Law:
These two BigLaw firms have reportedly ended their preliminary merger talks
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Kirkland lashes out against Caesars creditor accusations
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Inside a $5.7 Billion Antitrust Trainwreck
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Biglaw Compensation Leader Makes Costly Changes To Its Health Insurance Plan
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Biglaw: Demand Is Slowing, Expenses Are Up • Citi Report Finds Revenue Slowdown • In-House Lawyers are Reining in Law Firm Spend • For Cost-Conscious Clients, Less Is More • Law firms face revenue slowdown • Do BigLaw firms need to tighten their belts?
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Dentons ties knot with Dacheng to create 6,600-lawyer firm
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Pa. Firms Missing the Mark on Rate Increases, Survey Shows
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Legal market expert predicts that Big Four accountancy giants will challenge top law firms
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How to Take Market Share: Lessons for Law Firms
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The Customer Is Always A Sucker: Law School Economics
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Hollywood Lawyer Donates $5 Mln to UCLA School of Law
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Price Discrimination Will Ultimately Bite Law Schools
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The Best Ever ‘Faculty In The News’ Blurb
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The Achilles' Heel Of Law Schools — Charging More To The Least Qualified Students
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Princeton/UCLA Study: It Is Time To Ban Laptops In Law School Classrooms
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Foley & Lardner To Leave Eversheds Standing At The Altar
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What Skills Will Lawyers Need in 20 Years?
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Law firm offers free defense to military veterans booked for traffic offenses on Veterans Day
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Legal Industry Potpourri: Demand Down, More Women Advancing • At Some Firms More Than Others, Women Lag Among New Partners
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Mizzou Appoints Law Prof to Oversee Diversity
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With 2,000 Billable Hours, Add 300 More for Veterans
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When Your Fantasy Job Needs A Reality Check
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So Many Conflicts, So Many Contexts
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Akerman Launches Fraud Practice Group
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Arent Fox Names First Female Managing Partner
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Evidence Shows Most Lawyers Continue To Have Profitable, Fulfilling Careers (In Texas)
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Beyond Biglaw: Goodbye, Grantland
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A Lawyer’s Guide To Social Media (Part 1): Twitter
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Harvard Law students debate whether people protesting racism at Yale are 'fascists'
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BigLaw partner faces possible sanction for tweeting photos during trial
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Apple iPad Pro Review: Bigger. Better?
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Lawyer who sued cops for his courthouse arrest loses 3rd Circuit appeal
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Law firm marketing chief hits a home run with World Series photo
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Goldberg Segalla announces partner’s firing on YouTube after he insulted Liverpool fans on camera
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Lawyer is sentenced in attempted murder of his wife; his law firm found hit-man research
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Who Was Clara Shortridge Foltz?
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Legal Luminaries Can Be Such Show Offs
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Ex-Bryan Cave Lawyer's Role in Maxim Deal Examined at Trial • Did BigLaw lawyer lie to help client get millions to buy Maxim? Or was he a victim of his client?
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It’s Hard to Pay a Lawyer Without Money
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Jail phone records show 14,000 calls to lawyers were taped
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3L Reading Excuse Form
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A Modest Proposal For Bluebook Reform
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A look at Apple’s new iPad Pro in action • The iPad Pro is the future of computing • You may not be able to get the iPad Pro's most important add-ons for another month
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How to take the perfect LinkedIn profile photo
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The 2 main reasons people aren't buying the Apple Watch
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Biglaw Partner’s Tweets Spark FBI Interest
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Supreme Court Shields Police From Juries
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ATL’s Legally Themed Halloween Costume Contest: The Winner (2015)
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Free courthouse ‘boutique’ helps defendants look their best at trial
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This is what makes charismatic people so attractive
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A Craigslist Ad That Needs Help
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Apple apologized to black students who were asked to leave a store because they 'might steal something'
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Lawyer gets probation for forging judge’s name on court order and is disbarred by consent
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Slain 6-year-old’s dad had warned killer Louisiana cop to stay away from his fiancé before shooting
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Judges:
ED TN: Chief Bankruptcy Judge Receives Judicial Conference Appointment
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Oregon Judge Accused of Screening Gay Couples Faces Ethics Hearing • Judge Defends Himself at Ethics Hearing
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Controversial judge orders baby removed from same-sex parents and placed with heterosexual family
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Judge accused of making false residency claim is convicted
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Given 20 days for contempt, lawyer blames judge and says he would like to sanction jurist
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Which SCOTUS justices get the most ‘dog’ opinions?
