Law:
Stat of the Week: Where Are Young Lawyers? --- Number of LSAT test-takers drops 8 percent in continuing downward trend --- Law School Carnage Enters Its Fifth Year
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Victories Against the Odds: Morrison's Levitt took on opponents in ResCap's monumental bankruptcy and orchestrated a tidy win
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Banks Demand That Law Firms Harden Cyberattack Defenses
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Hiring up at law firms, but far from pre-recession levels
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Survey: New Associates Want to Make a Big Splash in Smaller Pool
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'All-star' Eugene Driker stands out on bankruptcy mediation team
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Skadden Arps Plans Move to New Tower on Manhattan’s West Side
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Law Firm Leaves Law Library Behind – A Sign of the Times
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Field of AG Candidates Narrows as Ruemmler Withdraws Name
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Lawyer who didn’t share client payments with his partners is disbarred
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A High-Dollar Koch Habit: Should Defense Lawyers Accept Money From The Koch Brothers?
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Clifford Chance Staffing Up For The recovery
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Clifford Chance partner in "jihadist" song shock
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Houston Man, Company Sue Lawyer and Firm After Unfavorable Bankruptcy Judgment Based On Failure To Authenticate Settlement Agreement
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Flagging Law School Seems Unsure About What ‘Lawyering Skills’ Are
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Low-Ranked Law Schools Where Grads Make Big Bucks
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Tina Fey's Law School
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Banker Sues Arizona State Law Prof, Wash. U. Law Review, for Defamation in Article --- Federal Court Dismisses Banker's Lawsuit
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Law Firm Uses Puppet As Pitchman
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Awesome Cases For Your New iPad Air 2 --- 13 Apps For Getting What You Need, Fast --- 13 Apps For Transforming Your Phone Into The Ultimate Toolkit
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The Secret To Grooming The 10-Day Beard
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This Is What Every Young Professional's Résumé Should Look Like
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Work From Home Successfully
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Surprising Findings About Introverts in the Workplace
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The Dos And Don’ts Of Hanging Out With Your Boss
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Tips For Being More Persuasive At Work
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Law Lets I.R.S. Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime Required
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Teen On Way To Job Interview Violently Beaten, Stomped, Robbed By 'Sisterhood Gang'
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Woman stabbed to death in front of children over parking dispute
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Patrons bound, gagged, drenched in blood at extreme haunted house... Waiting-list tops 24,000
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Hanged Woman Leaves Heartbreaking Last Message
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Montana bride who shoved husband off cliff appeals murder conviction
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Washington school shooting: Young teacher lauded as hero
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Money, sex, madness and murder at fictional Bay Street law firm is focus of ex-partner’s new novel
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Man avoids prosecution for two years with coma and quadriplegia claims; video shows him walking
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DUI case dropped after arresting officer allegedly forwarded suspect’s photos to his own phone
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Man Banned From Local Starbucks Throws Chihuahua at Store Window
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Law firm director boasts about giving “damn good” f-------
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Man Shoots Teenage Neighbor Nine Times For Laughing at Him
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Man who died after driving flaming truck into law firm had dated one of its clients
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It’s Week 5 Of ‘How To Get Away With Murder’ And Viola Davis Is Allergic To Sleeves
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Say What?!
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Judges:
Bankruptcy Judgeship Opportunity: WD WA
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Bankruptcy Judgeship Opportunity: ED CA
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Federal judge: Governor Christie, Ebola and locals acting like yokels
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Ex-judge acquitted on all but 1 count now faces new criminal case as DA revives AG’s dropped probe
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Three Justices Swap Stories at Yale Law School
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Judge - why would anyone pretend to be a lawyer?
