Law:
Just How Much Does Wachtell Charge Clients Anyway? --- A Glimpse into Wachtell's Mysterious Billing Structure
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Legal Sector Shows Modest Job Gain for December
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Outside Firm Convergence, Alt Fee Trends Continue
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Associate Bonus Watch: Baker & McKenzie, Hogan Lovells, Haynes And Boone
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Business of Law
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2015 Report on the State of the Legal Market
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Survey: In-House Litigation Chiefs Feel the Budget Heat
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Law Firms Must Find 'Where the Puck is Going to Be,' Study Says
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Morgan Lewis chair Jami McKeon: what really happened with Bingham
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Latham, Littler Launch Back Office Operations
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Stat Of The Week: The U.S. Legal Market By Type Of Client
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Comparing Recent Clawback Rulings in 'Dewey' and 'Thelen'
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Big Firms Hire in Bulk, Plus More Lateral Moves
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Nobody Cares If You Are Practice Ready
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7 Practice Trends To Watch For In 2015
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Going Paperless Cuts Costs, Improves Services
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How Racially Tolerant Is The Legal Profession In Our Post-Racial Society?
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Squire Patton Boggs Billing Inconsistency Ends With Settlement
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Cooley set to launch 50-lawyer London office with raid on Edwards Wildman and MoFo --- The full list of partners joining Cooley in London
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In-House Counsel Profile: Highland Capital Management L.P.'s Scott Ellington
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17 Tips For Writing An Excellent Email Subject Line
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Blogging - Power Tool For Developing New Business
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Documents Show Earlier Effort to Link Dershowitz to Epstein Scandal
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Okla. oil magnate’s ex tries to cash $975M check after rejecting payment: report
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Judge blasts disbarred lawyer for paying no restitution in $837K client fraud, gives her 4-year max
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Ex-Sidley Partner May Face Year Suspension for Faking Expenses
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Saks says it has a legal right to discriminate against trans employees
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NYPD Commissioner to Cops: "Start Working Again"
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Lawyer called 911 about client who police say dropped 5-year-old daughter over bridge to her death
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Lawyer sanctioned for brandishing axe, fist fight with rival lawyer
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Lawsuit Claims Attorneys Threatened to Out Former Mob Boss Living in Witness Protection
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Zimmerman Arrested for Assault with Gun --- George Zimmerman "Hasn't Been Very Lucky with the Ladies" Says Lawyer
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Soldier Shot By Wife as He Brought Her Breakfast in Bed
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Selfie? - Report: Former M.I.T. Professor Filmed Himself Robbing Banks
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Attorney's ear-licking harassment conviction upheld by court
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Prosecutors, FBI Want Petraeus Charged With Giving U.S. Secrets to Lover
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Judges:
Supreme Court Dismisses Case After Litigant Never Surfaces
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Divorce judge slams ‘bed-pooping, cokehead’ banker, alcoholic wife
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The Complete Posner on Posner Series
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Supreme Court justices don’t belong at the State of the Union
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Fitting gift for Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor: Three Yankees, by CNY doc who loves to paint
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Wall Street:
Futures higher as Alcoa readies to report
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US stocks slide following weak wage growth, oil price slump
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Bankers On Wall Street And London Are Bracing Themselves For A Feeble Bonus Season
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Layoffs:
Is the Skills Gap Real?
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Workforce: Mystery of Missing Millions Deepens
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Single-Digit Black Unemployment May Not be So Far Away
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Mass Torts:
Appeals court won't reconsider BP penalties
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Parties take step toward settlement fund for victims of oil train disaster
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Energy Future Dodges Asbestos Claimants
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Healthcare:
Firms made $16M in fees off hospital's bankruptcy
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Judge in hospital bankruptcy signed off on fees for ex-boss
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Former Employees, Patients of Closed Crittenden Regional Hospital Leave Town
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Catoosa County pays its share of Hutcheson debt as attention turns to Walker County
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Oil industry accidents put North Dakota hospital $1.5 million in debt
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Architecture:
Architecture Firm That Restored Statue of Liberty Seeks Bankruptcy
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Student Debt:
Wealth, Homeownership Lag for Americans With Student Debt
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Consumer Finance:
Credit-Card Balances Decline in November
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Auto and Student Loans Cause Uptick in Consumer Borrowing
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Gambling:
Bondholders Attempt to Push Caesars Unit Into Bankruptcy - Holders of Second-Lien Bonds File Involuntary Chapter 11 Petition --- Appaloosa Files to Put Caesars Unit in Involuntary Bankruptcy
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Caesars wins key support to begin debt overhaul --- Hurdles remain
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CDS panel convenes on Caesars
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Caesars Bondholders to Continue Suits After Bankruptcy
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Horse Racing:
Chicago Horse-Racing Track Bets It Can Beat Multimillion-Dollar Judgment
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Coal:
Patriot Coal transfers headquarters from Missouri to W.Va.
