Law:
Berger Singerman's Business Reorganization Team Receives High Rankings In The World-Famous Chambers USA 2014 Guide
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Patton Boggs and Squire Sanders Follow Unusual Course --- So Long Sanders: Squire's Founding Partner Tossed in Tie-Up --- Squire Patton Boggs: Who Will Stay, Who Will Go, Who Will Be Pushed
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Latest Stutman Refugee Heads to Utah Firm
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Business of Law
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Why Law Firms Are Starting to Think Like Media Companies
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Beyond Biglaw: A Champion Arises….
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LawProse Lesson #165: “Ruling” vs. “opinion” vs. “judgment,” etc.
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A Tale of 2 Associates: How polish and attention to detail can win the motion
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University of Arizona Law School Woos Bargain Hunters With Tuition Drop
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Closing The Loop On Silly New Law School
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Charleston School of Law founders withdrew $25 million in profits leaving school on shaky financial ground
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Dean Resigns Abruptly at Indiana Tech Law School
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Who owns the law? Technology reignites the war over just how public documents should be
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Law firms are sponsoring incubators, cozying up with young entrepreneurs
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Be vigilant about protecting sensitive client data with these tools
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How To Move Firm Tech to the Cloud
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How To Use Your iPhone As a Voice Recorder
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Onetime inmate gets his law degree after settling wrongful conviction suit for $3.4M
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Bank of America Said Hired by Sterlings to Sell NBA Clippers
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This Law Student Will Bang Your Boyfriend If You Mess With Her Stuff
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A Father Found Out His Daughter Had Been Killed By The Santa Barbara Shooter By Tracking Her iPhone
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Father Of California Shooting Victim: 'I Don't Give A S— That You Feel Sorry For Me ... Get To Work And Do Something' --- Joe the Plumber : 'Dead kids don't trump ' gun rights --- Slaying of son in killing rampage catapults lawyer to forefront of gun-control debate
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What Is ‘Hummus’ Anyway?
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ADA Takes 14 Bachelors on a Group Date and Makes them Strip
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1st Circuit says woman had right to video traffic stop, OKs civil rights suit against police
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State bars may probe applicants’ behavior, but not mental health status, says DOJ
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Judges:
Delaware Bankruptcy Judge Walsh to Retire
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Vacancy Announcement - Bankruptcy Judgeship - District of New Jersey (Newark)
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Three Judges From Same Court Busted For DWI
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It's Scalia v. Law Schools
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Police seek suspect for allegedly abducting a judge from home
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Following recusals, chief judge on U.S. patent court steps down from lead role
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SCOTUS decisions are works in progress; revisions are sometimes made years later, study finds
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Wall Street:
Stock futures up as investors gauge life in rally
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Markets Are Quiet
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Stocks surge as S&P 500 closes at new record high
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Citigroup Warns Its Trading Revenue Could Plunge 25% In Q2
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Layoffs:
RBS to cut hundreds of jobs in U.S. trading businesses
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Healthcare:
Bidding Procedures, Dates Approved In Fairmont General Hospital
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Fraud:
Obama sides with banks in Madoff dispute
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Madoff Is Back, And You're Going To Want To Invest In Him
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Judge frees wife of TelexFree owner accused of fraud
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TelexFree to Get a Bankruptcy Trustee Soon as Fraud Charges Loom
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TelexFree, accused of Ponzi scheme, has numerous creditors
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Ex-Goldman trader Tourre won't appeal SEC fraud case verdict
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Money seized in DBSI case in dispute
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Food/Beverage:
Border Foods is selling off its Minnesota Pizza Huts
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Mi Pueblo set to emerge from Chapter 11
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Autos:
Canada Investigating Crashes Tied to GM Recall
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Why GM recall death toll will rise
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Did the Bailout Ruin GM?
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Total recall
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The imperfect math of the automobile recall
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GM pressured to disclose how it counted recall deaths
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A Woman Spent 10 Years Thinking It Was Her Fault Her Saturn Crashed
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Tesla Motors given junk credit rating by Standard & Poor's
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Economy:
U.S. consumer confidence edges up in May --- Second-Highest Since 2008 --- Consumer-confidence rise masks housing caution
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The Problem With Piketty's Inequality Formula --- 'Financial Times' Picks Apart Picketty, Sparking An Argument --- Piketty Says He Was Ambushed
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Durable Goods Orders Increase
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Report: Irresponsible Spending Has Little Influence on Credit Card Debt - What does: Lack of insurance coverage, Expenses for children and Unemployment
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Mark Carney warns of dangers of growing inequality
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The Most Expensive Places In America
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8 Months After Learning To Code And Launching An App, Leo The Homeless Coder Is Still Homeless
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Airbnb And Uber Are Terrible For The Economy
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US data, ECB easing bets feed risk appetite
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IMF: Banks Haven't Changed Since Crisis
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
Rents in Bankruptcy: Grab While You Can and You May Hold A Winning Hand
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Mortgage Probes Shift to Smaller Banks
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RBS slashes US mortgage business, hundreds of jobs
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Judge tentatively approves August Wilson Center sale to NY developer --- Judge OKs sale of August Wilson Center; hotel feasibility study to begin
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Rents being slashed at 1 World Trade Center
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Arizona developer, family accused of $20 mil fraud over 20 years
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The 10 Happiest Suburbs In The US
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Municipalities:
Detroit defends its plan to emerge from bankruptcy
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Detroit far from sealing Chapter 9 deal
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Eliminating blight could cost bankrupt Detroit more than $850 mln --- Eradicating Detroit Blight May Cost $2 Billion, Report Says --- Task Force Clearing Detroit of Blighted Properties --- Detroit's emergency manager may buy historic home in city auction, doesn't plan permanent move
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A Call to Tear Down 10 Percent of Detroit's Buildings, Right Now --- Why bankrupt Detroit wants to destroy nearly one-quarter of its houses --- Report identifies 84,641 structures and vacant lots in Detroit that need help --- Highlights & recommendations
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White House to review Detroit blight report
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DIA Statement: Supports Grand Bargain, Raises Objections To Detroit Creditors’ Demands --- DIA: Detroit barred by own laws from selling art
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Should Detroit Sell Off Assets in Bankruptcy Deal?
