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After living with breast cancer for the last four years, my wife passed away on Friday, April 23, 2010 at 9:35pm.

As a result, I’ll be taking a hiatus from Bankruptcy Bill and related work until….well, until whenever it is that I’m ready to start again I guess.

Below is a photo of Wynne helping me with the recording of the “Bankruptcy Lover” song on which she provided some of the background singing.  She is a classically trained pianist, for the record, but she also has a wonderfully goofy and fun side as well.  (Thanks to Lee for providing the photo.)

Click here if you’d like to read her blog about her experience with cancer along with the updates I’ve been posting in recent days for the benefit of friends and family.

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Bankruptcy Billables is an overview of bankruptcy-relevant coverage and discussion from various law-related blogs.

Holding a J.D. and an International Affairs M.A. from Marquette University, Matt Leichter (matt [dot] leichter [at] gmail [dot] com) is an attorney licensed in Wisconsin and New York.  Fearing the legal profession’s future, he has begun documenting the law school tuition bubble at his own blog, The Law School Tuition Bubble, where you can read his latest post, “Links It Be—Human Capital Contracts and Legal Education’s Merits”.

WSJ Bankruptcy Beat

• Study: Cost of Bankruptcy Rises for Consumers
• Report Finds Debt Wall May Be Falling
• Judge Dismisses Whistleblower Suit Against Huron
• The Daily Docket: Trico Marine Files for Chapter 11
• Movie Producer Charged With 89 Felony Counts
• Sale Prospects Bleak for Freestyle Music Park
• Universal, Playlist.com Square Off Over Cash
• Double Exposure Star to Take the Stand
• Video Killed the Lehman/Barclays Star Witnesses
• Baby Boomer Bankruptcies on the Rise
• Rothstein Trustee Seeks to Probe Steakhouse
• Court Battle Swirls Around Storm Football Team
• Hecker May Be Evicted
• Mesa Pilot-Training Course Cleared for Takeoff
• The Daily Docket: Boston Generating Files for Chapter 11
• Business Bankruptcies Fall While Consumer Filings Soar
• Court Appoints Lawyer to Represent Farkas
• GM Bankruptcy Estate Seeks to Sell Maker of BMW Parts
• Chrysler Bankruptcy Tab Nears $85 Million

Above the Law

• Fame Brief: Is the Giudices’ $60K Post-Bankruptcy Spree Legal?

Credit Slips

• Hawkins’ Fringe Banking Premise is that Payday and Title Loans are Short-term: If Only it Were True
• HAMP fizzles
• Fringe Banking and Financial Distress: Argument and Critique
• There Is a Jury Trial for that Proof of Claim
• A Code Head-Scratcher
• Portrait of California Foreclosures
• The Dodd-Warren Rift: President Obama Can you Hear Me?
• Bankruptcy and the Crisis: Why so Few?

NYLawyer.com (free registration required)

• Auction Enhances Value in Baseball Bankruptcy
• From Bankruptcy-Remote to Risk-Remote
• Realty Law Digest

Did we miss a good recent bankruptcy-related post on another blog?  E-mail bill [at] bankruptcybill [dot] us to let us know.

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Bankruptcy Billables is an overview of bankruptcy-relevant coverage and discussion from various law-related blogs.

Holding a J.D. and an International Affairs M.A. from Marquette University, Matt Leichter (matt [dot] leichter [at] gmail [dot] com) is an attorney licensed in Wisconsin and New York.  Fearing the legal profession’s future, he has begun documenting the law school tuition bubble at his own blog, The Law School Tuition Bubble, where you can read his latest post, “How Law Schools Behave Like States in International Relations Theory”.