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This SCOTUS Justice Hasn’t Written The Majority Opinion In A Major Case In 6 Years
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Who Is Qualified To Portray A Supreme Court Justice?
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Judge Kopf Crosses (Crossfires?) Fault Lines
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Supreme Court Win Likely for Big Law Associate
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Judge Julie Kocurek's Shooting - Chimene Onyeri, Person Of Interest, Is Defendant In Her Court
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The Delaware Docket - Third Quarter
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NV: Bankruptcy Bugle November 2015 issue
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Wall Street:
Stocks set to pull back
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Weakness in retailers and energy companies pull stocks lower
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Layoffs:
UniCredit Plans to Shrink Workforce by About 18,200
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Rockwell expects economic slowdown, plans layoffs in 2016
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Trib Total Media to lay off 153 in sweeping restructuring
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More layoffs coming at AK Steel
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Major Layoffs in the Mining, Oil, and Gas Industry
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Bankruptcy Crimes:
Benton attorney pleads guilty to bankruptcy fraud
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Healthcare:
Drug-Testing Lab Millennium Enters Bankruptcy • Millennium Lab Files Bankruptcy After Settling With U.S.
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Prime Healthcare's $62.2M bid accepted by bankrupt NJ hospital
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Court Rules that Medicare and Medicaid Payments to Nursing Home Must Continue Pending Jurisdictional Dispute
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Saint Michael’s Board Sticks with Original Bidder, to Critic’s Dismay
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Foundation HealthCare Announces Agreement To Acquire University General Hospital in Houston
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East Orange hospital, in process of sale, files for bankruptcy • NJ hospital files for bankruptcy amid sale to Prospect Medical Holdings • East Orange General Hospital’s Bankruptcy Filing Could Slow Pending Sale
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California Hospital Hires Delaware Collection Agency
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High-flying health care is now slowing dramatically
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Companies Continue to Chip Away at Health Care Benefits
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Food/Beverage:
Albertsons Makes A Bid To Get Stores Back In Haggen Bankruptcy
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Haggen may sell 32 core stores in Washington, Oregon
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Bids exceed expectations for Haggen stores
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As time runs out for stores, A&P seeks extension for bankruptcy plan
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Yellen Partners to Conduct Equipment Auction of Organic Avenue
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Team Schostak affiliate is stalking horse bidder to buy bankrupt Olga's Kitchen
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People are starting to pay for unlimited coffee memberships
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Aviation:
Estonian Air files for bankruptcy
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Rolls-Royce shares plunge 19pc on downgrade to profit forecasts • Rolls-Royce is tanking
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Religion:
Pope Francis calls to be closer to the poor and fight 'cancer of corruption'
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Education:
Winston Prouty Center submits bid for Austine School campus
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Guns:
Colt Defense Announces Court Approval of Disclosure Statement for Plan of Reorganization • Colt Defense nets disclosure statement OK, exclusivity extension
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Golf:
Riverfront ranch and golf course headed for auction
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Corporate Governance:
A Trio of Delaware Decisions Reaffirms Corporate Director Protections
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Economy:
Goldman Sachs Says Corporate America Has Quietly Re-levered
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Economic. recovery has about 4 years left: Goldman
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Decline and Fall of America's Working Class
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Both parents are more likely to work full-time
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Household Spending Expectations for the Coming Year are Improving
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Why the Self-Employed Are Struggling to Save for Retirement
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A Record Share of Young Women Are Living at Home
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Debt Market Flashes Scary Signal
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What falling copper prices say about world economy
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The US economy is turning into a nightmare for recruiters
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Millennials are living with their parents longer than ever
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
Dealing with Restaurant and Retail Leases in Bankruptcy
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Federal judge stuns courtroom with probation sentences in $5M mortgage-fraud case
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US Foreclosure Starts Increase 12 Percent in October • Why did foreclosures spike in October?
