December 30, 2009

The Daily Bankruptcy News

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Law:

Above The Law’s Top Ten Most Popular Stories of 2009
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Rothstein law firm will agree to bankruptcy next week
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Paul Weiss Inks Largest Manhattan Office Deal of 2009
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Top AIG Executive Broke Glass Ceiling Only to Find a Government Imposed Salary Cap
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Associate Bonus Watch: Kramer Levin
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Greenberg Traurig Kicking Tires in S.F.
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Sharing Some Client Info Can Be OK When Moving to a New Firm, Ethics Committee Says
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E-Degree: Group Seeks Standards for Discovery Workers
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Bullet-Point Summary of Services Ruled Inadequate for Fee Award
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Man Spent 37 Years in Solitary Confinement After Flawed Trial
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Lawyer Looking for New Year's Date
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Say What?!
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Judges:

NY Judge Censured For Recusals, Insults During Pay War
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Man attacks judge, throws cup of coffee at him
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Wall Street:

Stocks headed for lower start
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New bonus policy set at Morgan Stanley
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Layoffs:

National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Trucking:

YRC Worldwide extends swap deadline again
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Banking:

United Community Banks suspends stock dividend
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Food/Drink:

Pilgrim's Pride bucks trend in classic turnaround
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Tavern on the Green's turbulent final days
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Celebs:

Updated: Naomi Campbell Not Filing for Bankruptcy
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Creditor Wants $3M from Nicolas Cage
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Top 10 Celebrity Bankruptcies of the Decade
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Fraud:

The Year of the Ponzi Scheme
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Fund Chief Snared by Taps, Turncoats
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Raj Rajaratnam Liked Dwarfs, Stun Guns and Hot Sauce
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Canopy Financial Files For Chapter 7
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Municipalities:

California City Eyes Tax Vote, Bond Freeze to Escape Bankruptcy
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State, Local Tax Revenues Decline 7%
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Aviation:

Regional Airlines Get Wings Clipped by Big Partners
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Economy:

Consumer confidence in 2nd straight boost
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Tracking the market and economic trends
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The Global Tinderbox
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Economic Stress Index
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Economy Tracker Map
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US Debt Clock
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Recovery Index
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Bailout Tracker
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Real Estate:

Little Relief for Those at Risk of Foreclosure
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Walking Away From The House She Can Afford
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Why It Is So Hard to Make Sense out of Housing
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Home Prices Mask Signs of Weakness
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Robert Shiller on Case-Shiller Home Price Data
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A Look at Case-Shiller, by Metro Area
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Index shows rise in home prices leveled off in October
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Miami: Commercial Real Estate Disaster
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Fear and Hoping in Commercial Real Estate
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When Foreclosure Looms, a Day in Court Becomes Many
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Foreclosure Problems Aren't Fading Away
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Foreclosure Problems Aren't Fading Away
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Antioch developer declares bankruptcy
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Questions Surround Fannie, Freddie
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Core Communities gets default notice on $14M loans
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Autos:

GM Offers Incentives for Purge of Pontiacs, Saturns
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Aviation:

Bankruptcy For JAL?
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Japan Airlines' Biggest Union Backs Pension Cut for Employees
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Shares of struggling Japan Airlines plunge to record low on bankruptcy fears
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Oil/Gas:

Bankruptcy players in SemGroup case rake it in
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Finance:

GMAC to get $3.5 bln in added aid from gov't
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Small Business:

Small Business Owners Hunker Down
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DIP Finance:

Bibby Financial Services "DIPS" In As Bank Lending Backs Out
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Corporate Reform:

Bankers Get $4 Trillion Gift From Barney Frank
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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)
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Bankruptcy Music:

Is There a Connection Between the Grateful Dead and Chapter 13 Bankruptcy?
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Credit Cards:

Consumers fall further behind on credit card payments
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Hacker of 130 Million Credit, Debit Cards Pleads Guilty Again
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Gambling:

SunCruz parent files for bankruptcy
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Icahn likes Trump's new odds
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Lehman:

Goldman Sachs Buys $57 Million in Claims on Lehman
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Lehman Creditors Support Plan to Return Assets
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Hollywood:

Hat-in-hand Harvey
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Health Care:

Health Cuts With Little Effect on Care
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Retirees Snared by Medicare
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Despite Subsidy, Cobra's Bite Still Stings for Many
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COBRA Still Bites: Opting for No Health Insurance, Even When Gov Pays 65% of Tab
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Tax:

Rich Cling to Life to Beat Tax Man
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UK:

UK: Economic Growth Weakest Since the War
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EU:

European Loans Posted Third Straight Annual Decline
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Canada:

Storied Canadian bookseller declares bankruptcy
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China:

Housing Bubble Threatens China's Boom
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France:

French Most Downbeat on Economic Future
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