Law:
Citi’s Law Firm Predictions: It’s Back to Slow Growth
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Associate Bonus Watch: Compensation That’s ‘Woefully Below Market’
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Court Tosses Facebook Suit Claiming DLA Piper, Milberg Aided Fraud
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‘Bluebook’ Critics Incite Copyright Clash
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Beyond Biglaw: Don’t Become Prey
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3 Goals For A Better Law Office In The New Year
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The Anywhere Law Office: Legal Workspace
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Lawyer Files Lyric-Laced Brief on Rappers' Behalf
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Vinson & Elkins Names 10 New Partners
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Warrant to be issued for mom of "affluenza" teen • What Will Happen to Couch and His Mother? • Couch's Mom Had Sold Home • Couch Caught by Ordering Pizza on Cell Phone • Couch: Questions About Justice in America • The Worst Parents Ever
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Law student is shot and killed while pounding on apartment door
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One-month suspension is recommended for prosecutor’s ‘joke gone awry’
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10 most important legal stories of 2015
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Las Vegas Police Hunt Man Who Placed Raw Bacon On Mosque’s Door Handles
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Can Emojis Be Used As Evidence In Court?
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Judges:
Judge wrongly required lawyer to take breath test, appeals court says in tossing contempt conviction
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Wall Street:
U.S. stocks eye lower open
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Oil rebound fizzles, sending global shares lower
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Indexes higher as crude prices recover slightly
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A Bold Few Traders Earn Billions Flouting Rivals
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Layoffs:
Walter Energy subsidiary lays off more than 300 in Brookwood
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DuPont to cut 1,700 jobs in Delaware
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Personal Finance:
6 things that can cost you if you do them yourself
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Climate:
Warmest year: 2015 will set a record
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Distressed Investing:
Are high-yield bonds on the verge of collapse?
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Investors Flee Junk Bonds ; Then a Brave Few Seek Reentry
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Politics:
Were the Energy Future Holdings and Caesars Chapter 11 Cases Just Saved by K Street Lobbyists?
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25% of Donald Trump’s political spending goes to his own companies • Donald Trump launches bizarre late-night Twitter taunts at Jeb Bush • Trump ties Pope Francis as No. 2 most admired • After Sanders criticism, Donald Trump flip-flops: US wages 'are too low' • Donald Trump Steps Up His Campaign in Iowa
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Clinton Most Admired Woman for Record 20 th Time
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When Your Candidate Has a 'God Complex'
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In a Normal Year, Cruz is Not Qualified
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A lesson in Bernienomics
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Pataki drops out of GOP race
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Sanders, Trump ride backlash in a blighted nation
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Student Debt:
Student loans: Borrowers will get robocalls, thanks to Congress
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Banking:
A Crisis Worse than ISIS? Bail-Ins Begin
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Religion:
Settlement pending in Gallup, N.M., bankruptcy
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Celebs:
Final Decision! Teresa Determines The Fate Of Her Marriage After Time Alone With Joe
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Coal:
Coal Market Refusing To Relent As Companies Crumble
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Debt Collection:
Capital One wants you bankrupt : No lender sues more
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Gambling:
Caesars fends off bondholders' request for quick ruling
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Shipping:
OW Bankruptcy Could Have Been Avoided, Says New Report
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OW Bunker Shareholders Welcome Critical Report Released by Bankruptcy Trustees
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Resorts:
Bahamas PM expects 'major move' soon on bankrupt megaresort
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Economy:
Consumer confidence leaps in December
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Consumers ARE spending their gas savings
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Median incomes are finally back to prerecession level
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Global growth will be disappointing in 2016: IMF's Lagarde
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UPS CEO: Here's what we need to see from the US economy
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Will Inequality Ever Stop Growing?
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If you think groceries are expensive now, brace for more sticker shock in 2016
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‘The Big Short,’ the Great Depression and the Evolution of Crisis Narratives
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States People Really Want to Move To
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The World's Richest People Got Poorer This Year
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The Best and Worst of the U.S. Economy in 2015
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5 black swans that could rock markets in 2016
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Wealthiest Have Own Private Tax System
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
Business dries up for once-hot foreclosure defense industry
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Home Prices in 20 U.S. Cities Rose at a Faster Pace in October • Home prices rise 5.2% in October: S&P/Case-Shiller • Industry reaction to Case-Shiller shows what to expect in 2016
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Home prices sizzle out west but cool in Chicago
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What a $1 million home looks like in 20 different cities
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Fannie and Freddie Give Birth to New Mortgage Bond
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Heating up: 10 most competitive neighborhoods in 2015
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German Bank Sues Wells Fargo Over Mortgages
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Municipalities:
Puerto Rico needs bankruptcy, not a bailout
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On Puerto Rico, Congress should say 'yes' to bankruptcy , 'no' to bailout
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Puerto Rico Debt Crisis Closes In on Jan. 1 Deadline
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Puerto Rico debt crisis comes to a head
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Oil/Gas:
Oilfield Bankruptcy and Game Plan
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Weds.: This may be crude oil’s most bullish signal yet • Oil falls 2% as supply woes persist • Any oil price boost will be short-lived, warns Citi
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Oil prices climb; natural gas surges 5% • Oil up on forecasts for colder weather but supply curbs gains • Stabilizing oil lifts shares and bond yields
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Oil won't revisit lows yet: John Kilduff
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Oil Prices Become a Problem for U.S. Steelmakers
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Morningstar: The outlook is bleak for oil in 2016
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OPEC Expects U.S. Oil Production To Rise In 2016… Really?
