October 4, 2007

Daily Bankruptcy News

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Law:

Is the "Premium Billing Party" Over?
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Three Things You Might Not Know About Michael Mukasey
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Can Lawyers Keep Charging Top Rates?
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Pay Raise Watch: Howrey Postpones Weirdness
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Survival Tips for Summer Associates Entering the Real World of Law Firms
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Keeping Women Lawyers
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Day Casebeer Partner Is Central to Qualcomm Discovery Mess
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Top Lies of Lawyers -- and Clients
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Sol Wachtler Got His Law License Back
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Smaller Markets = Smaller Fees
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The Cadwalader Bed Bugs Are Baaack!
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What's Up at WilmerHale? The Baltimore Office
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Judge Sanctions Lawyers Up to $5 Million
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Justice Scalia Joins 24 (satire)
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A Call out for JDs, No Bar-Passage Required
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Attention Young Legal Deal Makers: Did You Make the Cut?
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Baker Donelson creates subprime mortgage task force
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Officials: Fire at house of Texas Supreme Court justice intentionally set
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Investigators Find Marshals' Efforts to Protect Federal Judges Inadequate
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Hidden Cost of Big Firm Lawyers in a Small Town
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Judge Won't Allow Plaintiff to Depose Himself
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Want More Business? Here's a How-To List
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"Lawyer: Kent harassment complaint more than words"
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Say What?!
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Distressed Investing:

Firm in venture to help distressed companies
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Hedge Funds:

Report of hedge fund outflows in July was wrong, firms say
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Layoffs:

Dean Foods To Cut 600-700 Workers
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Banking:

Banks demanding leeway to charge more for LBO loans Print Email RSS Reprints
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Bank Merger Survival Guide
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Economy:

US Jobs Outlook: Weak, Not Dreadful
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The key talks that led to Ben Bernanke's crunch decisions
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Service Economy Growth Below Forecast
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Growth Slows in Services, but a Recession Is Doubted
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Utilities:

Judge dismisses Lawrence Utilities' bankruptcy
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Religion:

Bankrupt church allowed to sell land
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Autos:

GM Pact Lets It Move Fourth of Workers to Lower-Paying Jobs
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Manufacturing jobs, UAW at risk with 2-tier wage
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Ford, Chrysler veer from GM
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Delphi chairman expects exit from bankruptcy by year's end
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Delphi asks for more time on bankruptcy plan
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Delphi alters its proposal to exit Chapter 11
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Dana deals with GM, Toyota OK'd
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Court Approves Dura Automotive Systems' Disclosure Statement
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Some GM factories left without a future
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UAW may use heft to limit costs to retirees
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AG dropped case based on bankruptcy ruling
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Real Estate:

Bear Stearns cuts another 310 mortgage jobs
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Congress calls for "mortgage czar"
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Democrats Want Fannie, Freddie to Buy Subprime Loans
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First Magnus' Bid to Dissolve Unit Nixed
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White House: Foreclosure tax break should be temporary
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Bush administration, Congress headed for fight over new mortgage debt provisions
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Democrats Split on Ways to Ease Mortgage Crunch
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DB Key Largo files Chapter 11
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Worse days ahead for home builders
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Bailout backlash - Not everyone favors helping troubled homeowners, lenders and investors stung by the subprime crisis
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Mortgage lenders face subprime "traffic jam"
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Block's mortgage unit loses access to billions in credit
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Location Factor In Home Sales, Foreclosures
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Credit Suisse's Dougan says mortgage turmoil could last until 2009
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US Issuance Of 'Safe' Mortgage Product Plunges To Record Low
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Countrywide Hires Company To Aid Its Image
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Fitch Downgrades $18.4 Billion of 2006 Subprime Bonds
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Flipping Slows, but Landlords Continue to Raise Rents
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NYC foreclosures climb 64% in third quarter
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Investors Still Ensnared in 1031 Exchange Collapses
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CA governor to sign measures to protect homeowners, expand affordable options
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IndyMac Strips to Fig Leaf, Skips the Full Monty
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U.S. Senate May Expand FHA-Insured Mortgages, Schumer Says
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For Baltimore, Housing Slump Slows a Revival
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Enron:

Citigroup Refutes Enron Accusation
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Bankruptcy Reform:

Durbin Introduces Mortgage Legislation
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Tax:

Tax-Shelter Provision Puts Business Groups on Alert
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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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Wall Street:

Merrill Lynch banker is the latest scalp in wake of credit crunch
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Each Lost Wall St Job Costs NYC 2 Other Jobs
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Food/Drink:

Interstate can exit So. California market - judge
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Bankrupt Interstate Bakeries borrowing ability cut
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Twinkies set for showdown with courts
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Aviation:

Hawaiian says go! trying to knock out Aloha
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Nearly 30 percent of flights late in August
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American's talks with union end without a deal
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Health Care:

A tale of two cities... and two hospitals
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The risk of bankruptcy before and after brain or spinal cord injury: a glimpse of the iceberg's tip
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Many Insured Americans Not Prepared for Medical Emergencies
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M&A:

Time for a New Corporate Buying Spree?
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Cross-Border:

Chapter 15 Denied - The Impact of 'Bear Stearns'
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Accounting:

Radian Tumbles After Deloitte Steps Down as Auditor
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Firm replaces corporate ladder with 'lattice'
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Ernst & Young launches rebrand plan
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Lingering effect of allowed claim in bankruptcy
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UK:

Northern Rock Shares Advance on Takeover Speculation
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PwC denies conflict at the Rock
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Clifford Chance bags BoE role on Northern Rock
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Wages growth at lowest rate in a year
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Bank of England holds rate for third month in a row
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Uncertainty causes sharp rise in cost of personal loans
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Linklaters' German reshuffle is a stark illustration of just how far the firm has fallen short of the mark in Europe's biggest economy
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Canada:

Is it game up for NexInnovations?
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Germany:

Deutsche Bank to Write Off About $3.12B
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