January 2, 2013

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Law:

DLA Piper Relocates London Restructuring Partner to Hong Kong
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Antitrust’s Baer, Kirkland, Weil Gotshal: Business of Law
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Why the fiscal cliff has been good for lawyers
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Crystal Ball, Oh, Crystal Ball
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Will Law Firms of the Future Look Like Solo Practices of Today?
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Wake Forest lawyer goes under the knife to save former professor
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Group claims Rutgers-Camden Law used misleading employment data --- Burk on "Law School Transparency"
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British minister backs apprentice lawyers
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Avoiding WTF Moments as a Young Attorney
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Disbarred Miami lawyer charged with trying to sell Saddam Hussein family's guns
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Everything Needed For iPhone Etiquette In 2013 Is In This Mom's Letter To Her 13-Year-Old Son
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9 New Year’s Resolutions Lawyers Should Not Make
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High School Student Suspended For Saying She 'Understands' Adam Lanza's Rampage
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$100 Million Claim Filed in Newtown School Massacre --- Attorney Irving Pinsky withdraws complaint --- Connecticut attorney general says Newtown legal claim misguided
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Judge Ordered Psych Exam For Subway Pushing Suspect After She Laughed Uncontrollably In Court
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Craigslist sperm donor forced to pay child support
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Cops: Woman set on fire by son, who is later shot by brother
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Police Arrest Man “Spraying Urine To and Fro” While Making Sounds Of An Elephant
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The Most Ridiculous Lawsuits Of 2012 --- 10 strangest lawsuits of 2012
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Judges:

John Roberts Speaks Out About How The Fiscal Cliff Could Deny People Justice --- Stresses need for judges, funds despite US fiscal strain --- Chief Justice Boasts of Budget Cuts, Urges Filling Lower Court Vacancies
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Judge weighing imposition of $3.1 million ruling where she found that attorney's conduct "undermined public confidence in the entire legal profession"
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Judge must give deposition in 'Law & Order' lawsuit: NY court
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Wall Street:

Stock futures surge on fiscal deal
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10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell
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Wall Street's last gravy train may be running out of steam
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Layoffs:

Last checks go out for 2 million jobless
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When Health Plans Disappear, Workers Often Have Few Options
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400 could be out of work as NC carpet plants close
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Smaller paychecks? Bosses say, don't blame us
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3 bright spots in the U.S. job market for 2013
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Alternative Energy:

Last-Minute Fiscal Cliff Deal Includes Wind Energy Tax Credit
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Protests:

How US Banks And Federal Law Enforcement Worked Together Bringing Down Occupy Wall Street
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Internet Services:

SD-based Internet services company to reorganize
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Lehman:

CIBC to pay $149.5 million to Lehman, ending dispute
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Aviation:

Pilots Union Ratifies Memorandum for Airline Merger
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AMR Moves Closer to US Airways Merger as Pilots Deal Matures
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US Airways pilots have much to gain in a potential merger with American Airlines
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American Airlines has the rudest employees
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AMR, American Airlines and American Eagle slog their way through bankruptcy court
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Health Care:

Baltimore Behavioral Health files for bankruptcy
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Recipe for a long life: overweight people have lower death risk
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Accounting:

The Ten Best CPA Exam Freakouts Of 2012
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Shipping:

Shadow banks tap into distressed shipping
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Alternative investors gamble on OSG
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Recanatis' Overseas Shipping Group runs aground
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Health Care:

More Doctors to Leave Medicare in 2013 --- Medicare Doctors Face 29% Pay Cut
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Economy:

Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index Jumps --- Manufacturing in U.S. Probably Expanded After Three-Year Low
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Senate Makes Deal, "Fiscal cliff" moves to House, timing and outcome uncertain --- Senate’s New Year’s Cliff Deal Shifts Pressure to Boehner --- Politico: John Boehner Told Harry Reid To Go F--- Himself --- Congress approves ‘fiscal cliff’ measure --- House Approves Fiscal Cliff Deal 257-167 --- Congress's feeble finish to the 'fiscal cliff' fiasco --- 6 Things You Won't Believe That Are In The Fiscal Cliff Bill That The Senate Passed At 2 AM While Most Americans Were Drunk --- What's in the deal ... what could've been --- Most Important Thing Missing from Fiscal Cliff Deal --- Great News, Rich Americans! Congress Just Raised Taxes On Workers While Saving Investors Billions --- Here's How Much Of A Tax Cut You'll Get If The Fiscal Cliff Deal Goes Through --- Full Text Of The 157 Page Bill To Avert The Fiscal Cliff --- Fiscal Cliff Deal: Winners and Losers --- The Lessons of the Fiscal Cliff --- CBO: Fiscal Cliff Deal Adds $4 Trillion to Deficit
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The Date Of The Next Fiscal Cliff
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Rocky Path Ahead Even as Markets Cheer Fiscal Deal
(DBN)

Beyond The Cliff: 2013 May Be The Year of Perpetual Fiscal Crisis
(DBN)

High Earners Facing First Major Tax Increase in Years
(DBN)

