Bankruptcy Blogs

Health-care company Aurora Diagnostics Holdings LLC hired restructuring advisers, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Holiday Notice: The Morning Scan will publish next on Monday, Jan. 6. Happy new year and best wishes. Receiving Wide Coverage ...

Volcker Rage Continued: The slow-motion car wreck that is the Volcker Rule took its latest gory spin Thursday when regulators sought to assuage banker rage over its uncertain treatment of trust preferred securities, or Trups. The securities Â-- which are issued mainly by banks and insurers and have debt and equity characteristics Â-- became a...

Timothy J. Dance has joined law firm Snell & Wilmer LLP as a member of the bankruptcy group. Mr. Dance, who’s a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, concentrates his work on bankruptcy, foreclosure, creditors’ rights and receivership and has worked with clients in restructuring financial transactions. He earned his law degree from the University of Washington School of Law.

"High up in the pristine White Mountains of Northern Arizona, is a place where...truth and honesty are hard to find, if at all.." [Fair use] So starts Lynnell Levingston's 2008 memoir of politics in Springerville, Arizona. In 2009, Livingston sued a host of defendants asserting, among other things, that one of them violated her copyright in the book by plagiarizing an excerpt from the book in a police incident report.

In her final column for American Banker , Editor-at-Large Barbara Rehm says there is no denying the system is safer than it was in 2007, and while further changes may be needed, it makes sense to Â"take a breather.Â"