Bankruptcy Billables 8.19.09
Bankruptcy Billables is an overview of bankruptcy-relevant coverage and discussion from various law-related blogs.
- Cramdown still lurking
- Systemic Indifference (S. Todd Brown comments on reckless and indifferent collection practices of mortgage companies cited in a Huffington Post piece by Karen Weise. Ties commentary into accuracy of claims process in bankruptcy cases, particularly asbestos cases.)
- Lawyer aims to bring “Fiegenomics” to Washington (Bankruptcy lawyer Tom Fiegen to challenge Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley for his seat.)
- Thanks to Max
- Private Tax Collection
- The Lack of Evidentiary Foundations Fosters Fraud
- Show Me the Original Note and I Will Show You the Money
- The Alphabet Problem and the Pooling and Servicing Agreements
- Does a Tarnished Credit Report Equal an Untrustworthy Employee?
- How Much Credit Card Debt Do Bankrupt Consumers Have?
- What Does RESPA Have to do with Consumer Bankruptcy Cases?
- Countrywide Sanctioned by Ohio Court Citing Porter & Twomey
- HAMP–Is It Really All About the Money?
- The Consumer Financial Protection Agency
- Truth in Lending or Truth in Ownership of Residential Mortgage Notes
- The Problem with Houston
- Greetings to Max Gardner
- Remote Deposit Capture (RDC) iPhone App
- Huron Consulting Beats the Numbers, Cooked Books and a Bunch of Other Shadiness Notwithstanding
- Bank Failures by the Numbers
- Hammer Wants Everyone to Know That the IRS Can’t Touch This
- $40 Million Benchslap for Weil Gotshal (relates to IP and litigation, but anything about Weil Gotshal is bankruptcy relevant from Bankruptcy Bill’s perspective)
- How Well-Endowed Is Bernie Madoff?
- Official New Vault Rankings (Weil Gotshal moves up to #6)
- Morning Docket 08.18.09 (Why has there been no litigation surge in the recession?)
- Non-Sequiturs: 08.17.09 (Link to another legal cartoon site: Courtoons–Daily Legal Cartoons. By David Mills)
- Bad News for the Brothers Madoff?
- Morning Docket 08.17.09 (Programmers figure out a way to hack PACER to be able to access public court docs without having to pay for them.)
NYLawyer.com (free registration required)
- Laughing All the Way to the Bankruptcy: NY Firm Passes $100 Million in Fees in Lehman Disaster
- Zombie Firm Loses Bid to Set Aside NY Default Judgment
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