Bankruptcy Billables 8.26.09
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Bankruptcy Billables is an overview of bankruptcy-relevant coverage and discussion from various law-related blogs.
- links for 2009-08-22 – Mentions Bankruptcy Bill #19 – Law firm raids)
- This Week in Layoffs – 8/21/09
- Reading List for Deal Lawyers – Includes excellent summary of Eat What You Kill by Milt Regan. (Eat What You Kill is also one of the books in Bankruptcy Bill’s Summer Reading List.)
- Will Number 25 Be The Charm? – S. Todd Brown reviews and analyzes the latest developments in the seemingly endless Congoleum asbestos bankruptcy case.
- Can You Pay My Bills?
- Coyotes Hometown Seeks to Block Gretzky Claim
- Recession Scares Morbid Industries Into Liquidation
- Forget Speidi; Meet Markus and Indrani
- Where’s Schwarzenegger When You Need Him?
- Lucky Dog: Dykstra Values Pooch at $10,000
- Another Sign of the Futility of the 2005 Bankruptcy Law
- The Benefits of Being Litigious
- Mortgage Modification Investor Lawsuit
- Complaining to HUD about Servicing: Thunder on Deaf Ears?
- 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
- Preliminary Analytics | 08.26.09 – Madoff & JP Morgan; Colonial Bank-ruptcy; U.S. Postal Service job cuts
- All the News That’s Fit to Recycle (NYT reports: ‘Legal job market is hard!’)
- How to Avoid Getting Fired (very funny video)
- Fall Recruiting Open Thread: Vault 6-10 (2010)
- The Mainstream Media Is Aware That Law Firms Exist, Right? – Commentary on the lack of media attention for the role that law firms played in enabling the global financial crisis.
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