August 12, 2011

The Daily Bankruptcy News

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Law:

Summer Associate Class Sizes Up in 2011
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Paul Weiss Hired All 103 Summer Associates
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Beauty Contests
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Pay Raise Watch: Schiff Hardin
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Bringing A Client Up To Speed
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DLA Helps Thai Prince Get Plane Back From Germany
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Merger Talks to Create 800-Lawyer Law Firm Are Confirmed
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Law firms band together to help UK riot victims
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Some Corps Cut Costs By Hiring Law Grads to Work In-house Instead of Using BigLaw Associates
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Thinking of Leaving the BigLaw Nest?
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New lawyer training programs often fall short
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Is Mandarin Really a Must for Law Firms' China Hires?
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Convicted CEO Claims the Whole Thing Is His Dead Lawyer's Fault
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Elizabeth Warren teaching contract course at Harvard this fall
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UVA Law’s Employment Numbers Are Less Than Impressive
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ABA's stance on law school accreditation transparency fails to satisfy senator
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A Tenured Top-Tier Law Professor Joins the Ranks of the ‘Scambloggers’
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Defendant Lawyer’s Win in Sex-Harass Case Is Reversed; ‘Me Too’ Evidence Wrongly Barred
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Marvell, FrontPoint, BofA, Apple, Blackstone in Court News
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Two British P2P Lawyers Suspended for Being Bloody Wankers
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Feds Find Children 6-11 Working Strawberry Farms
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Solicitors in PR mess-up
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"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it"
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Casey Anthony Is More Reviled Than O.J. Simpson, Poll Shows
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Jeffs' jail pleasures
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Moron of the Day
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Landlord Suspected Of Releasing Thousands Of Scorpions To Get Tenants Out
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Judges:

Former Pa. Judge Sentenced to 28 Years in Prison in Kids-for-Cash Scandal
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Three Little Life-Ruining Words
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Disgraced former federal judge completes felony sentence in Jeff Davis County
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South Texas Attorney Takes Plea in Corrupt-Judge Case
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Wall Street:

Stocks to open slightly higher
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European Stocks Rise for Second Day as Short-Selling Ban Imposed
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Stocks rise on small but positive economic signs
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Stocks jump as roller-coaster market rolls on
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Beneath the Market's Swings, Some Real Cause for Worry
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Market sell-off claims IPOs; 8 cancel deals
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Layoffs:

Jobless claims hover around 400,000 for third week
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First-Time Jobless Claims in U.S. Unexpectedly Decrease to Four-Month Low
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Post Office proposes cutting 120,000 jobs, pulling out of healthcare plan
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Americans' bleak outlook on jobs
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Autos:

The Bankruptcy Files: 'Old GM' Generates Some Big Legal Bills
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GM may be close to its Holy Grail
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GM CEO Buys 10,000 Shares of Stock
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Municipalities:

Factbox: U.S. Municipal Bankruptcies
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Rhode Island law may transform local bankruptcies
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Jefferson County Commission To Decide Between Settlement Or Bankruptcy
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Alabama county creditors bid to defuse debt crisis
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Birmingham Business Alliance: Jefferson County must avoid bankruptcy
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Jefferson County Ch. 9 Vote Chance '50-50'
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Jefferson County to consider bankruptcy today
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Jefferson County residents fear outcome of sewer debt resolution
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JPMorgan Proves Bond Deal Death in Jefferson County No Bar to New Business
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Why Detroit Isn't Joining US Choir of Doom
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Why Illinois Can't Afford its Poor Dead
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Economy:

Thirty-Year Treasuries Drop After Jobless-Claims Data Saps Demand at Sale
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Thirty-year Treasury yields rise most since 1980s
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Grains Surge as U.S. Cuts Crop Forecasts After Damaging Midwest Heat Wave
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Lawmaker asks SEC to investigate S&P downgrade
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Why Should We Care About EU's Fiscal Crises?
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Why Problems in Italy Should Scare US Banks
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US Faces a Lost Decade
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Is It Really 2008 Again? Why 'It Could Get Much Worse'
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Tax hike on 'rich' would hit 3% of Americans, IRS data show
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Most Americans can't afford a $1,000 emergency expense
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Economic Stress Map
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Economy Tracker Map
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US Debt Clock
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Bailout Recipients
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Real Estate:

