Law:

Dewey Defense: 15 Reasons to Doubt the Prosecution’s Case • Former Dewey & LeBoeuf Executives' Lawyers Give Final Arguments at Fraud Trial • Dewey Defense: No 'Shred' of Evidence in Case Against Davis • DA Failed to Show Ex-Dewey Chair's Guilt, Defense Says • Dewey & LeBoeuf Exec Had 'No Motive' To Defraud, Jury Hears
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Seyfarth Adds Bankruptcy Litigator in New York
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Morgan Lewis Adds Insurance/Restructuring Pro
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Want to Be Successful Do Triage, Be Adaptable, and Have Loyal Outside Counsel
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Are You Ready for the Cubicle?
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The Keys to Law Firm Survival Today
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A third of job-hunting junior UK lawyers seek to leave the law
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Skadden in Spotlight Over Yahoo’s Alibaba Spinoff Plan
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You Won't Believe This Law Firm Memo From The 1950s
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Ted Kennedy’s Widow, Vicki, Embarks on New Legal Career
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Bar Passage Rate Isn’t The Most Important Thing, It’s The Most Basic Thing
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Does Your Potential Spouse Have To Be Better Than Perfect?
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Comings and Goings in Big Law
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UK: Addleshaws enters booming contract lawyer market
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The Tom Brady & Hillary Clinton Schools Of Quasi-Discovery
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Millennial lawyers are getting sick of their jobs even faster than previous generations
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Was it ‘misogynistic behavior’? BigLaw partner is chided for comment on ‘stunning’ LinkedIn photo • Biglaw Partner Taken To Task Over ‘Sexist’ And ‘Misogynistic’ Behavior • LinkedIn lawyers: Did this weak sexism really warrant shaming? • Lawyer Charlotte Proudman in 'stunning' profile photo row says men use LinkedIn ‘like Tinder’
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20 ways to avoid getting burned out at work
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Why lawyers will love the iPhone 6s and the iPad Pro
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Apple's unveils new giant iPad • Apple just admitted Microsoft is right • Everyone's freaking out about the price of the 'Apple Pencil' • Apple announces a stylus — a product Steve Jobs hated • ‘With stylus and keyboard, cheapest iPad Pro is nearly $1,000’ • Apple's new iPad Pro feels enormous • The biggest mistake Apple made with the new iPhone • Don't make this mistake when you buy a new iPhone • Apple exec describes the iPhone's coolest new feature as 'trying to read minds'
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A new iPad mini
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Here are the new features coming to the Apple Watch • Apple is bringing some killer apps to the Apple Watch
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Apple just announced its new iPhones • Apple’s Cook touts next iPhone as game changer • Apple announces new phones with 3D Touch technology • Apple: We changed 'everything' for the new iPhones • Apple just fundamentally changed the iPhone
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Apple is trying to destroy the Nintendo Wii
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Apple's plans land with a thud
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Connecting The Dots With Strategic Law Blogging
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Confidence In Legal Advice Comes With Time
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Court Backs Facebook in Privacy Fight With Defense Lawyers
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Here are 11 reasonably priced suits you can shop for fall
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Kim Davis' Lawyer Says Forcing Clerk To Do Job Is Like Making Her 'Grant A License To S------- Children' • Kim Davis Betrayed: Deputy Clerk Will Continue to Issue Marriage Licenses Whether She Likes It or Not
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Man ticketed for broken windshield in parking lot of auto glass repair shop: ‘Definitely a bummer’
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Teen who sent texts to boyfriend encouraging suicide is charged with manslaughter
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Lawyer Who Dissed Client Online Suspended
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Lawyer Serves Eviction Notice Upon Overdue Baby
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TSA Officer Arrested After Allegedly Stealing $7,500 Wristwatch and Then Destroying It
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Attorney defends lawyer who had s-- with client
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Texas woman arrested with pistol in . . .
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Lawyer left abusive F-bomb voice mails, ethics complaint alleges; he decries ‘ridiculousness’
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30-day suspension for s-- with client isn’t too lenient, lawyer argues
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A Timeline of Celebrity Divorce Queen Laura Wasser's Ride to the Top
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A pastor who was exposed as an Ashley Madison user killed himself
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Did Harper Lee write a true-crime novel? Lawyer’s wife says she has the first chapter
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Judges:

