Law:
Litigation Finance: The Next Hot Trend? --- ‘Wild West’ of Lawsuit Funders Supports Divorcees to Soldiers
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Howrey estate tussles with 50 law firms to cash in on ‘unfinished business’ --- Howrey trustee sues seven more law firms
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Sedgwick General Counsel Named in Suit Over Alleged Race-Based Firing
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Davis Polk Tops Bloomberg, MergerMarket Rankings for First Quarter of 2013
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Weil, Debevoise, King & Spalding, Locke: Business of Law
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This California Law School Has The Most Unemployed AND Most Indebted Students --- The Law Schools With the Highest Unemployment Rates --- Read this if you want a legal job
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Which law schools fared best and worst in the latest ABA data?
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Cooley Law loses bid to unmask online critic on appeal
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March Madness: The Law Firm With the Brightest Future — Final Four
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Atlanta: Same thing, different year: Slow growth becomes routine --- A look inside Atlanta firm financials
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Work/Life Balance? LOL, You Think That’s a Thing?
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‘Big-firm mediocre’ style of legal writing is oddly consistent, ‘curmudgeon’ writes
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Unverified Stats and the Future — It’s Marketeer Season!
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How to Realize the Anticipated Benefits From Law Firm Mergers
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Why Law Students Should Probably Not Tweet About Killing Politicians
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Colt Lawyers Claim They Were Denied Severance Packages
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Married Lawyers on Moving From Big Firm to Boutique Law
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U.S. Supreme Court to hear challenge to pretrial seizure of assets
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Lawyer sues his bishop and four priests claiming they failed to properly exorcise flatulent demons in his house
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Attorney Sues Good Ol' Law Firm
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Ethics Of License Plates Explored
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Man Buys Toy Poodles That Ended Up Actually Being Huge ...
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Most Memorable Athletes' Mug Shots
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Plan to impress girlfriend with phony divorce decree backfires for man charged with forgery
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Thieves swipe 5 tons of Nutella spread
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Ex-Warden: Texas Prison Gangs Are Colluding With Guards
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Say What?!
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Judges:
Judges lead 'sheltered lives', warns Britain's most senior female judge
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'Judge Judy' gets 2 more years with new TV deal
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Judges can ask lawyers to lobby legislature for more court funding, state ethics panel says
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Let cameras in, Ohio chief justice tells SCOTUS
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Strine on M&A Litigation Settlements: 'Catfish Can't Get Much Lower' --- Delaware Supreme Court Judge Gives Strine Another Lash
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Bankruptcy judge to manage Gulf spill victims' attorney fee disputes
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Wall Street:
Wall Street closes higher
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Layoffs:
Fisker Faces Lawsuit After Laying Off 75% Of Its Workforce
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Labor Force Participation Rate Update
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The vanishing American worker
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Where Have All the Secretaries Gone?
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Mail:
What business gets more customers every year but keeps losing money?
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Retailing:
JCPenney Has A Black Hole And Doesn't Even Know It
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Biggest JCPenney Shareholder: CEO’s Mistakes Put Retailer ‘Very Close to a Disaster’
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Ron Johnson Out At JCPenney --- Hubris --- How Ron Johnson ruined JCPenney --- JC Penney Shares Explode Higher
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Engineering:
Trustee to oversee Birdsall engineering, bankruptcy judge rules
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Aviation:
Judge Approves AA-US Airways Merger; Reorganization Deadline Extended
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Cyprus Airways teeters toward bankruptcy
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Bahrain Air sued over liquidation
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Lehman:
Lehman Brothers opposes brokerage's settlement with German unit
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Fraud:
State Restitution Funds to Ponzi Scheme Victims: A Good Idea?
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Politics:
Report: Greensboro mayor files for bankruptcy --- Records show Perkins in debt $10.8 million
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Economy:
Fannie Mae Profit May Swell Treasury Coffers as Debt Limit Looms
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Fed's Pianalto: Fed Must Be Mindful of Risks
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The American Manufacturing Renaissance Is A Flop
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Where Do The Rich And Poor Live?
