July 2, 2013

The Daily Bankruptcy News

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Law:

Holland & Knight Opens Dallas Office With Bankruptcy Partner As Leader --- James C. Chadwick
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What Outside Counsel Don’t Understand
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Holland & Knight, Debevoise, Morgan Lewis: Business of Law
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Three Firms Tune in for Tribune's $2.7 Billion TV Deal
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Appeals court disqualifies BigLaw firm in big case, says it can’t simply switch sides
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As private employers face surge in intern suits, DOJ puts more unpaid lawyers to work
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Baker & McKenzie Elects 71 New Partners Worldwide
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Lessons Learned From Hanging Out With 75-Year-Old Lawyers
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A Law School’s Possible Purge Of Its Junior Faculty Ranks
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Report: Voicemail recording of woman being strangled will be in evidence at law grad’s murder trial
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15 Apps Everyone Is Talking About Right Now
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Case Law and Statutes Changing the Shape of Social Media Discovery
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How to Build a Wi-Fi Network in Your Law Office
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Kerry: 'Spying on allies is not unusual' --- European Commission will sweep offices for bugs --- France, Germany rip surveillance --- Report: NSA tracks in real-time -- email logins, sending, receiving email --- Snowden Applies for Asylum in Russia --- Justice Kagan calls surveillance cases ‘growth industry’ --- Snowden asks 21 countries for asylum --- Drops Bid For Russian Asylum After Putin Tells Him To Stop Leaking --- Edward Snowden Stars In ‘The Terminal 2: This Time For Real’
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Masked Cancer Patient Walks Into A Bank And Is Mistaken For Wanted Robber
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George Zimmerman Prosecutors Messed Up The First Week Of His Second-Degree Murder Trial --- George Zimmerman Kept Calling Trayvon Martin 'The Suspect' In His First Police Statement --- Trayvon 'jumped out of the bushes' and attacked me
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Your Smartphone Can Make You A Crime-Fighting Hero - There's An App For That
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NYC Socialites Claim They Were Conned Into Paying $50,000 For A Kids' Art Project
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Law firm headed by son of late SCOTUS justice is embezzlement victim, prosecutors say
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Lawyer for shot man suing ex-NFL player Aaron Hernandez: ‘You can’t make this stuff up’
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Armed carjackers force driver to sign over title to vehicle
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Judge Orders Rapper To Take Etiquette Classes
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Jury Acquits Anti-Bank Chalk Protester
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The Everyone-Did-It Defense: Oklahoma Supreme Court Refuses To Disbar Former Prosecutor Who Withheld Evidence in Capital Cases and Used False Subpoenas
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Say What?!
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Judges:

Judge Waldrep returns to Womble Carlyle
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Approval of Supreme Court Falls to All-Time Low
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Kagan’s opinions show mastery of the topic sentence and the ‘stylish dig’
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Accusations Against Alito: Not True, Not True
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Chief justice has advice for lawyers faced with rapid-fire questions in oral arguments
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Roberts: Bench a little too hot during oral arguments
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State appeals judge sanctioned over letter to parole board for ‘friend’
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Shouldn’t All Family Court Judges Be Like This?
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Which justice asked the most questions? Is there a new 5-4 alignment? Stats have answers
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R.I.P. Pro Se Litigants Before the Supreme Court
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Bound Together on the Court, but by Beliefs, not Gender
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Wall Street:

Stock futures up ahead of factory-orders data
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U.S. stocks rise on manufacturing data
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Stocks insiders are buying
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Layoffs:

 

National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Photography:

Kodak losses down, but profitability still eludes
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Kodak vote leaves two options , but only one is likely
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Brokers:

New evidence emerges in Corzine case
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Determining Corzine's Role in the Demise of MF Global
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Religion:

Milwaukee diocese posts priest sex abuse records --- Documents Reveal Bishop Dolan's Bankruptcy Scheme and Frustration With Rome --- Archdiocese documents show priests paid to leave --- Survivors group calls record release 'day of validation' --- Abuse Survivors' Attorney: "Sickening" --- Sex abuse files date back to 1940s
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Documents: Dolan asked to transfer $57M to trust --- SNAP calling for federal investigation into Dolan's transfer of money --- Cardinal Timothy Dolan Denies Moving Milwaukee Church Funds
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Archdiocese documents: Dolan asked Vatican to remove priests, warned of potential for scandal --- Dolan sought to shield money from claims, struggled with Vatican to defrock abusers --- Church was slow to act on abusive priests --- Archbishop hopes documents' release will close chapter
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Farewell service at OC's Crystal Cathedral
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Economy:

U.S. ISM Manufacturing Index Increased to 50.9 in June From 49
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Global manufacturing picks up speed
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Stock futures up ahead of factory-orders data
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Factory orders data on deck
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The End of the American Dream?
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GAO: Big Companies Paying 12.6% Federal Tax
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Firms That Pay CEOs More than Uncle Sam
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

