Bankruptcy Blogs

Lawyers Prepare to Sell Girls Gone Wild Brand

11/12/13
Reuters
“Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis arrives at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles.

Why bother to start a porn empire from scratch when you

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Middle Class Debtors Often Victims of Falsehoods and Misrepresentations

11/12/13

Man shoutingLast week, a former client called and tried to refer me a new

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Middle Class Debtors Often Victims of Falsehoods and Misrepresentations

11/12/13

Man shoutingLast week, a former client called and tried to refer me a new

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Banks Need Industry Standards for Managing Vendors

11/12/13

Industry-accepted standards would reduce friction and costs in satisfying compliance requirements during a time of heightened scrutiny for banks and their vendors.

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Stockton Bankruptcy Settlement Preserves Pensions

11/12/13

The Chapter 9 bankruptcy case of Stockton, California has come to an unexpectedly quick and consensual resolution. The outcome here, which will see the city’s pension obligations maintained, is particularly surprising given the vehement opposition of Stockton’s bond insurers at the outset of the case.

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Stockton Bankruptcy Settlement Preserves Pensions

11/12/13

The Chapter 9 bankruptcy case of Stockton, California has come to an unexpectedly quick and consensual resolution. The outcome here, which will see the city’s pension obligations maintained, is particularly surprising given the vehement opposition of Stockton’s bond insurers at the outset of the case.

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The Daily Docket: Global Aviation Enters Bankruptcy

11/12/13
European Pressphoto Agency
A chartered North American Airlines Boeing 767 on the tarmac at the Mumbai airport, in Mumbai, India.
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The Daily Docket: Global Aviation Enters Bankruptcy

11/12/13
European Pressphoto Agency
A chartered North American Airlines Boeing 767 on the tarmac at the Mumbai airport, in Mumbai, India.
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Credit Cards May Be Vulnerable to 'Disparate Impact' Claims

11/12/13

At some point, the CFPB may start asking if issuers' credit scoring models negatively affect minority credit card applicants more than white applicants.

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TARP Head Gets Nod to Chair CFTC

11/12/13

Receiving Wide Coverage ... Former TARP Head Tapped for CFTC Post: President Obama Tuesday will nominate Timothy Massad, the assistant Treasury secretary who oversaw the Troubled Asset Relief Program, to serve as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. If confirmed by the Senate, Massad will take over an agency in the midst of a massive post-financial crisis overhaul led by current chairman Gary Gensler, whose term ends at the end of the year. As head…

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