Law:
ABA Future Panel Calls For Broad Changes In Legal Services
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Discrimination and harassment will be legal ethics violations under ABA model rule
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Crack Down on Law Schools That Don't Pass the Bar
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Will the Billable Hour Ever Go Away?
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Law Firms 'Blindsided' By Drop In Demand, Tax Suffers Biggest Drop (3.4%)
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NYC Lateral Season Lengthens as Firms Bet on Corporate Work
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Money Laundering Case Puts Spotlight on Law Firms' Use of Trust Accounts
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After loss of DC rainmaker, Cadwalader cancels summer associate program in the city • After Rainmaker Departures, Biglaw Firm Cancels Summer Program
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Suspension recommended for bankruptcy lawyer in Miami athletics probe
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18 new lawsuits filed against Humphreys for mishandling of flood litigation
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The Alternative Fee Arrangement That Will Force Big Firms To Innovate Or Die
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Lawyerly Lairs: A Young Yale Law Grad’s $32 Million Apartment
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The Pink Ghetto: It’s Never ‘Appropriate’ To Ask If You Can ‘Milk’ A Breastfeeding Law Firm Associate
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Why Do CLEs Suck So Badly?
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Circuit Demands that Prefiling Injunctions Be Clear and Precise
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ABA Approves Pay for Law Students' For-Credit Externships
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If You Want Women To Work At Your Firm, Show Them Women Have Power At Your Firm
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The best productivity system for procrastinators is to work with your natural tendencies
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11 nervous habits that make you look incompetent
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Prosecutor Apologizes for Accidentally Firing Gun Inside Restaurant
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‘Clock Boy’ Ahmed Mohamed Sues Texas School District Nearly a Year After His Arrest
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Chevron wins U.S. ruling blocking $8.6 bln Ecuador rainforest award • Lawyer who won $9B Chevron judgment can’t collect it; 2nd Circuit upholds RICO injunction
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Roger Ailes' Alleged Use of Company Funds Could Make Him Liable to Fox • End of the Reich: Inside the Fox News Bunker
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Perjury Trial Begins for State AG Accused of Leaking Secrets and Cover-Up
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This Is Why Americans Think Crime Is on The Rise
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Judges:
Notice Regarding Recall Status of Hon. Robert E. Littlefield, Jr.
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Why Trusting Donald Trump on Judges Is Folly
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Alabama chief justice's ouster over gay marriage weighed
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The Dark Side Of A Fictional Jurist
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Courts Channel Scalia and Get Different Answers
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Judge Suspended for 90-Days Over Racially Charged Remarks
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Wall Street:
Dow poised for a win as sunny mood refuses to fade
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Global stock markets up after weak China data
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Wall Street steps back from record highs
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Layoffs:
Layoffs Watch ’16: Bridgewater Associates
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Layoffs Watch ’16: Goldman Sachs
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Politics:
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton Say They’ll Ease the Burden of Child-Care Costs • What Donald Trump’s Child Care Tax Plan Means For You
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Hillary Clinton’s Email Controversy Haunts Campaign • Black Pastors Are Breaking the Law to Get Hillary Clinton Elected • Benghazi Parents Sue Hillary Clinton
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Donald Trump Pitches Tax Breaks, Moratorium on New Regulations • Trump's economic speech: CNN's Reality Check Team vets the claims • Trump's Proposed Tax Plan Great for Rich, Bad for Supporters • Inside Donald Trump's Business Failures Ahead Of Detroit Speech On Economic Plan • Trump Has a Posture, Not a Plan, on Economics • Donald Trump is making 2 big changes to his economic platform • Parsing Donald Trump's Lies in Detroit • Donald Trump attempts to reset conversation with 'America First' economic plan • Donald Trump raises his proposed top tax rate for individuals • Restrained Trump goes at Clinton for tax plan • Donald Trump Proposes a ‘Tax Revolution’ Amid Protests in Detroit • Read Donald Trump’s Economic Speech in Detroit • George P. Bush, Son of Jeb, Tells Texas GOP Activists to Back Trump • Trump's Shotgun Marriage of Populism and Supply-Side Economics • How Donald Trump Opened the Way For David Duke's Return • 50 Republican officials make the case that Trump is a national security threat • Could members of the electoral college go rogue on Trump? • Carl Icahn Would Have Joined Trump Economic Team But He Had Already Made Plans To Wash His Beard
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Coal:
What If All U.S. Coal Workers Were Retrained to Work in Solar?
