September 10, 2013

The Daily Bankruptcy News

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Law:

Biglaw Today: ‘Looking For Change In All The Wrong Places’
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2013 Law Firm Performance: An Answer And A Question
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Jenner & Block adds bailout watchdog Barofsky
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Yelp.com sues San Diego bankruptcy firm for writing own reviews
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Potential privilege pitfalls posed by cloud storage
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Lawyer Who Abandoned Ferrari To Help Client Gets A Handsome Reward
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Survey Finds High-Level Women In-House Lawyers Paid Less
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Shook Hardy To Pay $5 Million To Settle Bankruptcy Suit
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Law Departments' Spend and the 40/60 Ratio
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Associate Position Available: Only 30 Years Of Experience Required
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Why Clients Hire and Fire Law Firms
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What's Really Ailing the Legal Profession
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How to Pick a Recruiter
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An NYU Law Student Sent Out A School-Wide Email Freaking Out About A 4 A.M. Party
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A Yale Professor Offers A Most Yale-Like Response To The ‘Length of Law School’ Debate
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Law Students Are The Worst
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Best-value private law schools named; Brigham Young tops list with A grade
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Need Help Paying For Law School? Play Magic: The Gathering
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The world's greatest apps
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LinkedIn Tips
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10 Tech Things You Need To Know This Morning
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Breaking Bad Meth Lab Toy Set
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Harper Lee settles case claiming agent tricked her for ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ rights
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It's Legal In Iowa For The Blind To Carry Guns
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How a 107 Year Old Dies in a Police Shootout
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1970s Instructional Video Teaches Women How To Behave
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For Whom The Bell Tolls? Not for John Devaney
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An Obscure 'Evil Genius' Engineer Was Instrumental To the NSA's Expansion
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Suspect stabbed sheriff’s deputy, took his uniform, fled courthouse in carjacked vehicle, police say
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Man indicted after confessing on YouTube
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When a foreign adoption doesn’t work out, the Internet offers a dubious option
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Sheriff’s officers seek leads in case of missing 150-pound watermelon
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Hungry lawyers, health-conscious clients make Bay Area ground zero in Big Food fight
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Decade-long visitation battle rages on between alleged insider trader and whistle-blowing ex-wife
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Inside the Ku Klux Klan
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Zimmerman's Wife Says He Threatened Her With Gun --- 911 Audio --- George Zimmerman's Estranged Wife Won't Press Charges After Calling Cops On Him
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Say What?!
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Judges:

Detroit bankruptcy judge will be witness in trial
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Scalia Probably Thinks Giving The Redskins Their Own Football Team Was A ‘Racial Entitlement’
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Gay marriage shows Constitution's genius
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Chief justice of Delaware's Supreme Court to retire
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Hundreds of Judges Evacuated After Menacing Note Found
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Wall Street:

U.S. Stock Futures Gain on Chinese Industrial-Output Data
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Stocks close near highs
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US regulator weighs high-speed trading curbs
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The Real Reason Why Women Are Leaving Wall Street
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Layoffs:

Bank of America to Fire 2,100
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HP Has Fired 22,700 Workers in Past Year
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Beautiful People Get More Job Interviews
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The Myth of Part-Time America
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Pensions:

Kodak pension plans intact post-Chapter 11
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Food/Beverage:

Beef plant seeks financing to avoid liquidation
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Electricity:

Moody's: Energy Future Holdings bankruptcy likely by year's end
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Energy Future Holdings bankruptcy would rank among biggest in decades
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Energy Future Investors to Lose Half in Bankruptcy , Moody’s Says
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A Closer Look at the Longview Power Bankruptcy
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Biotech:

Cellceutix Scoops Up Bankrupt PolyMedix
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Hedge Funds:

Hedge Funds Cut Back on Fees - 2 and 20 Waning
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Imaging:

Kodak Is Back, But Has It Learned Its Lesson?
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Lehman:

SEC Decides to Let Lehman Stay Dead
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Bankruptcy Crimes:

