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Dewey Docket Dump: Fees, ‘Incentive’ Pay and a Looming Deadline

07/25/12
EPA

Curious to know how much it costs to shut down a big, super-indebted law firm?

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The Daily Docket: Investors Appeal Tribune Plan

07/25/12

Investors that wound up at the bottom of the payment pileup in Tribune Co.’s bankruptcy raced to appeal a Monday order confirming the media company’s Chapter 11 plan. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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Breast Cancer Support Group to Liquidate

07/24/12

A Chicago breast-cancer charity that helped patients cope with the disease long before pink ribbons and celebrity advocates entered the picture has shut down and filed for bankruptcy liquidation.

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The Daily Docket: Judge Endorses Tribune Plan

07/24/12

A bankruptcy judge Monday officially signed off on Tribune Co .’s Chapter 11 plan, endorsing final documents setting out the debt-for-equity swap that will make the media company property of hedge funds and banks. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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Blood in the Bankruptcy Waters Draws Claims Traders to Ex-Nortel Employees

07/23/12
Associated Press/Canadian Press

It’s fish-in-a-barrel shooting season over at Nortel Networks Corp., with claims traders peppering ex-employees with offers to pay 70 cents, 80 cents or more for their bankruptc

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The Daily Docket: J.P. Morgan Blames Lehman Management for Demise

07/23/12
Reuters

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. said senior management of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

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The Broke and the Beautiful: Anniversary Edition

07/20/12

Can you believe it’s been a year since The Broke and the Beautiful first graced the blogosphere? On this week’s edition, former baseball star turned financial guru Lenny Dykstra pleads guilty to bankruptcy fraud. Also, Young Buck (who coincidentally starred in the very first edition of Broke) gets a prison sentence, and Michael Vick is promoting his memoir.

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Dewey: ‘Clawback’ Plan To Be Modified

07/20/12
EPA

Time out!

The deadline has been pushed back for a proposed “clawback” settlement that was offered to more than 700 former partners of the bankrupt law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP.

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The Daily Docket: AMR Can Control Case Until December

07/20/12
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.

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A Rosetta Stone for the Bankruptcy World

07/19/12
Latham & Watkins
The app “The Book of Jargon: Global Restructuring” has more than 1,000 complicated terms translated into plain English.

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