December 30, 2015

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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
(DBN)

Will Inequality Ever Stop Growing?
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If you think groceries are expensive now, brace for more sticker shock in 2016
(DBN)

‘The Big Short,’ the Great Depression and the Evolution of Crisis Narratives
(DBN)

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
(DBN)

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?
(DBN)

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
(DBN)

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
(DBN)

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
(DBN)

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
(8 new opinions today - DBN)

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
(large downloads)

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
(DBN)

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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