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The Daily Docket: Lehman Closer to Chapter 11 Plan Approval

10/27/11

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. said recent settlements with a number of its far-flung foreign affiliates have put the failed investment bank on track to win approval of its plan to exit bankruptcy by the end of the year. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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The Daily Docket: Lehman Fees Top $1.36B

09/26/11

The fees charged by the army of lawyers, accountants and consultants working on Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s Chapter 11 case topped $1.36 billion last month as the estate paid $34 million in professional bills. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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The Broke and the Beautiful: Baseball Edition

09/09/11

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, creditors of the Los Angeles Dodgers seek to hire investment bankers, Lenny “Nails” Dysktra pleads not guilty to indecent-exposure charges, and a special-effects company fades to black for good.

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Judge: Borders Pay Adviser Didn’t Violate Fee Rules

08/24/11
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A bankruptcy judge ruled that Mercer Inc., a consulting firm employed to advise Borders Group Inc.

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The Daily Docket: Centerbridge Blasts Lehman Plan

08/17/11

New York hedge-fund manager Centerbridge Credit Advisors LLC is objecting to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s liquidation plan, saying among other things that some of its claims are being treated less favorably than they should be. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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The Broke and the Beautiful: Reality TV Edition

08/05/11
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This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, Toni Braxton loses the blues in bankruptcy court, the Salahis crash the fashion section of the New York Times, and the L

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The Daily Docket: U.K. Court Dismisses Lehman Appeal

07/27/11

Britain’s Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed an appeal by units of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Bank of New York Mellon, a win for investors in a high-stakes legal dispute involving complex derivatives transactions that has divided courts on both sides of the Atlantic. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal.

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GM Bankruptcy ‘Unusually Inexpensive’

07/26/11
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The total professional bill for General Motors’ bankruptcy case topped $110 million, but for a company of that size, the charges are astonishingly low, said Lynn

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The Broke and the Beautiful: Housewives Edition

07/22/11
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This week in The Broke and the Beautiful, housewives both real and fictional are in bankruptcy court, the New York Times nails a profile on former slugger Lenny Dykst

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The Daily Docket: Dodgers Seek Selig’s Testimony

07/05/11

The Los Angeles Dodgers are demanding that Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig and a slew of other officials submit testimony as part of the team’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review story here.

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