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Bank will pay man $2 million for ‘mistaken’ foreclosure
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Little Rock: Rent due...but to who?
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Welcome Back: Colony still sits vacant
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LV: Fontainebleau on north Strip for sale
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Silicon Valley ‘shack’ lists for nearly $2 million
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You need to be earning a lot of money to afford a one-bedroom apartment by yourself in Manhattan
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Municipalities:
Surrounding mayors to Atlantic City: Declare bankruptcy
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A.C. mayor OK with Christie's changes
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LAUSD school board to take up report warning of approaching bankruptcy
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Florida representatives urge Congress to help financially strapped Puerto Rico
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Our Fellow Americans in Puerto Rico Must Not Be Forgotten
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Puerto Rico Electric needs to get insurers on board by Thursday
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Puerto Rico Is Running Out of Options
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Moody's sees Puerto Rico defaulting on some debt payments due Dec. 1
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How to Fix Puerto Rico's Fiscal Mess Without Bailout or Bankruptcy
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Puerto Rico: Isle of Disenchantment
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Puerto Rico's Advocates' Cries Fall On Deaf Ears
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Why is Puerto Rico in So Much Debt?
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Fitch: Some California School District GOs Protected in Bankruptcy
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Atlantic City posts the highest foreclosure rate in the US for the fourth month in a row
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Warren Evans' deficit plan praised at state capitol
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Retailing:
Macy's stock tanks after 'tough' Q3 earnings report • Macy's cuts full-year forecast, sends shivers through retail
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As Seen In Bankruptcy Court: Struggling Oddball Retailers End Up With Same Pitch
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American Apparel sales plunge 19% in third quarter, early report says
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American Apparel fashions global expansion in face of Chapter 11
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American Apparel's Worker Revolt
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Hollywood:
Relativity Bankruptcy: 'Hunter Killer' Producers Demand Ryan Kavanaugh Deposition
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Relativity Taps Andrew Levin To Be President And Chief Legal Officer
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Oil/Gas:
Energy Default Alarms Get Louder as Pain Seen Lasting Into 2016
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U.S. Crude Inventory Build Sees Oil Prices Fall Once Again
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Warren Resources asset sale falls through over Escalera's bankruptcy filing
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Blackhill Partners Hired as Restructuring Advisor for Black Elk Energy
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Magnum Hunter says Chapter 11, going private on the table for Utica shale driller • Magnum Hunter warns of bankruptcy for gas companies
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Hercules Offshore No Hero Yet, But Looking Positive
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2 companies set to bid on HOVENSA
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Baker Hughes lays off 67 workers
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OPEC Challenges Shale Afresh as Iraq Crude Floods Gulf of Mexico
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OPEC holds fire on forecasts as meeting looms
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LNG Market Just Saw Demand Collapse In This Key Nation
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Don't mess with Texas, unless you're oil prices
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Saudi Arabia Preparing To Fuel Its $100 Billion Oil War With Debt
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Celebs:
Debi Thomas Bankruptcy — Olympic Figure Skater Completes Finances Class As Outrage Grows About Online Fundraiser • Debi Thomas’ $600,000 Debt Exposed In Documents From Olympic Medalist’s Bankruptcy Filing
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Tim Duncan of San Antonio Spurs says ex-financial adviser cost him millions
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Sam Wyly's art collection helps Dallas Auction Gallery net $5.3M in sales
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Teresa Guidice May Have No Home Left after Prison
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Politics:
Winners and Losers of the Fourth Republican Presidential Debate, by the Numbers
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The GOP Debate: Taxes, Taxes and Fewer Taxes
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Goldbugs Take Center Stage at Republican Debate
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GOP Candidates Stiff-Arm Minimum Wage Raise at Debate •Republicans Would Like Your Vote. They Promise Not Raise Your Wages.
