Law:

The End of Lockstep? Not So Fast.
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Are Pro-Family Policies Hurting Women's Careers?
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Calling Mr. Mom
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Dewey Defense Hammers Ex-Partner on Cross Examination • Iconic NYC Law Firm on Trial; Prosecutors Say Books were Cooked
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More CFOs Want Litigation Finance Considered
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ATL Law School Rankings: Top Schools By Category
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Counsel Deposing Opposing Counsel: Bad JuJu
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Reid, Collins & Tsai Flourishing With Contingency Fees In Bankruptcy Litigation
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Allen & Overy launches performance related bonus pool for high performing partners
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Two upstate NY firms tie the knot; 275-attorney shop is largest in Northeast outside of big cities
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Final name partner leaves Nelson Brown; is firm ‘effectively dead’?
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Law school applicant who wanted his 1970s GPA adjusted for "grade inflation" won’t get SCOTUS hearing
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7 Best Practices for Preserving In-House Counsel Privilege
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Kicking It Old School
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Beyond Biglaw: Care To Chat?
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6 Ways That Associates Can Disappoint
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“The In-House Essentials Treatise”
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More Evidence that Software is Eating the Legal Industry
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BigLaw Chair Lays Out Why He Joined Twitter
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Seven people pass test to become nation’s first legal technicians
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20 misused words that make smart people look dumb
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5 tips for dressing like a CEO — even when it’s 100 degrees outside
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7 men's style 'rules' that are completely outdated
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The phone Americans love best is... (hint: it's not the iPhone)
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The easiest way to undo the harms of sitting all day • Don’t Take Your Desk Job Sitting Down • Health experts have figured out how much time you should sit each day
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How to make sending email easier
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7 body language tricks to make anyone instantly like you
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Microsoft is taking over my iPhone
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Why Your Office Should Care About Upgrading to Windows 10
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Biglaw Voyeur Attorney Faces The Music
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Ted Cruz: 'Tom Brady was framed'
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Nonlawyer is still at his desk, 12 years after court ordered him to stop practicing, newspaper says
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Lawyer sues owner of racehorse American Pharoah for $10M, says response to client’s suit defamed him
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This Time It’s Prosecutors On The Chopping Block
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1 in 13 people killed by guns are killed by police
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Driver unleashes rant on cyclist in road rage scene
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Husband sues after wife’s coffin resurfaces during floods
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Judges:

Bankruptcy judge Joe Lee’s influence will continue despite his passing
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It looks like no judicial pension for Mr. Fuller, and coupled with his resignation that is the best result possible • Federal judge: Give me a f…ing break
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Conduct of judge arrested for alleged domestic assault might be impeachable, judicial council says • Goodlatte & Conyers Statement on Judge Fuller Resignation
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The Greatest Concurrence Ever? Maybe….
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Footnote is only portion of 4th Circuit opinion that isn’t sealed
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Sotomayor Tops Supreme Court Celebrity Ranking
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Wall Street:

US stock futures climb as investors wait for ADP jobs clues
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Asian Shares Follow Wall Street Lower
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Wall Street ends down; utilities fall as yields jump
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Stock market correction by October: Strategist
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Here’s why the M&A wave is going to sink stocks
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Layoffs:

National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Awards:

Robert S. Marticello Named California Bankruptcy Forum President
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Politics:

Poll finds distrust of Hillary Clinton has risen • Why Hillary Clinton is upside down
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The hidden truth about the presidential candidates
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Jeb Bush backs higher Social Security retirement age. Big issue for 2016? • Is Jeb's Social Security Flub the Worst Bush Gaffe Yet? • The Right Way to Think About Social Security • Pushing retirement back to age 70?
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Jeb Is Not the Bush You Think He Is
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How Timothy McVeigh's Ideals Entered the Mainstream
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'Run Warren Run' makes final move before suspending campaign
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Elizabeth Warren’s Past Service as an Expert Witness Causes Controversy
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Lindsey Graham is the bluntest candidate for president
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Fact Check - Marco Rubio: "For the first time in 35 years, we have more businesses dying than we do starting."
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Moderate Republicans are an endangered species
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Food/Beverage:

Bojangles is getting smoked
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Golden County Foods workers may be terminated, rehired
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Education:

School known for grooming Olympic athletes closes
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Mining:

Molycorp skips payment, draws comparisons to Momentive case
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Hardship hits the Iron Range
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Coal:

Oil Industry Takes Aim at Coal • 6 European Oil Majors Throw Coal Under the Bus
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Bankrupt Patriot Coal Picks Blackhawk Mining as Lead Bidder
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Lexington-based coal operator eyeing layoffs
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Gambling:

Caesars shares punished after judge's ruling favors creditors
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Revel options: Nightclub opening, tribal operators, maybe even sale
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Aviation:

Skymark's top creditor says looking for sponsor other than ANA
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Your Wait At Airport Security to Get Worse
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TSA Head Reassigned After Agents Flunk Out
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The TSA Doesn't Work and Never Has
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Economy:

IMF Economists: Stop Obsessing Over Debt
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U.S. factory orders post their eighth decline in nine months
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Global economic growth has been incredibly slow this year, new report finds
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Goldman: We expect the Fed to hike rates in September, but there's a 'strong' case for delaying • Fed’s Brainard Wants More Economic Progress Before Rate Rises
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Charts: what jobs liberal arts majors actually get
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Americans hate their cable companies most of all
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Janet Who? Ben Bernanke Says Stocks Aren’t Expensive
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Debunking the education myth
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Glut of Chinese Goods Pinches Global Economy • Problems Mount for Asia’s Exporters
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Preliminary May Vehicle Sales at 17.7 million SAAR: Best sales rate since 2005, On pace for Best Year since 2001
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High Earners’ Frugality Shows Long Shadow of Recession
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Now we know what the Federal Reserve did to inequality
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Blame Congress for Inequality
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Map: How coffee splits the United States in half
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St. Louis mayor supports a $15 minimum wage
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

House Prices up 6.8% Year-over-year in April
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Where the Housing Crisis Continues
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How Housing Has Changed Since the 1970s
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A Look at the Friendly Foreclosure Option
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Failed condo conversion in West Palm Beach purchased out of bankruptcy
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Municipalities:

Facing deadline, Puerto Rico seeks to overhaul power company
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Puerto Rico Power Authority Bondholders, Prepare for Bad News
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Prepa Submits Recovery Plan as Creditors Say Talks Continue
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PREPA's Transformation - A Path to Sustainability
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Puerto Rico's PREPA turnaround plan suggests debt restructuring -S&P
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In Puerto Rico Debt Talks, Things Are Heating Up - It is shaping up to be a hectic summer for holders of Puerto Rico's billions in debt
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Water wars continue in Metro Detroit as bankruptcy deadline approaches
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IL: Pension Plan To Suffer Changes
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Emanuel won't say if CPS can make $634 million teacher pension payment • Chicago pensions move to center stage
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Pennsylvania state agents raid home of former Harrisburg mayor
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Where Are the Cities with Good Job Markets and Affordable Housing?
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More Proof New York Is Becoming A Gilded City
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A map of what every state would be if it were a country
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Lehman:

Merrill may have let clients short foundering Lehman
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Banking:

In bid to cut costs, J.P. Morgan cuts voicemail for some employees
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Soccer:

Sepp Blatter steps down as FIFA president • Sepp Blatter said quitting would mean he did something wrong 5 days before his shock resignation
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Interpol puts ex-FIFA officials on its wanted list
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Blatter has dealt a blow to the shady Swiss economy
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Oil/Gas:

Weds. A.M.: Oil prices drop on dollar, oversupply • Oil prices fall as OPEC chatter builds • OPEC to continue pumping oil at current rate • BP CEO sees oil price 'softness' in second half of 2015 • OPEC signals oil price rebound as demand picks up
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Warnings Over Oil Debt Getting Louder
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Samson Resources Weighing Debt Restructuring Options
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Ivanhoe Energy declared bankrupt after failing to restructure
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Endeavour to sell North Sea assets
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How the oil slump is breathing new life into Calgary’s commercial real estate market
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Saudis say push for market share is working as OPEC meeting nears • OPEC Is Winning the Oil Price War • How OPEC Hurt Big Oil
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Energy industry financial stress at highest level since 2010
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Largest oil & gas drilling company in Romania files for insolvency
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Big Oil’s plan to become Big Gas
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Fraud:

Picard Reclaims $35.4M From Merkin's Madoff Feeder Funds
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Madoff trustee largely prevails in 233 lawsuits
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Google security expert warns computer crime has become 'very big business'
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May 2015 Ponzi Scheme Roundup
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Corporate Reform:

Warren Says SEC Chairman’s Tenure ‘Extremely Disappointing’ • Elizabeth Warren calls out Obama’s top Wall Street cop, saying she has ‘broken’ promises
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SEC Eyes Broadened 'Clawback' Restrictions
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Hedge Funds:

The hedge fund behind Olive Garden's makeover forced its board members to wait tables there
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Guns:

Colt: lenders agree to keep funding through restructuring
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Electricity:

Energy Future Wins More Time to Get Chapter 11 Plan Support
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Pensions:

Supreme Court declines to hear Verizon case on pension fund switch
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Shipping:

Shipbuilding industry in China has titanic money problems
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Horse Racing:

Jockeys Nearing Finishing Line in 25-YEAR Civil and Bankruptcy Litigation with their Former Business Managers
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Art:

Agent's Art-World Fire Sale Upsets British Peeress
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Opera:

Bequest Issue Arises in New York City Opera Bankruptcy Case
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Mass Torts:

Wagoner, a former GM CEO, to be questioned about ignition switch recalls
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Amusement Parks:

Bankruptcy judge wants more information in Beach Club fire insurance money case
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Ethanol:

Corn Ethanol is Worse Than Keystone XL
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(11 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 (10 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (101 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
(large downloads)

UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
(DBN)

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:

May Commercial Chapter 11 Bankruptcies Increase 16%
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Bankruptcy in America
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Isle bankruptcies in May declined from a year ago
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MA: Bankruptcies are on the decline
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WD NY: Bankruptcy filings drop more than 18% in May
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Bankruptcy Reform:

The ABI Commission on Reform of Chapter 11 Final Report - What Secured Creditors Need to Understand
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Intercreditor:

Recent Unitranche Issues in the RadioShack Bankruptcy Case
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Professional Compensation:

Can Attorneys Get Paid for Defending Their Right to Get Paid?
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Insolvency:

To What Extent Does 'The Point of No Return' Impact on the Notion of Balance Sheet Insolvency
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Lien Stripping:

A Lien Strip Tease from the Supremes
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Supreme Court Extends Dewsnup But Suggests They Really Don't Care for the Decision
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Bank of America notches win in Supreme Court ruling on second mortgages
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Junior Unsecured Mortgages Receive Protection from the Supreme Court
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Scarberry On Caulkett (and Dewsnup)
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Wholly Underwater Junior Liens May Not Be Stripped Off in Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Proceedings
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Supreme Court Decides "Underwater" Debtors Cannot Lien Strip Second Mortgages in Bankruptcy
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Tampa man at center of US Supreme Court bankruptcy ruling
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Structured Dismissals:

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Structured Dismissal of Chapter 11 Case, Holding That a Structured Dismissal Can Deviate From the Bankruptcy Code’s Priority Scheme in Rare Circumstances
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Committees:

Official Committees in Bankruptcy Court
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Plan Confirmation:

Momentive Plan Confirmation Affirmed: Efficient Market Cramdown Interest Rate Unlikely in Second Circuit Any Time Soon
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Sales:

Bankruptcy Judge Frowns On 26% Minimum Overbid, Doesn't Like Trading In Avoidance Actions Either
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Cross-Border:

Nortel: The CBI Case of the Century (So Far)
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Personal Bankruptcy:

Debtor’s Funds When Case Is Converted From Chapter 13 To Chapter 7
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Insurance:

Lawyer for Defunct Nebraska Insurance Agency Fined $15K
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Death Bond Investors Risk Total Loss in Life Partners Bankruptcy
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Healthcare:

Children's Bankruptcy Puts "Negative Watch" On UMC's Bond Rating
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Rural KY hospital, New Horizons, files bankruptcy
(DBN)

Legal drama escalates over hospital
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Obamacare sticker shock: Big rate hikes proposed for 2016
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Blue Cross' $71 Billion Shift From Fee-For-Service Medicine Escalates
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Retailing:

Shareholders sue Sears over 'unfair deal' they say will benefit the CEO while killing the company
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Salus Capital Seeks Conversion to Chapter 7 of RadioShack Bankruptcy
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Sovereigns:

US court clears way for Argentina appeal in Citibank dispute
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Echegaray notifies SEC over vulture link to FIFAgate scandal
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Buenos Aires Province Sells First Global Bond in Four Years
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Weil Represents Bondholder Group in Ukrainian Debt Restructuring Negotiations
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PIIGS:

Take it or leave it: Will Greece accept deal? • Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras Heads to Brussels for Bailout Negotiations
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Greece’s lenders agree on draft bailout deal • Greece's creditors draft deal to unlock aid, Athens resists • Greece's Creditors Set to Throw Down Gauntlet With Proposal for Bailout Deal • Greek PM Tsipras Urges Creditor 'Realism' • A flurry of last-minute maneuvering with Greece • Greek Insolvency Could Be 'Gigantic' • Greece and creditors still at odds as country slides towards abyss • What happens if Greece defaults? • Markets 'meh' on latest hope of Greek deal as default looms • ECB Raises Emergency Liquidity for Greek Banks • A guide to what Greece owes, and when • Greece has two options: A deal or chaos
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Canada:

Target Stores Insolvency Biggest in Canadian Retail History: Creditors Working Together to Win Equitable Settlement
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Air Canada ‘raising the bar’ for turnaround with ambitious new financial targets
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Ivanhoe Energy unable to reach agreement on restructuring proposal
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Canada's 2015 Economic Growth Forecast Downgraded by OECD • Canada's economy to restart growth for the rest of 2015: reports
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France:

Are 'Loan to Own' Strategies Possible Under French Law?
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Russia:

Moscow’s poshest neighborhood is shockingly empty as money pours out of Russia
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MENA:

Saudi's Algosaibi outlines new debt proposal to creditors
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Ukraine:

Metinvest Restructuring Offer Said to Blocked by Creditors
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Sweden:

Riksbank Sees Increased Risks to Swedish Financial System
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Bulgaria:

Bulgaria court assigns trial on CorpBank bankruptcy
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Romania:

Romania PM hopes Hidroelectrica will exit insolvency next year
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