Law:
Foreclosure Firm Butler & Hosch Abruptly Shuts Down • 700 jobless • Workers told there’s no money to pay them
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When Partners Ask Associates Not To Record Time . . .
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North American lawyers accept 50pc pay cut in return for quality of life
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MetLife GC: Lawyers Should Learn to Talk Business
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Are Big Firm Lawyers Incapable of Happiness?
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Survey Of Law Firm Managing Partners: There Are Too Many Lawyers; BigLaw Is Running Out Of Work
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Elizabeth Wurtzel on Big Law Inefficiency
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Bankruptcy Attorney Melissa Youngman Joins Wilson Elser’s Orlando Office
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Top Lawyer in househusband U-turn as she tells young women lawyers to share domestic chores
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Bankruptcy Lawyer: Flying Solo - 10 Things I Wish I Knew (Part 2)
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For Lawyers, Professor Sees Growth in Liability To Non-Clients
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With Eye on Tech Space, Dentons Leaders Create “Accelerator”
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Appeals court condemns ‘puerile name calling’ and reverses verdict because of lawyer’s comments
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Victims Of ‘Biggest Bar Exam Disaster Ever’ Continue To Get The Shaft, Even After ExamSoft Settlement
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Stanford Law Students Are Crowdsourcing Graduation Speech
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Why Does It Take SOOOO Long For Law Profs To Grade Exams?
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Can this legal maneuver save Charleston School of Law?
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University of Denver adds professor of pot
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New Cardozo, Suffolk Law Deans Plan Smaller Classes
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Law Review Publishes Entire Issue Dedicated to ‘Breaking Bad’
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Paychecks will shrink for Pace Law School professors and staffers
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Flame War At UChicago Law School
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UK: Top 30 foreign firms grow at 13pc in London, led by Lathams
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A&O rescues Sao Paolo office by persuading last partner to stay
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Clients demand more of firms on data security
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Felons who are barred from possessing guns can sell them with court approval, Supreme Court says
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Prominent lawyer jailed in child-p*** case until he made $400K bail
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A good night’s sleep on a $4K mattress pointed a former BigLaw attorney to a new job in sales
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Nearly 200 charged after 9 die in Texas biker brawl; courthouse, other buildings under heavy guard
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John Oliver Takes On Contracts
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Saudi Arabia advertises for eight new executioners as beheading rate soars
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Did You Know These 10 Famous People Were Also Lawyers?
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Lawyer removes Confederate flags from civil war cemetery, sparking calls for disbarment
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Judges:
TX Judge Disciplined for 'New York Jew' Comment
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Judge Cote Strikes Again
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Wall Street:
Dow, S&P hit record highs as rate-hike worries fade
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A ‘scary summer’ ahead for stocks: Bank of America
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Goldman: Market's going nowhere for a year
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Layoffs:
UW-Madison could eliminate 434 total positions, lay off 70
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Rise of the Robots : How 'The Job-Eating Maw Of Technology Threatens Even The Nimblest And Most Expensively Educated,' Including Lawyers
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Privacy:
The RadioShack Bankruptcy Consumer Privacy Report Is Out • The FTC is trying to protect shopper data caught up in RadioShack's bankruptcy • FTC proposes a compromise so RadioShack can sell consumer data • RadioShack’s sale of customer data could be unlawful, FTC says • Privacy promises and bankruptcy : The latest letter
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A hedge fund bought RadioShack's customer-base for $2.6 million — but the FTC doesn't think it should be able to use it
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Your Boss Is Now Tracking You at Home
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Corporate Governance:
Delaware Chancery Court Clarifies Fiduciary Duties of Insolvent Corporation Directors in Derivative Action
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Parties to Whom Directors Owe Duties Depend on Solvency
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Punitive Damages of Officers Upheld, but Vacated as to Directors, in Mismanagement Case
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Recent Delaware Court Rulings Clarify Standing Issues in Creditor Derivative Litigation Against Allegedly Insolvent Corporation's Directors or Officers
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More Clarity for Delaware Directors When Considering Restructuring Transactions
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Student Debt:
The Examiners on Student Loan Debt: What Our Readers Thought
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Student debt fuels racial inequality
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Coal:
Walter Energy says nearly 400 jobs in danger
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Will Cost Cuts See Arch Coal Through the Downturn?
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Food/Beverage:
Golden County Foods files for bankruptcy
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Blue Bell Closes Arizona Distribution Center
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Telecoms:
Lessons from the Nortel case
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Agriculture:
Oregon farmers say company lags on payments for seed
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Baseball:
ASU files motion to have baseball club’s assets liquidated
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Hockey:
Erie Otters' smaller creditors push for team to stay
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Education:
Institutions of Higher Education and Access to Bankruptcy: Are Things as Simple as They Seem?
