Law:
Ex-Dewey & LeBoeuf Executives Settle With Bankruptcy Trustee
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Merger talk involves Morgan Lewis once more
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Law School Applicant Pool Continues to Shrink --- Applications down 37 percent since 2010; first-year class could be smallest in 40 years
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Change afoot in American civil justice system
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The Greatest Letter Ever? The ATL Lawyer Letter Bracket — Day 1
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A Law Firm’s Absurd Personal Grooming Rule That Brings Winning Results At Trial
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In-house Litigators Cite Frustrations and Challenges
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High applications to new law school show ‘pent-up demand,’ law dean says; tuition is $14K
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Why One Law School Is Bucking The Downward Trend On Applications
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Law prof’s shooting wasn’t a burglary gone bad; he was ‘intended victim,’ police say --- More Memories Of Professor Dan Markel
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Longtime attorney gives up practice to help lawyer-patients deal with ‘spirit-killing’ profession
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Beyond Biglaw: When You Need It, Build It
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101-year-old lawyer is still working at Fox Rothschild
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Faces of the Border Crisis --- Border Agent Draws Gun on Boy Scout
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Habits That Will Help You Beat The 3 P.M. Slump
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The 6 People You Need In Your Professional Network
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Apple’s real iPad problems are the iPhone and Mac
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11 Habits Of Extremely Boring People
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Tips For Getting Along With Anyone
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Ways To Destroy Your Reputation At Work
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Donald Sterling Is In Danger Of Defaulting On $500 Million In Loans If He Refuses To Sell The Clippers --- Doc Rivers Quitting Clippers If Donald Sterling Stays
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Judges:
6th Circuit says man can’t sue judge who had affair with his wife during child-support case
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Judge: ‘“You’re An A**hole, Dan” Is Not How An Attorney Should Address Her Adversary.’
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Jurors submit 281 questions to judge in hiring corruption trial
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Kozinski dissent: ‘Firing squads can be messy’ but they are better than lethal injection
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Wall Street:
US Stock -Index Futures Rise Amid Earnings Reports
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Solid earnings drive more gains in US stocks
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Layoffs:
9 Things Interviewers Wish They Could Tell Every Job Candidate
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30 Smart Answers To Tough Interview Questions
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Don’t give up on America’s long-term unemployed just yet
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Arch Coal to lay off 213 workers
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Broadcom winds down baseband unit, cuts 2500 jobs
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Mass Torts:
Travelers ordered to pay over $500 mln in asbestos case
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For Freedom Industries, a Small Price to Pay for Poisoning West Virginia Water
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Freedom insurance settlement hits potential snag
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Lac-Mégantic's 'train from hell' goes to auction
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Aviation:
CLEAR Zips Back Into the Fast Lane
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Malaysia Airline says future secure --- Best Thing For Malaysian Air May Be to Go Bust --- Carrier Losing $1.6 Million/Day; Crisis Management Experts Suggest Hiring Risk Expert as CEO
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Honolulu suspends routine flight operations
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Experts Say MH17 Passengers Were Probably Unconscious Before They Knew What Was Happening --- MH17: US Finds No Direct Russian Link
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The spin-offs that followed Air Canada's bankruptcy
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US airlines are still flying over these war zones
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Gambling:
Heist is latest dis for battered Atlantic City casinos
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Banking:
Bet on Failed Bank IndyMac Creates Windfall
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US Slams Deutsche Bank for Inadequate Oversight
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Alternative Energy:
South Korean Company Buys ClearEdge Power
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Hockey:
Glendale mayor believes Coyotes' deal with city was done in violation of state law
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Corporate Governance:
Bylaws and Arbitration
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Plaintiffs lawyers fight ‘loser-pays’ bylaw adopted in middle of shareholder suit
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Currency:
Mt. Gox Creditors' Meeting Delivers Few Answers and One Apology
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Ex-Goldman Trader’s Bitcoin Exchange to Fill Mt. Gox Void
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Movies:
Control of Parker movie awarded to investors
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Construction:
Lights out for D.C.'s largest electrical contractor
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Economy:
Key Measures Show Inflation mostly at or below Fed's Target in June
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Fed Chair Yellen Is Right To Be Worried About Economic 'False Dawns'
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America's 10 Fastest Shrinking Companies
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Millennials Prefer Cash Investments Over Stocks, Real Estate
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The State Of Economic 'Misery' Around The World
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First Look at 2015 Cost-Of-Living Adjustments and Maximum Contribution Base
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The 9-to-5 workday is practically an invitation to ethical lapses. Here’s why.