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Unions Push to Establish Bloc of Low-Wage Voters
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GOP Debate: A Split Decision on Social Media
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Cruz Says Would Let Banks ‘on Brink’ Fail, Kasich Balks
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'Adios, Kasich': Twitter conservatives howl in rage after Ohio governor slams Trump's 'silly' immigration plan
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Jeb Bush team schedules post-debate call with donors • Bush Supporters Relieved as Jeb Turns In Steady Debate Performance • Jeb Bush Is Right on Bank Capital
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Christie Comes Out Against S-- With Animals
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Rand Paul: Rubio Will Bankrupt US • Fireworks erupt between Marco Rubio and Rand Paul
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MSNBC's Brzezinski Grills Trump On Bankruptcy • Does telling truth matter to Trump? • Donald Trump Net Worth: 5 Interesting Facts You Should Know • Trump Fact Check: "We’re losing now over $500 billion a year in terms of imbalance with China." • Trump's Bad Night • Donald Trump says it's 'beautiful' to watch his rivals drop out • Trump Doubles Down on 'Wages Are Too High'
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Sen. Lindsey Graham delivers the most hilarious commentary of the Fox Business News debate
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Marco Rubio is wrong: Working philosophers make almost twice as much as welders • Rubio Campaign Ad Features Bush’s Praise of Him • Rubio's Immigration Plan Is Three Steps to Nowhere
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Carson Fact Check: "Every time we raise the minimum wage, the number of jobless people increases." • Ben Carson is defending an odd claim about China and Syria he made during the last GOP debate
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Clinton Leads Sanders 69% to 21% in South Carolina: Monmouth Poll
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Gambling:
New York Jumps On The Daily Fantasy Sports Bashing Bandwagon • The Problem With New York’s Move Against Fantasy Sports
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Coal:
Alpha bankruptcy revives battle over Blankenship legal fees
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How soon could an Arch Coal bankruptcy come?
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Arch Coal May Be Fourth Billion-Dollar Coal Bankruptcy of 2015
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Legal Maneuverings Putting Coal Miners' Futures at Risk -- Yet Again
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What Walter Energy's bankruptcy auction could mean for the company and employees
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Far East Energy Corp. files Chapter 7 bankruptcy, ceases operations
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Ex-CEO of bankrupt coal firm Alpha objects to plan to drop miner benefits
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Religion:
Longest Running Catholic Archdiocese Chapter 11 Case Finally Ends
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Winners and losers in the Milwaukee archdiocese's bankruptcy
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Insurer says 16 diocese victims are not covered
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Autos:
With Ignition-Switch Punitives Possible, GM's 'War Room' Details Sought
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Senator Blumenthal calling for protection, Takata faces bankruptcy
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Volkswagen's Dealers Are Perhaps The Most Screwed In This Whole Ordeal
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Former VW CEO steps down as Audi chairman while emission scandal investigation continues
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Marinas:
Lake Belton marina tenants won't have to ship out
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Personal Finance:
How panhandling pays in N.Y.C.: $400 in two hours
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Why owning a home is financial suicide
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What to say when a hiring manager asks, 'How much money do you currently make?'
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21 lifestyle changes to make if you want to save more money
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(4 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 (34 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (17 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
(large downloads)
UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Bankruptcy Jobs:
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Who is Screened Out of Social Insurance Programs by Entry Barriers? Evidence from Consumer Bankruptcies
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Make-Whole:
Delaware Bankruptcy Court Again Relies on SDNY's Momentive Ruling to Deny Make-Whole Claims
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Discharge:
Bankruptcy Case Asks Supreme Court to Decide: What Is Fraud?
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Lien Rights: Does Discharge of a Debtor Preclude Enforcement of a Lien Against the Debtor’s Property?
