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Florida Bankruptcy Exemptions

11/20/13

(305) 891-4055 - 25 Years of Experience,  Over 8,000 Cases Filed - Free Initial Consultation - 1221 Brickell Ave., Miami, Florida - Chapter 13 and

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Women on Boards Improve a Bank's Performance

11/20/13

The U.S. could be at a competitive disadvantage by being less proactive in the area of gender diversity on boards. We’ll need to engage CEOs everywhere to achieve meaningful progress.

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How to file bankruptcy – What are Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases in bankruptcy?

11/20/13

List your executory contracts and unexpired leases on your bankruptcy petition and declare your intention either to accept or to reject those contracts. Contracts that are not timely assumed are rejected and the parties are released from further performance under those contracts.

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Startup Coin: More Passing Fad than True Disruptor

11/20/13

The buzzy credit card consolidator, at least in its initial incarnation, doesn’t render wallets redundant or, even, allow the consumer to do anything they can’t already.

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The Daily Docket: ResCap Starts Making Case to Exit Bankruptcy

11/20/13

Residential Capital LLC on Tuesday began building its case to exit Chapter 11 under a proposal supported by all but one of its major creditor groups, pointing out that those objectors are being treated better than all other creditors in the case, the Daily Bankruptcy Review reports.

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The Daily Docket: ResCap Starts Making Case to Exit Bankruptcy

11/20/13

Residential Capital LLC on Tuesday began building its case to exit Chapter 11 under a proposal supported by all but one of its major creditor groups, pointing out that those objectors are being treated better than all other creditors in the case, the Daily Bankruptcy Review reports.

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Dissecting JPMorgan's $13 Billion Settlement

11/20/13

Receiving Wide Coverage ...

How Justice Built Its Case Against JPM: The $13 billion civil settlement JPMorgan Chase reached with the Justice Department on Tuesday, the largest penalty a single company has ever paid to the government, started with the Justice Department's discovery of a 2006 meeting in which bank executives decided to continue selling shoddy mortgage securities despite major red flags, according to the Wall Street Journal. As part of the civil settlement, JPMorgan acknowledged...

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Bidding War Erupts Over TimeGate Videogames

11/19/13
TimeGate Studios Inc.
A still from Section 8: Prejudice

A bidding war has broken out over the rights to a pair of games created by shuttered videogame deve

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Bidding War Erupts Over TimeGate Videogames

11/19/13
TimeGate Studios Inc.
A still from Section 8: Prejudice

A bidding war has broken out over the rights to a pair of games created by shuttered videogame deve

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Amendments To The Federal Bankruptcy Rules, Plus A New "Free And Clear" Sale Motion Filing Fee, To Take Effect December 1, 2013

11/19/13

Almost every year, changes are made to the set of rules that govern how bankruptcy cases are managed -- the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure. The changes address issues identified by an Advisory Committee made up of federal judges, bankruptcy attorneys, and others.

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