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Bankrupt Peabody's loss narrows as sales drop 26%
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Coal Prices Up 30% On Shuttered Chinese Mines
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Bankruptcy Crimes:
Former President and CEO of Montgomery-Based Steel Company Sentenced to Six Years in Prison for Bankruptcy Fraud • Bankruptcy fraud nets ex-Montgomery business owner 6 years in prison
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Television:
'American Idol' Owner Looks to Terminate Deals With Simon Fuller
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Paper:
FERC, Lincoln Paper and Tissue estate settle $5 million lawsuit
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Debt Collection:
The CFPB’s Debt Collection Proposals: What You Need To Know
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CFPB Debt Collection Plan Doesn’t Spare Banks
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Alternative Finance:
LendingClub finance chief resigns; loss widens • LendingClub's Quarterly Loss Widens
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Retailing:
Aeropostale Cleared to Seek Bankruptcy Rescue From Versa Capital
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PacSun Working On Objections Before Ch. 11 Plan Hearing
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Media:
Are Gawker and Hulk Hogan about to settle?
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Economy:
Consumer spending, income expectations rise, New York Fed says
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More Employment Graphs: Prime Age Participation, Duration of Unemployment, Unemployment by Education and more • America added 255,000 jobs in July, but unemployment rate unchanged
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Fed’s job-market index has first gain of year in July
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The US is a big outlier when it comes to income inequality
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Consumer Borrowing Slows in June
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In Labor vs. Capital, Labor Is Now Winning
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Is the U.S. Due for Radically Raising Taxes for the Rich?
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A Record Number of People Became Billionaires in 2015
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Alan Greenspan And Marc Faber Agree The Fed Has Reached Zero Hour
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Trump tax cuts would be costly
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More Stores are Refusing to Deal in Cash
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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:
Judge imposes $1.8M in penalties for misleading law firm charges in more than 2,000 foreclosures
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Fannie and Freddie could need $126 billion taxpayer bailout in next crisis, stress test finds
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Phoenix Real Estate in July: Sales down 2%, Inventory up 3% YoY
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Bank trying to force River Park Development into bankruptcy
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Municipalities:
U.S. Supreme Court Scuttles Puerto Rico’s 2014 Municipal Debt Restructuring Law
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What Obama needs to do now to fix Puerto Rico's problems
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Clearwater sues over pension fund losses
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Oil/Gas:
Energy Stocks Gain as Output Freeze Talk Bolsters Oil • Glut grows
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Tues.: Oil prices walk back from sharp rally, with focus on U.S. data
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Texas oil regulator expects $60/barrel crude by 2017
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The Consequences Of Big Oil’s Exploding Debt
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Why OPEC may actually stop bickering and take action
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20 Months, 90 Bankruptcies In North-American Oil & Gas
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E&P bankruptcies piling up, more to come
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Russia sees no grounds for new talks on oil output freeze yet
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Paragon Offshore gets agreement in principle for revised restructuring plan
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Oil industry's 'hottest ZIP codes' are in West Texas
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August Bankruptcy Update For Ultra Petroleum
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Swiber wasn't showing signs of distress before implosion
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Aviation:
Delta’s No Good, Relatively Okay Day • Delta Passengers Are Not Pleased With Flight Delays • Passengers frustrated, resigned over huge delays
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Fraud:
Barclays to Pay $100 Million To Resolve States’ Libor Manipulation Claims
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Suspension Recommended For Ponzi Schemer's Florida Atty
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Pensions:
Pension ballot question won't go before New Jersey voters
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Pension challenges in bankruptcy and restructuring processes
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U.S. Companies Need to Plug Their Pension Plan Deficits
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Healthcare:
More and more women are now dying in childbirth, but only in America
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Derivatives:
Warren Buffett sold $195 million worth of 'financial weapons of mass destruction'
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Awards:
Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie Attorney Susan Freeman Honored as one of Top Women Litigators in U.S.