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Examiners:
Examiner to be appointed in Chapter 11 bankruptcy of Colorado manufacturing exec
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Avoidance Actions:
The Tenth Circuit Joins the Sixth, Seventh and Ninth Circuits in Holding that a First-Time Transaction May Qualify for the Ordinary Course Defense under 11 U.S.C. sec. 547(c)
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Making a Clean Break, Part II: Tenth Circuit Sheds Light on Reasonably Equivalent Value for Severance
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Plan Confirmation:
Roadmap For Avoiding The Absolute Priority Rule
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Professional Compensation:
Update on Bankruptcy Fee Shifting
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Exemptions:
Second Western District TX Judge Finds Proceeds From Post-Petition Sale Can't Be Clawed Back in Chapter 7
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Ethics:
Duty of Loyalty Nicely Explained
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Interest:
Delaware Bankruptcy Court Addresses When, if Ever, Unsecured Creditors are Entitled to Postpetition Interest (Part 1)
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TBTF:
JPMorgan Chase CEO: 'Banks should be allowed to fail'
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US banks said to hold $10tn of 'risky ' trades
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Global Banks Rewrite Contracts in Bid to Avert Lehman Repeat
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Corporate Reform:
Corporate Prosecutions at 10-Year Low
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Banking:
SEC Assailed by Judge for Triggering Cayman Bank Collapse
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Fraud:
Former owner of Empire Towers sentenced to 63 months in prison
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Parsons' corporate, personal bankruptcy auctions raise nearly $7M
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Resorts:
Baha Mar: Minister Confirms Deal Close
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Is A Baha Mar Takeover In The Works?
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Fish:
Judge lets Sterling off the hook
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Tax:
Privilege and Rich German Win Out in Second Circuit
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Mass Torts:
Rachel Maines on the evolution of asbestos guilt
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Hotels:
Court sets trial in Boulder Inn & Suites' bankruptcy case
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Debt Collection:
Indiana AG Opposes Robocalls from Student Loan Collectors
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Electricity:
Why Oncor’s Ring Fence Matters
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Pharma:
Valeant Creditors Spooked by Possibility of Revenue Squeeze
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Amusement Parks:
This Man Chained Himself to the Top of a Water Slide to Save His Waterpark
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Sovereigns:
Debt restructuring law against 'vulture' actions enacted
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From Default to Darling: Argentina Bets Pay Off for Hedge Funds
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UK:
The economy needs pre-packs
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Time to dig out your D&O policy
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UK employment at record high but wage increase sluggish on manufacturing slump
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This one sentence about Britain's property market is terrifying
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EU:
Europe stocks drop
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ECB's Draghi Signals Ready to Act
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PIIGS:
Legislation cutting bankruptcy term to one year imminent - Kenny • Bankruptcy legislation may happen before Christmas: Kenny
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Portugal's Prime Minister Ousted Six Weeks After Election
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Portugal's finance minister is worried that her country is turning into Greece
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Creditors begin Greek reforms review ahead of strike
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Greek unions in first general strike against leftist government • Clashes break out
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Family pleads for bail for disgraced Irish banking czar
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Spain is threatening to cut off its richest economic region • Spanish Court blocks Catalonia’s secession bid
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Canada:
Essar Steel Algoma Files for Court Protection from Creditors
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Dufferin gold mine receiver gets go-ahead for 2nd sales attempt
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Bombardier, Inc. Isn't an Auto Company And This Isn't 2008
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France:
French Insolvency Claims Go Online
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Russia:
Commercial court registers bankruptcy lawsuit filed by VTB against indebted Transaero
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MENA:
UAE bankruptcy law tops list of changes urged to help SMEs
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Northern Iraq faces bankruptcy amid falling oil prices
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Austria:
Austria to sign 1.2 bln euro Heta deal with Bavaria on Wednesday
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Romania:
Insolvency lawyer wants to be Romania's PM
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Brazil:
Brazil tycoon Batista gets 5-year ban from corporate leadership
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Brazil's OAS creditors, Brookfield near Invepar deal, sources say
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Brazil Banks Don't Expect Bad-Loan Surge But Provision Billions
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China:
Cement firm default shows China more willing to let firms fail
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China's Latest Default Foretold in Creditors Calling CFO Nonstop
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China Credit Growth Falls as Tepid Economy Dents Loan Demand
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India:
India's diamond industry faces hard times
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Ukraine:
Russia Said to Plot Strategy to Block IMF Lending to Ukraine
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