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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, “Legal Education in New York: Top of the Heap or Dream Deferred.”

Law Shucks

• Weil Crushes Vault Bankruptcy Rankings

Credit Slips

• Why Is the Government Paying High Interchange Fees?
• Broke USA Tells Payday Loan Stories from the Ground Up
• Let’s Stop Praying to the Credit Score
• Rating Agencies on Strike
• The Code and the new Financial Reform Act
• HAMP Update: Still Ineffective
• Elizabeth Warren and the CFPB
• What’s a Poor (Corporate) Debtor to Do?
• On the Rangers’ Bankruptcy

Above the Law

• Job of the Week: BK in AZ
• Student v. School: Charlotte School of Law Sued by Student Seeking Admissions for Bankruptcy Proceeding

Going Concern

• Accounting News Roundup: Rangel Settlement May Be in the Works; IMA Launches New Website; Landing a Job with Uncle Sam | 07.29.10
• Accounting News Roundup: Bankruptcy Examiner to Investigate WaMu Failure; Ex-KPMG Tax Principal Pleads Guilty; UK Inspector Says Audits Need ‘Significant Improvement’ | 07.21.10
• Accounting News Roundup: Sue Sachdeva to Plead Guilty for Koss Embezzlement; AIG Settles Accounting Fraud with Ohio for $725 Mil; Some PwCers Are Hanging Out the Shingle | 07.19.10

NYLawyer.com (free registration required)

• NY Firm Sanctioned for Filing Involuntary Bankruptcy Petition Against Ex-Client Over Bills

WSJ Bankruptcy Beat

• Gems TV Remains Form Foundation of New Shopping Channel
• Lehman Seeks To Pay Former Execs’ Legal Fees
• The Daily Docket: American Safety Razor Files for Bankruptcy
• Weil Gotshal Tops Vault List of Bankruptcy Firms
• Tribune Examiner Finds for Law Firm in Lender Lawsuit Fight
• Bidders Snap Up Salander Possessions
• Cuban Offer for Rangers Could Mirror Balsillie’s Coyotes Bid
• White House Defends Elizabeth Warren
• Rothstein Feeder Fund Agrees to Surrender Assets
• Judge Orders Rangers Manager to Win World Series
• Law Firm Sanctioned in Bankruptcy Case
• Attorney Confirms Cuban’s Interest in Texas Rangers
• Brush With TV Fame Can’t Save Builder From Bankruptcy
• Nolan Ryan Learns Court Could Help Rangers Add Players
• Lights, Camera, Bankruptcy
• Mark Cuban Mentioned in Court as Possible Rangers Bidder
• Mexican Tourism Company Files for Bankruptcy in U.S.
• The Daily Docket: Innkeepers USA Files for Chapter 11
• CBGB Holdings Slams Kristal Estate
• From Bankruptcy to Tiffany
• The Daily Docket: Jennifer Convertibles Collapses
• Bankruptcy Trustee Wants Michael Vick to Return $2 Million
• Courtroom Drama Over Misplaced Comma

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 where you can read his latest post, “The Big Bubble Battle (Bart II)”.

WSJ Bankruptcy Beat

• The Daily Docket: WaMu’s Chapter 11 Plan Delayed
• Thomas Kinkade Company Finds Itself Painted Into a Corner
• The Daily Docket: TNK-BP Unit Slips Into Bankruptcy
• British Royal Fergie Mulls Bankruptcy
• Rothstein’s Ex-Bodyguard Pleads Guilty To Ponzi-Related Charge
• Walker Seeks NBA Return With Help From a Friend
• The Daily Docket: GM and Chrysler, One Year Later
• Ex-NBA Star Walker Lists Casino Debt, Foreclosures In Bankruptcy Filing
• ‘B’ Is for Bankruptcy
• Houlihan Lokey Challenged Over Disclosure In Aventine Case
• The Daily Docket: Lehman Sues J.P. Morgan
• Texas Rangers Nearly Max Out Team Credit Card
• Hecker Auction Draws Hundreds Of Bidders
• Please Pack Your Knives…And File For Bankruptcy
• Texas Rangers Owner Wants To Keep His Season Tickets
• Former Fred Leighton Owner Back In Bankruptcy Court
• Texas Rangers Owe Alex Rodriguez $24.9 Million

Credit Slips

• Of BP, Caps, and Chapter 11
• A Primer on the Consumer Financial Protection Agency
• Protecting Public Benefits from Garnishment
• The Database You’ve Been Waiting For
• Atomic
• More Naked Credit Default Swaps—the Role of Dealers
• Naked Credit Default Swaps

Law Shucks

• Jumping In(House): Hiring Lane [for the shout out to Bankruptcy Bill’s immensely talented Gideon Kendall]
• Quick Shucks – 5/25/10
• Cravath Changing with the Times?

