Law:
Anders J. Maxwell: Successful Restructurings Require Strong Leaders
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Lisa Donahue: Chapter 11s Can't Ignore Operations
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Marc Leder: Let Businesses Fix Their Mistakes
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Bingham Cancels Partner Retreat; Will The Morgan Lewis Deal Go Through?
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Citi Report: Third Quarter Results (Almost) All Good for Law Firms
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"Two Class" Partnership Culture Emerging in BigLaw
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Why One Woman Gave Up A $100-An-Hour Corporate Job To Start Her Own Legal Practice
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Seyfarth Partner Quits Law Firm Life to Become High School Teacher
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alt.legal: All Your Profits Are Belong To Us
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The Viability Of Contract Attorney Work In Big Cities
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Law Schools: Bullet Dodged? Or Redirected Toward You?
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The Best Law Schools For Career Prospects 2015
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Creditors stand to lose if struggling law schools close
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Charleston School of Law kept in suspense about InfiLaw sale
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The Civil War Between The Generations
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LawProse: An Introduction to Legal Editing
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Much To Obama’s Dismay, This Woman Quit Law School To Be A Mother
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Biglaw Firm Spends Thousands Of Dollars To Troll Client Online
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The Deadliest Presentation Mistakes Anyone Can Avoid
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Now IT's personal - how law firm IT departments are embracing lawyers' tech preferences
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Google Just Redesigned Its Maps App To Let You Book Restaurant Reservations And Get Price Info On Uber Rides
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Company Lawyer Plays 'Extraordinary' Role In Oil Tycoon's CEO's $17 Billion Divorce Case
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New Zealand: The anti-NY
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Mommy blogger claims she heard voices that told her to throw autistic son off Oregon bridge after joking about ‘pulling a Thelma and Louise’
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Woman Accused Of Witchcraft Burned Alive --- Christian Couple Killed In 'Blasphemy' Case
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Ex-UPS exec's son pleads guilty to fraud scheme over Maxim magazine, tricked escrow law firm with fake email
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Federal judge says lawyer must pay $87K for filing ‘objectively baseless’ suit over Web news posts
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Stuck in traffic en route to court, lawyer is told to pay $200 to charity when she arrives
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Bus Driver Allegedly Stopped Bus to Stab Man Who Had Sex With His Wife
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Feds claim Yankees star A-Rod paid personal assistant $900K to keep quiet
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90 Yr. Old, 2 Pastors Charged with Feeding Homeless
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AC/DC Drummer Arrested on Murder for Hire Charge
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USA Today on Hardin’s hair: The question on every juror’s mind for Adrian Peterson’s lawyer: Is that a toupee?
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Man uses wife's urine to pass drug test -- discovers she's pregnant!
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Say What!?
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Judges:
Bankruptcy Judge Vacancy, District of Wyoming
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Seven More Supreme Court Clerks Join Jones Day
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Federal judge: WordPerfect the “most writer-friendly word processor on the planet”
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‘Neurotic November’ is retired judge’s latest mystery novel
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Judge accused of sexual harassment wins appeals court seat
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Federal Circuit Benchslaps Prominent Practitioner
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Wall Street:
US Index Futures Little Changed With S&P 500 at Record
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Dow, S&P 500 Close At Record Highs
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Goldman Sachs reports lower legal risk --- Wells Fargo Cuts Upper End of Range of Possible Legal Losses
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Layoffs:
National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Awards:
American College of Bankruptcy to Induct Dorsey Partner Peggy Hunt as a Fellow
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Corporate Governance:
Serial CEO Gives 10 Tips For Successfully Managing Your Board
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Autos:
Report: GM could face $2 billion liability, loss of 'bankruptcy shield'
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GM tells court it not liable for claims over pre-bankruptcy cars --- GM Asks Judge to Bar $10 Billion Ignition-Claim Lawsuits
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Spyker Might Be Getting Evicted, But Everything's Just Fine, CEO Says
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Chrysler Q3 earnings jump 32% to $611 million
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Telecoms:
UniTek Global Services Receives Bankruptcy Court Approval for First-Day Motions in Connection With Its Restructuring Plan
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Resorts:
Resort asks judge to approve restructuring
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Montana tax board says club loan counts as income
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Retailing:
Few answers available in ALCO bankruptcy filing
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Target Closing Another 11 Stores
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Pensions:
Japanese firm to pay PBGC $39.5M for pension in U.S. subsidiary's bankruptcy
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Bankruptcy Judge Explains Pension Cut Hurdles
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Staffing:
Kelly Services moves forward with restructuring
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Economy:
ADP: Businesses added 230,000 jobs in October --- US services firms grow more slowly, but hiring up
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Preview: Employment Report for October
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ISM Non-Manufacturing Index decreased to 57.1% in October
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Hiring Is Picking Up, With Job Growth in All the Right Places
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Why Voters Hate the Obama Economy
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Phoenix Lending Survey: Lenders’ Optimism of Economy Falls
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Election Pay Day: Five States Vote to Raise Minimum Wage
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Who are the 1% of voters who think the economy is “excellent?”
