Law:
Addleshaws-Hunton merger talks stall amid UK and US political uncertainty
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4th Circuit revives lawyer’s ‘glass ceiling’ suit against Booz Allen
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In-House Salaries Are Up. But Many Say They're Underpaid.
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Recruiter Sues Holland & Knight Lawyer For Using Competitor
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Headhunter Scorned: Inside a Failed Law Firm Placement
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The Most Important Law School You've Probably Never Heard Of
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Clients prefer attorneys with active social media presence, survey finds
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The Struggle: Two Suicides In Two Months At The Same Law School
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When The Organized Crime Bureau Gets Involved With Stolen Exams, You Know It’s Bad
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How Law Professors Handle Law Student Freakouts During Final Exam Reviews
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America’s ‘First Law School’
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Law Firms Not Betting on Obama’s TPP Push
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Bad Boies, Bad Boies: Boies/Schiller Film Group to Fund ‘COPS’ Movie • Boies/Schiller Film Group finances movie based on ‘Cops’ TV show
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The Pink Ghetto: If You Look ‘More Like A D-------- Than A Wannabe Lawyer,’ You’ll Get More Callback Interviews
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7 tricks for getting people to do what you want
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6 burning questions for 'Making a Murderer' season 2
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There's a problem with the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus that makes it unusable
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The Education of Ryan Lochte
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Another Lawsuit Against Fox News With Shocking Allegations
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The Documentary Model for Trial Budgets
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Arkansas City Sued Over Hot Check Court Fines, Arrests
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Lawyer denounces restaurant patrons for message they left his granddaughter
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Court Sentences Man For Sorcery
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Rabbis Declare That Women Must Not Be Educated At Universities
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Beyond Biglaw: Lessons From ‘The Night Of’ (Part 1)
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Judges:
Will Ginsburg retire if Clinton wins? She would have powerful position on liberal court
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Federal Jurist Punches Up Opinions With Pop Culture References
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Judge Frank Easterbrook Has Had It With These Damn Rats
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Wall Street:
U.S. stock futures search for direction, marooned in wait for Yellen
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S&P 500, Nasdaq close near records as housing data boosts stocks
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Fed turns up the volume, but the market’s tuning out the message
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Layoffs:
SolarCity to lay off 108 workers
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Fraud:
What it's like to have your world turned upside down by an insider trading conviction
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Panama Papers Prompt Race for Tax Haven Dollars Before Crackdown
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Ethanol:
Successful bidders named in sale of 5 Abengoa ethanol plants
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Religion:
Archdiocese creditors seek higher payout in bankruptcy plan • Victims fault settlement plan in Twin Cities archdiocese case • Abuse victims say St. Paul Archdiocese can afford $80M in compensation • Clergy Abuse Survivors, Attorneys to Lay Out Bankruptcy Plan for Archdiocese
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Archdiocese seeks 'fair and just' resolution to bankruptcy proceedings
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Retailing:
Aéropostale Duels With Sycamore Over Bankruptcy
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US Trustee Rips Sports Authority's Revived Exec Bonus Bid
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4 Tips for Retailers Shutting Down Stores
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If Back-To-School Sales Fizzle, Retailer Bankruptcy May Not Be Far Behind
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There's an $80 billion 'elephant in the room' that could be worse than a recession for Walmart, Home Depot, and Costco
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Sears Holdings Corp Is Hanging By a Thread
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Weather:
Krugman: The Water Next Time
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Louisiana Flood Relief Will Cost $30 Million, Red Cross Says • Obama Promises Louisiana Flood Victims National Support During Visit • Obama: Federal aid in Louisiana has reached $127 million
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Shipping:
Primorsk to Reveal Details of Liquidation Plan
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Student Debt:
Business owners: Study up or pay price for student loan crisis
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Television:
'Idol' Producer Gets Nod To End Deals With Show Creator • 'American Idol' Owner Core Media Allowed to Terminate Deal
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Healthcare:
McKesson threatens to pull technology from bankrupt hospital
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Bankruptcy Court hearing on Colusa hospital on sale delayed until Sept. 27 • Supervisors recommend sale of hospital to Specialty
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EpiPen’s 400 percent price hike tells us a lot about what’s wrong with American health care
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The Real Reason Drugs Cost Too Much
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Credit Reporting:
No Sanctions For Atty's 'Fanciful, Farfetched' FCRA Claims
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Economy:
Fed’s Regional Bank Boards Increase Pressure for Rate Hike
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Business Borrowing For Equipment Falls 17%
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Modest but steady gains for US indexes; homebuilders soar
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Adults in their late 20s, early 30s have it worse than the previous generation: study
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Wall Street just found another recession signal • These charts are flashing recession signals
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Chemical Activity Barometer "Suggests Accelerated Business Activity"
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What's on workers' retirement bucket list? Work
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Companies keep using this trick to make their earnings look better
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All of the US economy's problems come back to one thing
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American manufacturing grew in August, but flashed a 'warning light'
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The Illusion of Lagging Productivity
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Could Reviving a Defunct Banking Rule Prevent a Future Crisis?
