December 30, 2014

The Daily Bankruptcy News

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Law:

Associate Bonus Watch: 5 Firms Foster Frustration
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Cleary Gottlieb sued by former project lawyer for alleged racial bias in firing
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Firm spends millions on marketing
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Business of Law
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Ethics complaint accuses lawyer of sexting with client
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100 Years of Law
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Law Firms Lose Challenge to SF Partner Tax
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How lawyers can craft a case narrative to spark jurists' and jurors' interest
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Bridging this generation gap takes time, talking
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Partners On The Way Out - 6 Tips On Staying In The Game In 2015
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The 10 Most Popular Apps Of 2014
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Lawyers, students use marketing tactics they can deploy from their desks
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Does the UK know something we don't about alternative business structures?
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Assessing Increasing Acceptance Rates on LSAT Scores
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July 2014 California Bar Exam Results - Striking Decline In Pass Rates
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Boston Law Schools (Other Than Harvard) Suffer Large (35%) Enrollment Declines
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The End of the Professions?
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Lawyer sued ex-client for fees, then served himself on ex-client’s behalf
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Lawyer’s million-dollar challenge wasn’t an enforceable contract, 11th Circuit says
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Police Unravel Robber's Toilet Paper Caper
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Police Officer Arrested As Allegedly Serial Burglar
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Judges:

Procedures Of The Second Circuit Judicial Council And The United States Court Of Appeals For The Second Circuit For Appointment And Reappointment Of Bankruptcy Judges
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg's 2014 Was Better Than Your 2014
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ABA urges SCOTUS to uphold ethics rule banning judicial candidates from soliciting contributions
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Former judge loses suit claiming bias after disclosure of his affair with bailiff
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Judge tried to weasel out of DWI after boozy Christmas party: DA
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Gifts, Texts to Clerk Land Judge in Hot Water
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Wall Street:

U.S. Stock-Index Futures Fall; European Shares Drop, Led by Energy Producers
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Dollar Holds Gain After S&P 500 Extends Record; Oil Falls
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14 Meaningless Phrases That Will Make You Sound Like A Stock-Market Wizard
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Layoffs:

Up to 700 jobless as Patriot Coal idles mines in western Kentucky
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Here's America's Real Job Killer
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Autos:

Federal government lost $9.26B on auto bailout
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Auto Industry: The Best and Worst of Times
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Environmental:

Former exec facing chem spill charges opposes asset seizure
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Electricity:

Energy Future Still Hiring as Restructuring Bid Continues
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Opera:

New York City Opera's Remaining Assets to be Sold in January --- With Competing Suitors Interested for City Opera, Assets Will Be Sold Jan. 20
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Banking:

PNA Bank in Illinois goes to Royal Financial for $1.2 million
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FBI Probes If Banks Hacked Back as Firms Mull Offensives
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Celebs:

Todd Chrisley Family: Reality Star Addresses Bankruptcy & Negative Attention In Media, 'We Have Moved On'
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Cosby Strategy: Insult Accusers, Blame Media
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Some Crisis Management Advice For Bill Cosby
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Economy:

Bernanke: Without Fed, Financial Crisis Would Have Been 'Much Worse'
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Dallas Fed: Texas Manufacturing "Picks up Pace" in December
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Bernanke admits FOMC meetings are 'deadly boring'
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The Most Unpopular Company in America
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U.S. Bond Sentiment Is Worst Since Disastrous ’09
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US Population Crosses 320 Million
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7 CEOs in the Hotseat for 2015
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The Big Economic Unknowns of 2015, From Unemployment to Oil
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CNBC and the "Job Surge of 2015" and Demographics
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What the world values, in one chart
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Obama Is On The Verge Of 2 Trade Deals That Could Transform The US Economy
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Here's What Each State Googled More Than Any Other State This Year
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

Black Knight: Mortgage Delinquencies increased in November
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Wells Fargo’s 7 housing predictions for 2015
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CoreLogic: 5 drivers of housing in 2015
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Renters paid $441 billion in rent in 2014 - Total rent paid rose nearly 5% over 2013
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Short sale tax break signed into law
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Court of Appeals rules for MERS in lawsuit from Iowa county
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Massachusetts foreclosure activity rises in November
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What's behind the drastic drop in November home sales?
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Municipalities:

Chicago pension reform litigation extends to second city fund
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Detroit: Bankruptcy pension aid deadline looms
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Atlantic City Finances Patched by Casino Tax-Lien Payments
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Bankruptcy looms for desperate Cleveland suburb
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Sen. Rice Reacts to Newark Watershed Conservation and Dev. Corp.'s Vote to File for Bankruptcy
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Oil/Gas:

Oil Drops to Lowest Since ’09 With Stockpiles at Year-End Record
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Oil Rigs in US Drop by 37 to Lowest Level Since April --- The Number Of US Oil Rigs In Operation Keeps Tumbling
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Texas Executives Freaking Out Over Oil Prices
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Oil Prices Fall, Rig Count Drops, Oil Companies Employment to decline
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US Oil Cities Ready for Real Estate Slowdown
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Moscow on the Brazos
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Bargain-Hunting Investors See Oil-Stock Opportunities
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El-Erian: This Era of Low-Cost Oil Is Different
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Bottom on Oil Price Plunge is Unknown
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Russian Roulette: Taxpayers Could Be on the Hook for Trillions in Oil Derivatives
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Gambling:

Caesars merger may ease debt
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Caesars details plan as restructuring deadline nears --- Portion of Caesars creditors agree to restructuring plan, company inches closer to bankruptcy
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Revel utility misses bond payment; wants to shut off building
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Pharma:

Dendreon heads to auction without initial bidder
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Tengion files for bankruptcy protection
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Television:

Order Paves Way for Aereo Asset Sale
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The fall of Aereo
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Lights out for Jersey Shore TV station
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Biotech:

Triad biotech firm seeks bankruptcy protection
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Healthcare:

AG to host public meeting on hospital sale
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(5 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 (14 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (8 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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Insurance:

D&O Insurance: Contract Exclusion Does Not Preclude Coverage for Intentional Misrepresentation Claim
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Chancery Enforces Receivership Order for Insurance Company
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Aviation:

Say Goodbye to AirTran Airways
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Get the Most from Your Airline Points (Before They're Completely Worthless)
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Why American Airlines Is Making Nice With Its Employees
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Indonesia Finds Debris, Bodies From Missing AirAsia Plane
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Mail:

Obama Can Rescue the Postal Service Now
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Debt Collection:

America's Return of Debtor's Prisons
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It's unethical for prosecutors to allow debt collectors to use official letterhead, says ABA opinion
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Sovereigns:

Capitanich to vulture funds: ‘We will not accept extortions’
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‘Deal with holdouts will take time’
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Argentina Could (Finally) Negotiate With Elliott--- Argentina , Elliott finally may end bond war
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The bullish case for South American bonds
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UK:

2015: The year for change?
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RBS Suspends Bonuses of 18 Traders Amid FX Rigging Fine --- The Cartel: How BP Used a Secret Chat Room for Insider Tips
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The Juicy Details From Margaret Thatcher's Secret Government Papers
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PIIGS:

Could Greece spark new European crisis? --- Greek Election Called; Now The Eurozone Gets Exciting --- The odds of Greece leaving the euro have never been higher
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Greek bailout talks only after vote: IMF
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European markets in better shape to handle Greece's fall --- Why Greece’s Spillover Across Euro Area Will Probably Be Contained This Time --- A Greek Crisis, but not a Euro Crisis
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Greece comes back to haunt eurozone as anti-Troika rebels scent power
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Canada:

Restructuring + Insolvency Report - December 2014
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China:

China’s leaders urged to allow more defaults among zombie firms
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Bulgaria:

Insurances against Bulgaria's bankruptcy rose sharply
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Second judge recusal from controversial Bulgarian bankruptcy trial – reports
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Argentina:

Argentina's IEBA Says It Missed Payment on $135 Million Bonds
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Brazil:

Petrobras deadline prompts some bondholders to push for default
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