Citi To Pay Fannie Mae $968 Million To Resolve Future Claims On Millions Of Mortgage Loans That Could Sour
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Construction spending jumps, pushed by homebuilding
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North Las Vegas underwater mortgage eminent domain proposal faces pushback from homeowner
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Home finance write-offs reach five-year low
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FHFA: 2.3 million homeowners saved from chilling effects of foreclosure
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Fending Off the Appointment of a Receiver
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Las Vegas forecast to lead 2013 home price gains
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Awards:

Winners: Global M&A Network 2013 Turnaround Atlas Awards
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Municipalities:

How Alabama County's $4.2B Bankruptcy Plan Affects Insurers
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Unprecedented Muni Deal Will Gut Investors in Alabama Sewer Project
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What they're saying about JeffCo's exit plan
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California Has A Historic Opportunity To Reduce Its Debt ... And It Looks Like It's Going To Miss It
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Moodys pleased with RI's 38 Studios debt payment
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New elected leaders in Detroit will be critical in turnaround
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Mass Torts:

Quigley Company Inc. Emerges from Heavily Litigated Chapter 11 Asbestos Reorganization
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Corporate Reform:

Consumer Watchdog Establishes Procedures To Notify Nonbanks Considered for Oversight
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Bottling:

Tiger Group To Auction Complete Water Bottling Plant
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Student Debt:

Everything You Need To Know About the Student Loan Rate Hike in One Place
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The $1 Trillion Student Loan Crisis in 9 Charts
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Washington shrugs as student loan rates double
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Millennials' ball-and-chain: Student loan debt
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Using plastic to pay off student loans: A bad idea
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What older Americans can do about big student loans
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The Bright Side of More Expensive Student Loans
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Shipping:

Korea Line Tries to Sell Itself, Again, After Failed Attempt Earlier This Year
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Celebs:

Paula Deen's N-Word Admission Is Only the Tip
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Mass Torts:

BP's Buyer's Remorse --- How BP Got Screwed on Gulf Oil Spill Claims
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Food/Beverage:

Sale of Tully's Coffee Shops is Final
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Belle Foods files bankruptcy
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Banking:

Distress sale
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Personal Finance:

How much to tip ... everyone
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Shipping:

Creditors Expected to Turn to ARA Region to Arrest Vessels
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Excel Maritime Files for Bankruptcy After Voting Extended
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Construction:

Ballenger given OK to sell property
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Education:

Morris Brown submits plan to bankruptcy court
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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 (98 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (7 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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Safe Harbors:

Bankruptcy Court Concludes that Renewable Power Purchase and Sale Agreement is a "Forward Contract" Entitled to Safe Harbor Protections
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Secured Creditors:

Undersecured 111(b) Creditor's Right to Post-Petition Attorneys' Fees Confirmed, but Not Post-Petition Interest
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Avoidance Actions:

Debtor Cannot Avoid Transfer Despite Avoidable Lien
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TBTF:

Behind the Ally numbers
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Social Networking:

After Selling His Social Network Bebo For $850 Million, The Founder Is Now Buying It Back For $1 Million
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Health Care:

Why Our Health Care Lets Prices Run Wild
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Troubled Cities See Exchanges as Way to Unload Retirees
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Former Las Vegas doctor convicted in hepatitis C outbreak
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Vacuums:

Hoover arm bids for assets of Oreck Corp .
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Aviation:

State attorneys general probing American, US Airways merger
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Bowling:

AMF Bowling has completed its merger with Bowlmor
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Tax:

Revocation of Tax Pass-Through Status Not Reversible in Bankruptcy
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Fraud:

Ex - KPMG partner Scott London pleads guilty in Los Angeles
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Cohen Is Said to Remain Silent as SAC Managers Summoned
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Ex-Galleon Trader Zvi Goffer’s 10-Year Sentence Is Upheld
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Enron CFO: We Were Bad, Today Others Worse
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Sovereigns:

Belgian Holders of Argentine Debt Lose Court Order Bid
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UK:

Apple paid $0 UK corporation tax in 2012
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Gangster at top of RIRA hit list files for bankruptcy in UK
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Government announces further plans to streamline insolvency
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Motor trader insolvencies fall in May
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Hearts at risk of fine following insolvency
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EU:

EU Charges Biggest U.S. Banks in CDS Market Antitrust Suit
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PIIGS:

ie: Sean Dunne bankruptcy hearing adjourned
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Spain ready to kick off sale of nationalized banks --- Spanish Jobless Claims Fall in June as Rajoy Bets on Recovery
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Greece: Unemployment at 26,8% in March 2013 --- Greece Braces For Tough Troika Talks --- 'Greekovery' Remains Elusive --- EU lenders give Greece a 3-day ultimatum
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MENA:

Syrian 'rebels' behead Catholic priest
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Protesters to Egypt's Morsy: You have one day to step down
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Vatican:

Vatican Bank Director, Deputy Resign Amid Scandal
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China:

China Banks’ Golden Era Fades on Higher Default Risk
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