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Justice Alito Turned Away From Sunday Brunch
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Wall Street:
US stock futures may open flat
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Stocks close higher
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Goldman: The S&P 500 Will Hit Another All-Time High Before Year-End
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S&P 500 posts biggest weekly gain in nearly two years
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Deutsche Bank lawyer in apparent NY suicide: Report
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3 reasons to expect a 30% market meltdown
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Layoffs:
5 Websites All Job Seekers Should Know About
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Corporate Governance:
Delaware Court Confirms Applicability of Business Judgment Rule to Investment Decisions of Insolvent Corporations
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Failure:
What 33 Successful Entrepreneurs Learned From Failure
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Gambling:
Atlantic City, Revel battle over property taxes
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Union Workers Picket at Atlantic City's Taj Mahal
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Trump casino workers union appeals Delaware judge's termination of labor contract
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Icahn presses casino union to help save the Taj
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Carl Icahn Rues The Day His Assistant Told Him Trump Taj Mahal Was On The Line
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New Jersey College May Buy Closed AC Casino
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Television:
CSN Houston Faces Closing Chap. 11 Arguments on Oct. 28
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As the CSN Houston bankruptcy case continues … and continues
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Student Debt:
Survey: Student Loan Debt is a Primary Obstacle for Potential Homebuyers
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Candidates Court 'Basement Grads' Who Struggle With Student Debt
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Autos:
Why General Motors Company Is One of the Biggest Warren Buffett Stocks
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GM wins appeal, dismissal of $3B Saab-related Spyker suit
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Tax:
Swiss Banks Ask DOJ to Revise Amnesty Deals
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Religion:
Milwaukee archdiocese wants some sex-abuse cases dismissed from bankruptcy proceedings
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Economy:
US gasoline cheapest in nearly four years --- 5 Ways Falling Oil Prices Are Helping the Economic Numbers
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Saudi SABIC: Oil Price Fall is Temporary --- Oil Speculators Bet Wrong as Rebound Proves Fleeting --- Oil Prices Put BP Profits at Risk --- Are Low Oil Prices Here to Stay? --- Why Lower Gas Prices Won't Bring Relief Why Lower Gas Prices Won't Bring Relief --- Earnings picture in the energy sector looks grim
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U.S. economy on track for its best growth in 9 years
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The Fed Is Expected To Pull Its QE Punch Bowl This Week --- US Federal Reserve Likely To Announce End Of Its Economic Stimulus Program --- Will the Fed delay the end of QE?
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Things The Middle Class Can't Afford Anymore
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Even Bankers See a Risk in Rising Wealth Gap
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Krugman: Why America Won't Build Infrastructure
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The Top 1 Percent of Wage Earners Falters in 2013 — Temporary?
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Today’s Deficit Is Not the Problem
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The Big Winners And Losers Of Low Oil Prices
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Federal Workers’ Job Satisfaction Slips
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COLA: Social Security Not Keeping Up w/ Prices
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
Mortgage Modifications: Senior Loans May Become Not So Senior
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US new-home sales close to flat in September --- New-Home Sales Rose Last Month. Or Maybe They Fell. We Don’t Really Know --- Sales of New Homes Worse Than Most Years in 1980s, 1990s --- New home sales gains screech to a virtual halt in September
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Foreclosure inventory lowest since February 2008
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Freddie Mac: The top 5 improving metro housing markets
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Former ‘People’s Attorney’ radio host is convicted in $10M mortgage-fraud case
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The U.S. Housing Market in 10 Charts
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Foreclosure Reversal Issued in Case With 'Robo-Witness'
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Fannie Mae Settles Shareholder Lawsuit For $170 Million
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Ocwen to hire independent firm to probe backdated foreclosure letters --- Ocwen’s bad week just got worse
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Mississippi Lags Far Behind in Housing Recovery
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The 50 Best Suburbs In America
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Municipalities:
Judge's Ruling Nears on Detroit's Debt-Cutting Plan --- Closing arguments today
