep Women Attorneys
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Cleaning Up Other Lawyers' Messes Can Be All Work and No Pay
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Dear Son: I Stole From Firm Clients
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Say What?!
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Sometimes Lawyers Seem to Forget . . . .
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Hedge Funds:

Sowood hedge funds lose more than half their value
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Citadel benefits from credit downturn
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Citadel's appetite
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Debt Worm Turns for a Day
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SPhinX Liquidators Point To DPM Mellon
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Publishing:

Judge awards murder victim's family right to O.J. Simpson's "If I Did It" book
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$queezing OJ
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Credit Reporting:

Dispelling the shadows around your credit score
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Food/Drink:

BIOTA tries to stop foreclosure sale
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Brown & Cole in talks with investor
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Golf:

Skyline owner must maintain golf course, judge says
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I say Fresno, and you say Trump: Yes, he'll be back
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Privacy:

Greenberg Traurig Shareholder Luis Salazar Appointed Consumer Privacy Ombudsman
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Layoffs:

Mass layoff numbers rise
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Credit Card:

Credit Card Buyer Beware
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Student Debt:

The Senate's attempt to fix a flawed student loan industry is mere window dressing, say critics
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Banking:

Bank hit by brokerage losses
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Accounting:

Starting Accounting Salaries Rise 2.3 Percent
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Utilities:

Akron Thermal planning to hike revenue
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Seaview files for bankruptcy
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Currie Files For Chapter 11 Reorganization
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Court Limits Scope of "Forward Contracts"
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Autos:

Cash from European sell-off is a key to Ford's recovery
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GM Reports 2Q Profit of $891 Million
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Health Deal Could Lift GM
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Ligocki may be leaving as Tower CEO
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Aviation:

Northwest Sees More Cancellations Monday
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Northwest ignored warning signals
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NWA calls back all its pilots
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Delta fulfills bankruptcy claims
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Cancellation Chaos at NWA Counters
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Demand high for UAL pilot positions
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United pilots will picket at airport
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Real Estate:

US Foreclosure Filings Surge
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More firms hit by meltdown in sub-prime loans
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American Home Stock Plunges on Dividend Payment Delay
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AHM Halted, No Word From Company
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AHM Shocks Investors
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Risky Mortgages Still Plentiful
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Immigrants keep sagging housing market afloat
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Geoffrey Groshong, Partner at Miller Nash, Named as Trustee in MILA, Inc. Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filing
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California foreclosures rise 170% in first half of year
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New York Developers Charged in $27 Million Fraud
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Subprime fallout strikes Europe
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NovaStar stock hits new low
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NYC foreclosures mount
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US credit woes ripple across globe
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Signs of contagion in the US housing downturn
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More Lenders Feeling Pain From Defaults
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Michigan Has Fifth-Highest Foreclosure Rate In Country
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Texas: One foreclosure per 130 households
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Foreclosures in AL show sharp increase
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MGIC' May Write Off $516 Million in Subprime Venture
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GMAC's net dropped 63% as its ResCap home-lending unit continued to weigh on results
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Marriott battle focuses on worth, search for a buyer
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REIT is subprime casualty
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Education:

Warren: Taking the Public out of Education
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Corporate Reform:

Ex-UnitedHealth CEO's assets stay frozen
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Sarbanes-Oxley Gets Praise From Sarbanes And Oxley
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Five Years Under the Thumb
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Telecoms:

Content was tiny portion of Amp'd budget
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Celebrity:

Suge Knight Hasn't Lost His Bite
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'Fifth Beatle' Estate War Heats Up (scroll down)
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Lucid' Jacko Testifies
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Mogul's demise trips up artists
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Ex-UT trustee seeks $4M from McLean
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Wall Street:

Wall Street employment hits a record, topping dotcom frenzy levels
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Corporate Governance:

Chancery Asserts Need to Decide Important Delaware Issues Such as Backdating, Despite Parallel Federal Case
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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 Jobs:

(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12)
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Aviation:

Delta shares hit post-bankruptcy low
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Enron:

Enron investors ask Cornyn to help their $40 billion lawsuit
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Last two prison-bound Enron execs to surrender
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Senator wants to close `Enron loophole'
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Former Enron holders seek to keep Bush administration out of case
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Still caught up in Enron imbroglio
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Mass Torts:

WR Grace expanding despite bankruptcy setback
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Entertainment:

Movie Gallery gets reprieve from lenders
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Bankrupt amusement park's rides in dispute
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Health Care:

St. Vincent's Emerging From 'Daunting' Bankruptcy
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Board Opts for Cash Controls, Not Closures
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Insurance:

FTC Report on Credit Scores in Insurance
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Religion:

Report shows diocese's accounting system lacking
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Audit finds 'questionable' activities in San Diego parish books
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Debt Collection:

Stop or My Debt Collector Will Shoot!
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Bankruptcy Crimes:

Bankruptcy fraud laid to 2 Lima men
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Des Moines couple face up to five years for bankruptcy fraud (scroll down)
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Woman admits to lies in bankruptcy
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Thirteen times for Chapter 13
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Life after debt?
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Queen Mary: The bankruptcy ride
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Rout Continues In High-yield Corporate Market
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Constructive trusts in bankruptcy and claim preclusion
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Private equity buyouts are being delayed world-wide
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UK:

Halliwells brings in Reed Smith insolvency expert
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Debt firm offers cash to sneak on your friends
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U.K. Consumers Cut Back on Beer, Shoes as Mortgage Crunch Looms
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Two jailed for terror attack on debtor
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UK fraud levels have undergone a 'step-change'
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Europe:

European Restructuring Monitor Quarterly
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Iran:

Iran bank hit hard by sanctions
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Russia:

Russneft Chief Blames State for His Ouster
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Germany:

Ten days that changed the tune of IKB
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US Mortgage Crisis Hits German Banks
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