Mid Cap
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July 09, 2025
The Villages' Health Provider Gets Preliminary DIP Funding
A Florida bankruptcy judge preliminarily approved a $39 million debtor-in-possession financing plan for The Villages Health System LLC, which provides healthcare services to 55,000 residents of the best-known retirement community in America and filed for Chapter 11 protection last week.
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July 09, 2025
Ex-Parler Owner Shielded From Fired CEO's $1.6B Suit
The company that once owned conservative social media platform Parler will continue to be protected from a $1.6 billion state court lawsuit the company's ousted CEO brought against it, but it will be subject to discovery requests related to other nondebtor defendants, a Delaware bankruptcy judge said Wednesday.
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July 09, 2025
11th Circ. Rules Against Hotelier In Arbitration Battle
The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a bankruptcy court's annulment of an automatic stay to allow enforcement of an arbitral award issued in a dispute over a failed $250 million hotel conglomerate, rejecting arguments that the order was barred under a 2020 U.S. Supreme Court decision.
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July 09, 2025
Scanrock's Ch. 11 Plan Disclosure Punted Over Notice Issue
A Texas bankruptcy Judge agreed Wednesday to postpone a decision on approving hydrocarbon driller Scanrock Oil & Gas' amended Chapter 11 plan disclosure, after the debtor told him the move was acceptable to defuse concerns about the notice window.
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July 09, 2025
NJ Justices Disbar Fla. Atty For Misappropriating $100K
The New Jersey Supreme Court has disbarred a Florida attorney based on Disciplinary Review Board findings that she misappropriated more than $100,000 in client funds.
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July 09, 2025
McGuireWoods Names New Office Leaders In 4 US Cities
McGuireWoods LLP announced Wednesday that it has appointed new office managing partners in Atlanta, Houston, Baltimore and San Francisco, continuing the firm's practice of rotating its staff in and out of key leadership positions.
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July 09, 2025
Stone And Tile Seller Hits Ch. 11 With $65M In Debt, Sale Plans
Mosaic Cos., the parent of stone and tile distributors Walker & Zanger and Surfaces Southeast, filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware with $65 million of secured debt after it struggled to rebound from pandemic-caused supply chain disruptions.
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July 08, 2025
Kohl's Says Self-Storage Renovation Led To Pa. Mall Exit
In seeking to ditch a lawsuit, Kohl's on Tuesday told a Pennsylvania federal judge that a mall owner breached a lease of two decades with an unwanted renovation project that added a nearby self-storage business and cut off the retailer's access to the mall's interior.
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July 08, 2025
Job Site Monster.com OK'd For Swift Ch. 11 Auctions
A Delaware bankruptcy judge Tuesday signed off on online job search site CareerBuilder + Monster's plans to hold Chapter 11 auctions for its assets next week, approving bid procedures with three separate stalking horses.
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July 08, 2025
Job.com Has $35M Credit Bid For Ch. 11 Auction
Artificial intelligence-powered recruiting platform My Job Matcher Inc. told a Delaware bankruptcy judge Tuesday it has obtained a $35 million credit bid from existing secured lenders as it pursues a sale of its assets in Chapter 11.
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July 08, 2025
Judge Approves TreeSap Farms' Ch. 11 Liquidation Plan
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Tuesday gave the final green light to landscape plant grower TreeSap Farms' liquidation plan after hearing the debtor, unsecured creditors' committee and prepetition lenders had reached a global settlement.
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July 08, 2025
Catching Up With New Bankruptcy Case Action
Del Monte, a titan in the canned food industry, entered Chapter 11 in New Jersey. A media company partially controlled by Dr. Phil entered bankruptcy in Texas and began suing its joint venture partner. And a company that offers health care in The Villages retirement community hit bankruptcy in Florida with an initial bid for its assets.
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July 08, 2025
Jackson Walker, US Trustee Have A Week To Finish Mediation
A Texas federal judge has given Jackson Walker LLP and the federal government's bankruptcy watchdog a week to finish mediation in a fee dispute stemming from a former bankruptcy judge's secret relationship with a former firm partner.
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July 08, 2025
Fiber Co. Tilson Gets OK To Borrow $150M In Ch. 11
Fiber network developer Tilson Technology Management Inc. won a Delaware bankruptcy judge's approval Tuesday to take on $150 million in debtor-in-possession financing after the company agreed to increase funding for unsecured creditors as part of the Chapter 11 relief.