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Retailing:
Body Central to Close All 265 Stores, Fire 2,500 Workers --- Says Credit Line With Crystal Has Been Terminated --- Body Central left with no option but to close its doors
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Body Central Liquidating in Florida State Proceeding
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Wunderlich Tells Investors To Avoid Aeropostale
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Deb Shops closing all stores nationwide --- Gordon Brothers & Hilco to Close All Deb Shops Stores
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Retailers are closing up shop. Here's why...
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Celebs:
Wyly Can Sell Bookstore in Effort to Pay SEC Court Award
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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler skewer Bill Cosby
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Debt Collection:
Filing Time-Barred Proof of Claim May Have FDCPA Implications
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Debt collector to vacate $18M in improper claims in NY
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Religion:
As clergy abuse suits near trial, archdiocese weighs financial options
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Baltimore bishop faces DUI and texting-while-driving charges in hit-and-run death
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Distressed Investing:
Paulson Event-Driven Fund Said to End Last Year Down 36%
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Museums:
Death of Del Smith triggered Evergreen Vintage bankruptcy filing
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Alternative Energy:
KiOR says Miss. seeks to destroy it in court ploy
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Economy:
US Adds 252,000 Jobs In December; Unemployment Rate Declines To 5.6% ---The December Jobs Report in 10 Charts --- December Jobs Report—The Numbers --- 5 Takeaways --- Economists React: ‘We Are Left Wanting’ --- Not So Great News in Friday's Jobs Report
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US job growth in 2014 by industry
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Public and Private Sector Payroll Jobs: Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama
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Fed's Kocherlakota: Drop in oil prices good for US economy --- How the World Bank Sees Cheap Oil Through 2016 Affecting the Global Economy
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Krugman: Where Are The Friedmans Of Yesteryear?
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Oil. It's What Drives the World
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Can the U.S. Economy Save the World? Global Banking Group Chief Is Skeptical
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Fed’s Lacker Says Oil Plunge Complicates Inflation Outlook
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Fed’s Evans Tells CNBC Don’t Raise Rates Until 2016
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Fed Hands Record $98.7 Billion Back to Treasury
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Obama Drops the Tempered Tone of His Economic Message
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Wage Gains Tepid in 2014 Despite Best Year of Job Creation Since 1999 --- The economy’s broken record: Lots of jobs, but no raises --- Americans Fed Up with Stalled Wages
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The Slow Strategy That Might Rebuild Middle-Class Wealth
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Was 2014 Really the Strongest Year of Job Growth Since 1999?
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The Fed’s Puzzle: How Low Can Unemployment and Inflation Both Go?
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US Treasury prices climb as stocks, oil slide
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Janet Yellen Now Faces One Of The Most Bizarre Problems The Fed Has Ever Seen
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US wholesale businesses boost stockpiles
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2008 and the Lessons Unheeded From the Great Depression
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Ron Paul: Reality Sets in for America
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What Happened? The Great Commodity Boom
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
What Falling Oil Prices Mean For Home Prices --- Study: Falling oil prices will slowly hurt housing markets in Texas
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What Phoenix Says About President Barack Obama’s Housing Challenges
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Philly: Pending $200M sale of 1818 Market St. just got complicated
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J.P. Morgan to pay $500 million to settle lawsuit
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The top 20 cities for housing investments
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Municipalities:
How Bankrupt Cities Make Money
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Detroit’s Bankruptcy is a lesson in what not to do
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Suffolk OTB Reorganization Viewed as Chapter 9 Model
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Atlantic City Plans to Cut $40 Million off Its Yearly $260 Million Budget
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As 2016 looms, Christie faces economic challenges in NJ
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Firefighters’ paychecks take a hit under Central Coventry Fire District’s austerity plan --- Layoffs, 56-hour weeks, no overtime, no retiree health plan make up Coventry Fire austerity
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Which States Rely the Most on Federal Aid? New Map Has the Answer
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Oil/Gas:
Oil Tumbles to 5 1/2-Year Low as OPEC Reaffirms Stance --- Oil down 8%, post seventh-straight weekly loss
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Spillover effect of cheap oil: Bankruptcy shock
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As Oil Prices Fall, Banks Serving the Energy Industry Brace for a Jolt
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Oil Producers Betting on Price Drop With OPEC Not Curbing Output
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Why oil could rebound to $80. Yes, $80 --- Why Oil Prices Are Headed Below $35 a Barrel
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Rig count declines after oil prices plunge --- Oil Drillers Bail on U.S. Boom, Idle Most Rigs Since 1991 --- Boom goes bust for oil drillers as crude prices tumble --- Sub-$50 Oil Has U.S. Shale Producers Cutting Rigs Loose Early
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Oil Has To Plunge Even Further Before The Shale Industry Gets Seriously Damaged
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The Oil Job Boom Is Over --- The $140,000-a-Year Welding Job
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Oil Crash Looks Like Other Classic Bubbles
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Only 1.6 percent of world's oil production at risk at $40: WoodMackenzie
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The Oil Price Outlook For 2015: Beware Optimism
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New US well permits rise slightly in December
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The oil industry still managed to add jobs in December --- This Chart Shows the Jump in U.S. Energy Jobs While Oil Collapsed --- Oil-Price Crash Is Slow to Hit U.S. Energy Jobs
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A history lesson on the perils facing oil and gas investors
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Crude Oil Beat Down Continues: Who Will Capitulate First?