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Lansing Ignores Koch Brothers, Supports Detroit’s ‘Grand Bargain’
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States Intervene When School Districts Hit Financial Trouble
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Compensation:
Top-paid CEOs get 400% raises — you'll get 2.9% --- The CEO got a huge raise. You didn't. Here's why.
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Currency:
Bankruptcy Judge Rejects Complaints Over Potential Mt. Gox Deal
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Report Claims Bot Manipulated Bitcoin Price on Mt. Gox
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Mt. Gox Operator Looks to Sell Bitcoin Trademarks
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US Court Decision May Prompt More Mt. Gox Revival Bids
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MtGox Operator Tibanne to Sell Trademarked Word 'Bitcoin'
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Aviation:
Rock Airport of Pittsburgh submits new plan capitalizing on energy lease to U.S. Bankruptcy Court
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eCommerce:
Pricey coders push firm into bankruptcy
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Telecoms:
LightSquared Needs More Mediation to Develop Plan
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Financial Advisers:
How advisers bounce back from bankruptcy
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Electricity:
Energy Future Says Fidelity May Fund $500 Million of Loan
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Education:
For-Profit Colleges Face Test From State, Federal Officials
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Celebs:
Jay-Z Has More Important Things To Do Than Sit Down For Some Dumb Deposition
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Getting Out of Jury Duty Is Easy When You're Madonna
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Tax:
In wake of Credit Suisse plea, US expects ‘wealth of information’ leading to ‘the rest of the world’
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Resorts:
Developers make pitches for Colony estate today
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Shipping:
Genco Shipping & Trading Announces Extension Of Rights Offering Deadline
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Oil/Gas:
Shakeout Threatens Shale Patch as Frackers Go for Broke
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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 (13 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:
Bankruptcy filings fall nationally and in the Western District of Pennsylvania during the first quarter
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Plan Confirmation:
Court Reaffirms Distressed Debt Funds Are Not Eligible Assignees
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Avoidance Actions:
District Court Adopts Subjective Good Faith Defense for Fraudulent Transfer Claims in SIPA Case
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Executory Contracts:
All or Nothing: Delaware Bankruptcy Court Decision in Physiotherapy Holdings Addresses Contract 'Integration' for Purposes of Assumption Under Section 365(a)
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Sanctions:
Fifth Circuit Finds No Clear and Convincing Evidence of Bad Faith and Undoes Bankruptcy Court Sanction
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Sales:
What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: Lender’s Appeal of Sale Order is Statutorily Moot Despite Lender’s Claim That it Didn’t Know About the Sale
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Litigation:
The 3 Most Impressive Things You Can Do In Trial For Cheap
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Retailing:
RadioShack: Vultures Circling, Bankruptcy Worries Mount?
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The Real Problem Behind Best Buy's Lagging Sales
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Coal:
Coal: No ‘Imminent Bankruptcy Risk’ But UBS Discusses Anyway
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Mass Torts:
Garlock responds to motion to adjourn bar date, calls opposing arguments “mistaken”
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Book Review:
Working and Living in the Shadow of Economic Fragility
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Golf:
Defunct Bayview Golf course owners seek rezoning to agriculture
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Personal Finance:
Here's Why Saving For College Is Not Enough
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UK:
BoE's Carney says solving 'too big to fail' still top priority
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RBS and Lloyds retreat from London mortgages
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EU:
ECB chief notes risk of low inflation
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Euro heads back toward three-month lows
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PIIGS:
Greece faces new debt threat of unpaid taxes
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Court hears of David Drumm statement 'mistakes' --- Drumm omitted ‘large amount’ from US bankruptcy filings --- Drumm cash omissions not due to ‘mere oversight’, court told
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Pescanova last year's sales plummeted by 64%, compared to 2011 --- Pescanova racked up losses of €719m in 2013, equity at minus €2.2bn
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IMF says Spain tax overhaul is critical
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Canada:
Canadian Government Initiates Public Consultation Process on Insolvency Law Reform
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Germany:
German Unemployment Unexpectedly Rises as Growth to Slow --- Unemployment Unexpectedly Jumps Most In 5 Years
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Germany's Trimet buys insolvent Voerde Aluminum
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Iceland:
Defunct banks could be made bankrupt
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China:
China's Property Slump Worsens
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China’s ‘Golden Era’ for Property Over, Vanke President Says
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Australia:
Receivers ground Vincent Aviation
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Argentina:
Argentina stresses commitment to servicing restructured debt
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Argentina offers Paris Club initial payment of $250 mln
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