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Will Janet Yellen’s ‘Monetary Policy Frameworks for the Future’ Include A Senate Seat For Janet Yellen?
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Companies Rethink Annual Pay Raises for All Employees
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Across the U.S., Workers at the Bottom of the Ladder Get Pay Raises
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This is a man’s world: Wage gap for mothers can reach 33%, study finds • Better-educated women pay a steeper price for motherhood
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2016 Federal Deficit to Rise to $590 Billion
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Stiglitz: TPP Trade Pact is Wrong
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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:
New home sales surge to the best level since 2007 • New Home Sales increased to 654,000 Annual Rate in July, Highest since October 2007
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In A Blow to Fannie and Freddie Shareholders, Court Tosses Out Another Lawsuit
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Fine-Print Fortune: Two Ex-Goldman Traders Look for Bonanza in Mortgage Bonds
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Why houses in America are getting smaller
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U.S. Foreclosure Starts Since April 2005
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Billion-dollar settlement for Countrywide home loans denied
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Millennials are tapping home equity for vacations and emergency cash
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Municipalities:
How Antonio Weiss Brokered The Only Major Economic Policy To Pass Congress This Year
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Puerto Rico's Debt Dilemma and Pathways towards Sovereign Solvency
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Unpaid Bills in Illinois
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Police Misconduct in Bankrupt Cities
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Oil/Gas:
Crude oil spikes on fresh reports that Iran wants to play nice with OPEC • Oil Prices Flip to Gains on Iran Reports • Oil falls as sources say API data show surge in U.S. crude stockpiles • Oil Drops as Industry Data Signal U.S. Crude Stockpiles Rising
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Not even OPEC can save the struggling oil market now, Goldman Sachs warns
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Restructuring Brightens the Horizon for Energy Companies
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Pacific Exploration & Production one step closer to emerging from creditor protection
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Is Exxon Worth a Fraction of What It Claims?
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Stone Energy in talks to sell Appalachian assets to cut debt, bankruptcy possible
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Oil at $50 Tests Shale-Band Theory
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Norway Oil Companies Cut Investment Plans Further Amid Slump
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$110b of debt from global oil companies to be due in 5 years • Moody's warns oil firms' debt loads are still a worry
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Distressed Investors Dive Back Into Oil & Gas Deals • Wall Street's smart money is making big bets on a beaten-down industry
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Politics:
'I have to answer questions about whether I'm alive' • Judge orders State Department to review 14,900 Clinton emails • Hillary Clinton’s missteps keep Donald Trump in the race • More than half the non-government people Clinton met with at the State Department were Clinton Foundation donors • Hillary blasts for-profit colleges, but Bill earned millions working for one
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5 Things You Need to Know About Donald Trump’s Debt • Republicans are still waiting on the campaign funds Trump promised he'd raise for the party • Hedge Funders Backing Trump Are Hedging On Giving Him Actual Money • The Philippines Shows Us What We ‘Have To Lose’ By Electing Trump • Donald Trump Cues Up Another Conspiracy • Trump Floats Obama-Like Deportation Plan, and Fans Don’t Mind • Republican Candidates Calculate Whether to Cut Ties With Donald Trump • Former Miss Universe Becomes Citizen In Order to Vote Against Trump • Donald Trump Courts Black Vote While Avoiding African-American Communities • Why Black Voters Are Rejecting Trump • Trump's not showing up for less than $1 million • Trump says he’ll make inner cities safer for minorities by putting “tougher” cops in charge • Reliably Republican Texas Shows Signs of Cracking Under Trump • Trump Tower rent raised for campaign after donors footed bill • Trump Campaign Chair Slams Paul Ryan • Trump's Great White Hope is Fading Fast
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Are Trump and Clinton Healthy?