Neillsville man sentenced for bankruptcy fraud
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Agriculture:

Taxpayers Turn U.S. Farmers Into Fat Cats With Subsidies
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Economy:

Economists expect 3% growth in 2014
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Slow Recovery: Real and Bogus Reasons
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A Recovery Unlike Any Other Recovery: America's Strange, Shrinking Government
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Americans' Credit-Card Debt Declines --- US Consumer Borrowing Rises $10.4 Billion in July
(DBN)

New Economic Indicator?
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The Global Melt-Up Continues
(DBN)

Tuesday: Job Openings, Small Business Confidence
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Want to Move Kids Out of Poverty? Then Protect the Middle Class
(DBN)

Here's When Total Payrolls Will Finally Exceed Their Pre-Recession Peak
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How The Current Bond Fund Liquidation Compares To The Last Three
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IMF chief says bank union needs to be completed quickly
(DBN)

As the Economy Rebounds, Here Come the Consultants
(DBN)

Financial Crisis: Lessons of the Rescue, A Drama in Five Acts
(DBN)

Fed's Fisher: QE Did Nothing (And Also Didn't Bankrupt The U.S. Like I Expected)
(DBN)

Fed Playing with Matches Again?
(DBN)

Five Years After Lehman, We're Much Safer --- What would have happened had the government bailed out Lehman? --- How questions about the world's banking system remain unresolved five years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers --- Five years after the biggest bankruptcy in US history, no case against Lehman top executives --- Banks Seen at Risk Five Years After Lehman Collapse --- What Might Have Been, and the Fall of Lehman
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The Happiest And The Most Miserable Places In The World --- USA: Only 17th on Happiest Countries List
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Republicans Try to Cut Food Stamps as 15% of U.S. Households Face Hunger
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How Roommates Replaced Spouses in the 20th Century
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The Mysterious and Alarming Rise of Single Parenthood in America
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

City nixes eminent-domain idea for rescuing homeowners after Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac object
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U.S. Government Watchdog Objects to Hawaii Development's Chapter 11 Plan
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US Home Affordability Is Plummeting And It Could Fall A Lot Further
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The Economist House-Price Index
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Fannie, Freddie making billions-why shut them down? --- Blame Game Smothers Solution For Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac
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Regulator plans to cut maximum amount for Freddie, Fannie mortgages
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Consumers pull back the reins on housing confidence
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Builder Hovnanian Backtracks on Prices as Sales Slow
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Municipalities:

Slow pace of Detroit bankruptcy eligibility, creditors ask judge
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Detroit bankrupt ? Six ways the Motor City is thriving
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Detroit Slows Michigan Sales to Fewest in a Decade
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The key to Detroit's success after bankruptcy
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Two hearings on Detroit bankruptcy scheduled for this week
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Who is to blame for Detroit's bankruptcy ?
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Japanese government official: There's prejudice against Detroit in Japan
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Web chat set for City of Detroit retirees
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Health Care:

Left Behind: Under Obamacare 31M Will Still be Uninsured
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Heath insurance navigators draw scrutiny
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Obamacare and Corporate Retirees
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Awards:

The American Lawyer's Global Legal Awards
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Furniture:

Furniture Brands International Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection --- Seeks sale to Oaktree
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Lane layoffs possible but not decided, says Furniture Brands
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1400 to lose jobs in plants' closure
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Telecoms:

Creditors Seek to Block Bid for Personal Communications
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Politics:

Ex-GOP chairman Tony Sutton, $2.1 million in debt, files for bankruptcy
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'Our agenda is America's agenda,' Warren tells unions --- Warren Kicks Off AFL-CIO Meeting With Fiery Speech
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Brokers:

Latest MF Global Client Money judgment provides clarity on interaction between client money trust claim and general insolvency claim
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Student Debt:

For-Profit Colleges Aim to Relax Draft Student Debt Rules
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College Enrollment Plummeted in 2012, but for Very Good Reasons
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Corporate Governance:

Should GCs Be on the Board? GCs Say Yes
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Golf:

Golf course owner puts Chester club in Chapter 11
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Fraud:

$5 million recouped for victims of rogue UM booster Shapiro
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Newspapers:

MT's new owners to restructure other news holdings
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Autos:

House panel will hold another hearing on Delphi pensions
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Worst is Over for European Car Sales
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Distressed Investing:

Gramercy closes distressed emerging debt fund to new investment
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(4 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 (35 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (32 new filings today)
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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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Professional Compensation:

Senator Requests Probe of New Bankruptcy Fee Rules
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Sales:

363 Asset Sales: Recent Decision Says “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over”
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TBTF:

Thain: ‘Too Big to Fail’ Issue Still Not Resolved
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Celebs:

Celebrity bankruptcies: 12 famous faces, and flame-outs
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Tupac's Mother Settles Claim Against Suge Knight For Son's Estate
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Judge denies request to toss McCourt divorce deal --- Rejects Fraud Claim Over Team Sale
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Trump Explodes at ‘Dumb Racist Moron’ Touré on Twitter
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Robert Kennedy Jr.’s S-- Diary Sounds Like A Real Bodice-Ripper
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Personal Finance:

15 More Unethical And Illegal Ways That People Get Ahead In Life
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Wanna' Date? Show Me Your Credit Score First
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NSA Can Hack Your Bank Account, Who Else?
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Alternative Energy:

Former founder of Asola takes over two insolvent subsidiaries
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Tech:

Microsoft Investors Want The Company To Hire A Turnaround Expert Like Ford CEO Alan Mulally
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Steel:

Landlord wants Powell Steel evicted
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Banking:

BofA Cuts Jobs as Mortgage Slump Ensnares JPMorgan, Wells Fargo
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FDIC to Sell $2.42 Billion of Citigroup Debt to End Stake
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Simmons says bid for Metropolitan was successful
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JP Morgan Board Takes Some of Dimon's Power
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JPMorgan Raises Legal Reserve by at Least $1.5 Billion
(DBN)

A Good Policy Is (Sometimes) Hard To Find
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Shipping:

Ship Rates Surge --- Shipping Rates Under Pressure
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Aviation:

AA reports increase in traffic, revenue figure
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Oil/Gas:

Buyers Leap on Jump Oil Assets
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Debt Collection:

Attorney Faces Liability for Debt-Collection Letter
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Corporate Reform:

Chris Dodd: We Haven’t Done Enough to Rein in Wall Street
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Sovereigns:

Annals of ignoble cowardice, Second Circuit edition
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UK:

Irwin Mitchell expands team
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British austerity was even worse than you thought
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PIIGS:

ie: Publicity aspect of new insolvency service may dissuade some - Noonan --- Q&A: New insolvency bill explained --- David Hall discusses the new insolvency service --- Jewelery worth more than €750 not allowed under new insolvency rules --- €3k fees just to apply to debt service --- Thousands won't be able to afford debt deal fees --- Catch 22 of PIPs: they are useful only if you have cash --- Let's hope practice makes insolvency law perfect --- Day of reckoning arrives as insolvency service begins work
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Pescanova Shareholders to Ask Sabadell, NCG to Take Loan Loss
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Monte Paschi's new capital needs could force nationalization
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Ugly Spanish House Price Chart
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Why Italian Borrowing Costs Have Now Surpassed Spanish Borrowing Costs
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China:

China Industrial Growth Accelerates to 17-Month High
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MENA:

Poll Shows Public Opposition To Syria Bombing 'Surging' --- Samantha Power: Why We Must Strike Syria --- Kerry to Syria: Turn Over Chemical Weapons and No Strikes
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Brazil:

Batista Said to Try Last Ditch Plan to Avoid Bankruptcy
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German:

German wind farm developer Windreich files for insolvency
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Netherlands:

Dutch pre-pack alternatives on the rise
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