September 17, 2015

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Law:

Summer Associates Were Happy, But Annoyed By ‘Rude’ Partners, Tech From The Stone Age
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Dewey Know How Closing Arguments Ended? • Decision Time in the Dewey Trial • Jury to Decide Dewey Defendants' Fate • Dewey & LeBoeuf Accounting Fraud Case Goes to Jury
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Company Files Bankruptcy After Suits Allege 'Unauthorized Practice of Law'
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Bankruptcy Judge Dismisses Suit Against DLA Piper
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Feds Shut Down Debt Relief Law Firm
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Study: People Select A Lawyer The Same Way Today As In 1915
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Go Biglaw Or Go Home
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Biglaw Senior Associate Allegedly At Center Of Fraudulent Scheme
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Big Law’s Intractable Problem: Implicit Bias
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Latest Requisite for a New Practice Group? A Blog.
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Unfinished Work at Covington's New Office Sparks Litigation
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6 Annoying Types Of Posts On Lawyer Listservs
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Nothing Succeeds Like Succession… Planning
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Jackson Lewis opens Jersey Shore office, said to be the first BigLaw firm to locate there
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The Robots Aren't Coming After All: Technology is No Threat to Lawyers
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Apple's new iPhone update is making the home screen obsolete for me • The 11 best new features you can get on your iPhone right now • The 20 biggest changes coming to your iPhone and iPad
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Common behaviors that make you look dumb
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There are only 12 items of clothing men need to be ready for fall
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Body Language Mistakes Successful People Never Make
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Here's what's exciting about iOS9
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Why I Put My Wife’s Career First • Men, don’t be embarrassed if you’d rather make less money to be at home more • Male lawyers help blaze trail toward increased parental leave
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Proven strategies to become more charismatic
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Paltering: Dishonesty pays off in negotiations if done in this particular way
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Alabama Says ‘I Don’t’ to Proposal to Do Away With Marriage Licenses
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Poll: Most Disagree with Kim Davis • New Tide Commercial Slams Kim Davis
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Mother indicted on manslaughter charges over the exposure death of her son in playground swing
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Temple law grad is charged with fatally shooting classmate during claimed drug deal
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Law School Hosts The Walking Dead Colloquium
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A Syrian Lawyer Took a Job as a Janitor to Learn More About Germany
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The internet and Barack Obama are standing up for Ahmed Mohamed, the teenage clockmaker • Teen Goes from Handcuffs to Hero • How School Explained Ahmed's Arrest
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Judges:

Alabama Bankruptcy Judge Retires From the Bench
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Bankruptcy Judge position vacancy in the District of Connecticut
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Former judge ‘ready to be punished’ gets 2 years in domestic violence case
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SEC Fights on Two-Court Front to Defend Its In-House Judges
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Judge Posner Rips Poor Winston & Strawn Lawyer
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Wall Street:

U.S. stocks set to pull back
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Stocks close higher as Street awaits Fed decision
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Global stocks at three-week highs as Fed decision looms
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Layoffs:

Whitman: HP layoffs needed as tech changes rapidly
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Bankruptcy puts 66 jobs at risk at Coyne Textile
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B/E Aerospace to Cut 450 Jobs
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Taxis:

Uber Appeals Class-Action Ruling for Lawsuit
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Delivery:

FedEx misses on earnings and cuts its outlook
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Movies:

Relativity Asks Bankruptcy Court For Bonuses To Top Execs • Relativity Asks Bankruptcy Court For Bonuses To Top Execs, And Others With Inflated Titles
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Paul Singer’s Affiliates Challenge Speedy Sale Plans • Elliott Associates Renews Objections to Relativity Auction • Manchester Balks at Movie Deals
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Relativity Media's Zoe Fairbourn Replaces Lance Still in Top Weinstein Company Marketing Post
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Bankruptcy Crimes:

Topsfield executive admits to tax, bankruptcy fraud charges
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Shipping:

Global Maritime Investments files for bankruptcy
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Order drought drives Bergen Group unit to bankruptcy
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Retailing:

Is it too late for American Apparel?
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Coal:

Patriot Coal in 'Advanced' Talks With Rival Bidder for Mines • New bidder
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Regulators oppose Patriot Coal reorganization plan
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Creditor sues Arch Coal's lenders for trying to block debt swap | Reuters

Is A Coal Price Recovery Near?
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Resorts:

End to Impasse In Sight Following Baha Mar Chapter 11 Dismissal
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CCA Bahamas Ltd. Comments On Memorandum Regarding Motions To Dismiss Baha Mar Chapter 11 Cases
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Chapter 11 'Ideal Vehicle For Baha Mar' If All Agreed
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Economy:

Judgment day as Fed’s trigger finger gets itchier
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Final Countdown: Here's what 17 experts are predicting for Fed rate hikes • Weak US inflation complicates Fed rate decision • When the Fed raises rates, here's what happens • Wall St now sees a Sept Fed rate hike: CNBC survey • If it were up to Lloyd Blankfein, the Fed wouldn't raise rates right now • Q&A: Lawrence Summers and Why It’s Too Early to Raise Rates • Here’s the very worst argument for the Fed to raise interest rates • 1937 was a bad time to lift rates — and so is this • 5 reasons for Fed to raise rates — and 5 not to
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Wow Top 1% of Harvard grads richer than America's 1%
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Household Income Falls, Poverty Rate Ticks Up • U.S. Job Growth Not Making a Dent in Poverty
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The Sharp Rise of the Upper Middle Class • The American middle class has lost a quarter century
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Early Look at Cost-Of-Living Adjustments indicates NO increase in 2016
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Americans More Optimistic About Job Market in September
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Gender Wage Gap Smallest on Record, but Women Still Earn 21% Less Than Men
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The typical household makes less than it did before the recession
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Cornyn: Federal Gov't Won't be Shut Down
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

How big a home a family can afford in 15 major US cities
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MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest Weekly Survey
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Broker Commissions: Technical Requirements Trump Equitable Considerations
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Homebuilder Confidence in U.S. Strengthens to Highest Since 2005
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Housing markets hit hardest by a rate hike
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Mortgage applications plunge 7% ahead of Fed decision
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Developer of Santa Fe's 500 Market Station files Chap. 11 bankruptcy
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$100 million zombie homes may signal market top
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Economist: Texas is not in a housing bubble
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Two plead guilty to $18.5M mortgage modification scheme
(DBN)

Ackman: The US government is perpetrating 'the most illegal act of scale' with Fannie and Freddie
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Elizabeth Warren changes mind, sides with Fannie and Freddie
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Municipalities:

Debt fight clouds Puerto Rico’s economy
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Puerto Rico government's fiscal reform plan faces growing opposition amid economic crisis
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America’s richest (and poorest) states
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10 Cities Still Suffering from Great Recession
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Census: Detroit is Poorest Big City in America
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Oil/Gas:

KKR's Samson Resources files for bankruptcy, lenders to take control • Samson Resources Files Pre-Arranged Plan of Reorganization to Complete Financial Restructuring • Samson Lenders Said to Gain Required Support for Restructuring
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Oil surges more than 5% as US crude stockpiles fall • Oil gives back some gains
(DBN)

Our Energy Problem Could Lead To A Major Debt Crisis
(DBN)

US shale goes from boom to bust with record declines
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Moody’s: 2016 to bring more cuts among largest oil and gas cos. • Moody's Lowers Outlook for Oil, Gas Majors
(DBN)

Here’s Why Hess Corp. Owned Hovensa LLC Filed For Bankruptcy
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Maersk Oil shedding U.S. jobs as Angola drilling plans stall
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Texas drilling permits down by half since last year
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Oil Traders Hire Tanks on Tiny Island to Profit From Global Glut
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Politics:

Trump Lying About Bankruptcies? During CNN Debate, Real Estate Mogul's Financial Past Challenged By Rivals • Trump Leaves Out His Companies That Went Bankrupt : Reality Check • Fact-checking the second GOP presidential debate • Watch best of the GOP debate in only 2 minutes • Trump's time in Atlantic City comes under fire in GOP debate • Who won the 2016 CNN presidential debate? • Fact checking the second round of GOP debates • Republicans Pile on Donald Trump in Second Debate • Trump hit hard in debate, but he gave as good as he got • All the ways Republicans attacked Donald Trump during the debate • In Republican debate, Fiorina rises as formidable foe • Fiorina shines early; Rubio, Christie do, too, at GOP debate • GOP marathon turned on immigration, tax issues • Republican debate Chris Christie: He said social security is going bankrupt. Is it? • The fifth most Googled Jeb question: Is Jeb Bush related to George Bush? • Walker: 'We Don't Need an Apprentice in the White House' • Carly Fiorina and Donald Trump are both right: They’re both pretty terrible at business • Donald Trump lost the Republican debate, and it wasn't even close. • Who Won the Second GOP Debate? • Carly Fiorina won the debate, but fact checkers will have a field day
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Want to Understand Donald Trump’s Strategy? Read His Book. • 'Celebrity Apprentice' runner-up reveals what Donald Trump is really like • Here's how to deal with Trump's bullying • Obama just took a swipe at Donald Trump • 8 Polls Show that Trump is for Real • One quote from Donald Trump may help explain why he's a billionaire
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Bush: 'Trump is going to see what low-energy looks like'
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Bernie Sanders isn't as progressive as you think
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10 questions for Carly Fiorina • Fiorina: Trump is going to hear a lot from me • Yale professor on Carly Fiorina's business record: She 'destroyed half the wealth of her investors yet still earned almost $100 million'
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Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton Hit Many of Same Notes Amid Speculation of 2016 Fight
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Koch Bros. Struggle to Rein in GOP
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Rick Perry Super Donor Wants His $5M Back
(DBN)

