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U.S. bankruptcy lawyers resist scrutiny over fees - Reuters India

06/04/12

Legal fees are at issue also in the bankruptcy of MF Global Holdings Inc, whose estate has paid $17 million to lawyers in four months, according to court filings on Monday. Bankruptcy lawyers bill at higher rates than lawyers in most other ...

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Bankruptcy lawyers resist scrutiny over fees - YAHOO!

06/04/12

In one recent example, during the two-and-a-half-year restructuring of Lehman Brothers, payments to the law firm Weil Gotshal & Manges totaled $383 million, according to a securities filing in March. Legal fees are at issue also in the bankruptcy of MF ...

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Realtor, author Ralph Roberts files for bankruptcy - Detroit Free Press

06/04/12

Ralph Roberts, one of metro Detroit’s best known realtors, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Roberts, a prolific author of real estate books including “Foreclosure Self-Defense for Dummies,” filed for bankruptcy on May 25 in ...

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Jamal Lewis among star athletes to land in bankruptcy - Baltimore Sun

06/04/12

Today, though, the now retired Lewis and M&T are linked in court rather than on the field. Lewis filed for bankruptcy in Georgia in April, listing $14.5 million in assets and $10.6 million in debts — among them, a more than $350,000 judgment ...

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MF Global trustee's law firm bills $17 million so far - msnbc.com

06/04/12

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The legal team unwinding MF Global Holdings' broker-dealer pocketed more than $17 million in legal fees in the first four months of the bankruptcy, court filings show. The team from law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed ...

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MF Global trustee's law firm bills $17 million so far - msnbc.com

06/04/12

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The legal team unwinding MF Global Holdings' broker-dealer pocketed more than $17 million in legal fees in the first four months of the bankruptcy, court filings show. The team from law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed, led by trustee James ...

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Magnotta's bankruptcy filing reveals a life lacking in glamour - Calgary Herald

06/04/12

OTTAWA — Despite his varied claims to be a model and adult-film actor, accused killer Luka Magnotta was an unemployed server with no reported income when he declared bankruptcy in 2007. Magnotta, arrested Monday in Berlin on allegations he ...

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Magnotta's bankruptcy filing reveals a life lacking in glamour - The Vancouver Sun

06/04/12

Magnotta, arrested Monday in Berlin on allegations he killed and dismembered a Chinese exchange student in Montreal, presents a banal financial accounting of his life though bankruptcy filings that contrast sharply with his carefully cultivated ...

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Luka Magnotta's bankruptcy filing reveals a life lacking in glamour - The Vancouver Sun

06/04/12

OTTAWA — Despite his varied claims to be a model and adult-film actor, accused killer Luka Magnotta was an unemployed server with no reported income when he declared bankruptcy in 2007. Magnotta, arrested Monday in Berlin on allegations he ...

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Dewey Bankruptcy Docket Report: Next Up, Stephen DiCarmine - Wall Street Journal

06/04/12

On Friday, Mr. DiCarmine filed a notice of appearance in Dewey’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. According to his lawyers at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, he has a claim on the estate under the aforementioned employment contract. One wonders how that ...

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