GOP Anti-Tax Policy Goes Over the Cliff
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US May Skirt 'Fiscal Cliff' but Faces Higher Taxes
(DBN)

The next battle: The debt ceiling
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Are We Facing the End of Growth?
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Your Paycheck in 2013
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Retired Boomers Likely No Drag on Economy
(DBN)

Roubini: Here Are The Gloomy Stories That Will Dominate 2013
(DBN)

The Global Canary In The Coalmine Just Started Singing Again
(DBN)

Americans Unsure if Best Times for U.S. Are Past or to Come
(DBN)

Can You Fight Poverty With a Five-Star Hotel?
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

CFPB : Qualified Mortgage to Be 'Unveiled' January 9, 2013
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Foreclosure Crisis Drags On
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House Ethics Committee Drops Countrywide Probe
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Pensions:

In the Coal Fields, A Novel Way to Get Rid Of Pensions Is Born
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PBGC holding $300 million unclaimed pension benefits
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Retailing:

Best Buy loses two board directors
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Media:

Tribune exits bankruptcy after four years, ending Sam Zell era
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Not so fast, Sam
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Tough decisions await new Tribune Co. board
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Tribune exits bankruptcy with new TV-focused board --- Looks to sell off newspapers --- Rupert Murdoch is one possible buyer of Tribune Co. papers --- Tribune Co. names News Corp-heavy board amid rumors of Murdoch buy
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Baltimore Sun's post bankruptcy fate unclear
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Personal Finance:

How I Ruined New Year's Eve, One Bad Money Decision After The Next
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Personal Finance Advice, Taken to the Woodshed
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8 Things That Will Cost More in 2013
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With Interest Rates Near Zero, What's a Saver to Do?
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Municipalities:

Firm pulls red-light cameras from San Bernardino after payments stop
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Under New Emergency Manager Law, Cities Have “Options”
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Arizona Stadium Proving Trojan Horse for Taxpayers
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As Cities Get Safer, America's Suburbs Get Deadlier
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Fraud:

Schneiderman's dispute with Madoff goes to district court
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Creditors sue GE Capital in Petters Ponzi scheme
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Soccer:

Bankruptcy may force Zimbabwe out of World Cup qualifying
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Celebs:

Lindsay Lohan's Birkin Bag Isn't Exactly Budget-Conscious
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Food/Beverage:

Hostess Was Plotting Twinkie Sell-Off Months Before Workers Struck
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Gambling:

Atlantic City's Revel announces completion of $150 million financing
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Telecoms:

Involuntary Chapter 7 filed against Hellas Telecom-owned TPG Troy
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(2 new opinions today - DBN)

Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory

Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings (45 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (74 new filings today)
(DBN)

Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
(large downloads)

UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Bankruptcy Jobs:

(1)- (2)- (3)- (4)- (5)- (6)- (7)- (8)- (9)- (10)
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)

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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Bankruptcy Litigation:

Bankruptcy Judge Dismisses Champion's Breach of Contract Claims against Credit Suisse --- The Opinion
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Bankruptcy Bonuses:

AMF Bowling Executives Seek More Than $1 Million in Bonuses
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Recent Pleadings:

A123 Creditors Seek Court Permission To Hire Lobbyist To Promote Sale Of Debtor's Assets
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Litigation:

Study analyzes e-discovery trends in 2012
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A clash is brewing between Big Data and e-discovery protocols
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Politics:

The 112th Congress Was The Least Effective And Most Disliked In History
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Hotels:

LodgeNet to File for Bankruptcy as Colony Takes Control
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Electricity:

Chevron Sues Mission Energy
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Poultry:

Townsends back in bankruptcy
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Corporate Reform:

CFPB releases second annual workforce report
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Consumer Watchdog Readies to Bare Its Teeth
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2013 -- The Year of the Consumer
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Banking:

Banks offer perks, bonuses as interest rates remain less than ideal
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2012 Bank Failures Lowest Since 2008 As Regulators Close 51 Banks
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Firms step in as deposit guarantee is scaled back
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Sovereigns:

US Attorney Preet Bharara and other financial heavyweights opposing Paul Singer's attempt to get Argentina to pay debt
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UK:

Big Surge In UK Manufacturing
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Around 400 Scots 'will go bankrupt every week', accountants warn --- 'Financial Armageddon' warning
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Attachment of earnings surge 15%
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EU:

Merkel warns euro crisis is far from over --- Warns Germans of Tough Times Ahead
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Euro Zone Periphery May Need Re-Rating
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Bearish Hedge Funds Outfoxed by Euro Zone in 2012
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PIIGS:

Papoulias Asks Greek Rich To Pay Taxes --- Greece is owed over 55 bln euros
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Spain’s Iberdrola, Bolivia to Meet on Seizure of Businesses
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ie: Business Closures Stabilise Year on Year
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Belgium:

Record number of companies go bankrupt in Belgium
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China:

China Manufacturing Expands for Third Straight Month, PMI Shows
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Russia:

Russia opens bankruptcy register
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MENA:

The Egyptian Pound Is Getting Destroyed, As Banks Are Running Out Of Dollars
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Expats who bounce cheques may no longer risk prison in UAE
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