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Students who went to a now-defunct for-profit college made an unprecedented move to get their money back
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Autos:
Really: Nobody Wants to Merge with Chrysler?
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Economy:
What the U.S. economy needs is a lunar landing: Shiller
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People have no idea what inequality actually looks like
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The top 10 jobs employers can’t get filled: Manpower
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El-Erian: Forget Greece, this has me worried
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Bill Gates Scoffs At Suggestion That 35% Corporate Tax Rate Is Stifling Economic Growth
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US income gap through average CEO paycheck
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4 Companies Drowning in Debt
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Hensarling Takes on Corporate Welfare
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
Homebuilders' confidence in sales prospects ebbs • Confidence Falls for Fourth Time in Five Months
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2 reasons the housing market is underachieving
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Fannie, Freddie, MBA economists predict interest rate hike in 2015
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Freddie Mac: Rising rents aren’t pushing residents to homeownership
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Ocwen Warns On Cash Crunch Amid Talks With Lenders • Bankruptcy’s Big Three: Two judges and a (former) emergency manager walk into a lunch…
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Major mortgage firms agree to deal with zombie properties
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Apartments: Supply and Demand
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Municipalities:
Emanuel Begins Second Term With Chicago on Financial Edge
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Rahm Emanuel Scrambles To Avoid Failing Grade For Chicago Public Schools
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A Bankrupt City Votes on Its Next Steps • San Bernardino council backs bankruptcy plan that hammers bondholders • San Bernardino's bankruptcy plan favors CalPERS
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Stockton's Chapter 9 Plan Approval
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Orr: 5 months after bankruptcy, Detroit still on track
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Community Development Lessons From Detroit
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Dallas is friendliest city for business in the U.S.
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Retailing:
OH: Owner of Woodville Mall files for bankruptcy
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How Akron's Rolling Acres Mall rotted away
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Home Depot earnings, revenue top estimates
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Gambling:
Caesars' creditors appeal bankruptcy start date, cite $468 mln lawsuit
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Celebs:
Dionne Warwick Owes The IRS $6 Million
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Bitter Wrangles Finally Settled Over Sammy Davis' Estate
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Bankruptcy Crimes:
FL: David W. Griffin Indicted by FBI in Foreclosure and Bankruptcy Fraud Scheme
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Oil/Gas:
Oil prices drop as weak fundamentals weigh on market
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Goldman Sees Oil at $45 by October After 'Self-Defeating' Rally • Oil Prices Will Fall: A Lesson In Gravity
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Pipeline Billionaire Kelcy Warren Is Having Fun in the Oil Bust
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Former Top Lehman Brothers Banker Skip McGee Sees Opportunity In Troubled Oil Patch
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Energy groups' $100B spending cuts after oil rout FT
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National Oilwell Varco Scores $395K from Mud King over Stolen Trade Secrets
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"Shocking" global energy subsidies to hit $5.3 tn this year: IMF
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Frac Specialists Cuts Debt but Still Has to Make Chapter 11 Filing
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Analysts: TX shale drilling will get a lot cheaper by mid-2016
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American Eagle Energy unsecured creditor panel appointed
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Rolls-Royce to Cut Jobs at Marine Unit Amid Slowing Business
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Oil companies named for star athletes in DFW file for bankruptcy
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Finding a job after the oilfield
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IP:
Delaware Joins the 7th and 9th Circuits in Protecting Trademark License Owners from Non-consensual Bankruptcy Assumptions and Assignments
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Fraud:
Two Recent Decisions Potentially Expand Fraudulent Transfer Exposure in Ponzi Schemes
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Bharara: ‘We Have Corrosive Corruption in Our State Capital’
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US law firms pay $2.7m in settlement over Ponzi schemes
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MF Global Investors Seek Settlement Approval
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Politics:
Brandus on the ‘dumb’ Republican no-bailout pledge
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Bill Clinton Promised Town Real Hope...Not
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And Now Graham Wants to be President
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Taxis:
Disruption: Taxi medallions becoming unsellable
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Uber: We Might Cut Driver Pay Because We Can
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Compensation:
2014's highest paid CEOs
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Lehman:
Self-Help Setoff in Lehman Case Deemed Impermissible
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Pensions:
Employers must monitor 401(k) fees, Supreme Court rules
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Fishing:
Pescanova creditors: All subsidiaries in bankruptcy will be rescued
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Amusement Parks:
Lawyer asks judge to rule on Conneaut Lake Park settlement
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Healthcare:
New uses considered for former Quincy Medical Center campus
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(3 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 (22 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (16 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:
Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Claims:
The Third Circuit Rejects the Accrual Test and Adopts a Different Standard for Determining the Existence of a Claim
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Setoff:
Delaware Bankruptcy Court: Debtors Can Offset Administrative Claims Before General Unsecured Claims
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Lien Priority:
Equitable Conversion Enables Lender's Security Interest to Relate Back, Giving Lender Priority over IRS Lien
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Equitable Marshalling Does Not Require Secured Lender to Foreclose or Reduce the Value of its Claim
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UCC:
Typo in Security Agreement Cannot Be Repaired Using Parol Evidence after Bankruptcy Filing
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Cross-Border:
The Scope of the Stay Under Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code
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Dutch Company, New York Law - An English Scheme of Arrangement?
