Law:
On ‘Hybrid’ Partners And The Games Law Firms Play --- BigLaw ‘partner’ files for personal bankruptcy, lists $800 cash, clothes worth $900 and broken watch
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Associate Bonus Watch: Muted Reaction At Latham & Watkins
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Is It Too Cold To Go To Law School?
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Business of Law
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Yale Law Professors Defend Themselves Against Charges Of RACEISM™
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5 Things I Wish They’d Told Me When I Started My Law Firm
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Skadden Arps And The Funky Bunch
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Learn To Negotiate Like A Transactional Lawyer
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DLA Piper hires Mark Fairbairn and Ashley Bell to its restructuring group
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Stephen Glass Not Fit to be a Lawyer, California Supreme Court Rules
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15 Things Overachievers Do
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6 Tips For Finding More Time In The Day
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NSA Watching Phone Users With Google Maps --- Snowden Gets Threats Against His Life --- Snowden: NSA Also Spies on Companies
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FBI is keeping a giant stash of e-mails from defunct Tor Mail service
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84-year-old sues NYC for $5 MILLION after he was left bloodied by NYPD -- for jaywalking
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The For-Profit Prison Boom
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Inmates punished with bread-and-water diet for desecrating US flags in cells
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Video Shows Bicyclist Getting Punched In The Face After Telling Car Driver He's In The Bike Lane
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Former Va. governor rejected plea bargain that would have spared his wife, WaPo reports
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Man sentenced to death for killing doctor after botched nose job
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Woman Sentenced to Two Days in Prison; Ends Up Trapped for 154
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Judges:
Judge Disqualified over Facebook ‘Friend’ Request
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Stop Procrastinating, State Lawmaker Tells Judges
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Was Pacer shutdown due to a cyberattack? Group claims responsibility
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(Totally Unhelpful) Tips On How To Become A Judge
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Wall Street:
US Stock Futures Suggest Mixed Open
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Overseas worries hamper US stock markets
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Stocks Fall Again: Here's What You Need To Know
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Fed exit rattles markets yet again
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Layoffs:
Factory Jobs are Gone. Get Over It
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Obama Tries New Tack for Long-Term Jobless
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Telecommuting Growing in US
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Health Care:
CHS-HMA deal hikes pressure on smaller systems, hospitals
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Westerly Hospital restructuring receives national recognition
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Republicans Pitch Obamacare Alternative
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One in Four U.S. Families Struggles to Pay Medical Bills
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Retailing:
Loehmann’s Locations Begin Shuttering
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Buses:
Bankruptcy court sides with RTD in bus contract
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Telecoms:
LightSquared Gets Loan Offers From Fortress and Ergen Entity
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Golf:
IN: Hawthorns Golf Club in Fishers files for bankruptcy
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Cash Management:
Judge tells BNY Mellon it has to give back $337M
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Accounting:
Deloitte may seek outsider to lead restructuring practice
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PwC loses bid to avoid claims of the Castor creditors for more than $1 billion
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Trucking:
YRC Worldwide shares jump on union vote
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Steel:
US Steel loss widens as steel shipments fall
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Alternative Energy:
Fisker Auction Ruling Is Appealed
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Mass Torts:
More hearings scheduled for Freedom Industries bankruptcy motion
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Ohio jury awards 40-year-old $27M in second-hand asbestos exposure case
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Celebs:
Toni Braxton Buys $3 Million Mansion 6 Months After Bankruptcy
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Economy:
$1 Trillion Farm Bill Cuts Food Stamps by $9 Billion
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More Businesses Expect to Raise Prices in Coming Months
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Businesses More Optimistic, Not Hiring
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Poll Finds Americans Anxious Over Future, Obama's Performance
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Pessimism Defines State of the Union
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How Spending Has Fallen Under Obama
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The American Dream is Dead in the South
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Tom Perkins’s Unhinged Nazi Rant
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One Cause of Inequality: More Rich Marrying One Another
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Your Guide to the World's Wealth Gap
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Stephen Roach: US Recovery is a False Dawn
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Highly Educated, Highly Indebted: Today's 27-Year-Olds In Charts
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Fed Intervention Helps Markets, Not Economy
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America's Retirement Time Bomb
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Obama Wants to Raise Minimum Wage for Federal Contract Workers --- State of the Union: Minimum Wage 101
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
US sales of new homes drop 7 percent in December --- Good and Bad in December Report
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Inventory of New Homes Remain Low
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Lehman Seeks Approval of $2.15 Billion Fannie Mae Accord
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Cold Spell Heats Up House Searches in Warm-Weather Markets
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Municipalities:
Fitch Ratings: Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's $350M plan for Detroit pensions a 'troubling' precedent --- Bond rating agency blasts rescue plan --- Michigan plan for Detroit pensions snubs bondholders
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Can Taxpayers Leverage the Ambiguity of "Party-in-Interest" to Enter the Chapter 9 Arena?
