Law:
A Deal in the Dewey Case Still Leaves Troubling Questions
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Associate Bonus Watch: Tiers Of Scrutiny
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Ex-Dickstein Shapiro Partner Mulls Action Over Lost Stake
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Morrison & Foerster Adds Another New Partner To Its Business Restructuring & Insolvency Group
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Casemaker agrees state law isn’t copyrightable, won’t defend Fastcase suit
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‘The Longest-Lived Dead Law Firm In The Western World’
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A Day In The SmallLaw Life
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You Lost Your Job In A Law Firm – What Do You Do Now? (Part 3)
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Arnold & Porter's Revenue Shrinks by $45M
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Gross Revenue, Net Income Slip in 2015 at Bracewell
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Enrollment up, scores down at Cooley • Cooley Craters: 60% Drop In Enrollment, Faculty
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DLA Piper Announces Global Co-Chair Will Retire
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UK: Firm of the Year 2016: The firms with the best culture • Worst culture
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In Law Firm Merger Talks, Leaders Should Engage the Press
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The Legal Ethics of Using the Cloud
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13 science-backed tactics for winning any negotiation
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Lawyer Shot, Killed By Police After Attacking Family With Knife
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Legal luminaries join family in seeking new probe of claimed murder-suicide by attorney
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‘The First Amendment wins’ in dropped ethics probe over lawyer’s ‘hatchet job tactics’ blog post
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Jailed 6 months in paintbrush theft, man seeks plea hearing and return of ‘Mr. Froggy’
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Free Pizza For Palestine Is Too Messy For Milbank
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Secret Memo Details U.S.'s Broader Strategy to Crack Phones
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Lawyers Face Lawsuit Over Illegal S-- Tape
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‘Soccer mom’ ordered to learn about Islam after pointing rifle at Muslim couple sitting in car
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Bad news for Ted Cruz: his eligibility for president is going to court
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Donald Trump: "You Will Find Out Who Really Knocked Down the World Trade Center"
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Judge allows suit against lawyers for client’s secret video of Waffle House chairman
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Tx. Couple Accused of Waterboarding 13 Yr. Old
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‘Better Call Saul’ Returns With A Con And A Light Switch
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Judges:
Sandra Day O'Connor Says Obama Should Get To Replace Justice Scalia • Sandra Day O’Connor’s No-Nonsense Approach To The Next SCOTUS Nominee
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Scalia’s BigLaw stint was ‘like asking Michelangelo to work for a company that paints fences’
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Most Lawyers Don’t Give A Damn About Justice Scalia
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Scalia’s Death Thrusts White House Into New Territory
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No Scalia Replacement if a Democrat Wins?
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Scalia's Death at Private Ranch Highlights Tension Over Justices' Travel
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Trump Vows to Appoint Pro-Gun Supreme Court Justice at S.C. Rally
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How Justice Antonin Scalia's funeral became political
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Watch John Kasich get testy with Stephen Colbert over filling Justice Scalia's seat
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The judge Antonin Scalia wanted to replace him has divergent views on one of Scalia’s signature issues
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Biden says Obama won't be able to pick the 'most liberal jurist'
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‘Scaliagate’ At Georgetown Law: The Conservatives Strike Back
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Could Breyer become the next swing justice?
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Judge Jane Kelly And True Diversity On The Supreme Court
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Judge resigns after asking former jurors to ‘meet and greet’ campaign event
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Wall Street:
Futures wobble
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Stocks slip; Walmart leads retailers lower
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Bankers have lost more than $1 billion in bonuses
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Wall Street banks are going all out to hold onto junior bankers
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The year turns sour for Wall Street banks
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Kasich: Sanders wrong on Wall St, it makes economy churn
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Bear Markets Don’t Predict Recessions, But Liquidity Might
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Layoffs:
American Express to Overhaul Management, Cut Jobs
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Citadel cuts employees after losses: Report
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Retailing:
Wal-Mart forecasts tepid sales growth; stock slides • The Scary Truth Behind Walmart's Struggles • Why Wal-Mart's results spooked investors • Wal-Mart Is Still Outshined by Amazon Despite Spending Billions • Four reasons Walmart can't get out of its own way • Walmart just signaled a terrifying new reality for American retail
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Kmart’s Comeback Plan: Selling Bankrupt Companies’ Stuff
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Alternative Energy:
Why SunEdison Inc Shares Hit a New 52-Week Low
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Struggling SunEdison closing Houston-area plant, cutting 180 jobs
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Healthcare:
High-deductible health plans are hurting health care profits, analysts say
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Bankruptcy Judge Approves Sale Of Forest Park Frisco To HCA
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Politics:
Pope Francis takes down Donald Trump: 'This man is not a Christian' • Donald Trump's campaign calls Pope Francis a hypocrite because the Vatican has 'massive walls' • Pope Francis sends unhinged Trump supporters into a white-hot rage: ‘He’s prob a Muslim in disguise!’
