Law:

Dewey Jurors Ask for Testimony Readback • Dewey juror reports muscle pain after deliberating for over 2 weeks • Dewey & LeBoeuf Jurors Tell Judge They Are Stuck After 13 Days of Deliberation • Dewey & LeBoeuf Jurors Say They're Deadlocked - Judge Says To Keep Deliberating
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Law firm mergers continue at record pace
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Judge tosses ADA suit against BigLaw firms, cites plaintiff’s ‘outright speculation’
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Lawyer Accused in Scandal Over MasterCard Deal Speaks Out
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Legal profession urged to do more to tackle its drug problem
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High-profile lawyer who acted as ‘paymaster’ for client gives up his law license
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Lawyer killed goat, drank its blood, and is running for US Senate to party chair’s chagrin
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Prosecutor Says Bankruptcy Lawyer On The Lam
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Lawyer Serves Love Interest With Crazy Dating Subpoena, Makes Complete Fool Of Himself
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The 5 trendiest fall haircuts for guys
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Beyond Biglaw: The Importance Of Good Visuals
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Coffee Is For Closers
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Husch Blackwell Partner Leaves Firm Five Months After Sexting Scandal
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Wolf Block Loses Coverage Suit Over Partner Severance Payments
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The Myths of the Digital Native
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Cybersecurity – Sometimes The Problem Is You
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A Scattering: Legal Tech Startups, IPOs, Fax, Time Matters And OpenOffice
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Meet A New Law School Dean: An Interview With Vikram Amar
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Welcome To The ‘Meat Market’ (AKA The AALS Faculty Recruitment Conference)
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This animation shows how normal going to prison in America is
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Bobby Jindal blames Oregon shooter’s anti-gun dad: ‘He owes us all an apology’ • Mother Connections in Oregon, Conn. Shootings
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Supreme Court declines appeal citing juror’s racial slur in post-conviction affidavit
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Rule that forgives the dead allows convicted lawyer’s family to claw back forfeited cash, judge says
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3 Defenses Of The Drunk Mac And Cheese Man
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China’s Latest Export: Legal Services
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There are now more guns than people in the United States • Which States Have the Most Guns? • Congress Stopped Research into Gun Violence
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Map: 142 School Shootings in Two Years
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Goat-Sacrificing Lawyer Making Headlines Again
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Judges:

U.S. Supreme Court opens new term, with major cases brewing, "line standers" no longer allowed • Supreme Court Screws Over Lawyers, Bans Line-Standers • Supreme Court Confronts 'Line-Standing,' Secret Changes to Opinions • High Court Bars Lawyers From Using 'Line Standing' Services
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US Bankruptcy Court Celebrates Constitution Day With Essay Contest for High School Students
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Supreme Court Conservatives’ Famous Last Words
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Justices Toss Convictions Over Facebook Posts About Court Clerks
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Federal court would not like to add LinkedIn to its professional network
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Judge who challenged public defender to fistfight is suspended without pay
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Wall Street:

Wall Street moves lower as global growth worries resurface
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The secrets of Wall Street: slavery, terrorism, and hidden vaults
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Traders hold their breath in wait for earnings
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Layoffs:

More Employment Graphs: Duration of Unemployment, Unemployment by Education, Construction Employment and Diffusion Indexes
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Patriot Coal Expects to Lay off More Than 2000 Workers • Bankrupt Patriot Coal issues new notice for its workers
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Bradford Co. Business To Layoff 89 Workers
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Air France may cut 5,000 more jobs in new restructuring
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Celebs:

Injured Concertgoer Fights for Damages in 50 Cent's Bankruptcy
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When is Teresa Giudice Getting Out of Prison: Early Christmas Release for Christmas for RHONJ Felon?
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Coal:

Patriot Coal delays bankruptcy plan hearing for creditor talks
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Patriot Coal expects to lay off more than 2,000 workers
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Patriot Coal, West Virginia Agree on $50 Million Cleanup
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Citigroup, citing climate change, will reduce coal financing
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Think Coal Is Dead? This Low-Cost Hotspot Is Thriving
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Met Coal: The Outcome Is Certain, The Timing Is Not
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Finance:

How Two Guys Lost God and Found $40 Million
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Goldman, J.P. Morgan Struggle to Sell Loans Backing a Buyout
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Corporate Reform:

Call to prosecute corporate executives coincides with changes to white collar sentencing guidelines
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Healthcare:

Work remains before Children’s pact complete
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Counseling Centers Abruptly Close Due To Bankruptcy • Closures stun counseling patients
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Racial inequality even affects how long we wait for the doctor
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Telecoms:

High yield bonds: Telecom replaces energy as worst-performing industry in September
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Fashion:

Houston fashion designer files for bankruptcy , says he's 'not going away'
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Credit Counseling:

Debt Relief Operation Agrees to $7.9M Judgment
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Debt Collection:

11th Circuit Opinion – FDCPA Does Not Apply to Debt Acquirers if Not ‘Debt Collectors
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Resorts:

Bahamas Resistance Mounts to Massive Resort
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Mining:

Glencore plays down impact of possible debt rating downgrade • Commodity Traders Win Billions in Loans Amid Glencore Storm • Glencore shuts platinum mine, cuts 970 jobs • Banks are 'locked in' to Glencore's $100 billion debt mountain
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Autos:

VW to Delay or Cancel All Non-Essential Investments • Volkswagen lays out plans for massive recall of cars • Volkswagen shares are popping on its disaster recovery plan • VW to be sued by West Virginia • VW's New Chief Says Scandal Will Cost It More Than Expected
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Directories:

Dex Media Creditors Said to Demand Meeting After Missed Payment
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Economy:

The global economy is once again slowing down, IMF says
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Sorry, Ben Bernanke, But Fed's 'Recovery' Was Miserable
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Fisher: Bernanke Wrong on Inflation
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In a Reunion, Bernanke and Geithner Revisit the Crisis
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US trade deficit widens in August as exports fall
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Commodity Collapse Nowhere Near Bottom
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Fed: Q2 Household Debt Service Ratio Very Low
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Oaktree's Marks Says Time for Fed to Stop Suppressing Rates
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ISM Non-Manufacturing Index decreased to 56.9% in September
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Please, America, Let Us Pay You to Borrow
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The staggering cost of day care when you make only the minimum wage
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Prime Working-Age Population Growing Again
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One Chart Tells Entire Story About the U.S. Economy
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Millennials and Money: What You Need to Know
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Less Than a Third of Unemployed Americans Get Benefit Checks
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Why Commodity-Based Credit Worries are Spreading
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Student Loan Debt, Homeownership, And Millennials. It’s Complicated.
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Central banks might be ready to 'unleash hell' at exactly the wrong time
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How Fortune 500 companies avoid paying $620 billion in taxes • Apple is still No. 1 at avoiding US taxes
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

Surrendering a Home in Bankruptcy: Recent Cases Point Towards a New Option
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Joint Tenancy: What Happens When a Joint Tenant’s Interest Becomes Part of the Bankruptcy Estate?
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Mortgage credit availability rises in September
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US Housing Bubble Worse Than in 2006
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Black Knight August Mortgage Monitor
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House Prices up 6.9% Year-over-year in August
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The biggest mansion in Alabama is being auctioned — and it could be 'the buy of a lifetime'
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Landlords to hike rents by 8% as tenants struggle
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San Francisco shack starting at $350,000?
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JPMorgan buys more mortgages from other lenders as market shrinks
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Municipalities:

Puerto Rico Willingness to Pay Test Arrives Dec. 1
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Puerto Rico House bankruptcy bill adds co-sponsors
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‘City of the Big Shoulders’ Will Find Out It’s Never Enough
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61,064 Failing Bridges Must Wait as Cities Borrow at Decade Low
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Chicago at bottom of fiscal scoreboard for cities-analysis
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Oil/Gas:

Oil closes in on $50 • Investors tread carefully despite oil rally
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Oil jumps $2, breaking range as supply seen ebbing • Oil prices jump after reports of tanking U.S. production • US Oil Production On Brink, Say Oil Execs
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OPEC Sec-Gen Sees Oil Market Improving, Low Price Will Not Persist
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US EIA Sees Tighter 2016 Oil Market As Demand Accelerates
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Oil M&A's False Positives
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Oil Drillers Hunker Down for Long Bear Market
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Quicksilver Resources Bankruptcy Auction Set for December - Creditors worry the auction might fail to produce a valuable offer
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Howard Marks Will Bet You $100 You Won't Know the Price of Oil
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Energy MLPs at record lows as oil downturn continues
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Quicksilver Resources bankruptcy auction set for December
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Fracking Boom Goes Bust as Companies File for Bankruptcy
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IHS: North American oil hedges sink to 11 percent in 2016
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Freeport McMoRan Is Spinning Off Its Oil Business • Freeport's Oil Exit Risks Creating Money-Losing Crude Explorer
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Did OPEC Just Call Time On The Price War?
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World Oil Prices Too Low To Support US Shale Production, Oil Executives Say
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Oasis Redetermines Credit Facility Borrowing Base
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Bankruptcy trustee: HOVENSA has it wrong
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Retailing:

American Apparel Won't Abandon U.S. Manufacturing in Bankruptcy • American Apparel hangs on to its made-in-America model — by a thread • American Apparel Gets Quick OK for $90 Million in Financing • Judge Torches American Apparel Ex-CEO in Hilarious Hearing • How Dov Charney Will Lose Everything In American Apparel's Bankruptcy • American Apparel's dark future? • Ouch! American Apparel's Bumpy Ride May End With A Bankruptcy But There's Lessons For Entrepreneurs • Is Authentic Brands in hot pursuit of American Apparel? • American Apparel seeks fashion revival under bankruptcy plan • Essential California: Bankruptcy for American Apparel • How American Apparel lost America’s youth •Here's why Trump and other outsiders are leading the GOP presidential race • American Apparel reveals plans for new look
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Unredeemed Borders Gift Cards are Officially Worthless
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J.C. Penney's Ullman May Refinance After Meeting Profit Goals
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Reis: Mall Vacancy Rate unchanged in Q3
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Hollywood:

Relativity TV Sale Approved by Bankruptcy Court
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Food/Beverage:

A&P reveals first bid winners; most stores go unsold • A&P auctions off more stores in NYC region, others up for grabs
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Z'Tejas saved from bankruptcy by Austin investors
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Politics:

Donald Trump is still on top — but there are more clear warning signs ahead • Donald Trump's spending shows how he's redefining the modern political campaign • See the property portfolios of Donald Trump • Trump promises us all a free lunch • Barry Diller Says He'll Leave the Country If Donald Trump Wins the White House • Mexican drug cartel lord has a $100 million bounty on Donald Trump • Trump left his mark all over New York. Some in the city would like to erase it
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Ben Carson would skip meeting families of Oregon mass shooting but ‘would probably go to the next one’
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Why Marco Rubio is insisting that his massive tax cuts will pay for themselves, explained
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All Americans would reportedly pay some income tax under presidential candidate Bobby Jindal's plan
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FBI probe of Clinton e-mail expands to second data company • Employee at Clinton's email hosting company feared a cover-up
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Obama Fact Check: Today, the deficit is "below the average deficits over the past 40 years."
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Rail:

Amtrak Threatens to Suspend Service Dec 31.
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Non-Profits:

Paredes foundation files for bankruptcy , shifts focus
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Consumer Finance:

Bankruptcy and Delinquency in a Model of Unsecured Debt
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Aviation:

Transaero bankruptcy could cut 27 percent of Boeing 747 passenger orders
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The Air France execs that had their shirts torn off are part of a funny new ad campaign
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Planes of future may see passengers stacked on top of each other
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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 (24 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (7 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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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Bankruptcy Filings Through Sept. 30 Decline Compared to Same Period in 2014
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Business bankruptcies in decline
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Avoidance Actions:

One Size Fits Some: Defending Preference and Fraudulent Transfer Claims
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Substantial Contribution:

Good Deeds May Be Rewarded in Chapter 7—at least in the Sixth Circuit
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Equity:

Clear Contractual Terms Prevail Over Equitable Principles in Bankruptcy Cases (Again).
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Professional Compensation:

In re: Hipcricket Inc. Provides a Lesson on the Importance of Defined Terms
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Sales:

Third Circuit Rules that If It’s Not Estate Property, There’s No Need to Respect Priority
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Claim Allowance:

File a Proof of Claim, Lose Your Lien? Ninth Circuit Holds That Lien Associated With Disallowed Claim is Void
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Pensions:

Central States Pension Fund Prepares To Slash Hundreds of Thousands of Workers’ Pensions
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Fraud:

An investor who sued Lynn Tilton will also be key to the SEC's fraud case
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Personal Finance:

The one number that’s eerily good at predicting your success in love
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Tech:

Apple’s real cash pile is 99% smaller than you think
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Student Debt:

What Uncle Sam owes student loan borrowers
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Student Loan Servicing Reforms May Be on the Way
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Corporate Reform:

Government's consumer bureau targets mandatory arbitration
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Obama Threatens To Veto Republican Bill That Would Undo Consumer Protections
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Brokers called 'Big Nose' and 'Lord Libor' are being accused of rigging rates
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Gambling:

Things could get a lot worse for DraftKings and FanDuel
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Opera:

Plan to Revive New York City Opera Has Creditors' Backing
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Education:

Stockton's Showboat costs likely to exceed $26M
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The rise of the covert for-profit college
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Bankruptcy Crimes:

Evansville brother and sister charged in bankruptcy fraud scheme
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Privacy:

Experian Breach Is Worse than Bankers May Realize
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Radio:

Cumulus: A Dark Cloud on the Radio Industry
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Distressed Investing:

It keeps getting worse for 'The Diva of Distressed' Lynn Tilton
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Sovereigns:

Kicillof says Macri's pro-vulture stance would have 'tripled' Argentina's debt • 'Vulture funds not a priority in my agenda'
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Argentina wins another small battle against ‘vultures’ in NY • Victory for Argentina in its ongoing battle with speculative funds
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Argentina's $5.9 Billion Bond Payment Triggers Return to Market • Argentina Issues New Debt Bond , Bonar 2020
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Elliott Said to Subpoena Argentine Investors on Bond Sale
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Ukraine Debt Given Final Value of 80.625% at Swaps Auction
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UK:

Where are you heading this summer? Bankruptcy tourism and the case of the Banana King
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Changes in insolvency law set to affect D&O insurers
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EU:

The Economic Engine of Europe Slows Down
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PIIGS:

Greece’s to-do list • Greek bank recap is race against time • Was the Crisis in Greece a Wasted Opportunity?
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Brian O’Donnell’s children face questions in court over gifts from parents
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Canada:

Is Baytex Energy Corp. Headed to Bankruptcy ?
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Canada Auto Industry May Lose 20,000 Jobs
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India:

Soon, India will have new bankruptcy code: Modi • Enactment of bankruptcy code to be a key enabler for banks growth
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Latin America:

IMF sees Latam recession this year as Brazil slumps
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Russia:

Yukos: the saga continues
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Russian NGO Files for Bankruptcy Following 'Foreign Agent' Fines
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China:

Yum Brands is crashing
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KFC is telling a distressing story about the Chinese economy
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Germany:

German Industry Output Unexpectedly Falls as China Weakens
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