Law:
Dreier Bankruptcy Advisers Request $18 Million
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Associate Bonus Watch: Who Just Announced Midyear Bonuses?
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Merging In The Post-Recession Market
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New York High Court Weighs Unfinished Business Rule --- Judge Takes Dim View of 'Jewel' Doctrine
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Firings at GM spare its top lawyer --- GM spares its top lawyer but not those below him --- GM Report Critical of Legal Dept., Recommends Changes
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Coming and Going Concerns
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Is There A Business Case For More Female Biglaw Partners?
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Does the GC Have to Make the Coffee, Too
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The Diversity Crisis: Time to Call It Racism?
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A Summer Associate’s Premature Departure: ‘I Would Rather Be Farming’
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Reinventing The Law Business: Blend In At Your Peril; You Need To Stand Out
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Allens Linklaters partner investigated over time recording
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White & Case pays junior lawyers more than senior lawyers
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Oops! Top Law School Email Screw-Up Reveals Grades, Ranks Of All Clerkship Applicants
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Once-confident law firm Clearspire closes its virtual doors, but its software will go global
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Book Review: Failing Law Schools
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3 lawyers face legal ethics case in claimed mid-trial DUI arrest setup of opposing counsel
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Arrested before dawn, three Philly residents are rounded up for new Juror Scofflaw Court
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Donald Sterling's Last Laugh: $2bn is Tax Free
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Woman charged in wiretap case after videotaping traffic stop wins $57K settlement
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Supreme Court Accidentally Legalizes Prostitution
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‘Stabby, Stab, Stab’: What Inspired Two Preteen Girls To Attempt Murder?
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Judges:
New bankruptcy judge starts in Akron
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White Collar Trials, Snitches, And Telling The Truth
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Off the Bench, and In the Air
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Ex-judge disbarred over relationship with prosecutor during murder trial in her court
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Wall Street:
Stock futures push higher ahead of jobs data
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US stocks close at records after ECB moves
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Layoffs:
Job Market Dropouts May be Coming Back
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US Jobless Claims Fall to Seven-Year Low
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More layoffs could be in the works on Wall Street
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Religion:
Pope Francis shakes up Vatican's finance panel
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Electricity:
EFH creditors drop objection to DIP financing --- Creditor Support for $4.5 Billion Loan
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Bankrupt Energy Future says resolves objections to financing --- Bankruptcy judge set to approve loans for Energy Future Holdings
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Curbing GHG Emissions – Good for the Environment, Bad for Investors?
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Nonprofits:
YMCA restructuring rings familiar to former YWCA head Julia Taylor
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U.S. Bank is trustee for largest block of YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee creditors at $24.2 million
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Top Milwaukee YMCA officials say how they arrived at bankruptcy option
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Celebs:
Annie Leibovitz Buys Central Park West Pad for $11.25 Million
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Banking:
German Bad Bank Sells U.S. Loans With $1.2 Billion Nominal Value
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Food/Beverage:
C&K Market prepares to emerge from bankruptcy
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The World's Largest Cupcake Company Is Crumbling
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Compensation:
Your Tax Dollars Pay for Walmart Execs’ Bonuses
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Economy:
US jobless claims rise as payrolls data loom --- US Jobless Claims Rise 8,000 to 312,000
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Employment Report Preview for May
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Americans Believe Recovery Comes in 2017
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Household net worth climbs $1.5 trillion in 1st quarter
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Corporate America’s mountain of cash just shrank by a huge amount
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State governments may be expanding wealth gap
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Workers' Wages Sink as 'Domestic Outsourcing' Grows
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Addressing The American Savings Crisis
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
Freddie Mac: Fixed mortgage rates edge higher; 30-year averaging 4.14%
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Trulia: Asking House Prices up 8.0% year-over-year in May, "slowest rate in 13 months"
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CoreLogic: Year Over Year, the Negative Equity Share Has Declined by 3.5 Million Properties
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Mortgage Equity Withdrawal Still Negative in Q1 2014
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Stuyvesant Town Lenders Move to Prevent Investor From Seizing the Property
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The 12 Most Expensive Homes For Sale In The US
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Municipalities:
Detroit retirees crowd meeting to hear more about bankruptcy plan
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Grand Bargain: Is.It.Legal.
