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The trustee winding down Lehman Brothers Inc. wants to add $15.2 billion to a fund to pay customers of the failed brokerage, bringing them closer to recovering all of what they are owed. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

In July, 2011, just after the her murder trial, I wrote a blog post suggesting that Casey Anthony should file Chapter 7 bankruptcy. As many of you have read in the news, Ms. Anthony has at last filed for bankruptcy protection.

From time to time callers ask me bankruptcy questions when they have already hired an attorney to file their bankruptcy petition in the Orlando Division. When I suggest that they direct their question to their own attorney whom they have paid fees they usually respond that their own bankruptcy attorney either will not return their calls or has given them poor advice. What can a debtor do when he is dissatisfied with his bankruptcy attorney?

A group of LightSquared Inc.’s lenders reiterated its desire to go after Phil Falcone and Harbinger Capital Partners for a prebankruptcy loan made to the wireless satellite company, making it clear that the troubled venture’s officers and directors won’t be a target of the lawsuit. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.