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Safe Harbors:
How Safe are the Bankruptcy Code Safe Harbors?
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Standing:
Creditors Do Not Have Standing To Pursue Derivative Claims On Behalf of Delaware Limited Liability Companies
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Personal Bankruptcy:
Bankruptcy Leftovers Go to Debtor, SCOTUS Says • Tie goes to the debtor in consumer bankruptcy dispute about funds paid to trustee • Supreme Court Decides Harris v. Viegelahn • Postpetition Wages Held by Chapter 13 Trustee Belong to Debtor Upon Conversion
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Plan Confirmation:
SDNY Affirms Denial of Make-whole Claim and Confirmation of Cramdown Plan with Below-market Rate Replacement Notes
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Court Rejects 'Business Justification' for Claim Classifications, Creditor Cannot Be Forced to Make Section 1111(b) Election
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Applying Till, Court Requires Evidence to Increase Interest Rate Above Prime
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Bankruptcy Court Rejects Creditor Argument that Plan Not Feasible, Refuses to Vacate Order Confirming Chapter 11 Plan
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The Supreme Court Rigidly Applies the Rules of “Flexible Finality” in Bullard v. Blue Hills Bank
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Beware! – Approach Chapter 11 Releases With Caution
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Valuation:
Be Careful When Using the Owner of Property to Establish the Value in a Declaration
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Avoidance Actions:
Fraudulent Transfers May Not Be Avoided Where No Benefit to the Estate
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Sales:
SCOPAC: New Opportunities for Secured Creditors in Sales of Bankrupt Companies through Chapter 11 Plan
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Going, Going, Gone: Selling the Cubs and Rangers in Bankruptcy
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Bankruptcy Court Refuses to Allow Debtor and Committee to Renegotiate Carve-out from Section 363 Sale Proceeds
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Data:
When Big Data Becomes Your Most Valuable Asset
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Litigation:
Litigation Trends Annual Survey from Norton Rose Fulbright Released
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TBTF:
Sorry, Jamie Dimon: Bigger Always Means Riskier
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Sovereigns:
Judiciary sets limits on judge Griesa after Citi agreement •Argentine court suspends US judge-backed agreement between Citibank and vulture funds • Argentina , the Paul Singer Hater, Plays Cut-Throat Creditor Too
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UK:
Insolvency profession launches web guide for creditors
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UK businesses owed £41bn in late payments
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UK pensioners to benefit as judges order insolvent Nortel’s assets to be divided equally
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Gateley's gamble - why law firms should heed accountancy's listing mistakes
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Administrators are not required to investigate directors’ motives for appointing them
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Biggest employers 'not paying living wage'
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U.K. Inflation Falls Below Zero for First Time Since 1960 • Time to Worry? • The UK Just Fell Into Deflation
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EU:
Euro Plunges as ECB Official Pledges to Speed Up Bond Purchases
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PIIGS:
Greece says must strike debt deal in May as money runs low • How Much Money Does Greece Have Left? • Athens staggers closer to the financial precipice • Athens sees EU deal soon, Greeks' approval of government stance dwindles • ECB rolls its tanks onto the lawn as Greece's PM faces a party mutiny • European Stocks Seesaw Over Greece Default Jitters • Europe shares close higher as Greek fears abate • EC denies reports of new Greek plan • Greek bonds tumble on speculation cash may only last a few weeks • Greece must reform to avoid insolvency • Bank run gains pace as default fears grow • Greece 'in crisis' as officials insist deal is near
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Germany:
German Investor Confidence Falls Amid Slower Economic Growth
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Mexico:
Mexicana Airlines: A New Test Case In Mexico
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Serbia:
Serbia agrees to program to speed up bad loan resolution
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Netherlands:
Clothes shops lose 66% of their profit margin
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Japan:
Japan's Sharp Gets $1.9 Billion Bank Bailout
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China:
China’s Slowing Economy Means Its Tax Authorities Are Coming After You
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In China, ‘Breaking Bad’ is real
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The Chinese Century is Already Over
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