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Saudi shake-up shows it is planning for cheap oil
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Expert: Energy sector will be profitable in 2016
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Inflation suggests the oil bears are dreaming
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How Low Can Prices Go? 10 Key Changes in the Oil Market
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US Oil and Gas Companies’ Debt Exceeds $200 Billion
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Troubled Oil Biz Red Mountain Enters Discussions with Lender After Default
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Pemex Growth Dreams Turn to Asset Sales, Job Cuts as Debt Mounts
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Anglo Falls Most in Two Weeks to Lead Losses Among Mining Stocks
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Oil-Producing States Battered as Tax-Gushing Wells Are Shut Down
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No Room for Jim Bob's Billion-Dollar Holes at Freeport
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Oil Is Dictating Stocks' Moves
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Oil Investors Suffer Record Second Year of Misery
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Aviation:
VTOL Aircraft Maker Morgan Files for Bankruptcy
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Mining:
Key Funding Source for Miners Is Depleted - Companies that provide the majority of 'streaming' financing are running low on capital
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Molycorp Warns of Unpaid Debts if Pushed to Liquidate
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Debt Collection:
At Capital One, easy credit and abundant lawsuits
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Georgia law firm accused of running more like 'a factory' agrees to $3.1M settlement
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Fraud:
FBI Probes ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Ties to Malaysian Fund
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JP Morgan Bankers Stole from Dead Clients
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Contrasting Volkswagen Fraud With Other Auto Debacles
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Food/Beverage:
A&P files suit over unsuccessful Hastings and Millwood sales
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Financial Planners:
CFP Board Discloses Bankruptcies by CFP® Professionals
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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 (11 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (5 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
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UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Bankruptcy Jobs:
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Distressed Company Watch List
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Professional Compensation:
Judge Sontchi Opines on Committee Counsel Fee Application
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Plan Confirmation:
'LightSquared': Defining the Permissible Boundaries of Plan Injunctions
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Guaranties:
Tenth Circuit Refuses to Allow Guarantors to Shirk Their Guaranty Liability by Relying on Primary Obligor’s Confirmed Plan
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Celebs:
50 Cent Reportedly More Than $28 Million In Debt
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Coal:
Coal Stocks Are a Long-Term Play for Patient Investors
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Lehman:
Lehman Sues Japanese Investment Bank Over Derivatives
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Retailing:
Baltimore-area retailer Wavedancer closing last store after 33-year run
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GameStop Says It’s No RadioShack as Investors’ Doubts Increase
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Online Surge Means Many Not-So-Happy Returns for Retailers
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Pharma:
Martin Shkreli's KaloBios files for bankruptcy • A 'Pharma bro' company files for bankruptcy • The Core of Wall Street Is Rotten
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Tax:
Julius Baer reaches deal in U.S. tax probe
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Gas Stations:
Gas station chain hits bankruptcy brakes
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Sovereigns:
Argentine creditors in debt dispute subpoena HSBC over loans -source • 'Vultures' subpoena HSBC over loans
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UK:
Stores gloom as 1000 shops are expected to go bankrupt
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PIIGS:
Renzi Confident on Italian Banks Amid Rescue Plan Storm
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Canada:
Canada's Loonie: It's 1986 All Over Again
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China:
Chinese bond defaults seen rising as borrowing costs climb
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India:
Here's what the bankruptcy bill all about
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Russia:
Russia's Biggest Bank Threatens Mechel With Bankruptcy
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Putin's Bailout Bank Needs a Rescue: An $18 Billion Whopper
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Ukraine:
NBU to create list of preliminary qualified investors of insolvent banks
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Ukraine's central bank governor says 2015 inflation hit 44 percent
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Ukraine central bank expects next tranche of IMF funds in January
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Brazil:
In Brazil's bad year, these corporates were hardest hit
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Brazil’s deficit soars after year of austerity
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Nigeria:
Indigenous oil firms face bankruptcy as boom turns bust
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Switzerland:
International Insolvency Review: Switzerland
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Netherlands:
Buyers line up as major shoe retailer files for bankruptcy
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Job losses expected as bankrupt DA pharmacy rescuer emerges
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South Korea:
Corporate restructuring needs pain sharing by all sides: finance minister
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