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Mich. AG asks Court of Appeals court to intervene in bankruptcy on pension issue
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Were Detroit’s Swaps Unfair?
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Detroit Suburbs Balk at Spinning Off Water Works to Help City
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Detroit mayor plans to get more tax by cutting property assessments
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Wrongful death lawsuit may proceed, despite Detroit bankruptcy
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Will Fifth Third push this Michigan city into bankruptcy ?
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Protect Our Earned Pensions
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How Detroit's bankruptcy could affect immigration reform
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Immigrants, beware: There's a reason thousands fled Detroit
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NJ Taxes Could Eat Up All Super Bowl Earnings
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Puerto Rico gov't denies rumors of bankruptcy , US takeover
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50 States Ranked: Fabulous to Failed
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States Outspend Revenues in 2012
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Oil/Gas:
Bankruptcy Court Rules That Term Overriding Royalty Interests May Be Disguised Loans
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Education:
Manhattan Private Schools Reportedly Deploying Parents To Spy On Prospective Students' Families
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Financial Privacy:
Shoppers seem to ignore risks
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Consumer Electronics:
Sony downgraded to 'junk'
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Batteries:
Texas battery maker files for bankruptcy
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Hotels:
Judge denies payment to head of Trenton hotel board, who then resigns
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Maritime:
Excel Maritime Announces Confirmation of Plan of Reorganization
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Aviation:
Bankruptcy Court Sends Global Aviation to March Auction
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Airline Mergers End Perks for Cardholders
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American Airlines CEO's salary set at $700,000
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Romanian regional carrier Carpatair gets approval for restructuring
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Politics:
The poorest in Congress
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Skiing:
Ski Resorts Seen as Buyout Targets Amid U.S. West Drought
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Nuclear:
Company Struggles to Keep U.S. in the Uranium Enrichment Game
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Tax:
Swiss Banks Seek Tax Amnesty as Third Accept U.S. Offer
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(3 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 (21 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (24 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:
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Altman Expects Low Default Rate to Continue Barring Overseas Disaster
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Study: Most bankruptcy due to lawsuits, not debt level
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Sales:
Credit Bid Limited to Amount Paid for Debt
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"Buyer Beware" Warning to Lenders and Purchasers of Secured Claims Seeking to Credit Bid
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Fisker Case Brings New Life to the Credit Bidding Debate
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Avoidance Actions:
Sixth Circuit Issues Significant 502(d) Decision
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Miscellaneous:
The Year in Bankruptcy 2013
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Safe Harbors:
"The Unsafe Harbor: The Tribune Decision and the Erosion of Bankruptcy Code Section 546(e)"
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Lehman Court Finds Safe Harbors Protect Damage Calculation Provisions in Swap
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Southern District of New York Deepens Internal Split Over Loophole in Bankruptcy Safe Harbor for Capital Markets Transactions
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Eligibility:
Debtor’s Ch. 7 to Ch. 13 Conversion Denied; Title Dispute Claims Exceed Debt Ceiling
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Recent Pleadings:
K&L Gates To Pay $23.8M To End Malpractice Suit
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Bankruptcy Judges Get Class Certification In Back Pay Action
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Litigation:
8 Reasons Why E-Discovery Projects Fail
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Compensation:
JPMorgan Seen Paying CEO Dimon $34 Million Options Award --- Mike Mayo: Jamie Dimon's Pay 'Feeds the Big Brother Banking Beast'
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Banking:
Judge allows potential legal claim against defunct Mt. Clemens bank’s operators
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R.B.S. to Take Nearly $5 Billion Charge Related to Litigation Claims
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U.S. Banks Prune Branches
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Fraud:
Mass. Pension Sues Fletcher Auditor
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JPMorgan-Madoff Case Won’t Be Last Big One, Bharara Says
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Autos:
GM CEO Stands Behind Struggling Opel
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Hedge Funds:
Hedge Fund Manager Describes What It's Like When It All Goes Terribly Wrong — Like Last Friday
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Art:
Jeweler Esmerian’s Art Raises $10.5 Million for Creditors
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UK:
TUPE and insolvent companies
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Investor groups rebuff Punch restructuring plan
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UK's economic output slows in fourth quarter
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UK lawmakers tell queen to cut costs, boost income
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Law firm Cobbetts insolvency costs nearing £1m
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EU:
Bundesbank calls for capital levy to avert government bankruptcies --- Wealth tax for EU states facing bankruptcy
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PIIGS:
Lagarde: Ireland's bankruptcy laws exemplary
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Canada:
Creditors of XL-ID Solutions Inc. Approve Proposal
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Failure of high-tech rooftop greenhouse in Vancouver leaves $4-million trail of debt
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Germany:
Germany to Take Brunt of 5,291 Airbus Firings
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German church to help insolvent bookseller
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Argentina:
The Worst Case Scenario For Argentina Going Forward
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Brazil:
Brazil regulator to mull revoking block rights of Batista oil company
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