How low can mortgage rates go? Descent continues
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Foreclosure activity falls to 44-month low
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Foreclosure filings fell 28% in Colorado in the first half
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Foreclosure activity down across the West Coast
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Foreclosures Slow on Lender's New Strategy
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N.C. AG: Group claiming ownership of homes with 'gibberish'
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Change in California Deficiency Law
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Banks seeking to foreclose on Southern Nevada commercial properties
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Banking:

Bank of America's Capital Perception Problem
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Fraud:

Fees paid to Picard and lawyers in the Madoff bankruptcy - whose money is it anyway?
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Man charged as insider trader on Disney/Marvel deal
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Madoff trustee sues Abu Dhabi sovereign fund
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Another man pleads guilty in Pasco Ponzi scheme case
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Religion:

Pedophile priest appeals diocese bankruptcy plan
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Violins:

Dietmar Machold's $50m Stradivarius haul 'disappears' after he files for bankruptcy
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Ethanol:

Ethanol plant auctioned in North Carolina
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Health Care:

Health Care Industry Facing Crisis? Reduction in Medicare Fees May Be the Catalyst
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How good is American health care?
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Food/Beverage:

Harry & David cleared to emerge from bankruptcy
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Seattle's Best regroups after losing 80% of its shops in Borders
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Hotels:

Marriott International enters bankruptcy fight over Sawgrass Marriott resort
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Pay TV:

Why 193,000 people stopped paying for TV last quarter — Online Video News
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Corporate Reform:

SEC Probes S&P's U.S. Debt Downgrade: Report
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Oil/Gas:

Marcus Oil files for bankruptcy protection
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Hockey:

Tom Gaglardi talks Dallas Stars sale
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Stars sale talk - Tom Gaglardi inching closer to `official' offer
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Media:

News Corp Income Falls 22 Percent
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News Corp Increases Dividend 27%
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(1 new opinion today)

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 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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Miscellaneous:

Culture, Attitudes, and "Debt"
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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Bankruptcy filings down in CT
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Discharge:

Bankruptcy trustee: Lawyer McKenna gave false information
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Subrogation:

Flamingo Court Holds Joint Venturer Can't Feather Claims Nest
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Plan Confirmation:

Bankruptcy Court Permits Minimal Artificial Impairment and Applies Investment Band Approach to Determine the Cram-Down Rate Under Till
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Consumer Bankruptcy:

Car owner says 9th Circuit got cramdown ruling just right
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Mass Torts:

Ill. asbestos lawyer seeks rehearing at Fourth District
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Sixth Circuit Addresses Scope Of Insurer’s Duty To Defend
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Lehman:

US Trustee,others object to Lehman bankruptcy plan
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Lehman Creditors Can't Evaluate Payout Plan, Bank Group Says
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Lehman Creditors Demand Details on Payout Plan as Vote Nears
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Celebs:

Five sports celebs who have filed for bankruptcy
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Producer Targets Real Housewife's Ex-Husband
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Aviation:

Cape Girardeau city officials want to evict Commander Air
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Orchestras:

Pension Fund Orchestra Liquidation
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Construction:

JC Evans files for Ch. 11 protection
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Cross-Border:

Canceling The Wire
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UK:

Insolvencies across the UK: how does it all add up?
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Many British Rioters Had Regular Jobs
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MacIntyre Hudson recruits insolvency
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Real estate the worst sector for insolvency
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Insolvencies across the UK: how does it all add up?
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London Police Arrest Man Over Riot Death
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London’s Rioters Are Thatcher’s Grandchildren
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Appointment of Administrators - 11 August 2011
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Winding Up Petitions - 11 August 2011
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EU:

EU regulators unable to impose short-selling ban
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France, Italy to Ban Short-Selling Thursday Night
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There's Only One Solution Now That Euro Sickness Has Reached The Core
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PIIGS:

Italy to cut deficit by 45 bln euros by 2013
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