Law:

Are Lawyers Getting Dumber?
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Is Big Law Kinder Than Amazon?
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Wachtell Lipton Goes ‘Big Brother’ On Its Lawyers
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Associates Challenge Biglaw Management — We Have The Memo!
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Mayer Brown struggles to retain first years in London
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What are the Right Metrics for Law Firm Success?
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Ashley Madison Owner Taps Am Law Firms Amid Massive Hack • Who Are The Lawyers, Law Profs, And Judges That Were Revealed In The Ashley Madison Hack? • Hundreds of email addresses in Ashley Madison data dump are in big banks’ domains •The Ashley Madison hack may have exposed information connected to 15,000 government and military email addresses • There's an easy way to see if you've been affected by the Ashley Madison leak and previous massive hacks
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Disbarment sought for 3 lawyers who ‘maliciously’ set up opposing counsel for midtrial DUI arrest
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Cooley law dean offers explanation for enrollment decline, sees possible turnaround
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Cumulative Percent Decline In LSAT By State
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More LSAC Hi-jinks
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Law Prof's Last Lecture: Unsolicited Advice for Future and Current Lawyers
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Fox Rothschild MP: Not Convinced Overseas Offices Make Money
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UK: Legal profession keeps growing like Topsy - up 18% over five years, bit is the party ending?
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Could Librarians Lead Strategic Law Firm Practice Growth?
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Legal profession moves en masse into app design
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Old Lady Lawyer: The Battle Of The Ages
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Corporations Are People, Now They Can Lie
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New details about the upcoming super-sized iPad • You might need a stylus to use the next iPad’s best feature
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Windows 10 will let you turn a laptop on with your voice
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This new LinkedIn app makes it easier to look up your coworkers
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Robots coming to take our jobs, including lawyers
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Man stops robber packing foot-long knife by chasing him with a sword
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Reports from the NFL's settlement hearing with Tom Brady are out, and it sounds like the NFL got crushed
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Cops Indicted For Murder Of Gregory Towns
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Why People Will Continue To Be Eager To Enter Amazon’s Dark Jungle
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Wrong man arrested on ‘troubling’ reality TV show has no civil rights case, 7th Circuit rules
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Biglaw Trainee Strangled To Death In Her Home
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Man charged with trying to halt plane he missed by chasing it on foot on the tarmac
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Email secrecy claim by Pennsylvania’s AG appears at odds with newly released document
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Personal injury lawyer storms off soccer field to head-butt spectator
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Driver throws away parking fine - gets a second fine for littering
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Lawyer accused of hypnotizing women gives up license
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Music giant was run by its lawyers, according to leaked tape
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Inmates say they worked for free for jail officials
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Former Schulte Lawyer Dishes on Big Law Life in Debut Novel
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Judges:

A Delicious Judicial Diva: Donald Trump’s Older Sister, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry
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Judge who helped smoking buddy get out of jail in domestic violence case is reprimanded
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Clerk Alleges Judge Sexually Harassed Her, Has Stained Dress To Prove It
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Looking at the Most Influential Writers Before the U.S. Supreme Court
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Ex-Judge Suspended From Practice of Law Over Cocaine Theft
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Wall Street:

Stock futures point to 3rd day in the red
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U.S. Stocks Slide
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Growth fears hit stocks, oil, emerging markets
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Outside the U.S., a silent crash is already underway • 8 Signs Global Market Crash is Near
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Layoffs:

NetApp posts loss, to cut 500 jobs
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Food/Beverage:

A&P 'burning cash' in bankruptcy process
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Bankruptcy Court hearing on labor contract provisions between A&P, unions put on hold
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Collectibles:

Stories of Weird Bankruptcy: The Trial of the Alabaster Medallion
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Student Debt:

Do Student Loan Borrowers Opportunistically Default? Evidence from Bankruptcy Reform
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Fed: The Impact of Student Loan Debt on Small Business Formation
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Obama administration plans to overhaul rules on student debt forgiveness
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Why candidates' student loan fixes would be bad policy
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5 Things About Grad-School Debt
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Borrowing For College Set To Hit 5-Year Low
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Weather:

Report: Groundwater Pumping in California Has Land Sinking
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Drought-stricken California farmers can look forward to floods. Then drought. Then floods.
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Retailing:

Target's quarterly sales outlook disappoints; shares dip • Things are about to get more difficult for Target • New Target COO's headache: Too few goods to keep shelves filled
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American Eagle's comparable sales forecast disappoints
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Sears posts quarterly profit on property sale
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Movies:

Relativity Lenders Ask Bankruptcy Court To Block Residuals Payments For Now • Relativity Bankruptcy: Financier Wants Cap on Residuals, Profit Participation
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Telecoms:

How Sprint's Latest Moves Can Accelerate The Path To Bankruptcy
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Corporate Reform:

J.P. Morgan Chase said to be near $150 million SEC settlement
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Marinas:

Marina owner files injunction, bankruptcy • Pier 36 owner files injunction, bankruptcy
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Education:

U.S. Clamps Down on College Fraud as Students Clamor for Relief
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Personal records left behind at defunct charter school
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Skiing:

Landlords out to “destroy” Willard Mountain, longtime owner says
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Economy:

Inflation in America is all about one thing
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Fed: First rate hike 'approaching' • Fed policy makers see hike conditions as close to met • Fed-watch: The great rate debate rages on • Odds of Sept rate hike decline after minutes • More embarrassment for Fed as minutes of July meeting released early
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Fed's Kocherlakota floats increase in US inflation target
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Fed's Williams: raising rates to pop housing bubbles 'very costly'
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Chair Yellen, please take your victory lap!
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The evidence doesn't back Bernanke on QE, St. Louis Fed paper says
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Seniors, Not Millennials, Are Creating New Households
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Fewer Young People Seek Jobs
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Why Job Growth May Not Be as Bad as You Think (If You Went to College)
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America’s falling fertility rate explained in four charts
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The 5 worst cities for small-business owners
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Tale of the Red Tape: $22 Billion in Savings from Cutting Ridiculous Regulations
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

Mortgage applications up in latest week : MBA
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US housing costs continue to soar, CPI shows
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RealtyTrac: Foreclosure filings up 7% in July
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5 States Where Foreclosures Heated Up in July
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US housing regulator targets more support for poor borrowers
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Experts are worried about another housing crash in Miami
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The CEOs of Fannie and Freddie deserve a raise
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The largest single-building transaction in New York City history just closed at $2.6 billion
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Municipalities:

Detroit Sells First Municipal Bonds Since Emerging From Bankruptcy • Detroit Disciplined in Return to Bond Market After Bankruptcy
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Judge Spares Flint, MI Residents From Water Shutoffs -- But May Push City To Brink Of Bankruptcy
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Our responsibility to help rescue Puerto Rico: New York City was in a similar spot in the 1970s
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Vero Beach May Need to Consider Bankruptcy
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US Cities Where Construction is Booming
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Aviation:

Airfares Fall By The Most In Nearly Two Decades
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Oil/Gas:

Thurs.: Crude oil keeps sliding, nears $40 a barrel
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Weds.: There goes crude oil again ... • Oil ends at lowest level since 2009 as supplies climb • Energy shares walloped as oil inventories seen rising • Rising inventories knock U.S. oil below $41 per barrel
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World drowns in oil as producers slug it out
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Oil's slump will end in panic liquidation: Gartman
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to $80 Oil
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Citigroup report: Worries of $33 oil leaving markets “nervy”
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Oil Prices Must Rebound. Here’s Why
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Adding color to the balance sheet picture for oil and gas E&P firms
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Oil Companies Sit on Hands at Auction for Leases
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Halliburton layoffs on the Western Slope
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CFO leaves struggling Goodrich Petroleum
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Shell's 6,500 layoffs hit New Orleans as oil prices dive
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Some see natural gas drillers as next buyers of battered oil fields
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Bust in oil prices trigger mergers and acquisitions
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Obama’s methane limits seen wiping out the marginal driller
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Short These Oil and Gas companies. They are going to zero
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Politics:

Hillary Clinton had a testy press conference filled with questions about her email server • IT firm hired by Hillary Clinton: ‘We would never have taken it on’ if we knew of the ensuing chaos • Clinton's lawyer says her email server was wiped clean
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Bush family donors gave half of Jeb Bush's presidential cash
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Donald Trump and other GOP candidates want to radically alter a 150-year-old cornerstone of American citizenship • Birthright citizenship: a history of futile conservative attempts to repeal law • Does Constitution allow ban on birthright citizenship? • Trump Is Forcing GOP Candidates Into an Immigration War Nobody Wants • Trump Flunks Immigration • Bill O'Reilly confronts Donald Trump on immigration • Is Donald Trump an American Putin? • Trump's $1 Land Deal with a Corrupt Mayor • Trump's stock rises in political prediction markets • Let's watch Donald Trump talk about Citizen Kane • Donald Trump has emerged as the anger translator for the entire Republican cadre of presidential hopefuls • Trump on polls: 'Only thing constant is Trump' • Is Fear of Losing to a Woman the Root of Trump's Misogyny?
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Jeb Bush has finally decided to firebomb Donald Trump
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Perry Wants to Deconstruct the Federal Gov't.
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Kasich: If I were king, I'd ban teachers' lounges so they can't complain
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GOP Spending Money at Record Clip
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Coal:

Patriot Coal Approved to Poll Creditors on Chapter 11 Plan
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Bankrupt Patriot Coal Finds Angel in Former Foe With a Tree Plan
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With bankruptcy looming, Arch Coal up 46.6% on possible debt-swap compromise
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Troubles With America’s First Clean Coal Plant Put Mississippi Power ‘on the Brink of Bankruptcy ’
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Dominion Resources Black Warrior Trust Announces Updated Information on Walter Energy, Inc. Bankruptcy Proceedings
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George Soros is Investing Millions in Coal
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Privacy:

7 things we've learned from the Ashley Madison leak
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Are Ashley Madison users at risk of blackmail?
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90,000 people paid Ashley Madison for its allegedly bogus 'full delete' service
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Divorce lawyers expect surge in clients after hackers dump data from Ashley Madison dating site
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Josh Duggar an Ashley Madison Member?
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5 Ways To Deal With Your Ashley Madison Problem
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Lehman:

Lehman Brothers, the judicial gift that keeps on giving…..
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Dick Fuld’s Sun Valley Estate Could Be Yours for $30 Million • Fuld’s Sun Valley Estate Auction Postponed for Four Weeks
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Parking:

Boomerang Systems, Inc. Announces Voluntary Chapter 11 to Restructure its Balance Sheet and Secure New Financing
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Healthcare:

Barnabas Health hopes to buy bankrupt competitor hospital
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Festivals:

Could SFX go bankrupt?
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Mining:

How Oaktree Wound Up Pouring More Money Into Failing Molycorp
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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 (49 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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Involuntary Bankruptcy:

Dueling venues and the (almost) futility of involuntary bankruptcy
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Landlords Are Entitled To Priority Treatment of Lease Payments Which First Come Due During the Gap Period of an Involuntary Bankruptcy
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Unclaimed Funds:

Are You Owed Money From a Decades-Old Bankruptcy Case?
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Mootness:

Tribune survives Aurelius court challenge to bankruptcy plan • The Opinion
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Unexpired Leases:

Nonresidential Leases: What Does It Take To Avoid Deemed Rejection?
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Plan Confirmation:

Claim Purchasing as a Strategy to Avoid a Cramdown
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Avoidance Actions:

Ninth Circuit Holds that Absolute Waiver of Subrogation Rights Insulates Insider-Guarantor from Preference Exposure
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Investigations:

Firm that vetted Snowden reaches $30 mln settlement with US
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Environmental:

Mississippi Phosphates pleads guilty in pollution case
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Last official charged in chemical spill pleads guilty
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Fraud:

It is done, says MF Global trustee • Judge Paves Way for Nearly Full Recoveries for MF Global Brokerage Creditors
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Watches:

Nobody is buying Swiss watches anymore apart from the 'astonishing' French
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Currency:

Bitcoin exchange CEO to face new criminal allegations
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Labor:

Why McDonald's Could Suddenly Be Responsible for Millions of New Employees
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Feds Bust Trucking Firm for 1099 Workers
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Electricity:

To stave off bankruptcy , PSC grants rate hike to Mississippi Power
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Justice Department moves to block Energy Future restructuring
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Banking:

Fourth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of All Claims Against Failed Bank’s Directors, Revives Negligence Claims Against Bank’s Officers
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UK:

Co-op Bank tripled its net loss – and it looks like the pain is going to continue
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EU:

New personal insolvency laws cover (almost) all of Europe
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PIIGS:

NPL innovation – examples from Italy
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Greece receives bailout cash, repays €3.4 billion to ECB: reports • A Way of Life Drowned by Greece's Crisis
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Canada:

Canada is 'getting clocked' by something far bigger than oil
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Company behind canceled Jon Bon Jovi concert declares bankruptcy
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US Steel restructuring process won’t be fractured
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China:

It wasn't 'dumb money' – the rich gambled away the most cash in the China share collapse
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Asian lenders see loan books rapidly deteriorate over Chinese slowdown
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China injects nearly US$100 bil into banks for economy lift; stocks reverse loss
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Fed Turns Wary Eye to China as Liftoff Looms
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These are the western luxury brands most exposed to China's economic troubles
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Citi: China could lower its growth target for 2016 to just 6%
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Russia:

Putin's Economy May Be in Even Worse Shape Than It Looks • Putin resorts to USSR tactics to hide unemployment • Russia Rewrites Growth Blueprint as Recession Dooms Consumer
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Russian police break up 'contraband cheese' gang • Cheese It: It's Russia's Calamari Cops
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Australia:

Qantas is about to announce the biggest turnaround in Australian corporate history
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Brazil:

Brazil economic activity falls more than expected in June
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Venezuela:

Cash-strapped Venezuela may sell off gold, Citigroup says
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Asia:

Ghosts of 1997 financial crisis return to haunt Asia
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Kazakhstan:

Kazakhstan's currency just lost a quarter of its value overnight
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Netherlands:

Royal Imtech bankruptcy threatens 500 Netherlands businesses
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Nigeria:

Insolvency & Restructuring In Nigeria
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Lithuania:

Lithuania's retail chain Fresh Market is subject to bankruptcy
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Venezuela:

Sagging oil prices have Venezuela virtually bankrupt
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