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We've Seen Six Huge Oil Price Declines In The Past 30 Years
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Oil industry in 'dire straits'
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Oil giants take long view amid low prices --- Here’s how much money big energy companies have lost from falling oil prices
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North Dakota county feels Bakken boom ebb away as oil falls --- Bakken oil derailment --- North Dakota oil executive: 'Stop kicking the goose'
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Texas city that prepared for oil boom now waits for bust
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Wyoming tries to prepare for life beyond oil
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Oil's slip could send Texas economy sliding --- Tumbling price of oil expected to dampen Texas spending power
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Cheaper Oil Revs Up U.S. Jobs Engine --- Is cheap gas really good? --- How Falling Oil Prices Will Impact Economy --- How much you'll save this year thanks to oil's fall --- Will oil save this country from economic slowdown?
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The sheer, contagious joy Americans feel about cheap gas
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Oil's not well
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House vote and court ruling back Keystone oil pipeline --- With low oil , gasoline prices, is Keystone still necessary? --- Keystone Foes Ask: Where Will This Oil Go? --- Republican Senator Admits GOP Doesn't Have The Votes To Override Obama Keystone XL Veto
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Saudi Arabia's crude oil price war --- Saudis drill up shock therapy in shale war --- Saudi prince: $100-a-barrel oil 'never' again --- Venezuela, Saudi Leaders Meet and Talk Oil Prices in Riyadh --- Oil Prices Saudi Arabia and the End of OPEC --- Why OPEC is talking oil down
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UK oil firms warn Osborne: Without big tax cuts we are doomed
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Oil Slump Slams Mexico With Cuts Causing 10,000 Job Losses
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Shell to cut 5 to 10 percent of jobs at oil sands project
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North American oil and gas drillers may spend $58 billion less
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Oil tycoon's ex accepts $975 million after all
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White House doesn't feel pressure to lift oil export ban, adviser says
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Oil traders seen storing millions of barrels at sea on slump --- Frontline Surges Amid Signs of Demand for Tankers to Store Oil --- Storing Oil At Sea Is About Futures Prices, Not Crude Oil Prices Rebounding
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Banking:
Fog of Legal Bills Seen Lifting at U.S. Banks as Revenue Rises
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Politics:
Jeb Bush is the new … Elizabeth Warren?
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Krugman: Voodoo Time Machine - Leaders in the Republican Party seem to be wrong on everything that counts
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Aviation:
America's Most Frustrating Airports
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Personal Finance:
College Majors With Highest Starting Salaries
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50 Ways To Build Wealth In 2015
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Construction:
Ambitious plans become Maine contractor's downfall
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Food/Beverage:
HomeMade Pizza files for bankruptcy months after closing stores
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Lawsuits attempt to recoup $3.6 million in Golden Guernsey bankruptcy
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Friendly's franchisee says it will remodel some restaurants while in bankruptcy
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What Sonic gets that McDonald’s doesn’t
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Environmental:
Former Freedom president seeking insurance money for legal defense
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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 (17 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (9 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:
(1)-(2)- (3)-(4)-(5)-(6)-(7)-(8)-(9)-(10)
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Bankruptcies continue to plunge in Nebraska
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NM bankruptcy filings notch fourth straight year of decline
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Arizona bankruptcies end 2014 on note of improvement
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Miscellaneous:
The Week Ahead
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M&A:
Cashing Out: The Rise of M&A in Bankruptcy
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Professional Compensation:
Charging Liens and Trump Cards: Specific Isolated Funds Not Required
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Chancery Addresses Attorney’s Charging Lien
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Automatic Stay:
Prepetition Stay Waivers: Which Way Is The Wind Blowing?