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We Just Got An Employment Indicator That Was So Good It's Unbelievable
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Is 2015 Too Soon to Raise Rates? Fed’s Kocherlakota Thinks So
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Forcing Poor People To Save Is Not The Answer To Inequality In America
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OECD: The World's Economy Is Stuck In The Mud And Europe Is Failing
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The 18 Most Unequal Cities In America
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Financial Stress Indices from 3 Federal Reserve Banks, 1990-Present
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Big Rig Trucks Orders Jump 87%
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Ben Bernanke: He lived ‘Too Big to Fail,’ so didn’t need to see movie
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey --- Mortgage applications continue to slide, down 2.6%
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Saving for a Home? Could Take 13 Years
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Refinancing boosted by declining mortgage interest rates
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Goldman Sachs: Do these charts show housing heading for a bubble?
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Municipalities:
Judge Rosen's tough tack on creditors helped speed Detroit bankruptcy case
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Detroit union blasts bankruptcy judge
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Chapter 9 Bankruptcy Plan to Bring Slot Machines to L.I.
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Stockton bankruptcy plan a sets good precedent for CalPERS, credit firm says
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City Auction: Municipal Response to Fiscal Distress in Detroit
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Push to end "autopilot" raises for police, firefighters nixed in bankrupt San Bernardino
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Phoenix voters reject pension overhaul backed by billionaire
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Mass Torts:
Texas called ‘center of gravity’ for Garlock racketeering case against Waters & Kraus
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Seventh Circuit: Arbitration proper in asbestos insurance dispute
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Politics:
What Happens Now Republicans Take Senate?
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Can Obama, GOP Leaders Find a Way to Work Together?
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GOP Senate Win Opens Door to Deals
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Businesses See Hope for Stalled Agenda
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Here's What A GOP Senate Means For Finance Regulation
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What the Republican Majority Means for the Market
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Limbaugh: Republicans Elected to Stop Barack Obama -- Not Work with Him
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Electing a GOP Senate Won't Fix What's Broken in Washington
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Republican Election Victory Seen as Positive for Business, but Others Temper Expectations --- State Election Results Embolden National GOP Agenda
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Colorado elects Obama exorcist who wants to spank transgender children
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Celebs:
Dominique Strauss Khan's Investment Banking Venture Just Went Bust --- Board of Leyne, Strauss-Kahn & Partners Says Firm is Insolvent --- LSK Says It’s Insolvent as New Details Imperil Recovery --- Strauss-Kahn & Partners Bankruptcy follows Thierry Leyne’s Tel Aviv suicide --- Leyne, Strauss-Kahn & Partners shuts after “additional commitments” discovered which “aggravate its delicate financial situation”
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'RHONJ' Teresa Giudice, Joe Giudice Marriage Hell
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Banking:
Big banks should be able to go into bankruptcy , Fed's Lacker says
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Lehman:
JPMorgan-Lehman trade barbs in $8.6 billion suit
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Distressed Investing:
Invesco Fund Treads Risky Path as Major Investor in Distressed Corporate Debt
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Batteries:
Exide Technologies Enters Into Plan Support Agreement
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Fraud:
Enron Meets Red Grouper as High Court Mulls Evidence Case
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Madoff Testimony Blocked in Bankruptcy Dispute
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Television:
Federal judge to hear Comcast’s stay request for new Root Sports Houston network
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Tax:
Leak shows scale of Luxembourg's sweet tax deals --- Companies sign secret tax deals with Luxembourg: report --- Full List Of Companies That Allegedly Have Shady Tax Deals With Luxembourg --- Bombshell Report On Luxembourg's Shady Tax Deals Looks Ugly For Junker
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Student Debt:
6 Ways Student Loan Servicers Are Trying to Trick You
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Shipping:
OW Bunker files for court restructuring after $125m fraud --- Overseas banks pulled plug --- Oil firm in more hot soup after fraud probe in S'pore office
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Religion:
Court: Clergy abuse victim cannot seek new settlement
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Electricity:
Bankruptcy judge approves plan for Steele Shaft
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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 (16 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (4 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 declined 13% in Fiscal 2014, Lowest Filings in Seven Years
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October consumer bankruptcies rise 8% from September
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Two New Signs the Economy Really Is Getting Better
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Miscellaneous:
Cravath: Recent Developments in Bankruptcy Law
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Administrative Claims:
Court Denies Section 503(b)(9) Claims of Sellers Who Did Not Ship Goods Directly to the Debtor
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UCC:
No Intent Required for UCC-3 Termination Statement to be Effective
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Avoiding Collateral Damage: In re Motors Liquidation and the Effectiveness of UCC Termination Statements
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Financial Privacy:
Data Privacy Required in Bankruptcy Filings
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Bankruptcy Reform:
Fed's Lacker says must better adapt bankruptcy code to financial firms
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Lacker: Repeal Fed's emergency lending powers
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Banks Should Seek Bankruptcy Stays for Repos, FDIC’s Hoenig Says
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Sales:
When Things Do Not Go As Planned In A Bankruptcy Sale
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Bankruptcy Fees:
New and Increased Miscellaneous Bankruptcy Fees Effective December 1, 2014
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Plan Confirmation:
To Deem Accepted or Not to Deem Accepted . . . That is the Question
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TBTF:
AIG Ex-CEO Willumstad Testifies Bailout Was Only Deal
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Oil/Gas:
As Oil Plunges Further, Why It Might Be 'Game Over' For The Fracking Boom
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OPEC shaken by Saudi price move
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Oil Price Falls Consequence of Fed Bubble
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Brent Below $83 on Oil Oversupply
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Buccaneer seeks $20M from state
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Republicans pledge vote soon on Keystone XL
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Sovereigns:
'Gov't will not go down on its knees to negotiate with vultures'
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UK Judge Delays Ruling on Order Sought by Argentina Creditors
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Capitanich: Soderberg's appointment is ‘shameful’
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Argentina par holders eye group to control acceleration
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Argentina Thinking About Drunk-Dialing Paul Singer On New Year’s
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Singer Seeks Order to Keep Argentine Lawyer in U.S.
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Argentina Defaults on $5.4 Billion in Bonds
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Argentina and hedge fund NML Capital ratify their commitment to keep fighting
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UK:
No leave to appeal Game rent on insolvency decision means certainty for landlords, says expert
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MacIntyre Hudson appointed trustee for bankrupt England goalkeeper
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Third UK refinery shuts, Hundreds of jobs lost --- More Refinery Closures Likely After Third U.K. Plant Shuts
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Litigation funding and the short-lived insolvency exception
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UK Banks Face Threat of Break Ups
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PIIGS:
Here's The Secret Letter That Shows The ECB Forced Ireland To Ask For A Bailout
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Dunne backs down on bid to withdraw US bankruptcy case --- Quinn family have no confidence in disclosure
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Canada:
Bankrupt Calgary private school ‘never had a strong financial foundation’
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The View From Up North: Changing The ‘Justice System’ Into A ‘Human System’
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TV renovation star goes bankrupt , leaves Calgary homeowners stuck
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Capital Pride pulls back from bankruptcy filing in surprise move
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Germany:
German insolvency law - an overview
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German factory orders rise less than expected in September
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Argentina:
RR Donnelley directors indicted
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Macau:
Wall Street Is Starting To Understand That Nothing Will Save Macau
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Russia:
US money-laundering probe draws in Putin's inner circle
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Ukraine:
Ukraine is Preparing for War
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Finland:
Talvivaara Nickel Miner to File for Bankruptcy as Funding Fails
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