Law:

Associate Bonus Watch: Spring Bonuses?! Is This Real Life?!
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Americans Rank Law Firms Dead Last In Commitment To Diversity
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Half of Allen & Overy’s new London partners are women
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Customer service 'tipping point' approaches for law firms, warns report
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Behind MoFo's 'Subversive' Name
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Who Will Represent the Firm Behind the 'Panama Papers'? • Firms’ eerie silence after Panama leaks
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GE’s former GC Talks About the ‘Money Chase’ and Why Legal Profession Not in Decay
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Quote of the Day: Law Firms Don’t Belong in Management Hall of Fame
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Fox Rothschild Settles Tax Dispute With U.S. Virgin Islands Over Tax Claimed For Work On A Bankruptcy Case
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Corporate lawyer with ‘spotless record’ faces RICO case over client’s payday loan business
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Inside the law firm that helps the super rich hide their money
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Settlement Reached In Litigation Between Alan Dershowitz, Paul Cassell, And Bradley Edwards • Dershowitz Settles, But Is He Vindicated? • Alan Dershowitz Extends Truce Offer to David Boies Amid Bitter Feud
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Avoiding Conflicts Up Front
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Sleep Deprived: We're Recharging Our Phones, But Not Ourselves
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Apple fans aren't impressed with the iPhone's hottest new feature
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The one trait all successful people have in common
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7 tricks to instantly appear competent
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The FBI says there's been a 'dramatic rise' in an email scam that has stolen more than $2.3 billion
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FBI director reveals why he puts tape over his laptop’s webcam
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Now the battle between Apple and the government turns on a Brooklyn iPhone • FBI's iPhone Hack Works on 'Narrow Slice of Phones': James Comey • Senate Bill Forces Tech Firms to Hack Devices
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Prank caller tricks Burger King workers into smashing windows
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Suspects in Bizarre Los Angeles Police Chase Arrested
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Religious Freedom vs. Equal Rights • Why NFL won't shun North Carolina in wake of controversial bill • In Southern fight over LGBT rights, a new kind of separatism • Clay Aiken hits out at NC bathroom law, chides Trump • Tennessee's anti-transgender bathroom bill, explained • Bryan Adams Cancels Mississippi Concert
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2016 Religious Law School Rankings
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The Most Diverse Law Schools
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Is This Law School Making 3L Year A Joke?
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Law Professors Say Posting ‘All Lives Matter’ Flier Was ‘Incident Of Intolerance'
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A disturbing detail about former US house speaker’s alleged abuse • Hastert's Rise: The Irony and the Awfulness • Denny Hastert's Hometown Turns on Him • How the Feds Caught the Ex-Speaker of House
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'Selfie' arsonist gets 20 years, $60 million fine
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Due to lack of counsel, New Orleans judge freezes cases against 7 inmates and orders their release
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The Hulk Hogan Leg Drop On The First Amendment
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Is The Criminal Case Against Trump’s Campaign Manager Hitting A Bump?
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Fired trooper rants about preaching to pulled-over drivers: ‘I’m a soldier for Jesus Christ’
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Ex-cop drank poison in court as jury foreman read guilty verdict for molesting 9-year-old family member
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Virginia Can No Longer Give Tickets To Cars At Inspection Stations Awaiting Inspection
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Grandstanding motions could bring sanctions, judge warns in suit over lawyer ‘conflicteneering’
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Client arrested in fatal shooting of clerk at St. Paul law office who wanted to be a lawyer
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Judges:

Mary Kay Vyskocil Sworn in as a U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge
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Senate Does Nothing? Obama Can Appoint Garland to Supreme Court
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Will this GOP senator get nominated to the Supreme Court if a Republican becomes president?
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Chuck Grassley’s Supreme Court Coup • The Supreme Court Extremism of Clarence Thomas and Chuck Grassley
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So Far There's Not Much Dirt on Obama's Supreme Court Pick • Supreme Court nominee moderate who can go hard left or right
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It's Not Just The Supreme Court. Republicans Are Screwing Lots Of Other Courts Too.
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Supreme Court: Last Grown Ups in DC
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Sotomayor Regales Law School Students in Brooklyn
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Justice Sotomayor Calls for More Supreme Court Diversity • On court diversity, Justice Sonia Sotomayor sounds like Scalia
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How Supreme Court Legitimacy is Shaped
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Why SCOTUS Makes Justices More Liberal
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Writ asks Florida’s top court to block assignment of senior judges ‘for unlimited periods of time’
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Federal judge describes her experience with ‘brutal’ home invaders at their sentencing
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Legal Heavyweights Take Their Case To… Small Claims Court
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Benchslap Of The Day: Puerto Rico Not So Suave
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Why I refuse to send people to jail for failure to pay fines
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Wall Street:

Stock futures rise as dollar steadies, investors wait for Alcoa
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U.S. Stocks Peter Out Into the Close
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Wall Street’s Playbook for Managing Millennials
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A $2.5 Billion BDC Halts Redemptions After Limit Reached
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Woman Who Describes Laying Unsolicited Kisses On Investors As ‘Part Of The Game’ Thinks She’s A Victim Of The Double Standard
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Wall Street Wages Double in 25 Years as Everyone Else's Languish
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Layoffs:

No WARN Act violation where sudden funding failure led to after-the-fact layoff notices
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Fed: U.S. oil job cuts reach about 118,000
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American Apparel cuts 80 garment jobs in Garden Grove, 300 in Los Angeles
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A warning of major layoffs at STI
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CT: Up to 4,000 State Employees Could Face Layoffs: Malloy
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Fraud:

For US tax cheats, Panama Papers reveal a perilous new world • Feds 'Chomping at the Bit' to Use Panama Papers to Catch Criminals • The Treasury Department's next target? Shell companies. • Unintended Consequences of the Panama Papers • David Cameron's Panama Papers Show How Little Offshore Tax Dodging Is Going On • Why 'in-law' is banned in Beijing • Panama Papers: UK PM sets up anti-tax dodging task force • Just the latest lift of the bank-secrecy veil • Police raids Mossack Fonseca's El Salvador branch • How Panama ended up in the middle of a financial scandal • The Geography of Financial Secrecy • Is Cameron next? Thousands protest in London over Panama Papers • A Contrite Cameron Releases Details of His U.K. Tax Returns • U.K.'s Cameron Broke No Laws in Panama, Nobody Cares • A British Dallas connection to the Panama Papers ... and a lot of things • Panama Papers: Questions for the Argentine President • A Crooked World Needs Panama • German finance minister suggests plan to combat tax havens • Why You Should Care About Panama Papers • SRA orders law firms to probe links to ‘Panama Papers’ • Report: Ex-bank chairman had offshore account • The Panama Papers Explained In One Simple Graph
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Federal Probe Expands to Nonprofit Tied to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio
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$12M Ponzi scheme tied to NYPD corruption probe, officials say
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Feds: New York Man Ran $12 Million Wholesale Liquor Ponzi Scheme
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Retailing:

Sears Gets $500 Million Loan as Lampert, Gates's Cascade Jump In •Sears Taps Bill Gates's Fortune in Latest Borrowing • Why Sears Holdings Corp. Dropped 12% in March
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PacSun made one mistake that ruined its business • The Long, Agonizing Fall of PacSun
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Things Remembered Hires Financial Adviser - FTI
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Teen retail's overlooked disadvantage
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Hancock Fabrics owes nearly $84 million to creditors
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Healthcare:

Cancer's sinister side effect: Financial toxicity
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Coal:

As coal company profits fell, mining firms rewarded executives
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Put miners ahead of coal company execs
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Uncertain future for Wyoming's laid off coal miners
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Peabody Coal: It Ain't Over Til It's Over
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Defaults:

Oil And Gas Sector Troubles Drive Corporate Default Rate To Highest Level In Seven Years: S&P
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Corporate Defaults Hit Seven-Year High
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Cruise Ships:

Casino cruise ship in troubled waters may face bankruptcy
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History:

For Harry Truman, the Buck Stopped at a Brush With Bankruptcy
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Economy:

Q1 Economy Looks Bleaker by the Day
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The Party's Over
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Global economic recovery ‘in danger of stalling’
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IMF's Lagarde on World Economic Situations • Q&A With Christine Lagarde: Finance's Firefighter Wants to Be Its Architect
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The U.S. economy: Goldilocks it’s not
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Why the worst earnings quarter since 2009 may be a good thing
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Roughly half of Americans face this $430,000 penalty
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Consumer Borrowing for Auto, Student Loans Increases in February
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Rosengren: These 5 charts show how the market is wrong about interest rates
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Real-Time GDP Tracker Gains a Following — And Some Criticism • GDPNow
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Why the drop in income inequality?
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The most depressing chart in the world
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The Strange Case of the Missing Crisis
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Jobs easier to find; good paychecks a lot harder
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For a shocking number of millennials, no job will ever be good enough
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Who Has Two Thumbs And Is Wrong About The Financial Crisis?
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Government Spending Cuts Escalate Clashes Over Monetary Policy
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Obama Readies Flurry of Regulations
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Sorry Paul, but the Bailout WAS about the Banks
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JPMorgan: US economy will face economic tragedy in 10 years
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US Debt Clock
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World Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

Can Assigned Rents Be Excluded From a Debtor’s Estate? In Michigan, Absolutely.
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Housing Bust Lingers for Generation X
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Yale Law Students Help Foreclosure Victims With New Program
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How to Solve the Housing Crisis: More Lawyers
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All the crazy things happening because of San Francisco's ridiculous housing prices
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It's official: Wells Fargo reaches largest settlement in FHA history
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Prices chopped for over 30% of NYC penthouses
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Sutton Place Tower Debacle Points To Fears Over Luxury Market Slowdown
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Bankruptcy Is Bellwether of New York’s Condo Market
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Williamsburg senior center landlord rejects $8.8m buyout offer, files for bankruptcy instead
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Municipalities:

Puerto Rico governor declares emergency at Government Development Bank
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Puerto Rico Rescue Bill Nears Completion in House Committee • Revised Puerto Rico Bill to Be Released Monday
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Puerto Rico Debt Crisis Reaches New Heights - What's The Solution?
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Clinton Courts the Latino Vote in Brooklyn, Expresses Support for Puerto Rico Bankruptcy Protection
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As Puerto Rico Nears Record Default, Insured Investors Rest Easy
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Atlantic City's pain reaches beyond its borders
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Is proposed state takeover of Atlantic City legal?
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Christie's hard line on Atlantic City: What happened to compromise?
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Judge denies Christie's move to freeze Atlantic City funds in school fight
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Bankruptcy battle threatens a summer chill in Atlantic City
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Veteran Assembly Leader Caputo Urges Governor to Compromise
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State's involvement in A.C. stretches back decades
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For Some Assembly Republicans, Path Forward on AC Remains Unclear
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Assembly committee backs alternate A.C. plan
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David Tepper relocation to Florida has New Jersey leaders freaking out
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Environmental:

Judge wants more information on deal with Freedom executives
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Television:

Your Cable Company Was Just Placed on Life Support
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Compensation:

CEO pay took its biggest nosedive since the financial crisis
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Pensions:

The US government is facing a retirement crisis - $20.4 trillion retirement problem
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US faces 'disastrous' $3.4tn pension funding hole
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Oil/Gas:

Oil edges lower, catching its breath after last week’s jump
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U.S. oil rig count drops by eight, Baker Hughes says
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U.S. Oil And Gas Continues To Thrive In The Permian Basin
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US shale oil firms feel credit squeeze as banks grow cautious • Banks Are Giving Shale Drillers a Painful Credit Squeeze
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The Invisible Money Makers Who Thrived During 2015's Oil Slump
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Saudi Oil Gambit Moves to Phase Two
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Are The Saudis And Russians Deliberately Sabotaging Doha?
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OPEC's days as economic force are 'over'
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Struggle For Libya’s Oil Wealth Reaches Climax
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'The great oil divergence of 2016' could be underway
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The Oilfield Services Model Is Broken
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Where's the Outrage? Energy CEOs Reap Millions While Their Companies Incinerate Value
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North American Oil and Gas Producers’ Debt Rose in 2015
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Crude Speculators Got Short … and Got Crushed
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Shell, Chevron and Total have debt ratings cut by Moody's on price ... • Three Oil Majors Have Debt Ratings Cut by Moody's on Price Rout
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New Mexico oil drillers hang on amid rig reductions
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Rising hotels face deflation of bust
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Cheap Bond Funds Fueled Oil Bubble as Byproduct of Indexing
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Poverty in Russia rising at fastest pace since 1990s turmoil
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Personal Finance:

6 hard-learned lessons that can help fix your financial problems
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Alternative Energy:

Financial turmoil at SunEdison imperils solar projects worldwide
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IEA: China, Japan, U.S. leading solar energy boom
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Music:

Fraud Lawsuit Filed By Sony Music Against Rdio Executives
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SFX Bankruptcy Court Allocates $15 Million In Payments To Artists
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Celebs:

10 Celebrities With Major Debt
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Abandoning Abby? Maddie Ziegler Quits ‘Dance Moms’ Amid Miller Fraud Case
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Gambling:

Trump: Plaza and Taj Mahal casinos too shabby to bear his name anymore
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Alabama attorney general deems daily fantasy sports sites illegal
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Corporate Reform:

Elizabeth Warren and Charles Schumer Block SEC Nominees
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Debt Collection:

But Who Cares If You Were Actually Confused? No Proof of Confusion Required for Claims Under Section 1692g of the FDCPA
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FDCPA Claim Based on "Community Discharge" Fails
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Distressed Investing:

Investors Pour $1.2B into US High Yield Bond Funds
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US Leveraged Loan Funds see $262M Cash Withdrawal
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The old bets on defaulted bonds won’t work this cycle
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Food/Beverage:

How Amazon Will Kill Your Local Grocer
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Steel:

The Death of Steel. The Bankruptcy of Steel Manufacturing
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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 (23 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (15 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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Miscellaneous:

Bankruptcy Developments and Trends – A Look Back at 2015 and Into 2016
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The Week Ahead
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Cross-Border:

Winsway Seeks Chapter 15 in U.S.
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Trustees:

Bankruptcy Trustee Challenges Suspension
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Mediation:

They’re in a bit of a pickle–Part One: Mediation Confidentiality in Chicago’s Bankruptcy Court
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UCC:

UCC timeline
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TBTF:

Jack Lew’s MetLife Tantrum
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Mail:

Cost of mailing a letter drops to 47 cents, reduction could cost Postal Service billions
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Politics:

Trump Has Been Donating Free Rounds of Golf to Charities Instead of Cash • Donald Trump took a massive gamble in Atlantic City ... it didn't pay off • The Many Scandals of Donald Trump: A Cheat Sheet • Trump extends his national lead over Ted Cruz and John Kasich • A hair surgeon explains what's going on with Trump's hair • Rosie O'Donnell slams Trump in song • Donald Trump's Health Care Ideas Bewilder Republican Experts • Boston Globe Stirs Controversy with ‘Trump’s America’ Faux Front Page • Donald Trump sued for allegedly inciting crowd at Louisville rally • Trump’s Ascent Poses Risks for Down-Ballot GOP Candidates • Trump’s past in Indiana: ‘a lot of bling and bluster’ • What Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand About Negotiation • Why Trump Is Doomed With Black Voters • A strangely muted Trump gives a lackluster performance on his home turf in New York • Remittances, explained for Donald Trump (and everyone else) • Are people losing interest in Donald Trump? This chart points to yes • Delegate System Gives Trump 22% Bonus
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The Boston Globe imagined how it would cover a President Donald Trump
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Even Republicans Don't Like Trump or Cruz
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Ted Cruz locks up a clean sweep of Colorado delegates
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Obama: Trump, Cruz doing Democrats a 'favor' in campaign
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Why John Kasich refuses to drop his campaign
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Obama ‘Guarantees’ Unbiased Clinton Email Probe
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Krugman: Sanders Over the Edge • Bernie Sanders’s invitation to the Vatican has church officials squabbling • Bernie Sanders's current national poll performance is his best ever
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Saturday Night Live 's Hillary Clinton Not Rattled by the 'Slow, Old Jew' Who Keeps Getting in Her Way
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Newspapers:

This CEO explains why he bought a newspaper when print is in terminal decline
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Student Debt:

College buyer's remorse is real
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Golf:

New Seabury Members File In Bankruptcy Court To Stop Membership Changes
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Education:

The Pillaging of America's State Universities
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Obama: Community college should be ‘as free and universal in America as high school’
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State AGs Ask Feds to Dump For-Profit College Accreditor
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Shipping:

Supertanker Half-Empty Mood Returns in Shipping Market
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Tax:

Paul Ryan and the 'ridiculous notion' of tax distribution
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11th Circuit Issues Important Opinion On What Constitutes A "Return" For Purposes Of Determining What Taxes Are Dischargeable Pursuant to §523(a)(1)
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Precious Metals:

Precious metals firm put under Chapter 11 trustee
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Religion:

Catholic archdiocese vs. insurer in priest abuse cases
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Sovereigns:

Prat Gay: Argentina eyes Article IV review in September
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Argentina launches bond comeback roadshow • Details of 'roadshow' to lure international creditors emerge
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Argentina to Cap New Bond at US$15 Billion: Sources
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UK:

Britain's steel industry is being pulled back from the brink of destruction
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Partner exodus hits KWM
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Recognition of foreign insolvency proceedings under the Model Law
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'Food producer insolvency number triples' amid supermarket price wars
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The cost of misbehaving for U.K. banks — $75 billion
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EU:

A French bank boss says he's 'much more worried than I was in 2009'
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Germany’s Schäuble: Time Is Near to End Central Banks’ Easy-Money Policies
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Why Europe's Banks Don't Have Enough Capital
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PIIGS:

Greece Hopes for Draft Agreement With Creditors But IMF, EU Rift Remains • German finmin: Solution on Greece will be found soon but without debt relief • Frustration grows over policy mix • German Finance Minister 'Fairly Optimistic' About Greece • Greece Points Finger at IMF for Bailout Delay as Talks Continue • Athens seeks swift deal with creditors, as funding hinges on review, debt talks • Greece's Lenders Propose Drastic Cuts on Supplementary Pensions • Greece, creditors grind on after all-night talks • Tsipras demonizes IMF to rally troops for bailout sacrifices
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Spanish consumers win supreme court victory on mortgage payments
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Italian Bank Stocks Surge on Rome's New Bad-Debt Plan
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Italy to Miss Previous Debt Target as Growth Forecast Cut
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Canada:

Benitah fashion retail empire straining under multiple bankruptcy filings
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Crystallex awarded US$1.4B for loss of Las Cristinas project
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Oppression remedy lawsuit against corporate directors reaches Supreme Court of Canada
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Austria:

Heta Creditors Said to Seek Backers for Offer in Debt Stalemate
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Bondholders in Austrian ‘bad bank’ Heta hit by significant haircut • Heta's Creditors Forced to Share Losses by Austria Regulator
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Heta Creditors Hold Carinthia Talks After Regulator Cuts Debt
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China:

China unloading its biggest problem on the rest of the world
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China eyes revamp of sovereign bonds
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Czech Republic:

Czech coal group's future hangs in balance • Czech miner NWR creditors push for aid deal to avoid insolvency
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Norway:

Norway’s high-yield bond market becomes latest casualty of oil turmoil
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Brazil:

Oi's Debt Restructuring: A 4-Player Chess Game
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Lessor rights in airline bankruptcy proceedings
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Brazilian court orders TelexFree owners to pay $130 million in taxes
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Venezuela:

Venezuelans Get Fridays Off in Government’s Latest Bid to Save Energy
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Australia:

Debt-laden Australian steelmaker Arrium could survive, administrator says • Arrium's Whyalla steelworks can be saved: administrator
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