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Unidentified bidder offers $3 million for 6,000 of Detroit’s dilapidated homes
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Seven Lessons From Detroit’s Bankruptcy For Muni Investors
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Detroit is a phoenix, and I'm betting it will rise: Dan Gilbert
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Detroit Seeks Public Comment On City's Budget
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Detroit council OKs FGIC bankruptcy settlement
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Detroit can afford $700M of new debt, adviser tells judge
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Big pensions drive proposed tax increases on California ballots
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How One New York County Fell Into the Tobacco Debt Trap
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State reaches for risky private equity investment for pension fund
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Banking:
Big Banks Are Losing Ground To An Emerging Force Of Unknown Firms
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Deutsche Bank Sets Aside Another $1.1 Billion for Legal Costs
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The National Republic Bank of Chicago Is Closed by OCC - 16th Bank Failure of 2014
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Unofficial Problem Bank list declines to 423 Institutions
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Deutsche Bank Braces for $1.3bn Libor Fine
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Health Care:
Assets of the Closed St. Anthony’s Hospital in Houston, Texas will be Sold at Auction
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Crittenden Regional Hospital Assets Go up for Sale
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Tobacco Settlements: It Didn't Go Towards Health Care Costs After All
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Life in New York in the time of Ebola --- Top US Health Official Blasts 'Draconian' Ebola Quarantines --- Reed Smith Announces Global Ebola Task Force --- A biological warfare expert's warning against false comfort in Ebola messaging --- The Ebola Epidemic Is Causing People To Lose Faith In The Medical Order --- Possible fed quarantine for health workers from W. Africa --- New York And New Jersey Will Automatically Quarantine Health Workers Returning From Ebola Zones --- Lawyers question Christie's authority --- The White House Is Pressuring Governors Cuomo And Christie To Reverse 'Hurried' Ebola Quarantine Decisions --- N.Y., N.J. governors clarify Ebola policy - Self-quarantine at home OK for returning non-symptomatic health care workers --- Christie: Ebola Quarantine Will Become National Policy --- Obama: I don't like Ebola quarantines. NJ/NY: We do --- Nurse takes on governor --- Tested Negative for Ebola, Nurse Criticizes Her Quarantine --- Nurse Blasts “Frenzy of Disorganization” at NJ Airport --- Isolated nurse to mount legal challenge of forced quarantine --- Lawmakers Take Shots at Ebola Response --- Stop Bashing the CDC --- NY businesses Ebola patient visited facing ruin --- Liberian Slum Takes Ebola Treatment Into Its Own Hands --- Aid needed to stem explosion of Ebola in Liberia: study --- Here's What Happens If Someone Shows Ebola Symptoms On The NYC Subway --- Beds at Ebola treatment units empty in Liberia --- Why is Ebola less deadly in America than in Africa? --- Dallas Ebola Clean Up Leaves Family w/ Little
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Retailing:
Amazon's loss makes holidays a question mark --- Bezos Leads Amazon To $12 Billion Quarterly Loss --- Bezos named best-performing CEO in the world
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Depressing Photos Of Kmart Stores
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Why Sears Was Doomed In 1978 --- Sears Has Passed The Point Of No Return
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Believe It or Not, This Near Bankrupt Retailer Has the Highest Online Prices
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Celebs:
Curt Schilling Candid On Bankruptcy
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The Broke and the Beautiful: OITNB Edition
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Mick Fleetwood likens himself to Donald Trump: 'I have lost track of the number of times I have gone bankrupt'
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Mail:
US Postal Service to begin delivering groceries
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Bankruptcy Crimes:
Poplarville income-tax preparer indicted
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Electricity:
Bankruptcy Courts Fail to Enlighten on Electricity as Goods or Services
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Energy Future Says Oncor Bids May Be Higher Than Expected
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Distressed Investing:
A lost cause? This hedge fund wants in
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Aviation:
Bankruptcy trustee proposes another deal with one of Myrtle Beach-based Direct Air’s founders
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Air France – KLM teetering on bankruptcy : report
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Fraud:
ZeekRewards Founder Indicted For $850 Million Ponzi Scheme
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Zeek receiver clarifies timing of refund checks
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Personal Finance:
Life 's Unanswered Questions
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Will a Cheap Wedding Help Your Marriage? A Lesson in Causation
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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 (41 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (8 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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Miscellaneous:
The Week Ahead
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Plan Confirmation:
District Court Reins in Separate Classification of Claims
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Avoidance Actions:
Use and Occupancy Paid for Post-Petition Cannot Be Used as New Value
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IP:
The IP pitfalls and opportunities of bankruptcy
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Bankruptcy Court: It Is the Proper Forum for Trade Secret Dispute
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TBTF:
Boies Labels AIG Bailout Cozy Deal as U.S. Preps Defense
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Labor:
Proposed Bankruptcy Fairness and Employee Benefits Protection Act of 2014 would place significant restrictions on employers in bankruptcy
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Litigation:
Excalibur Litigation Funders Take Another Hit
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Insurance:
D&O Insurance: Contractual Liability Exclusion Precludes Coverage for Negligent Misrepresentation Claims
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Mass Torts
All asbestos claims filed after established bar date disallowed in Garlock bankruptcy
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Tech:
Apple supplier GT Advanced’s bankruptcy puts big hurt on staffing firms
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Auto Racing:
'F1 is completely unsustainable'
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Education:
The Average SAT Score For Every College Major
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Fairs:
Northeast Arkansas District Fair Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
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Agriculture:
Guar farmers to get 75 cents on the dollar in settlement
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Turner Grain Merchandising Files $25M Bankruptcy
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Decline of California Agriculture Has Begun
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Politics:
With Praise, Hillary Clinton Keeps an Adversary Close
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Sovereigns:
Courtroom Drama: Argentinian Sovereign Debt
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Holdout Files New Complaint Against Argentina Over Defaulted Debt
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Another hedge fund sues Argentina for $835 mln --- Argentina Bond Fight Judge Griesa Gets New Ken Dart Suit
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Argentina's bonds dispute: Judge Griesa delays a week a Citigroup hearing
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UK:
Monarch airline's rescue package takes off
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Bankrupt Tory tycoon faces curb on financial life
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Bankruptcy body holds £20million in unclaimed funds
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Bankruptcies at lowest level in over six years
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No wonder superstores are dying
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Tesco Bondholders Seeing Cut to Junk Join Shopper Exodus
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Lloyds Falls as Stress Test Threatens Return to Dividend
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Lawyer jailed for tax fraud, bankruptcy perjury
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EU:
Four out of five eurozone banks pass ECB health test --- 25 Banks Failed --- What test failures mean for EU’s banks
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ECB List of Failing Banks Shrinks If You Read Small Print
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Despite Good News From ECB Tests, German Banks Still Face Challenges
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Europe Stocks Are Little Changed After Stress Test
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Europe's bank test celebrations mask mounting challenges
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After stress test, will euro banks see lending uptick?
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Draghi Sets Stimulus Pace as ECB Reveals Covered-Bond Purchases
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David Tepper: Short The Euro
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The debt of some euro-zone economies looks unsustainable
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Why Europe is doomed, in 3 paragraphs
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PIIGS:
The World's Oldest Bank Is Today's Biggest Loser --- Monte Paschi will not ask for more state aid --- Italy's Monte dei Paschi shares suspended after 'stress tests'
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9 Italian banks fail stress tests --- Italy’s stress test fail: Attack of the ‘drones’ --- What Two Pasta Factories Tell Us About The Italian Economy --- Italy's Economic Suicide Movement
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Greece Puts a Happy Face on Stress Test Results --- Greece's Economic and Political Traps --- Greek bank shares rally after positive ECB test outcome
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Germany:
German Ifo Business Confidence Drops for Sixth Month --- 22-Month Low
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Brazil:
Rousseff Win Bad For Brazil Markets - Wall Street Will Not Be Kind --- ETF That Tracks Brazil's Stock Market Is Crashing --- It's Going To Be A Brutal Year For Rousseff
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MENA:
Foley, Other ISIS Hostages Suffered Horrific Torture Before Execution
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Pakistan Considering Cannibalism Law After Cannibal Brothers Keep Getting Arrested
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Russia:
Russia Brain Drain Saps Talent as Sanctions Hit Financing
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