November 13, 2015

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Law:

Certain Law Firms Will Die, Says Big Law CEO
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US law firms grow at 3.6pc in 2015
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Are You There Biglaw? It’s Me, The Client: Why GCs Are Pulling Even More Business From Firms
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Which major firms promoted zero women to partner this year?
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DLA to offer freelance lawyer service next year
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2015 Chief Legal Officer Survey
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Before Tax, Law Firms Change Health Plans
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Ex-BigLaw clerk admits stealing deal info; his law classmate gave tips to broker, then ate the notes
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6 Tips For Law Firm Crisis Management
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Bankruptcy Lawyer: Why Corporate America Loves Mindfulness But Law Firms Resist It
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Today’s Tech: How Biglaw Litigators Use iPads To Make Their Case
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Taking Exception with the CFPB’s Attempt to Regulate Lawyers
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Don’t Needs For A SmallLaw Practice
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The iPad Pro reviews are out
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You've been tucking in your shirt all wrong
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21 business-etiquette rules every professional should know
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How to gain credibility in 30 seconds or less
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Benton attorney pleads guilty to bankruptcy fraud
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Cases under review, funds frozen after ‘hero’ police officer slaying is found to be staged suicide
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If You Failed The NY Bar Exam, You Have A Problem
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Comic Sans: The Perfect Font For A Subpoena… If You’re As Dumb As This Clerk
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Would You Take A Stand For Your Client? (Video)
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Law firm calls LED sign ban unfair, says gas station got preferential treatment
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Federal judge nixes attorney-owned nativity display on courthouse lawn
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Kim Davis's Lawyer Tells Elected Official To Do Her Damn Job. For Real.
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FL: Police Officer Who Shot Musician Fired
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Ridiculous job ad of the week
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Ex-Lawyer Accused Of $3.4 Million Ponzi Scheme
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Cops: Twins Caught Stealing Identical Items From Walmart
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White Supremacists Arrested After Planning To Bomb Black Churches
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Judges:

Asked and Answered: A Reply To Judge Kopf
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Where Do Supreme Court Justices Get Their Fashion Inspiration?
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At Least Justice Scalia Knows He ISN’T King
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This Federal Judge Knows Her Taylor Swift Lyrics
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'Marty Was Always My Best Friend': Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Love Story
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Troubling details about suspect linked to judge’s shooting emerge
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Threats Against Judges Are More Common Than Attacks
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UT: Governor Condemn's Judge's Order on Kid
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Wall Street:

Stock futures subdued
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S&P 500 turns negative for year Dow Falls 254
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Goldman Sachs' new managing-director list sends a big message to its junior bankers
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Layoffs:

80 million U.S. jobs risk being taken over by robots
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Carlsberg Cuts 2,000 Jobs
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Vishay Intertechnology Inc. is laying off 292 workers at its Silicon Valley subsidiary Siliconix, located in Santa Clara
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Autos:

VW Scandal: Germany Targets 23 Others
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VW Faces Union Chill Over Cutbacks
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Aviation:

Rolls-Royce Lays Bare Entrenched Failings to Stunned Investors Rolls-Royce Blowout Will Take Years to Repair
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Retailing:

Macy's CFO reveals 4 reasons the company blew it last quarter
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Nordstrom slides after results miss targets
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Fossil shares tumble on gloomy outlook
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TowerBrook Said to Meet Banks to Discuss J.Jill Exit Options
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Here's a simple explanation for why the retail business is brutal
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Personal Finance:

Dad buys world's priciest gem for 7-year-old
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Former Chicago lawyer is among the ‘supersavers’ who are able to retire early
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21 reasons you're not rich
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Is the Person I've Been Dating Right for Me?
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Education:

Students Left in Crushing Debt as For-Profit College Empire Collapses
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March over debt, free school
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How Australia Gets Student Loans Right
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Non-Profits:

New Jersey's Booker Sued Over Millions in Watershed Waste
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Healthcare:

Univita auction canceled, goes to stalking horse bidder
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Court Approves Prime Healthcare's Offer To Acquire Saint Michael's Medical Center in New Jersey
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With court ruling, Saint Michael's sale is back in state's hands
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2 charts that show companies are sticking rising health costs to workers
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Hollywood:

Relativity Resolves 'Hunter Killer' Legal Issues with Neal Moritz
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Coal:

Clinton proposes $30 bln plan to help coal-producing areas
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Arch Coal: Does it Have a Chance to Survive?
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A Bit Of Good News For The Global Coal Industry At Last
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Coal's Cruel Fortune: Its Biggest Market Is Also the Windiest
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Finance:

Small Businesses Struggle to Tap ‘Crowd’ Funds
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Taxis:

Citibank Sues New York Taxi King Over Asset Transfers
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Currency:

Bitcoin Can’t Keep It Chill
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Derivatives:

Major Banks Sign Relaunched ISDA Resolution Stay Protocol
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Finance:

Good News, Bad News in Shared National Credit Review
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Economy:

Claims for jobless aid stay near historic lows
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Job Openings in U.S. Increased in September to 5.53 Million Hiring Rate Remains Little Changed
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Workers are staying put even as job openings rise
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Women face increasing bars to employment
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US Records $136.5B Budget Deficit for October
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Treasuries Vie With Portugal, South Africa for Worst-Debt Mantle
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America's Economic Sore Spot
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US labor market data supportive of rate hike IMF: The Fed should wait Fed officials still split on rate hike Update US inflation to rebound next year: Fed's Fischer
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How Republicans Would Really Run the Fed
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Speeches Highlight Fault Line In Rate Debate
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Fed's Lacker says populist anger against US central bank 'not surprising'
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Fed’s next dilemma: One and done? 2 Fed officials: rate hikes may not be gradual Fed's Dudley and Evans
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The Federal Reserve Bank, Explained
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Federal Reserve Chair Yellen calls for review of financial crisis fixes
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The shorts are surging in this commodity
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High Job Openings and Lower Hiring Suggest Skills Mismatch
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The Nest Isn't Empty, and That's Mostly Good
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Here's the salary you need to be in the top 50% of earners in 19 major US cities
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Six Strange Things Happening in Global Financial Markets
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After Surprise Budget Cuts, Can Boomers Even Count on Social Security?
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

Home-Price Growth Cooled a Bit This Summer, Realtors Say
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New York Fed chief declares housing economy solid
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HUD is about to ban smoking in housing
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Foreclosure starts post highest jump in more than four years
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MBA: Mortgage applications fall again, decrease 1.3%
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Mortgage rates pushed upward following strong employment data
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Mobile Home Valuations – For Once Location Doesn’t Matter
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Municipalities:

A Simple Fix For Unfunded Municipal Pensions That Wall Street Will Hate
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Senate Judiciary Committee to hold Dec. 1 hearing on Puerto Rico
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Puerto Rico Utility Said to Extend Bondholder Restructuring Pact
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Philanthropies Rise as Source of Revenue for Pressed U.S. Cities
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Politics:

Time for GOP panic? Establishment worried Carson or Trump might win
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The Problem with the GOP Flat Tax
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Fiorina Fact Check: "Obamacare isn't helping anyone."
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Rubio Fact Check: "Welders make more money than philosophers." Clash looms between Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio
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Trump's Deportation Plan Based on Ike's Trump's art of the deal: Dispute your bills Trump's 95 Minute Rant Against Everyone Trump Booed During Debate (Again) Trump’s 4 good ideas — and 4 bad ones Trump: The 'dummies' at The Wall Street Journal owe me an apology Donald Trump compares Ben Carson's 'pathological' temper to child molesters This woman got a prime seat at a Trump rally, and spent the whole time reading a book about racism Donald Trump calls for a Macy’s boycott
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The Man Behind Carson's Foreign Policy
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Are you smarter than a presidential candidate?
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Clinton's Email Problems May Get Worse The FBI is not finished with Hillary
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Paul Fact Check: Says Marco Rubio is proposing a new $1 trillion "welfare program" in tax credits and "$1 trillion in new military spending."
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Cruz's Tax Plan Would Cost $16 Trillion
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Sanders Fact Check: "Over half of the black workers in this country earn less" than $15 an hour.
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Postal Workers Union Endorses Bernie Sanders, in Boost to Underdog
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What Explains the Paradox of an Improving Economy and Miserable Voters
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GOP Says Big Banks Are Bad (But Don't Touch Them)
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GOP Candidates Display Signs Of Cognitive Dissonance While Talking About Wall Street During Latest Debate
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What Republicans Get Wrong About the Gold Standard
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The Republican Way: Cut Taxes, Expand Deficits
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Oil/Gas:

How a Company Can Be Both Downgraded and Upgraded
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Oil Rout Puts Companies on the Brink
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Fitch: Expect U.S. oil companies to sell off more assets
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Oil prices resume fall after inventories show big build Record oil stockpiles an 'unprecedented buffer': IEA Oil Tankers Are Filling Up As Global Storage Space Runs Low Oil Market Supply Imbalance Getting Worse, Not Better
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Will Oil Prices Sink Back To $30? OPEC Adds To Bearish Sentiment Oil prices melt down, could retest low Oil Heads Back to the Thirties
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OPEC report highlights temporary production drop, ongoing oversupply
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2016 US to See Deeper Decline in Oil Production
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IEA Sees No Oil Price Rebound for Years
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Oil Majors Don't Share OPEC's Optimism
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'2 Miles Long': Iraqi Oil Tankers Coming to US
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Houston energy company rewards employees with $100K bonus
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Texas oil industry job losses may be worse than thought
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Magnum Hunter Resources looking at partial bankruptcy
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Black Elk Energy hires Blackhill Partners as restructuring advisor
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Manulife Profit Slides 43% as Oil Slump Hurts Energy Bets
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Nuverra Environmental Solutions- Bankruptcy Around The Corner
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Houston offshore driller moves forward with Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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OPEC: Oil inventory surplus bigger than during recession
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LNG Glut Set To Worsen Considerably Over Next 3 Years
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Kemp: US Shale Oil Output Will Be Less Resilient Than Gas
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Hurting Canadian oil producers signal further cuts to come Canada's Oil Producers Brace for Latest Test: Higher Carbon Taxes
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‘Brimming’ oil stocks to drag on 2016 demand: IEA
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Is The Oil Industry Really Subsidized?
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Oil companies could be paying millions for empty office space
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Rail:

