Law Firms

The Daily Docket: Judge Approves $5.15B Anadarko Settlement

05/29/14

A federal bankruptcy judge Wednesday approved Anadarko Petroleum Corp.’s $5.15 billion settlement of fraud claims from a 2006 acquisition, the largest environmental settlement ever won by the U.S. government. The Wall Street Journal has the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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The Daily Docket: Coldwater Creditors Question Final Days

05/22/14

Creditors have raised questions about what happened in the final days before Coldwater Creek handed over the keys to its 330-store chain to liquidators in bankruptcy. The Wall Street Journal has the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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New Togut Partner Jeff Gleit Likes the Debtor Better

05/19/14

Jeffrey Gleit showed his versatility as a bankruptcy lawyer at some of the largest restructuring firms in the country, but his recent move to Togut Segal & Segal LLP was about getting back to what he loves most: representing debtors.

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The Daily Docket: Senior Energy Future Lenders Take Issue With Plan

05/15/14

Investors owning $1.7 billion or more in top-ranking debt say a $7.3 billion piece of Energy Future Holdings Corp.’s financing plan is a flawed and “incoherent” attempt to evade bankruptcy rules. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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L.A. Bankruptcy Boutique Combines With Robins Kaplan

05/14/14

The Los Angeles bankruptcy bar is shuffling once again, this time through the combination of bankruptcy boutique Peitzman Weg LLP and litigation firm Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP.

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Energy Future Unsecured Creditors Form Ranks, Hire Morrison & Foerster

05/13/14

Morrison & Foerster won the plum job of representing the official committee of unsecured creditors in the Energy Future Holdings Corp. Chapter 11 case, one of the biggest bankruptcies on record.

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Ex-Howrey Partners Disgruntled With $4.2 Million Settlement

05/07/14

It’s often said in legal circles that the best settlements leave both sides equally unhappy.

But a deal reached this week requiring former partners to contribute $4.2 million to Howrey LLP’s bankruptcy estate has one side cheering jubilantly and the other side licking its wounds.

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The Daily Docket: Judge Says TelexFree Chapter 11 Must Go to Massachussets

05/07/14

A bankruptcy judge Tuesday rebuffed TelexFree LLC’s efforts to keep its Chapter 11 proceedings out of Massachusetts, where most of the company’s assets and operations are based. The Daily Bankruptcy Review article is available here.

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ABA Joins Battle Over Dead Law Firm Profits

05/05/14

The nation’s largest lawyers’ organization is taking a stand on a client’s right to choose.

The right to choose counsel, that is.

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Nortel Prepares Private Broadcast of $7.3 Billion Cash Trial

04/22/14

Nortel Networks is preparing to spend more than $1 million on technology for an upcoming court fight over $7.3 billion raised in its global liquidation, a trial that will be broadcast live—but not to the public.

Only “authorized users” will be able to view the Webcast of the fight for the failed telecommunication company’s billions, according to an outline of the trial technology plan filed with the courts overseeing Nortel’s dissolution.

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