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Seven charts that leave you no choice but to feel optimistic about the US economy
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
Delaware Judge Faults Ocwen for Pushing Homeowners to Bankruptcy
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Homes sales improve but stress remains
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A Few Comments on Existing Home Sales
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Strong Arm Powers: For Want of An “S” the Mortgage Was Lost
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Why you may be paying for someone else’s mortgage relief
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PHH Challenging Huge Award in Modification Lawsuit
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Judge sets trial to determine August Wilson Center's future
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YouTube restores video of protest at eviction lawyer’s seminar
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The 15 Most Expensive Homes For Sale In The New York City Suburbs
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Municipalities:
Bond insurers vow to fight Detroit financial plan
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Detroit’s record bankruptcy is likely to hit investors much harder than pensioners
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Detroit bankruptcy pension cuts approved, with only half casting votes
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Detroit Deal May Mean Pension Cuts Elsewhere
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Vote on plan of adjustment major win for Orr; other obstacles remain
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Detroit’s Bankruptcy Repudiation of COPs Defies History
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Detroit mayor Mike Duggan joins trend of starting private nonprofit fund to support 'Detroit's agenda'
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A New Site Allows You to Pay a Detroit Resident's Water Bill
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Detroit's Fight for Water Rights Is Showing How to Battle (and Beat) Austerity
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'Water affordability fair' scheduled for Detroit residents
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Puerto Rico debt crisis headed for U.S.-style bankruptcy resolution
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Hedge fund sues Puerto Rico over new bond law --- BlueMountain Capital Fights Puerto Rico Restructuring Law
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Painful reckoning looms for Puerto Rica bondholders
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Why New Jersey's pension crisis is just heating up
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Steve Wynn Knew Back In The 1980s That Atlantic City Was Doomed For Obsolescence --- When the chips are down in AC, everyone loses --- Atlantic City Workers Stunned As Casino Economy Begins to Crash --- Atlantic City-area politicians seek 4-month delay in closings of Showboat, Trump Plaza casinos
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Here's How Much Government Employees Make In Each State
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Fiscal Distress and Politics: The Bankruptcy Filing of Bridgeport as a Case Study in Reclaiming Local Sovereignty
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Resorts:
It's Getting Ugly Now In One Bal Harbour. Partner Wants $17.5 Million For Fraud
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The Colony chess game coming to a painful close
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Healthcare:
Federal Appeals Court Deals Potentially Huge Blow To Obamacare --- Healthcare Premiums Would Explode If Obamacare Ruling Stands --- Second federal appeals court rules on health-care law, setting up a same-day circuit conflict --- Split Rulings Over Obamacare Point to Another Supreme Court Showdown --- Here’s what Obamacare’s authors said they actually meant
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Compensation:
Study Finds That Narcissistic CEOs Have The Highest Salaries
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Tax:
Companies Are Dodging US Taxes Like Never Before, And Lawmakers Are Worried
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Up to 25 more US companies set to move overseas to cut tax bills
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Food/Beverage:
When the cupcake crumbles
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Ackman misfires on Herbalife "death blow," shares surge
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Herbalife CFO: We May Sue Bill Ackman
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Bill Ackman just enriched a man he loathes with his failed Herbalife "death blow"
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Bella's Markets in 3 Colorado towns closing; empty shelves focus of investigation
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Pensions:
Judge orders PBGC to turn over documents in Delphi pension suit --- Delphi retirees cheer federal ruling
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Unions, Christie clashing again over pensions --- Christie: Public workers' benefits must be cut
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Why more companies want pensions off their books