Railroads Hit By Falling Oil And Coal Production
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Celebs:

Ronda Rousey: 'I had to go bankrupt to make sure I prepared for a fight right'
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6 Lessons From Nicolas Cage's Real Estate Catastrophe
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This shows how rough it’s been for Buffett, Berkshire
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Todd English facing lawsuit over $270K in unpaid legal bills
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Electricity:

Fidelity Backs Energy Future's Bankruptcy Plan
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EFH Ruling Impairs Creditor Reliance on Indenture Trustees
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Shipping:

HSH Co-Owner Says Bad Bank May Resell Faulty Shipping Loans
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
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Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory

Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings (17 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (11 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
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UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Bankruptcy Jobs:

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Subordination:

Did a Delaware Bankruptcy Court Put an End to Relying on Structural Subordination?
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Appeals:

Click To Appeal: Recent Second Circuit Decision A Cautionary Tale Regarding Electronically Filed Notices Of Appeal
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TIA:

EFH Ruling Impairs Creditor Reliance on Indenture Trustees
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Religion:

Santa Fe Archbishop: 'Spotlight' to bring up 'horrific' past
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Mail:

Use the Post Office to Help the Unbanked
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Pharma:

The company that raised the price of a drug by 5,000% posted a $14.6 million net loss in the third quarter
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Hotels:

Hotel case takes quick detour to federal court
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Directories:

Dex Media said to be planning bankruptcy filing in December
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Asset Protection:

Hiding Assets Offshore To Cheat Ex-Wife Leads To Criminal Conviction Of Dr. Brandner
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Fraud:

Madoff: Coming Soon To A Television Near You
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Maritime:

Nova Star's creditors claim $2.6 million in unpaid bills
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Food/Beverage:

Haggen may shed its NW ‘core stores’ as well in bankruptcy auction
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Haggen bankruptcy is a buying opportunity for Smart & Final, other grocers
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Newspapers:

OC Register Alumni Mull Legal Options Against Their Endangered Pension Plan
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Resorts:

Sol Kerzner Tipped To Take Over Stalled Baha Mar Resort
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Gambling:

Justice Department Watchdog, Creditors Look to Delay Caesars Restructuring
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Watchdog Seeks More Cuts to Caesars Professional Fees
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Big banks weigh halt to taking fantasy sport cash In Fantasy Sports Fight, Bet on New York
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Sovereigns:

Argentina election raises hope of end to battle with 'holdouts'
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Showdown in Argentina as Candidates Spar Over FX and Holdouts
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Grenada closes chapter on restructuring saga
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Ukraine’s Sovereign Restructuring: As settlement in relation to Ukraine’s successful sovereign exchange offers is expected today, we explain why this sovereign deal is ground-breaking
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UK:

Business minister hails insolvency profession’s contribution to economy
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Extra-territorial effect of section 236 – the debate continues
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U.K. to Bring Bank Bonuses Into Line With EU Law , EBA Says
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U.K. Sells Off $19.8 Billion of Northern Rock Mortgages
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EU:

IMF Worries About EU Nightmare Scenario
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German, Italian economies slow
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PIIGS:

Z-Score Models' Application to Italian Companies Subject to Extraordinary Administration
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Greece Comes to a Standstill as Unions Turn Against Tsipras
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What Europe Owes to Greece
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Catalonia Is Losing the High Ground
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David Drumm is a 'clear flight risk', says US prosecutor
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Canada:

Canada’s oil industry frets as pressure mounts to cut fossil-fuel tax incentives
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Accused plead not guilty to federal charges in Lac-Mégantic derailment
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Valeant, Bombardier Even Worse Than Energy in Canadian Bond Rout
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China:

China's Retail Sales Jump 11% in October
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In China Pileup, Bondholders Hit by Cement Truck
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China Shanshui says creditors demand repayment
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China's Troubled Credit Swells to Sweden-Sized $628 Billion
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India:

Dealing With Failure
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Ukraine:

Fitch Ratings Hints Ukraine Bankruptcy Close As Kyiv Defaults
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Ukraine completes debt restructuring of around $15 billion
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Ukraine’s Sovereign Restructuring: Why is this sovereign deal ground-breaking?
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Romania:

Romania’s insolvency rate, 4 times higher than the regional average
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Japan:

Japan Inc sees no turnaround soon for economy likely in recession
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Australia:

Sydney and Melbourne are the insolvency hotspots
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Russia:

Russia's cbank mulls giving banks 1 yr to create Transaero loan provisions
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