Credit Slips

• Student Loans Now Greater Than Credit Card Debt
• Pay the Bums
• Make Your Home Finance Audit Fun While Fighting Back Against Bank Fees
• Will Dodd-Frank Reduce Safe Harbor Overreach?
• Sovereign Bankruptcy Nostalgia, August Edition
• July Bankruptcy Filings Rise, But Look at the Big Picture
• Visualizing Financial Distress
• Chasing Card Companies
• A Puzzle
• Financial Risks Follow to the Grave

Above the Law

• Morning Docket: 08.04.10

Going Concern

• Apparently the ‘Wildly Inaccurate’ Accounting at Scott Rothstein’s Law Firm Didn’t Impress Some Miami CPAs

WSJ Bankruptcy Beat

• District Shows No Love to Nightclub Buyer
• The Daily Docket: Lehman Short-Sale Probe Heats Up
• Lenders: Rangers Sale Shouldn’t Include Free Flights
• Judge Shields Names Of Rothstein Ponzi-Scheme Victims
• Movie Gallery Unloads Video Games at Deep Discount
• The Daily Docket: GM Posts $1.3B Quarterly Profit
• Trustee Sues to Recover Millions for Taneja Creditors
• Fortunoff Looks to Re-Launch Jewelry Business
• Defaults Are Falling, But For How Long?
• The Daily Docket: Madoff ‘Net Winners’ Appeal
• Dykstra Bankruptcy Trustee Steps Down
• Foreclosure on the Menu for ‘Top Chef’ Contestant
• Company Behind Venetian Restaurants Enters Bankruptcy
• 1800Hotels.com Tries to Rebound From Bankruptcy
• The Daily Docket: Judge Approves Rangers Plan
• Bank May Get Hecker’s Life-Size Elvis Statue
• The Daily Docket: Ryan Group Wins Rangers Auction
• Boy Band Memorabilia Among Assets Slated for Auction
• Former Chreky Employees Sue to Protect Claims
• Washington Nightclubs, Owner File For Bankruptcy
• Bidders Line Up for Amelia Island Plantation

Overlawyered

• August 12 roundup

Did we miss a good recent bankruptcy-related post on another blog?  E-mail bill [at] bankruptcybill [dot] us to let us know.

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BLT (Bankruptcy Lawyer Topics) is a periodic review and comparison of consumer bankruptcy topics being covered on bankruptcy lawyer blogs.

Holding a J.D. and an International Affairs M.A. from Marquette University, Matt Leichter (matt [dot] leichter [at] gmail [dot] com) is an attorney licensed in Wisconsin and New York.  Fearing for the legal profession’s future, he has begun documenting the law school tuition bubble at his own blog, The Law School Tuition Bubble, where you can read his latest post, “Rubber Links—The ABA and U.S. News Spread the Blame for Rising Law School Tuition”.

• Click on BK Lawyer Blogs for a state-by-state list of bankruptcy lawyers with their own blogs.
• Have a blog or know a good blog post you think should be included? Or a suggestion for a future BLT theme?  Send an e-mail to BLT [at] bankruptcybill [dot] us with the link.
• Suggestion to bankruptcy lawyers with blogs: Make sure to include a “Search” function somewhere on your blog.  It makes it easier to find topical posts on your blog and increases the likelihood that a post from your blog will be included in BLT.

GENERAL or NON-STATE SPECIFIC

American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) Bankruptcy Blog Exchange

• Landlords as creditors: tenant insolvency
• Tenant Protections in Foreclosure
• Does Your Landlord have any Obligations to Mitigate Damages if You Breach Your Lease?
• Samsonite Files for Bankruptcy and Plans to Reject Up to 84 Store Leases
• When Red is the Color of the Season: Commercial Property Leases and Bankruptcy
• “Stub Rent” Considered Administrative Expense Obligation by Delaware District Court
• CVAs can compromise guaranteed landlords’ claims if IPs are careful
• Cathy Vance, Resident Guru, Calls Expansive Invocation of the In Pari Delicto Defense a “Jurisprudential House of Cards”
• Don’t Flub “Stub” Rent: Some Thoughts on Code Section 365(d)(3) from Yitzhak Greenberg
• Debtors: On Vacating the Premises, Take Your Goo With You!
• Landlords beware – post administration rent is an unsecured claim
• New Fannie Mae “Deed for Lease” Program May Be an Alternative to Foreclosure But It May Not Be the Best Choice for Many Homeowners

Bankruptcy Law Network

• Chapter 11 May Be a Good Option for “Land Rich, Cash Poor” Clients
• Eviction After Foreclosure: Is There An Automatic Stay?

CreditSlips.org

• Tenant Protections in Foreclosure
• Repo Madness

Consumer Law & Policy Blog

• House Financial Services Committee Mark-up of Predatory Lending Bill

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