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Environmental:
GM bankruptcy: How corporate polluter saved $16 million on Ley Creek cleanup
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Autos:
GM Sales Surge Amid Recalls as Barra Quality Sells
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Nightlife:
Greenwich Village nightclub bankruptcy unearths partner dispute
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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 (15 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (12 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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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Bankruptcy Reform:
Rich States, Poor States: The Disparate Impact of BAPCPA on High- and Low-Median Income State Residents
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Plan Confirmation:
Court Thwarts Debtor's "Obvious Gerrymandering" to Obtain Plan Confirmation
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Liquidation:
Disposition Firms Maximize Value by Leaving No Stone Unturned
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Miscellaneous:
The Benefits of Failure - Four years after the passage of Dodd-Frank, a reminder that bankruptcy works - even for big financial houses
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Discharge:
Release Me! Release Me!: S.D.N.Y Bankruptcy Court Upholds Certain Non-Consensual Non-Debtor Releases Granted by Unimpaired Creditors and Equity Holders
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Recent Pleadings:
DLA Piper Pays $100,000 To Resolve Employment App Controversy
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Education:
For-Profit That Took Over 4 Corinthian Campuses Files for Bankruptcy
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Bryman College owner with San Jose, Hayward schools files for bankruptcy
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Historically black colleges face uncertain future
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Celebs:
Sonja Morgan Drops The Price Of Her NYC Home By Nearly $500K — Needs To Sell To Help Pay Off Debts?
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Carmelo Anthony becomes venture capitalist
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Television:
Even under Chapter 11, red ink keeps piling up for CSN Houston
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Skiing:
Bankrupt Mount Baldy ski resort is up for sale
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Sovereigns:
U.S. Judge Denies Argentina More Time to Negotiate --- Judge orders Argentina, holdouts to meet until deal reached
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Argentina Just Played Its Final Card... And It Lost
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Holdout fund decries Argentina's position ahead of hearing --- 'Argentina's leaders have no interest in negotiating'
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Exorbitant privilege, meet pari passu
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Argentine bonds reverse gains after debt case hearing
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US Judge Griesa rejects stay request, Argentine lawyers say deal not possible by July 30 without stay
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Argentina Caught in Bond Limbo as $539 Million Held Up by Griesa
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US takes draconian position on Argentine debt
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Argentine default in balance as government refuses to capitulate
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Let's Not Pay Our Debts Because … “I choose Argentina ”
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Argentines Ready For A Lost Year
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PIIGS:
ΒοG: Two thirds of Greek enterprises face problems in debt servicing --- Number of firms filing for bankruptcy in Greece drops
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Luxembourg accepts Espirito Santo stakeholder's creditor protection claim --- Portugal's BCP easily raises 2.25 bln euros despite BES woes --- Espirito Santo family woes mount as Rioforte seeks creditor protection
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Sorgenia restructuring deal with banks very close
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ie: Mental capacity law added to insolvency cases --- Sean, Gayle and a 'secret' Swiss bank account
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MENA:
FAA Halts All US Flights To Israel
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China:
China’s enormous bad debts may mean good times for bankruptcy experts --- Looming Bad Loans Are Good News For Distressed Debt Investors
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As credit dries up, troubled Chinese steel makers lose lifeline
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Russia:
Court to hear former Yukos owners $103 billion suit vs Russia --- Ruling in Yukos shareholders' $100-bln suit against Russia expected Monday
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Russia Sanctions: Economic Meltdown Scenario --- Sanctions: Top 10 Russian Targets
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India:
RBI working on system for exit by businesses facing bankruptcy
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