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Why The World's First Central Banker Got The Death Penalty
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US Economy: The Rose Among Thorns
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Why the Fed Can't Help Long Term Jobless
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Bernanke: Stress Tests Made US Banks More Stable
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More Signs The Economy Is Rolling Over All Around The World
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How Much Americans Will Lose From The Payroll Tax Hike
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
How Does the U.S. Quit Housing When Fannie, Freddie Rake in Billions? --- Hedge Funds Wagering on Fannie Reincarnation
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Military members to get $39 mln in home foreclosure settlement
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Housing's Big Challenge: $1 Trillion in Student Debt
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Existing Home Inventory is up 8.5% year-to-date on April 8th
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Rhode Island's tallest building will soon go dark
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Goldman's Pretty Weak Argument that “National” Home Prices Last Year “Really” Increased by 3-4%
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UBS AG's Legal Woes Persist
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Why the housing recovery hasn’t led to a hiring boom
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CEO leads IStar back from brink of disaster
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Health Care:
Why Alzheimer’s Will Be The Fiscal Nightmare Of The Century
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Rotech Healthcare Files for Bankruptcy to Reduce Debt
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Mass. AG announces appointment of receiver to oversee financially-troubled RoxComp closure
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Newspapers:
US newspaper industry limits revenue drop to 2%
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Religion:
3 More Philly Priests Removed in Sex Investigation
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Corporate Reform:
Big Question in U.S. vs. S&P
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Judge weighs fairness of Citigroup's $590 mln investor pact
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Where regulators go to get rich
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Mass Torts:
Study: Oil-Eating Bacteria Mitigated Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
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BP: Negligent, but not grossly?
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Lawyers ask hepatitis C jury to award $2.5 billion
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Municipalities:
New York state set to publish names of stressed municipalities
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Bankrupt San Bernardino, creditors to meet in 'painfully slow' case
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Detroit Resorts to Rent-A-Cops for Enforcement
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Beware of easy municipal bankruptcies
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Gambling:
Louisiana casino operator amends bankruptcy filing to free up cash
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Oil/Gas:
SandRidge names new COO, to probe CEO's land deals
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SandRidge sells aircraft, trims advertising spending to cut costs
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Corporate Reform:
U.S. Senate confirms Mary Jo White as SEC chairman
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S&P: State AGs trying to usurp federal regulation of rating agencies
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Asset Protection:
Stash Your Cash
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Celebs:
Wesley Snipes finishes jail time for tax evasion
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Bankruptcy lawyer seeks okay to auction Casey Anthony's tale
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Book Reviews:
" ... create a culture that transcends the current year's partner earnings," Steven J. Harper in "The Lawyer Bubble"
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Resorts:
Indicted Tamarack suitor's trial enters 4th day
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Coal:
Study: The coal industry is in far more trouble than anyone realizes
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Accounting:
Bankruptcy judge Karen Overstreet says Seattle accounting firm Moss Adams failed to comply with subpoena related to Frederick Darren Berg’s Ponzi scheme --- Moss Adams sanctioned over Meridian Mortgage subpoena
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
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Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory
Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings (Temporarily unavailable today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (Temporarily unavailable today)
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Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
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UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Bankruptcy Jobs:
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Alabama has third highest per capita bankruptcy filing rate
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Avoidance Actions:
Court Finds Investment Advisor’s Payments to Customers Are Not Exempt From Avoidance Under Section 546(e)of the Bankruptcy Code
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Affiliates:
Just Because We’re Siblings Doesn’t Mean I Want to Be Affiliated with You!
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Claims Trading:
Purchasing and Modifying Discount Debt: What Dealmakers Should Know
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Plan Confirmation:
Can a Plan of Reorganization Separately Classify a Claim That Is Personally Guaranteed?
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Recent Pleadings:
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TBTF:
AIG Seeks to Toss Greenberg’s Challenge to U.S. Bailout
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Insurance:
Ambac Financial Has Settlement With IRS
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Alternative Energy:
Fisker Struggles Mark Blow to Obama’s Electric-Car Goal --- Fisker sued for sudden layoffs
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SolarWorld Lays Off Oregon Workers, Bankruptcy May Follow
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Sovereigns:
Some holders of Argentine debt would welcome swap
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UK:
Contingent claims – should the liquidator wait for the contingency to occur?
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Agency relationship or a relationship of seller and buyer?
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How undistributed assets under a scheme of arrangement should be treated
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Marshalling securities where there are two debtors
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When can a claim for transaction at an undervalue succeed?
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Iceland versus Scotland: what happens when two inconsistent insolvency regimes clash?
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Boot Camp: Late Payment Issues Construction Contracts
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Late Payments: EU Directive Implemented
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A practical guide against counterparty and third party default
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Donns administration extended as final terms of Irwin Mitchell deal emerge
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Margaret Thatcher Was Freakishly Correct About Why The Euro Would Be Such A Big Disaster --- Before Thatcher Came To Power, The UK Was Literally Covered In Gigantic Piles Of Garbage
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EU:
Will Europe Listen to Lew on Growth?
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PIIGS:
Greek bank stocks plunge as merger is frozen
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Spanish bankruptcies hit record in first quarter of 2013
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Portugal must stick to agreed budget targets to get loan extension, EU --- Pain bites into Portuguese life as crisis deepens
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Nama seeks to join Dunne bankruptcy case
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Canada:
Canada Loses 54,500 Jobs
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Germany:
German output rises moderately as industry recovers
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German exports 1.5 percent lower in February
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MENA:
The restructuring and corporate recovery market in the UAE
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Korea:
Comparison Of Life In North Korea And South Korea
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