Law:
In Confusion Over Protection for Former Partners, Dewey Bankruptcy Hits Bump
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Dewey bankruptcy firm Togut Segal & Segal bills $4.8 million since firm's collapse
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Does Legal Fees Motion in $590M Citigroup Case Include $1K Per Hour for Low-Paid Contract Lawyers?
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Leaked Email: Hogan Lovells Partner Orders Associates To Be At Their Desks By 9am – Even If They’ve Been Working Late --- New Punctuality Rules Give Law Firm A Totalitarian Feel
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Duane Morris, Troutman Sanders, Munger: Business of Law
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Has ‘Spit Roast Email’ Trainee Daniel England Been ‘Offered A Job’ As A Newly Qualified Solicitor By Shearman & Sterling? --- Shearman & Sterling: ‘We Never Offered Email Scandal Trainee An NQ Solicitor Job; He Resigned Over The Summer’
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Legal Education's 5 Most Influential People In 2012 --- The Most Influential Person In Legal Education Is Also One Of Its Biggest Critics
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If This Picture Doesn't Convince You The Law School System Needs To Change, Nothing Will
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Law Prof Who Urged Abandoning the Constitution Gets Abusive and Threatening Emails
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Santa Clara Prof Making Up Tuition Facts?
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In Pro Bono Twist, Jenner on Defensive Over Handling of Long-Running Rent Fight
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OMM Indonesia tie-up adds bankruptcy expert
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Dress and Stress
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Beirne Maynard & Parsons Acquires Lemle & Kelleher, Expects ‘Significant’ Further Growth
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Detroit’s Dickinson Wright Merges with 60-Lawyer Arizona-Based Mariscal Weeks
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National, International Mergers Continue
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Reforming The Bench Memo Process
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Investors in Ruden McClosky hedge funds settle for $1.7 million
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A former US attorney is heading to court to solve ancient Greece's most legendary death
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Jewel thieves burrow into wrong store, hit KFC instead
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The Most High-Profile Celebrity Legal Troubles Of 2012
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Girl Fights For Right To User Birth Name Not On Government-Approved List
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The Apps to Pack --- 13 Useful Apps You Need For The New Year --- Review: Polaris Office -- view and edit Microsoft Office files on the iPad and iPhone
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Driver Calls Attorney an Abusive Boss
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Feds Drop Escape Charge re Inmate’s Daring 15-Story Climb Down Chicago Prison Facade
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Teen Girls Accused Of Drugging Parents' Milkshakes Because They Were Too Strict
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Don't Try This At Home
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Man fined for allowing dogs to bark 863 times in 23 minutes
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Cops: Teen robs central NY bank using bomb threat
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Say What?!
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Judges:
Obit: Judge Joseph Patchan was a leading bankruptcy lawyer
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Obama Renominates 33 to Federal Courts
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Justice Scalia's most cantankerous statements of 2012
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Top Mo. Court Hears Case re Judge Whose Clerks Handled Her Call While She Vacationed in China
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Wall Street:
US stock index futures point to flat start
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U.S. Stocks Decline; Fed Meeting Minutes Spark Slip
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Layoffs:
First-time jobless claims rose to 372,000 last week --- Businesses added 215,000 jobs in Dec., survey shows
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How to read 'quirky' December jobs report
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The 10 Least Stressful Jobs In 2013
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Municipalities:
Detroit City Council on plan for financial crisis as emergency manager looms over city
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Detroit homicide rate highest in 25 years
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Stockton's Moral Deficit
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The State of the States (Well, at Least Four of Them)
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Fiscal Cliff Hollywood Handout Could Spark More Small Town Bankruptcies
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Autos:
GM could face $918 million hit from bankruptcy -related lawsuit
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Student Debt:
Best Way to Pay $30K in Overdue Student Debt?