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Recent Pleadings:
Involuntary Petition Filed Against Caesar's Operating Company --- Brief --- Examiner Motion
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Convenience Stores:
LI gas station owner files for bankruptcy at 15 locations
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Fraud:
Criminal Charges Filed In Alleged $100 Million ATM Ponzi Scheme
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Trader With a Taste for Bubbly Convicted in $7.5 Million Investment Scam
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U.S. prosecutors seek longer sentences for Madoff aides
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Ex-FBI lawyer and Enron prosecutor to head U.S. Justice Department fraud unit
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More Than 60 Dartmouth Students Charged with Cheating in Ethics Class
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Tax:
Swiss Banker Loses Bail Bid for Not Showing Up in N.Y. Court
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UK:
White & Case picks up DX mandate on acquisition of City Link assets
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EU:
New capital goals and Santander share sale heap pressure on Europe's banks
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European Central Bank Policy Makers Remain Divided on Bond Purchases
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Cyprus Airways closed down after EU state aid ruling
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Krugman: Deflation As Betrayal
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PIIGS:
Here's What A 'Grexit' Would Cost Europe
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Greek exit could trigger eurozone break-up
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Banks Stress Test for Grexit
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Greek exit from the euro zone would produce no winners
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Greece and Europe must compromise to avoid Grexit
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Quinn exits bankruptcy - but still faces salary threat
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Gardai predict slow return of ex-Anglo boss from US
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Wife of banker David Drumm will cling on to up to €1million worth of the couple’s wealth
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Anglo facing huge legal costs over pursuit of Drumm
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Audio recordings shed new light on David Drumm's failed US bankruptcy bid
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Irish Muslim Leader Warns Any Newspaper From Publishing Charlie Hebdo Cartoons Or Face Blasphemy Charges
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Italy court cuts jail term for former Parmalat finance chief
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Fund Said to Be Near Deal to Acquire Long-Ailing Bruno Magli
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Canada:
Will low oil prices force Ottawa to use reserve to balance budget?
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Fidelity Says Oil Shock Puts Canadian Rate Cut on Table
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Canada Housing Starts Slow to Weakest Since March Amid Oil Rout
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Extension sought for Canada oil train settlement
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Sale of bankrupt Ucluelet golf resort close
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France:
France's Prime Minister Declares War On Radical Islam
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3.7 Million Show Up for Anti-Terrorism Protest in Paris --- Largest Crowd in French History
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Paris Rally and Fears of the Coming Conflict
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If France Wants To “Stand With Charlie Hebdo,” It Must Stand First With Free Speech
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Blasphemy and Freedom of Speech
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Germany:
Global markets hang on Germany's next move
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7 German Banks Still a Mess After 2008
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Russia:
Russia faces wave of bankruptcies if interest rates don't fall
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Fitch Cuts Russia Rating to 'BBB-' with a Negative Outlook
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Ruble Drops on Oil as Russia Credit Risk Climbs After Fitch Cut
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Oligarchs left pedaling into sunset as Putin's Russia cracks
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MENA:
Economic Power And Influence Are Flocking To The Gulf States
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Kuwait plans $155-bn projects despite oil slump
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Dubai World files ‘voluntary arrangement notification’ over $14.6bn debt --- Dubai World says $14.6 bln restructuring deal has majority creditor support
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Leaked Al Jazeera Emails Show Angry Internal Rift Over Free Speech And Charlie Hebdo's Mocking Of Islam
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In Paris: A Massive Rally of Defiance and Sorrow
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"A Saudi law student can progress quickly to handing out daily amputations, crucifixions and whippings once he has become a judge"
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China:
China is stockpiling vast quantities of cheap oil
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China's car sales growth halves in 2014
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China’s deepening deflation is making its slowdown much uglier
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Kaisa Bondholders Said Not to Have Received Dollar Bond Payment --- Kaisa Group Asset Freeze Sought by Chinese Financial Organizations
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Norway:
Oil Losses Force Norway to Consider Measures to Back Economy
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South America:
South American nations struggle to find new economic model
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Asia:
Asia's richest man just got much wealthier
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Jamaica:
Retired judge named interim Supervisor of Insolvency
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Cambodia:
After MFone, insolvency perils remain numerous in Kingdom
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Ukraine:
Ukraine’s Creditors Grab for the Biggest Pieces of Its Carcass
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Poland:
Polish miners stay underground to protest radical restructuring plan
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