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Education:
Judge approves new auction of Adirondacks school
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Carlbrook files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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Brokers:
Large Cetera Financial group bolts in wake of bankruptcy
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Celebs:
Money Lessons From Kanye West and Seattle Seahawk's Marshawn Lynch
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Economy:
US jobs market firming; manufacturing still on the ropes
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The States With the Most Household Debt
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How negative interest rates set stage for next crisis
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OECD Cuts Global Growth Forecasts on Debt Risks
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Global Debt Levels Skyrocket: How Much Is Too Much?
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What Are the Concerns, Risks of U.S. Recession?
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Why Fed (not bonds) may be right about a recession
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Here’s why Fed’s Bullard is now leery of more interest-rate increases
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Banks to take hit from fading hopes of rate hike
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More Americans Should Be Working
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Is $250,000 a Middle Class Family?
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Fed sharpshooters can’t hit 2%, much less 4%
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Don’t quit your job if you work in these 5 industries
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What’s Holding Back U.S. Apprenticeships
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In Murky 2016 Contest, Clear Opposition to Trade Agreements
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Survey: Consumers Will Use Tax Refunds for Savings, Paying Down Debt
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US makes millions from Americans tossing their passports
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Chilling ways the global economy echoes 1930s
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Democratic economists on Bernie Sanders
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
Freddie Mac profit rises on higher interest rates
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Bankruptcy Trustees - You're On Notice
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Apartment-building boom could be waning
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House flipping: Deja vu all over again
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FBI agents raid North Texas-based real estate investment trust
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Municipalities:
Scalia’s death could give a bump to Puerto Rico’s fight for financial rights • Lawyers, Others Divided on Effect of Scalia s Death on PR Cases
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Cotter: DPS risks bankruptcy without serious reforms
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Bankruptcy unlikely prescription for DPS troubles
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Detroit schools bankruptcy is option without GOP bills
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Big divide on House, Senate versions of DPS bills
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Illinois launches financial probe into Chicago Public Schools
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Michigan House Approves $30 Million for Flint
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In post- bankrupt Stockton, a mayor and Erin Brockovich team up to scare people about water
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Sweeney to A.C.: Without state help, 'good luck'
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Flint Water Decision Highlights Emergency Managers' Authority
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Don't Live in Flint? Lead Is Your Problem, Too
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Tech:
iPhone sales fall for first time, says Gartner
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Student Debt:
Angry and in debt, students pressure government
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How student debt crushes middle-class minorities
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Defrauded Students Demand Loan Forgiveness on ‘Snake Oil Educations’
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Shirking Your Student Loan Shouldn't End in Handcuffs
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Oil/Gas:
Current trends in oil and gas finance
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Bankruptcy Attorneys Expect Increase In Bankruptcies From Oil Price Drop
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Record U.S. crude stockpiles weigh on oil • Oil Trades Below $31 as Rising U.S. Crude Stockpiles Expand Glut
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The Stressed-Out Oil Industry Faces an Existential Crisis
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Investors Clamor for Energy-Share Offerings Despite Oil Slump
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Oil retreats as inventories fill • Oil Prices Cool Down After EIA Report 2.1 Million Barrel Build
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Storage Problems Could Cause A Rout In Oil Prices
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The World Has Too Much Oil • Problem in the Oil Patch – Oil, Oil Everywhere
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Trader who called for $26 oil now predicts this
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Fears Of Bankruptcy Cause Worried Investors To Penalize Chesapeake's Stock • Cramer: Chesapeake Energy is 'Doing Their Best,' Bankruptcy Unlikely
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Ultra Petroleum flirts with bankruptcy after $3.2B Q4 loss • Ultra Petroleum posts $3.2 billion loss as potential bankruptcy looms
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Escalera Resources Announces Filing of Plan of Reorganization
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Fitch Downgrades Energy XXI LTD and Energy XXI Gulf Coast, Inc. to 'C'
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Linn Energy: Dead Cat Bounce? • Linn Energy: tired refrain
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Santos Vows Cost Cuts After $2.8 Billion Charge on Oil Crash
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Oil-Field Workers Turn to Uber Employment Amid Price Plunge
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Cash-hemorrhaging Key Energy swaps out CEOs
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United Arab Emirates backs oil producers’ output freeze plan
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Texas congressman: OPEC is dead
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Low oil and interest rates wiped out $3 trillion from energy and financial stocks
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The oil price crash is wreaking havoc with the world's biggest sovereign wealth fund
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L.A. gas leak capped, but new crisis looms
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Natixis: Lower Oil Prices Will Start to Hurt the Global Economy This Year
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Imaging:
Can Xerox avoid a bankruptcy like Kodak's?