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July 07, 2025
Fresno Diocese Seeks Parish Account Protection In Ch. 11
The bankrupt Roman Catholic Bishop of Fresno told a California judge Monday that it would be providing additional evidentiary support for its cash management motion so that the bank accounts of its non-debtor parishes can be protected from closure.
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July 07, 2025
Calif. Fails To Pause 23andMe's Sale During Appeal
A Missouri bankruptcy judge on Monday refused California's request that genetic testing company 23andMe Holding Co.'s $305 million Chapter 11 sale be tabled while the Golden State seeks an appeal.
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July 07, 2025
Attys For Dolphin Co.'s Ex-CEO Can Withdraw From Ch. 11
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Monday gave two law firms permission to stop representing the ousted CEO of Leisure Investments Holdings, the lead debtor and intermediate holding company for aquatics park operator The Dolphin Co., with lawyers citing nonpayment and "irreconcilable differences" with their former client.
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July 07, 2025
Asset Manager's Suit Against Lowenstein Sandler Tossed
A New York state judge has handed an early win to Lowenstein Sandler LLP against allegations it provided faulty advice in a client's bankruptcy, finding the asset manager that brought the suit was simply attempting "to shift the financial cost of the troubled company's failed business from its owners to its lawyers."
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July 07, 2025
George Clinton Faces Sanctions Bid In IP Suit
Music executive Armen Boladian has asked a Florida federal court to sanction funk legend George Clinton, saying he was raising issues already adjudicated in their decades-long series of legal disputes.
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July 07, 2025
Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
In Delaware in the past week, a vice chancellor awarded just $1 in damages to a China-tied company looking to secure a $50 million stake in SpaceX while also slamming the fund's manager for acting "insincerely," Tyson Foods won $55 million in damages in a suit claiming the owner of two poultry rendering plants Tyson acquired hid that it relied on a "disfavored" practice of recovering "unappetizing remnants of butchered chickens," and a suit over a one-site bank's 11-aircraft fleet was moved into the discovery phase.
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July 07, 2025
AI-Driven Job.com Files Ch. 11 With Almost $67M Of Debt
Artificial intelligence-powered employment recruiting platform My Job Matcher Inc., which does business as Job.com, filed for Chapter 11 in Delaware with several affiliates, listing over $66 million in liabilities and bringing a roughly $10 million bankruptcy financing proposal.
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July 07, 2025
Gift Wrap Manufacturer Can Tap $25M Post-Bankruptcy Money
IG Design Group Americas Inc., one of the world's biggest manufacturers of gift wrap, won court approval Monday to tap $25 million of new money to finance its bankruptcy case as it pursues a sale of some assets, after the company filed for Chapter 11 protection last week in the face of sagging business, U.S. tariffs and the loss of Joann Inc., a major customer.
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July 03, 2025
NY Landlord Sues Walmart, Others In Del. Alleging Fraud
A New York City landlord sued Walmart Inc. and the bankruptcy successor to Bonobos Inc. in Delaware's Court of Chancery late Thursday, asserting hundreds of million in claims and compensatory and punitive damages under both Delaware and New York law arising from an allegedly fraudulent transfer of a Fifth Avenue retailer's lease and obligations.
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July 03, 2025
US Trustee, Creditor Balk At Firstbase.io's $1.2M Ch. 11 Fees
The U.S. Trustee's Office and the largest creditor of Firstbase.io urged a New York bankruptcy judge to reject three law firms' applications for $1.2 million in legal fees, arguing the bankrupt business services platform could become administratively insolvent and hasn't made enough progress in its Chapter 11.
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July 03, 2025
What's Happening In Bankruptcy Court This Coming Week
Coming out of the July Fourth long weekend, bankruptcy judges will consider debtor-in-possession financing requests by solar company Sunnova and fiber developer Tilson, a dispute over trucking firm Yellow Corp.'s Chapter 11 progress, and first-day relief for the Catholic Diocese of Fresno, California.

Tariffs Loom Large Over Smaller Ch. 11s So Far In 2025
Mid-market businesses have been struggling with economic uncertainty in the first half of the year, especially with the threat of higher tariffs and reduced incentives for renewable energy, bankruptcy professionals told Law360.

Meet The Team Helping Dr. Phil's Media Biz Through Ch. 11
A team of Sidley Austin LLP attorneys is helping a media company founded and partially controlled by the television personality known as Dr. Phil through Chapter 11 as it seeks to claw back a $25 million note from the company's Christian network co-owner.