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Families in the US shoulder heftier burdens as college debt swells
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Video Games:
THQ lenders object to its fast-track bankruptcy sale
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Economy:
Most FOMC Participants Saw QE3 Ending in 2013
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UBS Explains Why The End Of QE Isn't As Close As The Fed Minutes Suggest
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The Cruel Ironic Timing Behind The Fed's Latest Move
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Jobless claims in U.S. climb 10,000 to 372,000
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Boehner Sets Up Debt Fight During Emotional Re-Election Speech
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Report: Tim Geithner Plans To Leave Treasury Before The Debt Ceiling Fight
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How corporate tax credits got in the 'cliff' deal
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Why Older Consumers Won Big With The Fiscal Cliff Deal
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One in three Americans reduces spending in face of looming fiscal cliff
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Here's How Much Taxes Are Going Up For New Yorkers
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This Map Shows Where Everyone Is Moving To And From In America
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The 'Economist' Agrees About The Europification Of The United States
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Gold Falls to 4-1/2-Month Low After Fed Minutes
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Dollar hits 29-month high vs yen; may gain on payrolls
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Analyst: The Market Has Begun To Fear A '1994' Scenario
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
Report: Home Prices Poised for Growth in 2013
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ResCap Seeks Court Approval to Sell FHA-Backed Loans
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The 10 American Housing Markets That Made Tremendous Turnarounds In 2012
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Settlements Lead To Claims Lead to Settlements
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Mortgage Meltdown Cases May Be Affected by Decision on Timing of SEC Suits
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Retailing:
Slow December retail sales manage to top expectations --- Nimble chains do better
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Even When Bill Ackman Loses, He Makes A 77-Fold Return
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Aviation:
Pinnacle Secures Larger Jets in Reorganization Pact --- Pinnacle Identifies Path Out of Chapter 11 --- Delta Air Lines poised to take control of Memphis-based Pinnacle --- Pinnacle Airlines pilots to get 9% pay cut in new deal
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Horton expects American, US Airways merger decision within weeks --- Horton letter of Jan. 3, 2013
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APFA says it has approved a merger ‘memorandum of understanding’
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Passenger Busted After Refusing To Turn Off His Cell Phone Before Southwest Flight Departure
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XL Airways Germany files for bankruptcy
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Pilots agree to talk with Iberia about job cuts
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Mass Torts:
Transocean to pay $1.4 billion for role in gulf oil spill
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2 Plaintiffs Lawyers Lose Civil RICO Case re CSX Asbestos Claims; Federal Jury Awards $429K
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Hollywood:
Disney Seeks to Halt Bankruptcy Sale of 3-D Technology
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Pharma:
K-V Pharmaceutical Receives Approval of DIP Loan, Settlement
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Defaults:
Default Rates to Stay Below 2% in 2013 and 2014, JPMorgan Says
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Fraud:
Mathew Martoma Has No Idea What The Government Is Talking About
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Serial Returners Are Ruining The System For Everyone
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Scam artists get 57 years in prison for $195 million scheme
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Moody’s, S&P, Fitch Must Face Fraud Claims in SIV Suit
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Cohen’s SAC Tops Most Profitable List Amid Insider Probes
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JPMorgan Faces Sanction for Refusing to Provide Madoff Documents
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Tax:
Swiss bank Wegelin to close after US tax evasion fine
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Environmental:
600,000 pounds of radioactive waste removed from bankrupt plant
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Livestock:
ND beef company still owes farmers
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Distressed Investing:
Z Capital Seeks $500 Million for Fund II
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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 (26 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (98 new filings 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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Miscellaneous:
Bill on Bankruptcy: No Boom for Bankruptcy Bar in 2013
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Sales:
US Trustee Balks at THQ Sale Rules
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Creditors and Trustees object to "quick" THQ sale
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Venue:
Revisiting Venue: Patriot Coal and the "Interest of Justice"
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Arbitration:
A Compelling Arbitration Case: Court Grants Motion to Compel Arbitration for Both Bankruptcy and Non-Bankruptcy Issues
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Subordination:
Second Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Debtor's Attempted Subordination of Former Corporate Parent's Claim
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Jurisdiction:
Whether Parties Can Consent to a Bankruptcy Judge Entering a Final Order
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Politics:
Elizabeth Warren sworn in as first Massachusetts woman in US Senate
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Celebs:
Who Wants to Sell a Perky Cup of Tully's Coffee? --- How 'McDreamy' Plans to Resuscitate Tully's Coffee
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Starbucks, actor Dempsey compete for coffee chain
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Grey's Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey tweets he has beaten Starbucks in auction of small Seattle coffee chain --- Actor Dempsey has winning bid for Tully's Coffee chain
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Food/Beverage:
Judge rejects lawyer's plan to buy four Upper Crust restaurants --- Judge warns lawyer in Upper Crust case
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Beer expert thought he'd seen it all until he witnessed the black market in action
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Resorts:
Paulson Resort Inks New Deal for PGA West
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Health Care:
WPAHS warned: Default at hand
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Hospital debtors file objection
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Defaults:
Below-Average High-Yield Default Rate to Persist Into 2013
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Sovereigns:
Fairytale of New York — in pari passu, anyway
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UK:
UK Is Sliding Back Into Recession
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UK service sector activity falls
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Recovery could be slow as North-East corporate insolvencies increase
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PIIGS:
Spain's iconic Parador hotels to lay off hundreds
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Canada:
D&M receives further extension in bankruptcy proceedings
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Bank of Canada flags lenders' role in consumer debt
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France:
French Retailer Virgin Says to Declare Insolvency
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