Law:

Inside the Dewey & LeBoeuf Deliberations • Dewey & LeBoeuf case could go to a retrial after jury fails to reach verdict • Dewey Mistrial Recap • Jury in Dewey Law-Firm Case Inundated by Details - Jurors faced piles of evidence, testimony that many said the group found hard to absorb
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Associate Bonus Watch: Fried Frank Announces A New Bonus Policy
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Accidental Payments and Quiz Cheating
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New York Lawyers Resist Push to Make Attorney Discipline Less Secret
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Meet The Billion-Dollar Biglaw Partners Behind The Madoff Case
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Top Feeder Colleges For Law School Applicants
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Despite All Efforts, Law School Posts Worst Bar Exam Performance Ever
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OK, Stop It, Cornell Law School
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Expecting M&A uptick, Baker Botts adds 25 Houston lawyers, wants 25 more in 2016
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Can Legal Organizations Benefit From A Growth Mindset?
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Are female lawyers more ethical than the male?
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How to react to a bullying boss? Some responses could make matters worse
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A Sensible Solution To The Problem Of Personal Email And Web Browsing At Work
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Legal Practice and Legal Delivery: An Important Distinction
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I’ll work for legal representation, electrician says in ads outside courthouse
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19 business-etiquette rules every professional should know
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Apple Tells Court it Can’t Unlock New iPhones
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Cops: Man killed grandmother because she blew nose at dinner table
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A crime associated with the Wild West is on the rebound
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Medical Examiner: Airplane Biter Died After Drugs Burst in His Stomach
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Husband’s tears weren’t protected by spousal privilege, appellate court rules
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Ole Miss Students Reject Mississippi Flag • TN: County Votes Down Confederate Flag
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Concealed Permit: Shoots Himself in Theater
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Muslim student arrested for homemade clock in Texas is moving to Qatar
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Lawyer charged with stealing $5.7M from clients over two-year period
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Judges:

Judge’s fine alternative was ‘violation of bodily integrity,’ ethics complaint alleges
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Holy F---! This Appellate Opinion Is So F----- Obscene!
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If You Can't Afford to Pay the Fine, Alabama Judge Will Take Your Blood
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Wall Street:

Stock futures tread water
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Global stocks slip as earnings, China weakness weigh
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Market recovery collides with major resistance
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Layoffs:

Here's the unemployment rate in every state
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Here’s Where All the Construction Workers Went
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ESPN poised for big job cuts
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Harley-Davidson plans 250 layoffs to fund new marketing, product development
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Fraud:

Beware of Bankruptcy Phone Scam
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Life for one victim after Bernie Madoff's $64 billion Ponzi scheme • Officials: Big Payout Coming for Most Madoff Victims • Madoff Trustee Presses Forward With $1.2 Billion Payout Plan • Majority Of Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme Victims Will Each Get $1 Million Back • Madoff trustee: Allowable claims under $1.1M to be all paid
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The Madoff investors who ‘will be made whole’
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$1B in legal fees for recovery of Madoff losses is a ‘good return on investment,’ lawyer says
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Education:

Here's one more sign that the for-profit college industry is in trouble
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For-Profit College Owner, Who Used S-------- As Lure, Goes On Trial
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Hollywood:

Relativity Makes Emergency Motion Over $30 Million in Promised Investment Backing • Funding Deal Runs Into Trouble But TV Sale Is Complete
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Relativity Owes Bankruptcy Team $4.8M+ For 2 Months Of Work
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Autos:

States probe VW over emissions, look for settlement money
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Metals:

Cheap imports, high inventories hurt Steel Dynamics ' profit
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Ospraie's Anderson Sees `Miserable' Future for Metals and Oil
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Coal:

Arch Coal Fails to Win Protection of Debt-Swap
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Student Debt:

Obama administration: No bankruptcy relief for student debt
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Dept. of Ed.: Undue Hardship = Certainty of Hopelessness or Total Incapacity
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2 court cases that could change student loan debt • Why student loan borrowers should pay attention to these two court cases
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Supreme Court May Hear Student Loan Debt Case - The case focuses on clarifying law on borrowers’ ability to discharge student loan debt if they file for bankruptcy
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Biotech:

The Fallout: What Happens When Biotech Companies Fail?
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Alternative Energy:

Oakridge Global Energy Solutions Adds Restructuring Expert To Board
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Retailing:

Hilo Hattie selling flagship store fixtures • Hilo Hattie begins new chapter in business with liquidation sale
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Retail: October Seasonal Hiring vs. Holiday Retail Sales
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Mining:

Bankruptcy filing puts Johnson Camp Mine sale on hold
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Food/Beverage:

Yum Bondholders Face Rising Leverage, Junk Status in Split
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Restaurants and Bars Near Penn Station You’ll Actually Want to Visit
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Oprah Faces Long Odds in Rescuing Debt-Laden Weight Watchers
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Hedge Funds:

Hedge funds see biggest decline since 2008
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Advisors:

Perella Weinberg Sues Former Partners Over Rival Restructuring Venture
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Distressed Investing:

Junk-Bond Investors Said to Seek Cheat Sheets in Sale Documents
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Economy:

Rich Americans got a lot richer last year
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Quit bad-mouthing the economy, says chart
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This is what the average American made last year
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Just How Bad Was the 2009 Global Recession? Really, Really Bad
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The Gender Pay Gap Widens as Men’s Earnings Grow Twice as Fast as Women’s
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Is there a rebellion at the Federal Reserve?
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Five Bad Reasons For The Fed To Raise Rates Now And One Good Reason Not To
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Get Used to It. Low Rates Are Here to Stay.
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Decline in Unions Damaged Middle Class
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BLS: Thirty-seven States had Unemployment Rate Decreases in September
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$50 Trillion In Debt: This is what the '3rd wave' of the 2008 financial crisis looks like
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Goldman: Only 85K needed to drop jobless rate
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The Debt Ceiling • Cost of U.S. Debt-Ceiling Gridlock Borne Out at Treasury Auction • Debt-Limit Deadlock Leaves Bond Investors Wondering What's Next
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Krugman: More Artificial Unintelligence
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The Fall of a High-Yield Fund Echoes 2007 Crunch
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

Mortgagee's Lack of Good Faith May Lead to Forfeiture
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JP Morgan: $90Bn in Short Sales Not Covered
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Housing starts jump to 3-month high but permit decline could signal looming slowdown • Housing Starts increased to 1.206 Million Annual Rate in September • Comments on September Housing Starts
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Millennials are starting to buy homes, and they're headed to the suburbs
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Think your rent's too darn high? Just wait • Boomer Doomer - The Other Side Of High Rents
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Which cities give you the highest return on a rental investment?
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People are worried this could be the next US 'subprime' crisis
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Demand for rental apartments boosts US housing starts • Dangers behind growth in apartment building
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San Francisco squatter sold 11 paintings from mansion
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Montgomery County Loses Over $24 Million To Bankrupt Developer: Report
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Municipalities:

Illinois Could Sacrifice Sacred Cows Amid Drawn-Out Budget Battle
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Puerto Rico 'superbond': A bailout by any other name
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Puerto Rico's Utility Chief Confident on Deal With Insurers
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Puerto Rico Said Struggling to Reach Debt Deal With Hedge Funds
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Wilbur Ross Weighs in on Puerto Rico's Problems
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Snyder's plan to fix Detroit's schools will fall on deaf legislative ears
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Riley: RI Investment Adviser “Sell Providence RI Bonds”
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Celebs:

Attorney Fees in Sam Wyly Bankruptcy Reach Over $5M
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Bankrupt Resort Founder Blixseth Remains Behind Bars
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Airport worker sues Halle Berry and husband for $5M over shoving incident
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Bill Cosby Loses His Attorney
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Awards:

Luis Rivera Honored with Paskay Professionalism Award
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Oil/Gas:

Oil struggles ahead of producers’ meeting, data
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OPEC is About to Crush the US Oil Boom • US Oil Output Slide is Looming
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Day Of Reckoning For U.S. Shale Will Have To Wait
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Oilfield Services Not Expecting Rebound Until Late 2016
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Halliburton CEO: The oil industry's 'day of reckoning' is near
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Schlumberger Braces For More Tough Times
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Genel cuts 2015 oil output forecast
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Vitol Sees Oil Struggling to Break Above $60 per Barrel by End-2016
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Paragon Offshore: Loses Contract To Noble
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Exco Resources Targets 18% Reduction in Debt Load With Loan Plan
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Frank's announces more layoffs
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The oil price crash is making markets more efficient
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Moody's downgrades Pacific Drilling to Caa2 from B3; negative
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BHP Billiton pares petroleum spending plans
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North Dakota’s Jobless Rate Falls as its Workforce Shrinks
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Tanker activity shows global crude market is saturated
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OPEC wages war upon itself, while woolly worm predicts warm US winter
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Kemp: OPEC Has Stalled The Shale Revolution
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OPEC, non-members to hold unusual meeting
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Mideast nations face $1 trillion budget gap if oil keeps falling: IMF
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Motorcycles:

Harley skids after profit miss, shipment outlook • ‘We have to raise our game’
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Personal Finance:

You're basically saving no money buying that big flat-screen TV on Amazon
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Gadgets:

Quirky Inventors Seek Path to Reclaim Products
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Healthcare:

Audit exposes deficit as troubled C.W. Williams health center emerges from bankruptcy
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Medical device maker Cardiac Science files for bankruptcy protection
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Buyers moving to snap up Hutcheson properties as auction looms
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Tuomey Hospital Avoids Bankruptcy with Settlement of Record Stark/FCA Verdict
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Alternative Finance:

Lessons from TrustBuddy
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Guns:

Colt Defense unsec’d creditor committee urges rejection of proposed reorg plan
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Pensions:

Labor, pension managers square off over benefits
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Rail:

Railcar orders show biggest drop since 1980s
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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 (46 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (12 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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Involuntary Bankruptcy:

3rd Circuit Affirms Bad Faith Involuntary Bankruptcy Dismissal Increasing Risk of Punitive Damages
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Bankruptcy Rules:

BK CO: Court Solicits Comments On LR Changes
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Avoidance Actions:

Seventh Circuit Insulates Good Faith Casino from Insider's Fraudulent Transfer Liability
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Appeals:

Appealing to the BAP
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Beyond Biglaw: Handicapping An Appeal
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Automatic Stay:

Busted! Sixth Circuit Holds Creditor’s Threat to Pursue Criminal Charges Against Debtor Falls Outside Criminal Prosecution Exception to Automatic Stay
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Chapter 13:

Undisbursed Funds Go To Debtor upon Dismissal
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Escrow:

An Appellate Court Shows How To Analyze Escrow Accounts in Bankruptcy
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Corporate Reform:

Dewey Mistrial Tarnishes Manhattan DA Attack on Corporate Fraud
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BNY Mellon Wins Approval of $180 Million Forex Settlement
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Insurance:

Missouri Appeals Court Affirms That Insolvency Exclusion Bars Indemnity Coverage for Refusal to Pay
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Museums:

Evergreen museum property could go on the auction block
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Electricity:

Oncor sale to Hunt Consolidated currently held up • Energy Future Sues to Force Sale of Oncor Minority Stake
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Politics:

What Clinton or Sanders could mean for taxes
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Polls: Hillary Clinton lead expands • The math is clear: Hillary Clinton has better odds of becoming president than anybody else — by far
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Trump, Carson want Secret Service protection
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Rubio’s energy plan is boilerplate conservatism, but his spin on it is … novel • Campaign Watchdog Says Ads Starring Rubio Cross Line
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Trump’s Big Dump: The Rise and Fall of Atlantic City • Panicked establishment gets ready for war against Trump • Trump's Republican critics pushing for GOP-backed takedown • Poll: Trump Hits Highest Mark Yet, But Carson Is Close Behind • Trump Fact Check: "We have the highest tax rate anywhere in the world." • Watch Trevor Noah Struggle to Say ‘Donald Trump Is Right’ • Donald Trump's Atlantic City Casino Industry Dealing Examined by CBS News • Trump Fact Check: Says Bernie Sanders is going to "tax you people at 90 percent."
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Democrats Go Negative on Joe Biden’s Prospects: ‘Hard Road Forward’ • A simple guide to what Joe Biden actually believes in • Joe Biden for President? Media Buzz Ignores How Veep Worsened Student Debt on Big Banks' Behalf
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What Campaign Donations Can't Buy
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Paul Ryan spells out conditions for run at speaker's job • Ryan Will Run for House Speaker if Freedom Caucus Disarms • Freedom Caucus Wary of Ryan's Demands
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Ted Cruz's Leap Into the Unknown
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John Oliver rips politicians who use fake ‘founding father’ quotes — and it’s hilarious
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Ethanol:

Ethanol Created More Problems Than It Solved
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Gambling:

Wilmington Trust sues Caesars over guarantee on unit's notes
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UK:

The End Of P&A: New law capping insolvency fees after complaints about overcharging
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Pearson shares slump on profits warning
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Cuts could leave renewables firms bankrupt
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Ex-Barclays CEO Diamond Says He's Competing With Banks in Repo
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The One Thing Tesco's Big Data Algorithm Never Predicted
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EU:

The revised EC regulation on insolvency proceedings seeks to resolve practical concerns
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EU says Starbucks, FIAT profited from illegal tax breaks
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Draghi May Lack What It Takes to Do Whatever It Takes on Prices
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EU Weighing Haircut Possibilities for Failing Clearing Houses
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PIIGS:

Greece's Bailout Costs Could Rise Over Life of Loans, ESM Says
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Canada:

The Return of “Trudeau-mania”
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The Impact of Canada’s Political Shift
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Canada Has a New Government, and Some Nasty Old Problems •Trudeau's Ambition Meets Canada's Economy
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Canada's new growth strategy: Spend big
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A New Era For Canadian Oil And Gas, For Better Or Worse
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Larry Summers: Canadian election proves that an anti-austerity message is a winning one
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Russia:

Russian Banks File Bankruptcy Lawsuits Against Transaero
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S7 Airlines Co-Owner Filyov Agrees to Buy Control of Transaero
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China:

A Debt Balloon With Nowhere to Go But Down
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China vs. United States: A Tale of Two Economies
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For Mongolia, China's Slowdown Is Provoking Emergency Response
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China Defaults Seen Rising After Sinosteel Misses Payment • Sinosteel's Not-Default and More Moral Hazard
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China's Stocks Fall Most in Month as Small-Caps Lead Declines
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Venezuela:

Venezuela to Keep Making International Debt Payments, Govt Says
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Turkey:

Turkish Bank Debt Is Souring
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