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The Slow Fade of the Angry White Male
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Agriculture:
Kernels of Hope
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Coal:
Coal ’s Nightmare
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Maybe the Coal Market Isn't Dead After All
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Lehman:
The Fed and Lehman Brothers: A new narrative
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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 (20 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (7 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code (html) - Bankruptcy Code (pdf) • Prior BK Codes (pick year from list) - Bankruptcy Rules
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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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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Over the last 12 months, at least 11 recycling companies have filed for chapter 11 protection
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Discharge:
Orange County chases mom into bankruptcy and beyond to pay for son’s juvenile detention
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Mediation:
Mandatory Mediation: A Remedy for Non-Cooperative Behavior?
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Appeals:
The 7th Circuit's view on finality and appealability in bankruptcy
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Avoidance Actions:
Timing is Everything: The Seventh Circuit Clarifies the Ordinary Course of Business Preference Defense
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Trying to Turn Back the Clock on Deals Gone Sour
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Fifth Circuit and Texas Supreme Court Part Company on Ponzi Fraudulent Transfers
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Cross-Border:
New Uncertainty Surrounds Disputes Over Foreign Stays
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Discharge:
Husky Breeds a New Species of Loss of Discharge Not Benefiting All Creditors
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Media:
Here's How Much Gawker's Nick Denton Will Be Paid to Not Work
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Melania Trump Hires Hulk Hogan's Lawyer to Threaten Media Outlets
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A.J. Daulerio To Peter Thiel: Do You Want My Rice Cooker And Dishes?
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Autos:
Judge denies GM's mid-trial bid to toss ignition switch case • GM Seeks To End Last Ignition Switch Bellwether
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VW Said to Pay Compensation to Supplier to End Standoff • VW’s Crippling Supplier Feud Shows Limits of Penny Pinching • VW Agrees to Settlement Talks with States
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Furniture:
La-Z-Boy shares plummet 15 pct after it reports same-store sales decline
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IP:
Hollywood company stripped of intellectual property ownership
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Accounting:
Deloitte is being sued after failing to flag up more than $200 million of money laundering
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Gambling:
Caesars Plea for $990 Million to Reorganize Ignored by Owners
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Caesars Back In Bankruptcy Court To Hold Off Creditor Suits
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Caesars argues fresh lawsuit shield will help bankruptcy deal
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Sporting Goods:
Bauer Hockey gear maker taps debt restructuring advisor -sources
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Mass Torts:
Court To Hear Honeywell's Bid For Asbestos Victims' Names
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Video Games:
The state will recover $25.6 million from banks involved in Curt Schilling's 38 Studios fiasco
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UK:
Ex-BHS boss who bought chain for £1 tells court he would struggle to afford taxis
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U.K. Commercial Real Estate Values Down After Brexit
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Scotland has lowest proportion of businesses at risk of insolvency
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Brexit expected to result in more bankruptcies
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U.K. Property Values? They Are Anyone’s Guess
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Convenience store chain creditors owed millions
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Canada:
Taxes, fees and bankruptcies up as Newfoundland and Labrador budget reverberates
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India:
Enforce Bankruptcy Code soon: Jaitley • Implement bankruptcy law: FM to officials • Arun Jaitley takes stock of progress on bankruptcy law implementation
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Piramal partners Bain Capital to invest in distressed debt
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Bahamas:
Baha Mar will resume construction next month, prime minister says • Creditors Hail PM For 'Not Blinking' In Baha Mar Talks
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China Contractor Gets Second Chance at Bahamas Luxury Hotel
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MENA:
Declaring a Debtor Bankrupt in the UAE
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