CNN Hopes to Capture Candidates' Combative Spirit in G.O.P. Debate • Here's what's changed since the last GOP debate
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"Email" Defines Clinton; "Immigration" Defines Trump
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GOP Debate Drinking Game — Second Round: ‘This One Goes To 11′
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Seven Things We Forget About Reagan
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Religion:

A snapshot of the US Catholic Church ahead of Pope Francis' first visit to the country
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Blankfein compares finance to Catholic Church
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Shipping:

Dry Bulk Shipper Global Maritime Enters Bankruptcy
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Autos:

Will autoworkers' new deal with Detroit heal the wounds of bankruptcy? •Workers may balk at Fiat Chrysler, UAW contract deal
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GM, Justice Department Near Criminal Settlement Over Defective Ignition Switch • GM to pay $900 million, settle U.S. criminal case over ignition switches
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(4 new opinions today - DBN)

Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory

Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings (32 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (2 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
(large downloads)

UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Bankruptcy Jobs:

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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)

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Property of the Estate:

Whose Property Is The Corporate Social Media Account?
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Personal Bankruptcy:

New Administrative Orders Amend Procedures for Creditors in Consumer Bankruptcy Cases Pending in the Middle District of Florida
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Supreme Court Asked to Resolve Circuit Split Regarding Consumer Bankruptcy Fraud
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Claim Allowance:

Think You Got A Blank Check? Think Again
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Avoidance Actions:

A Bankruptcy Horror Story - State Bank of Toulon v. Covey (In re Duckworth)
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Museums:

The Epic Saga of a Mythical Museum
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Retailing:

Investors are overlooking terrible news from the most powerful company in women's retail
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Fraud:

New Jersey Man Pleads Guilty in Insider-Trading Scheme Which Used Info From Law Firm • Scheme that involved swallowing of Post-It Notes • Ex-Simpson Thacher Lawyer Is Last Holdout in Insider Trading Case
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Mining:

Rare earth miners band together for survival in pricing downturn
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Healthcare:

El Paso Children's Hospital files bankruptcy plan
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Andy Krafsur talks about EPCH's bankruptcy case
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Rail:

Railyard developer files for bankruptcy protection
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Food/Beverage:

Pope Francis’ NY visit causing headaches for bankrupt A&P
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Aviation:

Republic's Feud With Pilots Union Highlights Industry Strains
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Corporate Reform:

SEC Chair Faces New Conflict Claims Over Husband’s Legal Work
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Communications:

Former Standard Register gets new restructuring officer
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Remnants of Standard Register taking flak in bankruptcy court
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Student Debt:

A Loan Repayment Plan That Punishes Law Grads
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Rising Student Loan Defaults Driven by Non-Traditional Borrowers
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The real cost of the government's plan to 'forgive' your student loans
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New Research Shows Changing Characteristics of Student Loan Borrowers Who Default
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Proposed Bill Eliminates Student Loan Discharge Exception
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Stop Blaming The Wrong Colleges For Student Loan Debt
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Don’t pay off your student loans — yet
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Sovereigns:

US appeals court throws out expanded Argentina bond class action • Exasperated U.S. appeals court tosses bigger Argentina bond class • The Opinion
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The US Second Circuit Shields Sovereign Immunity in Favor of Argentina’s Central Bank
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These are the countries that are going to get hit hardest if the Fed hikes rates tomorrow
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Ukraine's quietly revolutionary debt restructuring • Ukraine parliament approves debt restructuring deal
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UK:

Former Premier League star bankrupt
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PIIGS:

Fate of Corfu Airport Puts Greek Bailout Deal to the Test
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Canada:

Trying to understand Canada’s fiscal state? Debt doesn’t lie
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China:

The CEO of Goldman Sachs just talked about China in a way we've never heard before
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Japan:

? Japan's woes earn a credit rating downgrade
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France:

Macron Law Modifies French Insolvency Law
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Australia:

Default Risk Among Australian Listed Corporations
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