Law:

Citi Survey: Law Firm MPs Less Confident About Economy
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Should Law Firms Follow General Electric's Lead?
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What’s Your GE Capital Practice?
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Polsinelli Adds Distressed Health Care Specialist To Open Nashville Office
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Insurer Aims at New Target in Dewey Bond Offering Suit
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Georgetown, DLA and Arent Fox Launch Low-Cost Firm
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Bankruptcy Lawyers Have Right to Work
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No Privilege for Defunct Companies, Judge Concludes
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Ave Maria Law School to Purchase Vineyards Campus as Permanent Home
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Playing Fast and Loose With Law School Transfers
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Harvard Parody: "Bust a Moot" (ft. Elena Kagan and Eliot Spitzer")
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A New Way To Rate Law Schools: By How Quickly You Can Pay Off Your Loans
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Organ Projects 2.6% Decline in Fall 2015 1L Enrollment, With 12.4% Decline in 165+ LSATs, 4.1% Increase in <150 LSATs
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Litigators Who Don’t Know Enough About E-Discovery Should Be Afraid, Very Afraid
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Which Biglaw Firm Makes Partners Write Essays To Prove Why They Should Be Paid?
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Litigation Finance: Lake Whillans Is NOT The Iron Bank Of Braavos
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Beyond Biglaw: Lessons From Jury Duty (Part 2)
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Cahill's Unconventional London Office
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Harvard Law School Now Wants Older Applicants
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Under ABS Structure, Cahill Makes London Litigation Debut
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Trial Looming, Uber Drops Morgan, Adds Gibson
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Gardere Has a Solid 2014
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Slow Start, Strong End to 2014 for Munsch Hardt
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3 Questions To Ask When Considering the Cloud
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This could be the Apple Watch's first killer app
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The Best iPad Stylus
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Boutique Law Firm Benefits From Dropbox Alternative
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Lawyers to be offered new .law domain names for $200 a year
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Here's how to expertly repair the damage this horrible winter did to your leather shoes
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Guy who was charged with attempted murder as part of notorious 'Jena 6' got a full ride to law school
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Employer who nixed $400K settlement now owes $270K plus $2.1M in attorney’s fees, federal judge says
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Polluted town in movie about Erin Brockovich’s work for $333M settlement is largely gone
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10 things the police won’t tell you • Reserve deputy who mistook gun for Taser is charged in fatality; ACLU blames ‘buy a badge’ program
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Former prosecutor offers a terrifying explanation for why he helped convict an innocent man
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Lawyer Becomes Fugitive From Justice
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Jail Terms Handed To Most Atlanta Teachers Convicted In Cheating Scandal
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Lawyer Learns That Toilet Cameras Involve Moral Turpitude
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Craigslist Ads Sink Moronic Counterfeiter
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Window washer who survived 11-story fall is sued by driver whose car he struck
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Man Pays Ticket With Origami Pigs
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Say What?!
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Judges:

Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Shout-Outs From Justice Kagan, And The Leading ‘Feeder Firm’
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Battery charge against U.S. judge dropped, angering congresswoman
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Former Judge Charged With Extorting Clients
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Posner Mania — Two New Books Coming this January: One by Posner, the other on Posner
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Sandra Day O'Connor's post-court legacy: Civics games
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Wall Street:

Stock futures gain ahead of data, BofA
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Stocks close mixed: Dow, S&P rise; Nasdaq drops
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Bubble fears are the highest in 15 years
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Fed official warns ‘flash crash’ could be repeated
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Goldman’s 19 Best Stocks to Short
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Corporate Pension Funds Pile Into Bonds
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Odd indicator is ‘significant concern’ for stocks
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Layoffs:

Today's Personality Tests Raise the Bar for Job Seekers
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Electricity:

Energy Future Holdings reveals its path out of bankruptcy • Energy Future files $42 billion Chapter 11 reorganization plan • Energy Future Talks Aim to Raise $11 Billion, End Bankruptcy • Texas power firm Energy Future lays out debt overhaul plan
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The Plan • Disclosure Statement
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Energy Future Holdings moves to begin bankruptcy trial in November
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Heating Oil:

Probe into Norton Oil's sudden closure ends
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Aviation:

Is American Airlines Group's Debt Load Too High?
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TSA Screeners Manipulated System To Grope Men
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Gambling:

Generator trucks arrive at powerless Revel casino site
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Straub moves to evict Revel power operator • Generators arrive at Revel; power struggle continues in court
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Buses:

Hoyt Ready to Exit Bankruptcy After Successful Restructuring
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Housewares:

EveryWare Sales Fall on Declines in Every Segment
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Publishing:

Bankruptcy sale of Family Christian Stores scheduled for early June
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Mass Torts:

Los Angeles Asbestos Court Demands Bankruptcy Trust Transparency
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Student Debt:

The Student-Loan Problem Is Even Worse Than Official Figures Indicate
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Currency:

Bitcoin Foundation is “effectively bankrupt,” board member says
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Healthcare:

Big Bills A Hidden Side Effect Of Cancer Treatment
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The problem with Congress's new plan to pay Medicare's doctors
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Health care consulting firm laying off 88 workers
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Economy:

Normal interest rates are still far away
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Lackluster Rebound in U.S. Retail Sales Shows Consumers Hesitant
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Post-Recession, Have U.S. Consumers Abandoned Their ‘Shop ‘Til You Drop’ Mentality?
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Where the poor and rich really spend their money
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When work isn’t enough to keep you off welfare and food stamps
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Farrell on how the inequality bubble is accelerating • Inequality Worse Than 1929 or 1789
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NFIB: Small Business Optimism Index decreased in March
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IMF: Low oil prices will spur global economy • MF says currency shifts support global economic growth • IMF ‘complex forces’ are shaping world economy with growth moderate • US, European stocks in red after IMF report • IMF sees wider split in growth prospects
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The average man's retirement account contains $139000. For women, it's $82000.
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Is $70,000-a-year minimum wage genius or crazy?
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Wells Fargo Sees Rare Profit Dip
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The 9 jobs where women earn more than men • The Gender Wage Gap in Eight Charts
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4 High-Earning Careers Surprisingly Likely to Lead to Bankruptcy
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Bye-bye USA: Investors putting money elsewhere
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We Pay Less in Taxes Than Most Countries
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

Q1 Report on Commercial Real Estate
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Weekly mortgage applications drop as rates tick higher
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Houses passes Mortgage Choice Act of 2015 by 286-140
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Homeowner value perceptions don’t mesh with appraisal realities
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No One Knows What to Do With This 76-Foot-Deep Hole in Chicago
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It’s Even Hard to Buy a House When Your Father Runs Wells Fargo
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Billionaire Greene buys oceanfront mansion at bankruptcy auction
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Ocwen reports loss of $546 million in 2014
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It’s over: SEC settles with Freddie Mac executives
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Appeals court denies rehearing in Civic Partners case
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Municipalities:

Detroit and Stockton Failures May Signal More Widespread Problems • Fed official hints many cities to follow Detroit bankruptcy road
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Detroit bankruptcy shows 'daunting challenge' of managing municipal finances
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IL Governor Says Chicago Headed For Bankruptcy • Thinks schools heading toward bankruptcy too
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Puerto Rico Not Trying To Entirely Steal Greece's Playbook, But…
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Pouring fuel on Puerto Rico's financial fire
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Bondholder plan to restructure Puerto Rico's PREPA is flawed-CRO • PREPA Restructuring Officer Says No Debt Decision Made
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New York's Leaky Public Pension Funds
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Calpers raises pension contribution rates in CA by 6%
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Christie urges benefit cuts as N.J. retiree rush strains pension
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Finance:

JPMorgan says banks may be making 'bad loans' as LBOs boom
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Oil/Gas:

Tues. P.M.: Oil rises on US output dips, Middle East tensions • Oil tops $53 to settle at highest level in a week
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Oil demand seen rising, but Iran calls for cut • Don't expect OPEC to budge on Iran’s call
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Bankruptcy "Essentials" in a Low-Price Environment
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Oil Layoffs Hit 100,000 and Counting • Survey: Oil workers value job security; oil executives value bonuses
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Supply or demand? IMF breaks down collapse in oil
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One-two punch from hedge funds may be lurking for oil
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EIA Projects "U.S. energy imports and exports come into balance, First time since the 1950s"
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Cheap crude won’t slow U.S. oil fields by much, EIA says
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Shale Boom Finally Starting to Go Bust
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Oil-rich nations selling off petrodollar assets at record pace
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Oil in 2040: $252. Or $76. Or Somewhere in Between. Or Not.
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U.K. at risk from oil shakeout: IMF
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Junk Bond Market Thaws as Norway Learns to Live With Oil Slump
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Privacy:

RadioShack Consumer Data Might Be Back Up For Auction •RadioShack presses ahead with plan to sell customer data
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Retailing:

Retail sales spring back 0.9 percent in March. Is the economy back on track?
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D&H Reaching Out To Independent RadioShack Dealers
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JC Penney executive inadvertently discloses sales • Same-store sales outlook tops expectations • J.C. Penney Turnaround Still Unlikely
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Celebs:

Gretchen Rossi’s Ex-Boyfriend Jay Photoglou Still Owes Her $500K
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One in Six NFL Players Goes Bankrupt Within 12 Years of Retirement • Why NFL Players Are So Likely to Declare Bankruptcy —and Die Early
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Tax Havens: Celebrities Sheltering Money
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Tax:

Swiss Banks Preach Transparency in U.S. Tax Evasion Endgame
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Fraud:

1 HSBC Swiss account, 3 swindlers, missing millions
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Notorious Tax Cheats: Billionaire Olenicoff Still Battling UBS Over $200 Million Offshore Stash
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Personal Finance:

The only 5 things you need to bring to a job interview
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What you REALLY sound like when you lie to your boss about going on a job interview
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Non-Profits:

Inside FEGS' Financial Free Fall
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Weather:

California water supplier slashes summer deliveries
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History:

37 maps that explain the American Civil War
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150 years ago, Abraham Lincoln was shot. Historians still argue over what happened next.
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There are about 15,000 books on Abraham Lincoln — here are the 7 you should read
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MLM:

Avon Eyes Possible Sale Amid Deep Woes
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Coal:

Is The Coal Market Finally Capitulating?
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Murray American lays off more than 200 West Virginia mine worker
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Shipping:

Alix Partners: Shipping On The Rocks
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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 (25 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (2 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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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Q1 Bankruptcy Filings Fall 15%
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U.S. public companies seek bankruptcy at fastest 1st-qtr rate since 2010
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Plan Confirmation:

Changes to “Flexible Finality”? Civic Partners and the Supreme Court Oral Argument in Bullard
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Miscellaneous:

CA: Bankruptcy Year In Review 2014
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Subordination:

Mandatory Subordination: How Even A Money Judgment Can Be Treated Like Equity In Bankruptcy
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Involuntary Bankruptcy:

Creditors Beware: Eleventh Circuit Imposes Greater Liability on a Petitioning Creditor Whose Petition is Later Dismissed
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Bankruptcy Reform:

Why Has Chapter 11 Failed as a Reorganizing Chapter?
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Too Poor to File (for Bankruptcy)
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Fed: Insolvency after the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform
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Professional Compensation:

Fifth Circuit Kills Controversial Attorney Fee Rule
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UCC:

JPMorgan Loses Rehearing Bid to Renew Security of Accidentally-Terminated $1.5 Billion GM Loan
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Banking:

Ninth Circuit Holds that the FDIC is Subject to Damage Claims for Breach of Bank’s Pre-Receivership Contractual Obligations
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Bank of America Swings to Quarterly Profit
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JPMorgan shares hit record after beating forecasts
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TBTF:

Financial reform is working, kind of: GE doesn’t want to be a bank anymore
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Politics:

Christie plan could turn Social Security into welfare • Billionaire Fund Manager: It's 'ridiculous' that I could get a $2,500 Social Security check
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Chris Christie's plan to win the White House is to tell people what they don't want to hear
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Clinton calls out CEOs for making too much money
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The big issue with Hillary Clinton running against inequality
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Hillary Clinton Isn't Inevitable
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Marco Rubio has found the perfect message against both Jeb and Hillary • Rubio's bad analogy: Borrowing 'like it's 1999'
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Education:

Ex-SBC president Parker backs school; Saving Sweet Briar pledges hit $10M • Sweet Briar faculty join lawsuit seeking to stop the college from closing• Judge will consider injunction to keep Sweet Briar College open • The case to save an imploding college is moving forward, despite steep legal challenges
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Guy who spent $37,000 on a computer-science degree at a for-profit college can't get a job at Best Buy's Geek Squad
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When the Financial Crisis Looms: A Tale of Three Colleges
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For-profit school firm, Education Management , restructures
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US fines Corinthian Colleges $30 million over false job placement rates
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'We have no safety net': After bankruptcy filing, American Boychoir School to end school year early
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25% of Adjunct Professors on Public Assistance
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Sovereigns:

Venezuela Reins In Overseas Vacations to Delight of Bondholders
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UK:

Phones4U secured creditors to get up to 24p in the £1, says PwC
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Appointment of English administrators not invalidated by improper purpose of directors
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The Real Cost of a British Pint of Milk
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Collapse of Phones 4U costs HMRC £74.7m
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Court overturns former SuperGroup finance chief's bankruptcy
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EU:

Greece Is Risk for Euro Area as Contagion Possible, Knot Says
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Investors Hunt Bargains in European Corporate Bonds
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Around 40% of the Value of B2B Invoices in Western Europe in Default
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PIIGS:

Greek crisis casts shadow over Portugal debt plans
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FSF Chief Regling: Greece Has Yet to Submit a Comprehensive Reform List • IMF close to giving up on Greece after official admits bail-out negotiations are 'not working' • A senior eurozone figure says it's 'impossible' to work with Greece and they'll miss their deadline for a deal • Germany declines comment on Greek bankruptcy plan report • Greek exit could have contagion effect on other states, says UBS

Euro Armageddon? Greece prepares for debt default • Greece Denies Report That It Is Preparing for Debt Default •Greece intends to default or intended to default all along?
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Greek short-term bond yields rise sharply
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Greece has "alternative options" as deadline for deal with creditors looms: minister
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Germany and Greece Locked in a Mutual Obsession • EU on a collision course with Greece
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Euro Exit Would Be `Very Costly' for Greece • Greek crisis can't be ruled out, says IMF chief economist • Greek securities tumble as negotiations raise specter of crisis
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Don't bank on Tsipras dumping Syriza's left-wing diehards
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EU expert group for Greece set for overhaul after Athens' protest
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Canada:

Board holds off on recommendation for Unique Broadband Systems shareholders
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China:

China's First-Quarter Growth Slowest in Six Years at 7%
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People don't believe China's growth figures and the truth about the economy could be far worse
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China’s slow growth: What the experts are saying
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Hungary:

Parliament passes law for compensation of Quaestor clients
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Russia:

Russia’s shocking rebound: The ruble has climbed 34 percent in just two months
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Australia:

Australian mining towns reel from iron ore price dive
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Bulgaria:

Bulgaria court to proceed with CorpBank trial
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Russia:

Russia Sberbank threatens Mechel with bankruptcy lawsuit
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