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Corporate Reform:
In the CFPB's Crosshairs . . . 2016 and Beyond
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Startups:
How Startups Learned to Love Debt
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Corporate Governance:
Delaware corporate law and litigation: what happened in 2015 and what it means for you in 2016
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Shipping:
KDB head says no new bailout for Daewoo Shipbuilding this year
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Sainty Marine Becomes First Listed Shipbuilder to Go Bankrupt
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(3 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 (23 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (11 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:
(1) • (2) •(3) •(4)• (5) •(6) •(7) •(8)
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Claims Trading:
Sharon Levine: Increasing Disclosures Would Chill Claims Trading • Marc Leder: Beware Over-Disclosure in Claims Trading
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Miscellaneous:
2016 Lookback Period – Six Weeks (Part 2)
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Bankruptcy Poetry:
Tarnished Reputation
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Cross-Border:
Modeling the Model Law – what not to do
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Plan Confirmation:
Extinguishment of Liens Through a Plan of Reorganization
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TBTF:
Big banks see the need to shrink – but face a path full of obstacles
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Gambling:
Caesars judge invokes Wizard of Oz amid creditor deadlock
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Caesars Bankruptcy End May Be in Sight
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Litigation:
U.K. Decision Signals Growing Automation in Discovery Process
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Ethanol:
Pricing, Inventory Plagues Ethanol Markets
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Fraud:
French Pianist Scores Rare Win in Luxembourg Madoff-Fund Lawsuit
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Sovereigns:
Major Argentine creditors object to bid to lift debt injunctions • Argentine Bid to Resume Debt Payments Opposed by Hedge Funds • It Would Be Premature For Federal Court To Lift The Argentina Bond Injunction • Singer's NML Files to Block Renewal of Argentine Payments
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Documents reveal details of administration’s ‘vulture’ offer
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PIIGS:
Italy’s strained banks are using wheels of Parmesan cheese to back loans
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Spanish Ex-Friar-Turned-Lawyer Counts Loss From Bankia IPO Offer
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Abengoa ‘viable’ but insolvency risk remains
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Canada:
Charges laid in bankruptcy investigation
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Goodwill owes $6 million after declaring bankruptcy, has $1,300 in bank account
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Why are so many Canadians in debt?
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Newfoundland and Labrador auditor general dismisses bankruptcy talk
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Exit Realty on the Rock owes more than 60 creditors
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Venezuela:
Venezuela releases dire economic data as measures seen insufficient
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Venezuela is about to pop — and everyone on Twitter is waiting for it
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Venezuela raises gas prices 6,200%
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Maduro Tinkers With Policy as Venezuelan Debt Default Looms
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Nigeria:
An Analysis of Nigerian Law on Procedure for Recovery of Debt from an Insolvent Company and Fraudulent Directors
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MENA:
Directors' Liability in Event of Insolvency in United Arab Emirates
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India:
Bad bank loans undermine India’s growth hopes
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Australia:
Palmer aviation company owes $26m
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The National Hardship Register offers help for people who can't repay debt
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Ukraine:
Russia Files Lawsuit Against Ukraine
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China:
Something terrible seems to be happening to the Chinese job market
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China coal firm Up Energy seeks debt restructuring after bond default
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Russia:
Moody's says Russian bankruptcy law unlikely to affect domestic RMBS and ABS performance
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Brazil:
Brazil eyes Abengoa intervention after default, papers say
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South Africa:
Investing in South Africa's Economic Gloom
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