News Topic: Law Firms

AFP/Getty Images A US Airways tail rest on the tarmac near an American Airlines plane at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia on April 23, 2012. A ... Read full article

Latham & Watkins The app “The Book of Jargon: Global Restructuring” has more than 1,000 complicated terms translated into plain English. Do you drop phrase ... Read full article

Reuters So it’s been nearly a week since the team winding down the defunct law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP  ... Read full article

Patriot Coal Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday, becoming the largest casualty of the worst U.S. market for the power-plant fuel in decades. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

Reuters There could be some fireworks Monday afternoon in federal bankruptcy court in lower Manhattan. ... Read full article

Reuters Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP is turning to a time-tested way to staunch the bleeding of its staff: cash. ... Read full article

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Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. said Friday it has sold its Aurora Bank FSB subsidiary, a move that should help funnel some $1.5 billion into the pockets of Lehman’s creditors. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal . ... Read full article

Camera retailer Ritz Camera & Image LLC filed its second Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition since 2009. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review Small Cap article here . ... Read full article

Associated Press The Curious George balloon makes its way along JFK Boulevard in Philadelphia during the Thanksgiving parade in November 2011. ... Read full article

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Reuters Warren Buffett holds a Dairy Queen ice cream bar and answers reporters’ questions before the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in April 2011.  Wa ... Read full article

Bloomberg Warren Buffett A judge on Monday granted the wish of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. ... Read full article

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A U.S. federal judge refused Wednesday to enforce Mexican glassmaker Vitro SAB’s controversial debt restructuring in a closely watched bankruptcy case that threatened to sever the cross-border business cooperation between the two nations’ legal systems. ... Read full article

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Getty Images A judge on Tuesday ruled largely for Barclays PLC in the bank’s ongoing dispute with the trustee unwinding Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s brokerage stemming from Barclays’ 2008 purchase of the brokerage, a decision th ... Read full article

Getty Images The Justice Department has grown increasingly restless with attorney fees—often exceeding $1,000 an hour—paid by companies going through a bankruptcy reorganization. ... Read full article