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Firms Must Embrace Alternative Billing Models Or Fall Behind

As artificial intelligence tools eliminate inefficiencies and the Big Four accounting firms enter the legal market... (more story)

How Attorneys Can Master The Art Of On-Camera Presence

As attorneys are increasingly presented with on-camera opportunities, they can adapt their traditional legal skill... (more story)

Baseball Fantasy Camp Makes Me A Better Lawyer

With six baseball fantasy experiences under my belt, I've learned time and again that I didn't make the wrong care... (more story)

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Carlton Fields Faces DQ Bid In $500M Miss America Suit

Carlton Fields faces a disqualification bid for allegedly having a conflict of interest in a $500 million lawsuit regarding the ownership of the company that runs the Miss America pageant.

Retailer Conn's Gets OK To Pay $2M To B. Riley, Store Dealers

Furniture and appliance retailer Conn's Inc. received a Texas bankruptcy judge's approval Monday to pay a group of former W.S. Badcock dealers about $2 million to settle their potential claims in the Chapter 1... (more story)

Feds Seek 10 Years For Ex-Girardi CFO's 'Brazen' Crimes

Los Angeles federal prosecutors said Girardi Keese's former head of accounting should spend 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to assisting Tom Girardi in siphoning clients' settlement funds and what the... (more story)

Conn's Creditors Object To $4M Award For Lender

The committee of unsecured creditors of bankrupt retailer Conn's Inc. has urged a Texas bankruptcy judge to reject the company's bid to amend its debtor-in-possession financing to pay a lender $4 million to pr... (more story)

Purdue Lawsuit Injunction Extended Ahead Of Plan Hearings

Bankrupt drugmaker Purdue Pharma LP received a further extension of a bar on litigation against the company and its owners in the Sackler family as the debtor pursues a late May approval of a disclosure statem... (more story)

Ex-Director Of DOJ's Bankruptcy Watchdog Appeals Removal

The former director of the Department of Justice's U.S. Trustee Program, which oversees bankruptcy proceedings, has filed an appeal of her termination, saying it was without cause and violated her due process ... (more story)

3rd Circ. Preview: April Arguments Feature Class Action Rows

The Third Circuit's April argument lineup springs into action with securities litigation brought by Walmart investors claiming they were misled about the government's opioid investigation into the company, and... (more story)

The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers

The U.S. Supreme Court heard five arguments this week, including in cases over the proper venue for challenges to EPA actions and the potential revival of a doctrine not used since the 1930s, while also issuin... (more story)

FTX Sitting On $11.4B In Cash To Distribute To Creditors

FTX has $11.4 billion in funds ready to be handed out to creditors, but it still has much work to do to sort out the massive number of claims asserted against the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange, an attorney... (more story)

Diocese Creditors Gain Access To Abuse Claim Data In Ch. 11

Creditors of the Archdiocese of San Francisco will have access to records of the archdiocese's independent review board after a California bankruptcy judge said production of the documents serve a valid purpos... (more story)

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Calif. Pot Co. Seeks Receivership, Blames Merger 'Disaster'

A cannabis producer in California has moved to enter receivership in state court, disclosing more than $173 million in liabilities and saying a 2023 merger with its parent company proved to be a "financial disaster."

Aspiration Partners Hits Ch. 11 After Founder's Fraud Arrest

Sustainability-focused financial services company Aspiration Partners Inc. filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware, less than a month after founder Joseph Sanberg was arrested and hit with federal fraud charges.

Dolphin Visit Co. Files For Ch. 11 With Debt Over $100M

Ejecutivos de Turismo Sustentable SA de CV, a business related to park and dolphin habitat operator The Dolphin Company, filed for bankruptcy Monday in Delaware with 14 affiliates and cited over $100 million in debt.

Heritage Coal Files For Ch. 11, Alleging Ex-Owner Sabotage

Heritage Coal and its owner KTRV have filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware, saying the former owner has asserted ownership over the debtor's assets and taken steps to sabotage and vandalize its mining equipment.

TSI Ch. 7 Trustee Opposes Exit Of Atty Facing Sanctions

A Chapter 7 trustee in the case of government contractor Team Systems International is opposing the withdrawal of law firm Cross & Simon from its representation of the defendants in ongoing adversary proceedin... (more story)

Chinese Pool Parts Supplier Can't Undo False Ads Verdict

A Chinese pool parts supplier can't reverse a jury verdict for false advertising and deceptive business practices, a North Carolina federal judge has said, finding the company tried to bring new arguments that... (more story)

Azzur Judge OKs At Least $1.3M In Potential Exec Bonuses

A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Friday approved Azzur Group Holdings LLC's plan to award company executives at least $1.3 million if a Chapter 11 sale yields at least $56 million in proceeds, over the objection... (more story)

NYC Margaritaville Ch. 11 Plan OK'd After Buffett Hit Played

A New York bankruptcy judge on Friday confirmed the Chapter 11 plan of the developer of the Margaritaville resort in Times Square, as he played the resort's namesake song during a hearing.

CarePoint Mediator Says Ch. 11 Confirmation Deal Is Futile

A mediator appointed in a New Jersey hospital operator's Chapter 11 told a Delaware bankruptcy judge that discussions to close the gap on holdout objections to its reorganization plan have hit a wall.

'Matrix' Producer Gets 2-Member Creditor Committee

The U.S. Department of Justice's bankruptcy watchdog selected a landlord and a movie production consultant to make up the unsecured creditors committee in Village Roadshow Entertainment Group's Delaware Chapter 11.