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A team of attorneys from Haynes Boone and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is guiding pool product maker Leslie's through the waters of bankruptcy in Texas.
Dish DBS Corp. won approval to cut more than $4 billion of debt and exit Chapter 11, while high-speed rail network Brightline got the greenlight to borrow $190 million in bankruptcy financing.
Jenner & Block partner Catherine Steege will begin a three-year term Thursday on the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules, which helps shape and recommend changes to the federal rules of bankruptcy procedure nationwide.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland, California, has failed to get a $180 million Chapter 11 plan confirmed, with a bankruptcy judge saying the religious organization failed to show that sexual abuse survivo... (more story)
BioXcel Therapeutics' Chapter 11 filing paused a securities class action against it, a Delaware bankruptcy judge ruled Monday, after a federal court had pressed the life sciences group for a more detailed time... (more story)
A Texas bankruptcy judge Monday gave Inspired Healthcare the go-ahead to sell 30 of its senior living communities for $713 million after being told objections to how the sale proceeds will be handled will them... (more story)
A New Jersey bankruptcy judge determined on Monday that the buyers of seven summer camps owned by Simad Holdings Ltd. need not withhold taxes under rules governing the sale of U.S. property by foreign owners, ... (more story)
The Fifth Circuit has agreed to pause a Texas federal court trial on whether talc sold by Barretts Minerals Inc. contained cancer-causing asbestos, saying it would hear argument in December on talc claimants' ... (more story)
Argentine bondholders claiming the Second Circuit wrongly upheld a block of over $30 million in contractual claims against Argentina won't get a chance to argue their stance at the U.S. Supreme Court, as the j... (more story)
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari to a group of feeder funds that invested in the Ponzi scheme of Bernard L. Madoff, which sought to challenge a Second Circuit ruling that found their $6 billi... (more story)
A Delaware bankruptcy judge Friday said Granite Telecommunications can proceed with its $5.8 million administrative expense claim against Franchise Group Inc., overruling the reorganized retail chain owner's p... (more story)
Venezuela has asked the Third Circuit to pause its appeal of a Delaware judge's order greenlighting the nearly $6 billion sale of Citgo just weeks before scheduled oral arguments that were already delayed, poi... (more story)
The Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington-based public interest group, is seeking to intervene on behalf of flight attendants in the bankruptcy of Spirit Airlines, saying that a proposed sale of ... (more story)
Burger King is asking a Florida federal court to shut down three competing restaurants in New Jersey for alleged trademark infringement, claiming that the shops are run by a former franchisee who renamed her b... (more story)
The $13.5 million sale of a distressed condominium property in West Palm Beach through a bankruptcy sale announced Monday likely sets the stage for another residential redevelopment project in the booming South Florida city.
A Texas bankruptcy judge Monday denied a Camp Mystic director's bid to quash a subpoena seeking his deposition, allowing the unsecured creditors committee and families of victims who died during a flood at the... (more story)
Danskammer, the owner of a 532-megawatt natural gas power plant along the Hudson River, has asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to schedule a November auction for its assets with an $8 million stalking horse bid.
A Queensland Supreme Court judge has refused mining exploration company DGR Global's application to add a new $73.4 million counterfactual claim in its proceedings over the collapse of Armour Energy, DGR announced Monday.
A Victorian Supreme judge has dismissed an application by John Sader, co-founder of Lion Property Group, to set aside a default judgment issued in a suit alleging the collapsed luxury property developer misuse... (more story)
A Texas bankruptcy judge Friday threatened Jackson Walker LLP with sanctions over yet another bankruptcy case where the firm's retention was approved by a judge in a relationship with a former attorney at the firm.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington, Vermont, has asked a bankruptcy judge to dismiss its Chapter 11 case, arguing it no longer has a path to getting a consensual restructuring plan confirmed and that con... (more story)
A Delaware federal judge found the owner of a government contracting firm lied on bankruptcy forms to hide assets from creditors but cleared her on a related criminal charge of making false statements under oath.
A Puerto Rican microcap lender asked the Eleventh Circuit on Friday to overturn a trial verdict in favor of a law firm that the lender accused of botching several financial transactions, arguing jurors should'... (more story)
William Wright
The New York City Bar Association’s recent ethics opinion, cautioning attorneys not to record nonclient conversati... (more story)
Keyonn Pope
As a child, I viewed bid whist as a family tradition and a source of friendly card game competition, but as a lawy... (more story)
Joshua Wurtzel
California’s first-in-the-nation act regulating how attorneys and arbitrators use generative artificial intelligen... (more story)