Celsius Ends FTX Clawback Suit, Rite Aid Unit Sale OK'd
FTX's Bahamas unit and bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network reached a settlement resolving an adversary lawsuit seeking the return of around $517 million in pre-bankruptcy transfers. A New Jersey bankruptcy judge approved Rite Aid's roughly $19 million sale of an ice cream brand to a pair of billionaires behind Monster Energy. And insurers are challenging Avon's Chapter 11 plan, arguing it unfairly forces them to cover potentially invalid talc injury claims.
Expert Analysis
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Self-Care
Law schools don’t teach the mental, physical and emotional health maintenance tools necessary to deal with the profession's many demands, but practicing self-care is an important key to success that can help to improve focus, manage stress and reduce burnout, says Rachel Leonard at MG+M.
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ABA Opinion Makes It A Bit Easier To Drop A 'Hot Potato'
The American Bar Association's recent ethics opinion clarifies when attorneys may terminate clients without good cause, though courts may still disqualify a lawyer who drops a client like a hot potato, so sending a closeout letter is always a best practice, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.
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My Opera And Baseball Careers Make Me A Better Lawyer
Though participating in opera and the world of professional baseball often pulls me away from the office, my avocations improve my legal career by helping me perform under scrutiny, prioritize team success, and maintain joy and perspective at work, says Adam Unger at Herrick Feinstein.
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8 Ways Lawyers Can Protect The Rule Of Law In Their Work
Whether they are concerned with judicial independence, regulatory predictability or client confidence, lawyers can take specific meaningful actions on their own when traditional structures are too slow or too compromised to respond, says Angeli Patel at the Berkeley Center of Law and Business.
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Despite Dark Clouds, Outlook For US Solar Has Bright Spots
While tariff, tax policy and bankruptcy news seemingly portends unending challenges for the U.S. solar energy industry, signs of continued growth in solar generating capacity and domestic solar manufacturing suggest that there is a path forward, say attorneys at Beveridge & Diamond.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Communicating With Clients
Law school curricula often overlook client communication procedures, and those who actively teach this crucial facet of the practice can create exceptional client satisfaction and success, says Patrick Hanson at Wiggam Law.
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Adapting To Private Practice: From US Rep. To Boutique Firm
My transition from serving as a member of Congress to becoming a partner at a boutique firm has been remarkably smooth, in part because I never stopped exercising my legal muscles, maintained relationships with my former colleagues and set the right tone at the outset, says Mondaire Jones at Friedman Kaplan.
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Senate's 41% Litigation Finance Tax Would Hurt Legal System
The Senate’s latest version of the Big Beautiful Bill Act would impose a 41% tax on the litigation finance industry, but the tax is totally disconnected from the concerns it purports to address, and it would set the country back to a time when small plaintiffs had little recourse against big defendants, says Anthony Sebok at Cardozo School of Law.
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Performing As A Clown Makes Me A Better Lawyer
To say that being a clown in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has changed my legal career would truly be an understatement — by creating an opening to converse on a unique topic, it has allowed me to connect with clients, counsel and even judges on a deeper level, says Charles Tatelbaum at Tripp Scott.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Rejecting Biz Dev Myths
Law schools don’t spend sufficient time dispelling certain myths that prevent young lawyers from exploring new business opportunities, but by dismissing these misguided beliefs, even an introverted first-year associate with a small network of contacts can find long-term success, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.
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9th Circ. Has Muddied Waters Of Article III Pleading Standard
District courts in the Ninth Circuit continue to apply a defunct and especially forgiving pleading standard to questions of Article III standing, and the circuit court itself has only perpetuated this confusion — making it an attractive forum for disputes that have no rightful place in federal court, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.
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Competing In Modern Pentathlon Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Opening myself up to new experiences through competing in modern Olympic pentathlon has shrunk the appearance of my daily work annoyances and helps me improve my patience, manage crises better and remember that acquiring new skills requires working through your early mistakes, says attorney Mary Zoldak.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Teaching Yourself Legal Tech
New graduates often enter practice unfamiliar with even basic professional software, but budding lawyers can use on-the-job opportunities to both catch up on technological skills and explore the advanced legal and artificial intelligence tools that will open doors, says Alyssa Sones at Sheppard Mullin.