Eight Provocative Passages from Judge Richard Posner’s New Book
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Judge in Hot Water Over Courthouse Hitler Picture
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7th Circuit overturns unique halvsies procedure for judicial elections
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Supreme Court justice pinpoints the most crippling problem facing college students
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Ex-prosecutor indicted over alleged text offer to pay $20K to get opponent to exit judicial campaign
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Wall Street:

US stocks set for slight rebound after steep pullback
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Stocks give it all back • Stocks close down 1.4% despite global rally
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It looks like the S&P 500 is going to fall another 26%
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20 Year-Old Hedge Fund Summer Intern Wouldn’t Lower Himself To Working At Goldman Sachs If His Life Depended On It
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Lazard Intern Aims To Capitalize On “Endless Opportunities” In P---
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Layoffs:

Pimco May Lay Off Employees Because Daddy Went Out For Cigarettes And Never Came Back
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Personal Finance:

5 ways commuting ruins your finances — and life
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Student Debt:

Getting colleges’ skin in the student-loan game
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Student Loans: Bankrupting The American Dream
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Food/Beverage:

Haggen Holding Enters Chapter 11 Amid Albertsons Lawsuit • The Saga Continues • Here's how much Haggen owes former CEO, workers, creditors • Shoppers not surprised Haggen filed for bankruptcy protection
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Haggen bankruptcy: Failure is the 'fastest' in modern grocery store history
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Haggen's Complaint Against Albertson's
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$6 million 'trust' fund for executives an issue in A&P bankruptcy case
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Coal:

Patriot Coal Executives Must Sit for Questioning, Judge Rules
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Coal’s Decline Is Choking Appalachia Towns
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Fraud:

Star of “ Startup.com ” Charged With Accounting Fraud
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Maui Ponzi Scheme Judgment Pushed to October
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Resorts:

Baha Mar Comments On Bahamian Supreme Court Ruling
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Baha Mar Appoints 'Restructuring' Chief
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The big, risky Baha Mar bet
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Economy:

Uh oh: We're back to pre-recession debt levels
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Agreement on September Rate Increase Eludes Fed • Summers warns the Fed against interest-rate rise • World Bank economist: Fed should not hike • Deutsche Bank: Why the Fed won't do anything this month • Rate hike dilemma puts Fed between the US and a hard place • This is what could tip Fed's hand
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UN World Food Price Index drops most since 2008
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Harvard Business School alums say top U.S. priority should be fighting inequality
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There have never been so many open U.S. jobs • Why US Job Openings Are Surging, While Hiring Plods • One Chart Shows There's Hope for Job Seekers
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Inside the Fight Over Productivity and Wages
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Consumer credit jumps $19.1 billion in July • Consumer Debt Hits $3.45 Trillion
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How the government could shut down in three weeks
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Two in Every Five U.S. Children Spend at Least a Year in Poverty
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14% of U.S. households struggle to put food on the table
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5 reasons kids in America are falling behind
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Another flashing red light in the junk-bond market
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Corporate debt deals are surging. Here's why
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Experts: Another Gov't Shutdown is Coming
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Uber Economy: Return to 1900 Sweatshops
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The 18 most 'miserable' countries in the world
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In 18 Nations, Women Cannot Get a Job Without Their Husband’s Permission
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Al-Qaeda calls for death of US business figures
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The 20 best cities for job seekers this fall
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Starting a Business is Easy (for Harvard Business Grads)
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Student-Loan, Health-Care Debt Most Risky as Spreads Widen in Three-Month Period
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

Strong Arm Powers: Does Sovereign Immunity Trump a Claim Based on State Law?
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Sue Your Bank, Keep Your Home, Repeat
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10 Places Where It Makes More Sense to Rent Than Own
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Mortgage Apps. down 6.2%, as Refinancing Slides
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Freddie Mac makes it easier to get a mortgage modification
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Hovnanian posts worse-than-expected loss
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HUD OIG: More than 25,000 household using public housing despite higher incomes
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Pittsburgh: Former loan officer at defunct South Hills mortgage company pleads guilty to fraud
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Developer files Chapter 11 over $39M in debt on Broward, Palm Beach home developments
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Municipalities:

Puerto Rico to Make Debt Restructuring Proposal in a Few Weeks • Puerto Rico Investors May Shun Debt-Exchange Offer, Moody's Says • Puerto Rico plan still leaves $12B debt gap • Puerto Rico's plan to pay off its debt falls $14 billion short • Puerto Rico Plan Calls for Spending Cuts, Tax Overhaul • How Puerto Rico hopes to break its debt spiral and fix its broken economy • Puerto Rico advisers: Reforms, debt cuts needed
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Puerto Rico's recovery plan faces much doubt, many obstacles • Puerto Rico Confronts Higher Hurdles in Debt Restructuring Plan • What Puerto Rico's New Plan Means
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Puerto Rico Fiscal and Economic Growth Plan • Will Puerto Rico's Growth Plan Allay Their Debt Woes?
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Puerto Rican governor slams Trump
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Puerto Rico Gaining Political Support to Declare Bankruptcy
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Teachers work for free as Pa. schools go insolvent
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How Detroit students experienced the city's bankruptcy
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Lawyer for lottery winners: 'The state is violating the Illinois lottery law'
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Oil/Gas:

Will We See Bankruptcies in the Oil Sector?
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Oil dips under $45 as EIA cuts price forecasts • Oil falls as supply glut, demand worries offset equities gains • Oil heads lower as Saudi battles for market share • US oil settles down 3.9%, at $44.15 a barrel
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Oil firms cutting another 700 Texas jobs
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An Energy Firm's Collapse Casts Ominous Sign Over Mortgage Bonds
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Canadian Oil Producers First to Shut Off Taps
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Oil companies ‘worth more alive than dead’: Bank CEOs show willingness to go easy on troubled sector
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Another Bankruptcy Court Examines Overriding Royalty Interests
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Oil Prices Show Little Response to Lower Output Forecasts
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More Iranian Oil Could Hit The Market Now That Iran Deal Is Assured
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Will Low Prices Kill Off The North Sea Oil Patch?
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'Blood & Oil ': The oil bust is about to go mainstream
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U.S. Oil Producers May Lose 500,000 Barrels a Day on Funding Gap
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Consolidation in the energy sector
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Icahn rival bets against Cheniere, calls LNG industry a “looming disaster”
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Continental Resources will reduce spending by $350 million
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Barclays: Oil companies to cut North American spending up to 15 percent next year
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Investors flee biggest U.S. crude oil fund as volatility surges
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Solid Energy insolvent , bank creditors support orderly selldown
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The Oil Bust Is Great For Business Here
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Politics:

Donald Trump mocks rival Carly Fiorina's face: 'Look at that face, would anyone vote for that?' • Trump: Our Country Run by Very Stupid People • A zero vote for Trump: CFO survey • Donald Trump 2016: Washington insider • Trump just put CNN in an awkward position • Donald Trump trashes Black Lives Matter: 'I think they're trouble' • Donald Trump just trolled Jeb Bush with a video touting him as a cure for insomnia • Among Trump’s N.H. Backers, Colorful Histories in State Politics • Trump has done an atrocious job of telling the truth during the campaign so far
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How Carson surged with one-sixtieth of Trump's air time
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FactCheck: More Spin on Clinton's Emails • Clinton IT Guy Pressed to Accept Immunity
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Joe Biden bides time as Hillary Clinton slides
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Former fugitive John McAfee filed paperwork to run for president — here’s a look at his extraordinary life
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Refusing to own a gun may cost Jeb Bush dearly • FactCheck: Jeb on Florida Job Creation
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Ted Cruz, Donald Trump Lead Rally Against Iran Nuclear Deal
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Marco Rubio Platform: Puerto Rico Debt Crisis Will Not Be Solved By Chapter 9 Bankruptcy Laws
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Retailing:

Sears GC Defends Company’s Shake-Up
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Barnes & Noble shares plunge 15%
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American shopping malls have suffered another blow
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A tough road ahead for Macy's CEO Terry Lundgren
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Quiksilver Files for Bankruptcy Protection in Delaware • Quicksilver CFO Cites Port Delays in Bankruptcy • Cedes Control to Creditors • Wipeout • Quiksilver Postpones Filing of Third Quarter 2015 Form 10-Q and Cancels Scheduled Conference Call • Oaktree-Backed Plan, DIP Loan • Support of 73% of U.S. Secured Noteholders • Quiksilver dollar bonds trade without accrued interest after Chapter 11 filing
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Celebs:

Bankrupt David Cassidy To Auction Florida Home
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Lawyer Claims 'Jersey Shore' Star Michael 'The Situation' Sorrentino Didn't Pay Him
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Amal Clooney: Beautiful Yes. Famous Yes. But Is She a Good Lawyer?
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Pop star JoJo talks of repaying debts to her lawyers over years
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Privacy:

New York health insurer hacked, over 10 million members possibly affected
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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 (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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Subordination:

Decoding the Code: Bankruptcy Code Section 510(a) – Subordination Agreements in Bankruptcy
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Discrimination:

Employee Fails to Prove Termination Due to Bankruptcy
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"Claim":

“Conduct” Test Now the Rule in the Seventh Circuit – But We Still Don’t Know How the Seventh Circuit Will Deal With Due Process Concerns
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Avoidance Actions:

The Million Dollar Typo
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Default Interest:

Eleventh Circuit Reverses Denial of Lenders' Claim for Default-Rate Interest
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Corporate Reform:

United Airlines' former CEO will get $4.9 million cash and free flights as severance — but he may have to give it all back
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US to Focus More on White-Collar Criminals
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Aviation:

Republic Air Rises as Mediators Set Meeting With Pilots Union
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A plane in Las Vegas caught on fire before taking off
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Debt Collection:

Debt buyers fined for using misleading practices to collect payments
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NYC Quietly Publishes Guidance That Helps to Reconcile Its Debt Collection Rules with Those of New York State
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Consumer watchdog charges top two bad debt buyers
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Education:

New England Colleges Team Up to Fight Controversial Tuition Lawsuits
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Movies:

Relativity Studios postpones three films amid bankruptcy woes
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Lehman:

Lehman Trustee Begins Third Payout to Brokerage Creditors
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Taxis:

Uber Has Hit a Speed Bump in New York
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Former Uber driver was an employee, rules California department
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Mass Torts:

Judge denies asbestos firms' motions to dismiss racketeering cases against them
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Corporate Governance:

Advancement Claims Not Entitled to Priority in LLC Receivership
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Religion:

As Pope visit nears, US abuse victims say Church remains obstacle to justice
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The Catholic Church is fighting to block bills that would extend the statute of limitations for reporting sex abuse
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Healthcare:

UMC, Commissioners Court ask Children's for joint plan
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Alternative Energy:

Wind power growth faces sharp decline without federal aid, report says
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Gambling:

Judge moves lawsuit among Caesars' creditors to Chicago
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ACR Energy says Revel owner looking to "flip" property
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Consultants:

Cowen forms special situations group; announces new hires
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Sovereigns:

Top economists call for support on ‘vultures’
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United Nations General Assembly to vote on debt restructuring principles
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Europe should back debt crisis principles at the UN
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Ukraine to bypass banks on restructuring offer - sources
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UK:

Morrisons store closures puts 900 jobs at risk as profits slide
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32 incredible powers of Queen Elizabeth II you didn't know she had
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Britain won't raise interest rates anytime soon
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UK Serious Fraud Office Chief Serious About Putting Libor Riggers Behind Bars, Not Interested In “But but but everyone else was doing it” Excuses
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EU:

9 questions about the refugee crisis you were too embarrassed to ask • Europe’s migration and asylum policy disintegrates before our eyes
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French industrial production drops unexpectedly
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European leveraged loan default rate hits lowest point since 2008
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PIIGS:

Spain is entering a whole new world of pain
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Greek unemployment inches up; still at record high
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Who would want to be a Greek PM? Well, these guys do
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Canada:

Which Are Ontario’s Best Regional Firms?
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Germany:

Germany's history explains why it's so accepting of refugees — and why it wants austerity for Greece
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China:

China stocks drop as Nikkei reverses big gains
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Economist: China situation spells global recession • Next: A China-led world recession?
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'China won’t see a hard landing in the economy'
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China deflation risks grow, foreign central banks on alert
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India:

Bankruptcy code will be finalized shortly: Mundra
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Brazil:

Brazil's credit rating downgraded to junk
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Rio de Janeiro's Bursting Real-Estate Bubble
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