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Top 250 Women in Litigation
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Celebs:
Gymnast Gabby Douglas’ Sad Childhood: Broke Single Mom Relied On Food Stamps, Filed Bankruptcy
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Personal Finance:
11 interview questions you should never answer directly
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Buses:
Bankruptcy judge lets suit against former DesignLine leaders go forward
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Electricity:
EFH bankruptcy fees approaching those of Enron
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Student Debt:
NJ lawmakers hear horror stories about state student loan program • Is N.J. too tough on college loans? Lawmakers think so • N.J. student loan agency absent from legislative hearing
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Asset Protection:
Nevada among most aggressive states vying to shield the wealth of the 1 percent
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Lehman:
Lehman Partnerships Escape Real Estate Investors' Fraud Suit
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Alternative Energy:
Elon Musk’s plan for Tesla and SolarCity involves creating market where none exists
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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 (25 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (14 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:
States and Counties With the Highest Bankruptcy Rates
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July Commercial Chapter 11 Filings Drop 45% Year/Year
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July Comm’l Bankruptcy Filings Increase 10%, Total Filings Fall 15%
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Hawaii has nation’s fifth-lowest rate of personal bankruptcy filings
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TIA:
Out-of-court bond exchanges face challenges on TIA grounds
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Insurance:
Investor Plan in Life Partners Bankruptcy Recommended for Approval by All Court-Appointed Fiduciaries in Case
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TBTF:
New Bank Rules Won't Stop Bailouts
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Fannie and Freddie Will Be Profitable After Their Next Bailouts, Too
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Bankruptcy Remoteness:
Delaware Court Invalidates Lender's Attempt to Prevent Bankruptcy Through Issuance of 'Golden Share'
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A Brief Guide to Automatic Stay Waivers, Bankruptcy Remoteness, and Bad Boy Guarantees
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Automatic Stay:
Creditors Beware-Automatic Stay Violations Can Lead to Massive Punitive Damages
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Executory Contracts:
In Head-to-Head Contest Between Separate Debtors in Bankruptcy, Right to Reject Executory Contract Prevails
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Avoidance Actions:
The Third Circuit Weighs In Again on the Meaning of “Unreasonably Small Capital” in Constructively Fraudulent Transfer Avoidance Litigation
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Plan Confirmation:
The Third Circuit Rules That Tender Offer Prior to Confirmation of Chapter 11 Plan Is Not Prohibited by the Bankruptcy Code
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Forward Contracts:
Forward Contract Merchant Waived Ipso Facto Right to Terminate
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Jurisdiction:
Two Circuits Tackle Rooker-Feldman in Opinions on the Same Day
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Food/Beverage:
Logan's Roadhouse files for bankruptcy protection • Logan's Roadhouse files for bankruptcy; 18 restaurants closing • Logan’s Roadhouse in Bankruptcy After Diners Choose Rivals • Logan’s Roadhouse Files Chapter 11 with Restructuring Agreement in Place • Steakhouse Chain Hits Ch. 11 With $416M In Liabilities • First Day Dec
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Proofs of Claim:
School District Loses 5th Circ. Tax Battle With Glassmaker
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UK:
UK Buyouts Plunge As Buyers Await Price Reset
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London Office Values Drop 6% in July • City of London Office Values Dragged Down by Brexit
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HSBC: The pound is heading to parity with the euro and will sink to $1.10 against the dollar
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To Buy or Not to Buy?
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PIIGS:
Tsipras reminds EU partners of Germany's post-war debt cut
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Canada:
Province can't help Ben Moss employees now, spokeswoman says
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China Ramps Up Predatory Acquisitions In Canadian Oil & Gas
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Canadian Auto Industry Faces Extinction
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India:
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code to come into force from August 5
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China:
Copper is waving a red flag for China's economy
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S. China opens bankruptcy court to battle 'zombie firms' • Tribunal to handle 'zombie companies'
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Brazil:
Brazil's bankruptcy protection filings surpass 1,000 cases through July
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Oi Holder Tanure Calls Sept. 8 Vote on Directors, Pharol Claim
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MENA:
Hariri firm in Saudi Arabia 'facing bankruptcy'
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Distressed Saudi Oger owes $800m to staff
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Lawyers apparently targeted in Pakistan hospital attack that killed more than 60
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Venezuela:
Default: A Self-Defense Measure
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Singapore:
Singapore at risk should bond defaults 'cascade'
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Japan:
Corporate bankruptcy cases in Japan decline
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Hungary:
Banks commit to personal bankruptcy law, with fine-tuning
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