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With Michigan support set, Detroit an issue in governor race
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Detroit police, fire retirees to hear details about bankruptcy plan
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Detroit council to vote on state-approved pension, DIA deal --- City Council OKs charitable trust for Detroit art
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Can this love fest last? Grand bargain brings state, city together
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A 3,000-Sq.-Ft. Colonial Home in Bankrupt Detroit has Spurred an Online Bidding War
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Fund Manager Sets Goats Grazing in Blighted Detroit
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Why Skillman Foundation Joined Detroit's “Grand Bargain”
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Governor Quinn needs to sign Chicago's pension reform bill
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Stockton bankruptcy trial yields no hint on cutting CalPERS payments
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Chapter 9 legal teams face off for hardball
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KY: Appeal ruling on pension system; Agency departure would undermine funding
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Autos:
Barra shouldn't play bankruptcy card: Attorney
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GM Fires 15 Employees Over Ignition Switches, Feinberg To Oversee Compensation Fund --- GM CEO axes 15 over switches, says 'no conspiracy' --- Pattern of Incompetence, Says GM CEO --- Reaction: GM switch report, firings applauded --- Plaintiffs Lawyers Suing GM Assail Internal Report --- The Valukas Report
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GM says death toll could rise; Feinberg will set compensation terms --- Feinberg History With 9/11 May Give Glimpse of GM Program --- GM's compensation offer not enough: victim's dad
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GM opens door for lawyers: Analyst --- Lawyers scan GM report for details to bolster negligence suits
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Firings at GM spare its top lawyer
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GM Seeks to Block Disclosure of Bankruptcy Documents
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GM Report Confirms Barra Didn't Know of Fatal Flaw Prior to Recall
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GM's Chief Threads The Needle: Look In Charge While Keeping a Distance From 'Old' GM
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Man in the News: GM Investigator Anton Valukas
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New lens needed for GM's myopia, says Barra
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The ‘GM Nod:’ 325 Scathing Pages on General Motors’ Culture
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At GM It Was Called the Switch from Hell
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GM to Compensate Crash Victims, But What About Those Who Lost Money?
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Barra likely to be called back to Capitol Hill
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'Doing the right thing' for GM victims
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Botched recall: 'Fundamental failure'
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Tax:
Tax haven use widespread among Fortune 500 companies --- Without Offshore Tax Havens, These Companies Would Owe the US This Much
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Bankruptcy Crimes:
Eldorado couple guilty of bankruptcy fraud
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Montour Man pleads guilty in bankruptcy fraud case
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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 (19 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (5 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:
May Business Bankruptcy Filings Decrease 21%
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Sales:
Court Upholds Section 363 Sale of Collateral of Lender that was Unaware of the Sale
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TBTF:
Eclectic Who's Who Ready to Chip in for Greenberg's Defense
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Retailing:
Sears’ Lampert met Ford’s Mulally for restructuring advice
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Student Debt:
What Americans Don't Know About Student Loans: A Lot
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Healthcare:
JPMorgan Unit’s MModal Wins Approval of Bankruptcy Terms
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City wants nonprofit Washington Hospital to pay up
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Nurses union fears lockout at Christ Hospital in Jersey City
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VA: 100,000 Vets Were on Fake Waiting Lists
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Corporate Reform:
BofA May Pay $12bn to Settle Gov't Probes
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BNP Executive Firings Sought by Top New York Bank Regulator
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Risk of Banks Dodging Rules Leads to U.S. FDIC Scrutiny
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Payday Lenders Sue Over US Regulations
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Fishing:
Pescanova loses EUR 17 million in the first quarter
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Golf:
Auction of golf course, castle set despite legal challenge
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Oil/Gas:
More details released in Buccaneer bankruptcy
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Politics:
Hillary Clinton's Goldman Sachs Problem
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Fraud:
Jailed TelexFree co-owner Merrill says he couldn't, wouldn't flee if released
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Ex-Refco Finance Chief Trosten Avoids Prison for Scheme
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Citi engages law firm to oversee Banamex investigation
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Sovereigns:
Billionaire Singer's Smoking Gun Sparks Default-Risk Jump
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Argentina Edges Back From the Debt Brink
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UK
Bank of England keeps rates at record low, split seen coming
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UK Car Industry: Best Growth Since 1959
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EU:
European Central Bank to Impose Negative Interest Rates
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Modern insolvency rules: EU Ministers back Commission proposal to give honest businesses a second chance
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PIIGS:
Sean Dunne’s US bankruptcy hearing to go ahead in January
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Monte dei Paschi offers deep discount for capital-raising drive
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