Going Concern

• COSO Study Finds Accounting Frauds Getting Larger, Execs Named in Nearly 90% of Cases
• Accounting News Roundup: PwC Dealt a Blow on Penn. Healthcare Bankruptcy Ruling; Zipcar Going Public; Altria Gets Smoked by IRS | 06.02.10

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 (two months as of tomorrow!).  He speaks Japanese and focuses on comparative and international law, as well as international business.

Law Shucks

• Kaye Scholer Screws Up, Apologizes
• Cadwalader Trying to Prove Us Wrong

Credit Slips

• De-Tour: CSD Nudity on the Exotic Fringe
• Debt and the People, Part I: The Cold
• Avoid Chapter 11 at All Cost!!!
• Half-Empty or Half-Full: The February Bankruptcy Figures
• The Ban on “Universal Default”
• Half a (Rotten) Loaf is Worse Than None at All: The Fate of the CFPA
• Fringe Banking, Financial Distress, and the Consumer Financial Protection Industry

WSJ Bankruptcy Beat

• Hecker’s Troubles Signed, Unsealed, Delivered
• The Daily Docket: Examiner Finds Claims Against Lehman Execs
• Drama Continues for Death Row
• Experts: Sitcom Logic Won’t Work in Distressed Companies
• The Daily Docket: Freedom Wins OK on Chapter 11 Plan
• Lenny Dykstra Wants Bankruptcy Case Dismissed
• Justice Department stays out of Rubashkin Case
• The Daily Docket: Bankruptcy for Detroit?
• Miami Couple Accused of Running Ponzi Scheme
• The Daily Docket: Consumer Bankruptcy Filings on the Rise
• Trump Says Bankruptcy Is Not Part of His Brand

Going Concern

• Ernst & Young Was ‘Comfortable’ with Lehman’s Shady Accounting
• It’s Hard Out There for an Auditor

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Here’s an interesting post by Jayne Navarre, managing director of lawgravity.com, (re-posted with permission).  Jayne consults on Internet marketing and communications for law firms. She coaches lawyers and marketers on the nuances necessary to succeed in social media, social networking and search optimization on the Web.  She blogs at www.virtualmarketingofficer.com and can be reached at jln@lawgravity.com.

I just dropped an idea bomb over on the Legal Marketing Association’s peer-to-peer social network, LMA Connect; it’s a members only community so I can’t post the link. However, it’s so big –at least in my mind– that I thought I’d share it with my blog readers with a caveat “you heard it here, first.”

I think law firm web sites should host banner and skyscraper ads for their clients. For free, of course.

It may help if I set up the story.

(Click here to read the rest of the post on Jayne’s blog.)

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

Law Shucks

• 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.)

Point of Law

• Will Number 25 Be The Charm? – S. Todd Brown reviews and analyzes the latest developments in the seemingly endless Congoleum asbestos bankruptcy case.

WSJ Bankruptcy Beat

• 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

Creditslips.org

Going Concern

• Preliminary Analytics | 08.26.09 – Madoff & JP Morgan; Colonial Bank-ruptcy; U.S. Postal Service job cuts

Above The Law

• 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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*Update: In bankruptcy news today,  Michael Foreman has joined Haynes & Boones‘ New York office.  He was previously at Dorsey & Whitney.

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

Point of Law

• 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.)

WSJ Bankruptcy Beat

• Lawyer aims to bring “Fiegenomics” to Washington (Bankruptcy lawyer Tom Fiegen to challenge Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley for his seat.)

Creditslips.org

• 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

Going Concern

• 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

Above The Law

• $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

Law Shucks

• Layoffs in the Vault 25
• This Week in Layoffs – 8/14/09

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