Law:

Legal Services Sector Added 2,300 Jobs in April • Layoffs Increase • Legal sector in expansion mode
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Jury Selection Completed for Dewey & LeBoeuf Criminal Trial
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Four Practice Areas To Watch
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Law Firms Hit Snag in Q1
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Cravath’s Levin to Join Jenner & Block
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Curtis Mallet Elevates Two Bankruptcy Attorneys To Counsel
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Former Maine Aquarium owner suing bankruptcy lawyer
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Orrick Gives Working Moms a Lift With New Parental Leave Policy • Why women struggle at work
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All The Chest Hair: A Russian Law Firm’s Website
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NY Senate majority leader is on leave from his law firm job after arrest
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Without Their Own Secretaries - Lawyers Lose Confidants, Buffers, Status
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Project attorney’s ADA suit says Pepper Hamilton didn’t accommodate his sleep disorder
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Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks – Practical Advice For New Lawyers
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US law firms less likely to conduct client feedback than globally
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What Law Students And Young Lawyers Can Learn From NBA MVP Stephen Curry
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Charleston School of Law May Suspend Enrollment • The Charleston Saga: The Embodiment of Lucre and Malice
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UMass Law School Cuts Incoming Class By 33%, Faces $3.8 Million Deficit • UMass Law School = Distressed Entity
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Crying Rooms - Financially Distressed Law Schools Might Install Them As Profit Centers
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Law Student Gets Scholarship To Play Big East Ball
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Competitive Scholarships, Mandatory Courses, and the Costs and Benefits of Disclosure • More on Conditional Law School Scholarships
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Texas A&M Law School Dean Is Still Cheerful About The Future Of Legal Education
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After Seizing Couple’s Bank Accounts, Prosecutors Abandon Forfeiture Case
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Walking the Tightrope: Responding to a Client's Online Criticism
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Court ruling against NSA practice could reverberate far beyond phone spying
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Second-Tier Firms Strike Back
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Faegre Baker CIO Says Lawyers Need to Learn Tech
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Investments Drive Growth at Haynes and Boone
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Billable Hour’s Death Greatly Exaggerated
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Why Some Men Pretend To Work 80-Hour Weeks
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Restructuring Professionals: Prepping for the ’Perfect’ Pitch
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15 tricks that will make you appear smarter in emails
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How anyone can become a master networker
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Value is a moveable feast
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This video can help you figure out if you're the coworker everyone hates
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How to know if you're a psychopath
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Can wearing a suit make you less effective?
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Here's the right way to give a proper handshake
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Chasing the Myth of Work-Life Balance
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10 sentences excellent speakers never say
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Peeping Tom Attorney Can Lawyer No More
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How Does The Law End Up On Television?
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Judge Declares Mistrial in Etan Patz Case; Jury Entered 17th Day • Jury Divided 11-to-1
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Nine Georgia deputies fired over black inmate's death
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After Freddie Gray death, US starts civil rights probe of Baltimore police • AG Loretta Lynch announces ‘pattern and practice’ probe of Baltimore police practices
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Cops charged in Freddie Gray death say prosecutor was trying to 'quell raging inferno' and needs to be recused
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Woman sues Verizon Wireless, claims a customer service call led to her heart attack
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Patriots fear lengthy suspension for Brady... 6 to 8 games? • Tom Brady's Footballs Trigger College Course on Deflategate
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Judge may allow video of paralegal at trial of 3 lawyers accused in DUI setup of opposing counsel
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Man Accused of Trying to Murder His Wife With a Defective Parachute
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Woman Allegedly Put . . . in Family's Milk
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Who is Threatening Texas?
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Say What?!
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Judges:

Chief Justice John Roberts Comes Out
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Supreme Save the Date
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Is this the most inappropriate gavel ever?
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Justices Scarce on The Commencement Scene This Year
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Bankruptcy trustee says she’s most qualified for Common Pleas Court
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How to Clear a Room: Bankruptcy Court Reduces Rent and Long-Term Storage Costs
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6th Circuit: Federal judge abused discretion by refusing to let law firm withdraw in civil case
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Destruction of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
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Wall Street:

US stocks : Futures dip as markets struggle to build on post-jobs gains
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Buffett: Stocks won't look cheap if interest rates rise
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The disconnect in the US stock market just keeps getting bigger
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Collapse of Bond Market to Hit Stocks Next
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As one bull run winds down, another may be born
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Wall Street's jobs rally looks set to peter out
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Layoffs:

Strong U.S. dollar pressures jobs at exporters
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Nearly 500 Labinal Power Systems layoffs to start in July
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Turnarounds:

Kodak CEO Jeff Clarke on What It Takes to Turn Around a Fallen Brand
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Study: Chief Restructuring Officers (CROs) are more in demand than ever
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Awards:

Lisa J. Donahue Honored By Her Justice (scroll down)
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Gambling:

School funding at stake in casino debate
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Caesars Bankruptcy Doesn't Hinder Best Revenue Postings Since 2008
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Officials hold closed meeting on fate of former Showboat
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Investors Are Placing New Bets on a Las Vegas Rebound
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Aviation:

Will Gulf Carriers Triumph Over US Airlines In The Subsidy Row? - Bankruptcy = "Subsidy"
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Flight Attendants Fail to Wrest Back Their Right to Give You a Hard Time
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Telecoms:

What RCC Consultants' Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing means to customers
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Celebs:

Lenny Dykstra Trades Barbs With Mitch Williams in Philly Sports Roast
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Teresa Giudice’s Jersey Shore Home Going To Foreclosure Auction
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Courtney Love Allegedly Owes Insane Amount of Money to Her Psychiatrist
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Bankruptcy Crimes:

SA businessman indicted in tax, bankruptcy fraud schemes
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Theatre:

Surflight Theatre to be liquidated in bankruptcy auction
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Paper:

Great Northern Paper bankruptcy creditors receive nearly $3 million
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Mail:

Post Office Reports $1.5 Billion Loss in Q1
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Economy:

World interest rates have only been this low 3 times since 1522
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Janet Yellen is losing patience
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Robert Shiller: I think Janet Yellen did the right thing
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Most of America's Unemployed Are from 16-34 Age Group - Pew • Unemployment rate falls to 5.4% • Americans are coming back into the workforce at a near-record rate • Wages... Meh • How ‘good’ is jobs report when 15 million want work? • The Pain That the Job Numbers Don't Show
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Millennials have come all the way back
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World interest rates have only been this low 3 times since 1522
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What retail sales report will tell us about the economy
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Fed faces limits on crisis lending powers... Bipartisan proposal to stop 'backdoor bailouts' • Bills to Rein in Fed Take Shape as Lawmaker Criticism Mounts
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Annaly CEO: Blame Fed policy for failed economic recovery
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Unemployment drops to lowest level in 7 years -- so why are investors worried?
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Social Security's Demise Is Much Closer Than You Think
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How much the average member of the 1% makes in every state
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Time to heed the alarms on junk bonds
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Companies authorize record buybacks in April
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

Rents rise as millennials keep forking over the cash
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Green Tree mortgage servicer accused of abusing customers with profanity, name-calling, inflated payments, lies
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American Homes 4 Rent revenue explodes in first quarter
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Silver Bay first-quarter revenue jumps 23%
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MGIC reports fewer delinquencies on file in April
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FHFA: HARP now extended through 2016
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FL: Beware the zombie (houses)
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Municipalities:

What are the chances of Atlantic City going bankrupt ? • Atlantic City faces massive layoffs
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San Bernardino to release bankruptcy exit plan on May 14
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Firefighters need to start cooperating with bankrupt SB
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Illinois Supreme Court Strikes Down Law to Rein in Public Sector Pensions • Illinois Bid to Solve $111 Billion Pension Shortfall Is Dead
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Court Pension Smackdown Toughens Job for U.S. Governors, Mayors
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Detroit: 25,000 households face water shutoff this month
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Puerto Rico braces for austere budget amid cash shortfall
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Assured CEO Says Puerto Rico Bankruptcy Bill Is Wrong Plan
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Why Chicago is not 'the next Detroit'
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Cities And States Are Making Risky Bets To Cover Pension Costs
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Politics:

Congress Tells Court That Congress Can't Be Investigated for Insider Trading
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Michigan Governor Rick Snyder Won't Seek the White House
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Student loans and the presidential race
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Scott Walker's New Flip-Flop: He Now Supports Auto Bailouts?
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Here's who Wall Street really wishes would run for president
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Clintons not as well-off as predecessors
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Fact Check- Cary Fiorina: "We doubled the size of the company (Hewlett-Packard)."
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Bush courts evangelicals, defends religion in public life
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Education:

Colleges try to lure Corinthian students
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Obama Administration Improperly Denies Student Loan Debt Relief
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Senators Urge Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to Provide Support to Students Affected by the Closure of Corinthian Colleges
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Government must stay tough on for-profit colleges
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For-profit college shutdowns cap $8 billion market-value plunge • Decline in For-Profit Colleges Takes a Big Toll on Their Stocks
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New owners pledge cheaper, better Everest U.
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Christians schools will have no choice about gay marriage
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The Radio Shack Phenomenon and the Future of Private Independent Higher Education
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Student Debt:

Class of 2015 setting a record for student debt
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Television:

Cable news is in trouble, and it’s more about the news than the cable
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Religion:

Parishes get role in archdiocese bankruptcy
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Lawyers in Milwaukee bankruptcy proceedings threaten to drag out litigation
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Horse Racing:

Bankrupt Chicago Horse-Racing Tracks Look for Buyers
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Retailing:

RadioShack - Bankruptcy Court Implicitly Recognizes Enforceability of Agreement Among Lenders But Limits Coverage of First Out Contingent Indemnification Claims
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RadioShack Intellectual Property Hits Auction Block Monday
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What Could RadioShack's Bankruptcy Mean For Best Buy?
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RadioShack Failure Still Haunts HRG as Two Units Take Losses
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Wage increases in focus ahead of retail earnings
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Healthcare:

Interfaith Medical Center Survives Bankruptcy with State Support
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Louisiana healthcare on the state budget chopping block
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Corporate Reform:

Dodd-Frank Supporters Say Safer System Justifies Cost of Regulation
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Krugman: Wall Street Vampires
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Oil/Gas:

Turnaround titan takes his talents to troubled EXCO
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10 Things to Know Before Investing in Distressed Energy
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American Eagle Energy Files For Bankruptcy Protection
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Crude-oil futures push lower after China cut
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The tumble in US oil rigs slowed again last week • Oil rig count falls to lowest since late 2010
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More oilfield jobs lost despite modest rebound in crude prices
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Rescinded Job Offers Now Hit Petroleum Engineer Graduates - Remembering "Def Land" In Legal Sector
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The shale boom? It looks a lot like the dot com bubble, not the financial crisis
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Goldman: 'Yields have been strongly linked with crude...'
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Boone Pickens bets on rising oil prices and Bush
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Fraud:

Madoff Trustee Seeks Supreme Court Review of Second Circuit's Decision Shielding Customer Payments from Avoidance
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Bernie Madoff's Second-in-Command Dies Before Sentencing
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As Incarcerated Borrower Accuses Bank Of Forgery, Bank Demands Prison Hearing
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Court appearance postponed for ZeekRewards.com founder
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$9 Million Sought From Alleged Madoff Feeder Funds
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The Collapse of MF Global: What Happened and Lessons Learned
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Wells Fargo Settles Florida Ponzi Case For $3.175 Million
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Food/Beverage:

McDonald's Key Sales Figure Dips in April • McDonald's should fear its franchisees
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Blue Bell Didn't Tell FDA About Listeria
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Waste:

City's recycling is trashed as cheap oil sinks plastic
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Agriculture:

Manatee tomato farm companies file for bankruptcy
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Bankruptcy Music:

That New Song About Bills
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Construction:

IBC Files for Bankruptcy , Owes GovGuam $4.7M
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Electricity:

Bill Gates' fund would get power plants in Optim bankruptcy plan
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Weather:

Arizona Water Shortage Worse Than Calif.
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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 (31 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (18 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:

(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:

NM debtors tend to shun filing Chapter 13
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Miscellaneous:

The Week Ahead
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Bankruptcy Reform:

ABI Commission Report – Third-Party Releases in Plans
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Debtor's Prison in the Neoliberal State: 'Debtfare' and the Cultural Logics of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005
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Swords, Shields, and Shackles: Human and Corporate 'Persons' Under the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005
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Professional Compensation:

Restructuring firm sent Standard Register a hefty bill for April
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Plan Confirmation:

Supreme Court Weighs-In on the Finality of Confirmation Orders (Part 2)
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Discharge:

Move by 2 big banks could help some consumers • When Will Bank of America Get the Hint? Taking Advantage of Customers Isn't Good for Business
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Standing:

Fleshing Out Creditor Derivative Standing in Delaware
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Avoidance Actions:

Bankruptcy Court Orders Bank to Disgorge Over $1.5 Million for Allowing Account Overdrafts
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TBTF:

The US government's not-so-secret plan to break up the banks?
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Mixed Messages Regarding OLA
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Feds Move to Dismiss MetLife Suit Over 'Too Big to Fail'
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Insurance:

Deloitte cleared in $850 million lawsuit
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Mass Torts:

BP wins right to appeal some Gulf spill damages claims
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Texas Considers Asbestos Transparency Legislation
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Personal Finance:

The 9 biggest mistakes people make in their 30s
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6 common interview mistakes that could cost you the job
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The worst things to buy in May
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Coal:

Walter Energy fighting to stay afloat financially • Walter Energy Plans to Make Payment on Debt Offering • Walter Energy to pay high yield bond coupons as revamp talks continue • Walter Energy's future uncertain as major financial deadline looms
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Debt Collection:

The Right Way to Execute a Writ in the Western District of Michigan
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Amusement Parks:

Conneaut Lake Park creditors push to see payment plan
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Conneaut Lake Park's future in court's hands today
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Museums:

Report lashes Young At Art Museum as financial failure
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Sovereigns:

Gov't to file complaint against NML for Belgium seizure attempt
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Belgium proposes to fight 'vulture’ funds praying on indebted developing countries
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'Vulture' fund warns of more embargoes of Argentine assets
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UK:

R3 calls on Conservatives to secure 'no win no fee' arrangement
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Questions over bankrupt property boss
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Supreme Court considers place of “establishment” in Olympic Airlines appeal
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Tory win sounds death knell for criminal bar, predicts top QC
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‘Free Chambers’? Disgruntled lawyer edits Wikipedia page of new Justice Secretary Michael Gove
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EU:

London Calling: Pre-Pack Administrations and Progress of the European Cross Border Insolvency Regulation Reforms
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PIIGS:

Greece says deal will be 'difficult' at Eurogroup meeting • German, Greek finmins to talk before Eurogroup meeting-German spokesman • Merkel Pressed to Give Up Greece as Germans Urge Strong Euro
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Germany sees no Greek debt deal on Monday, warns against default • 'Groundhog week for Greece' — analysts downbeat • Euro dips on Greek fears ahead of key meeting • Germany's Schaeuble warns of Greek 'sudden insolvency' risk • Documents Distributed by Greece's Yanis Varoufakis Baffle Eurozone Officials • Greece could exit EU if fails to end bankruptcy • Making Sense of the Options for Greece • Greece out of time and out of money yet remains defiant • Greece still hopeful of positive statement from Eurogroup meeting • I.M.F. and Central Bank Loom Large Over Greece's Debt Talks • Greek leader faces revolt by party hardliners as debt showdown looms • Greece seemingly has no Plan A or Plan B • Making Sense of the Options for Greece
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Gayle Killilea in new bid to save her €100m 'gift'
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Plan to stop banks vetoing debt deals 'a game changer'
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Canada:

Lac-Mégantic disaster class-action suit gets green light
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Major miner in B.C., on verge of bankruptcy, says overdue payments coming
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Wal-Mart, Canadian Tire buy some Target spots in Canada
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The debt ‘crisis’ in Canada? If your paycheque is $100,000 plus, that means you
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Germany:

Refinancing and Restructuring of German Mittelstandsanleihen (Minibonds)
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China:

China Cuts Rates to Halt a Slide in its Economy • China’s high-risk rate cuts aren’t working
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Another Chinese Firm Defaults on Its Dollar Bond
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China's Total Debt Load Now Over 280% Of GDP
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China Car Sales Slowest Since February 2013
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Cyprus:

Loan restructuring should proceed more rapidly says House President
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Cyprus confident next bailout review will be positive
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Ukraine:

Metinvest faces bankruptcy if bondholders shun new debt plan
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Russian soldiers are quitting the army over the crisis in Ukraine
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Bulgaria:

Conservators at Bulgaria’s CorpBank: We have not violated law
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Venezuela:

Venezuela: Motorcyclists are reportedly being killed for scarce spare parts
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Brazil:

Cimento Tupi Will Miss $9 Million Interest Payment Due Monday
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New Zealand:

Taxman closes in on accountants $485m debt
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MENA:

Life Under the Islamic State's Rule
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Japan:

Sharp shares plunge on capital reduction reports • Is it the end of the road for Sharp?
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Singapore:

Singapore seeks to 'create a more rehabilitative regime for bankrupts' • Parliament: Changes to ease bankruptcy rules tabled
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