Law:
Emergency Stay Granted to Bankruptcy Attorney Facing Jail
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As East Coast snowstorm looms, courts, law libraries and other government offices close their doors • How Are Biglaw Firms Dealing With The D.C. Snowpocalypse?
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Associate Bonus Watch: A West Coast Player Weighs In
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The Highest Offer Isn’t Always The Best Offer
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Kirkland & Ellis Strengthens Global Restructuring Practice In Hong Kong
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Tips From A Partner: How Should Women Deal With Sexism In Biglaw?
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CC tops global project finance rankings
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Law Schools: Administrators Up, Profs Down
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Whither the Big 4?
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Has Dickstein Shapiro Found A (New) Rescuer? • Dickstein Shapiro is in ‘Deep’ Talks with Blank Rome – Sources • Dickstein's Biz Van Gelder Said She Helped With Bryan Cave Merger Talk, 'Not Sure' Why It Failed
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You’ll Leave The Law With These 99 Tips
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Prepare For The Physical Realities Of Actually Being In Court
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Plaintiff Can Use Facebook to Notify Ex-Wife of Lawsuit
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The Security Concerns Holding Up One Firm’s Cloud Usage
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The Most Crucial Time During a Data Breach
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Client Communication in the Texting Era
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Oregon Officials' Patience Wears Thin as Standoff Enters Fourth Week • In Oregon, a counterpoint to armed standoff emerges
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Tycoon Gets Life for Murder After He Killed His Guard for Being ‘Too Slow’
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New App Will Help You Get Out of Any Awkward Conversation
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This beautiful wireless keyboard is crafted out of a single piece of wood
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13 rules for dating a coworker
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Inmates rappelled from roof to escape California jail
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‘One man’s vulgarity is another man’s lyric,’ says judge acquitting man in Twitter case
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Arrested after giving the finger to NYC cops, Occupy Wall Street pair wins $52K payout • Another Lawmaker Is Trying To Create A Photography-Free Zone For Police Officers
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Court orders man to provide 24 hours notice before he has s--
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Houston lawyer to star in reality TV show
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Armed Robbery Reveals How Bad Subway Sandwiches Truly Are
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Judges:
Chief Justice John Roberts faces his absolute worst nightmare
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NV: The Bankruptcy Bugle Newsletter
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Remaining case against suspended judge dismissed on Tuesday; top court stays jail term on Thursday
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Breyer renews call to review constitutionality of death penalty
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Scalia clerk shares softer side of justice known for fiery opinions
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Want to get your case to the Supreme Court? New study tells you which lawyers to hire.
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Judges voted as third most trusted profession ahead of lawyers
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Judge Scolded for Taking Pay While Behind on Cases
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BK ED PA: Philly and Reading BK Courts Closed Due To Weather
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Wall Street:
Stock futures fall
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Stocks close higher, post first positive week of the year
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Stockman: The markets are in store for a ‘thundering reset’
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Do Billionaire Gurus Think a Crash Is Coming?
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Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley CEOs see 2015 pay cuts
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10 hilarious cartoons about the stock market panic
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Goldman Sachs Feeling the Pain of Mounting Legal Fees
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Layoffs:
Financially troubled Chicago school system to lay off 227 workers
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Sprint is laying off 829
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VMware could announce 900 layoffs
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Oklahoma-based Devon Energy plans layoffs over next few months
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Technology Could Kill 5 Million Jobs by 2020
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Corporate Reform:
A Legal Battle Brews Over the Power of America's Consumer Finance Watchdog
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Lawsky Successor's Law-Firm Chops Signal Shift at New York's DFS
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Weather:
Blizzard? Here’s the Weather Effect on the Economy You’re Not Thinking Of • Exactly how big was this blizzard? • Japan Schools the East Coast on Dealing With Snow
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Fraud:
Petters' victims may finally get some money back
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Supreme Court to Hear Insider Trading Case
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TelexFree Trustee Files Clawback Suit Against 78,000 Foreign Net Winners
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Ex-drug CEO Shkreli asks court to consider blocking subpoena • Having Conquered Finance And Pharma, Martin Shkreli Is Basically A Constitutional Law Expert Now
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Appeals Court Revives Charges Against Accused $100 Million Ponzi Schemer
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SEC Accuses Utah Company Of Running $28 Million Ponzi Scheme
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Retailing:
Dov Charney wants back at American Apparel
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Is the final chapter in Dov Charney's steamy American Apparel tale being written?
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Why Walmart Express Failed
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Starbucks CEO: A Seismic Change in Retail
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Macy's won't be the only retailer facing activists
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Coal:
Peabody still talking with creditors on debt swap • Analyzing Peabody Energy's Proposed Debt Exchange
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Court rejects stay on Clean Power Act question
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Obama's Coal Last Rites
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Feds query Wyoming regulators about coal mine bond decisions
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Arch Coal Bankruptcy , Low Prices Sink Mining Stocks
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Taxis:
San Francisco's Yellow Cab Cooperative Files for Chapter 11
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Uber and Lyft didn’t bankrupt Yellow Cab, and they could hit same pothole
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Uber Loses $1.7 Billion
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Underemployed Actors and Artists in Los Angeles Work for Uber and Lyft
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Travel:
Americans are too cheap to pay for extra legroom or better seats
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5 ways to get a flight upgrade
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Downgrades:
S&P downgraded debt of 165 companies in fourth quarter
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Celebs:
Teresa Giudice Living The Frugal Life?
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Judge will require Blixseth to account for resort sale money
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Dr. Phil Held His Entire Staff Hostage
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Paper:
Signs point towards Verso bankruptcy
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Hollywood:
Netflix questions Relativity’s post- bankruptcy leadership • Netflix Opposes Relativity Media Bankruptcy Reorganization
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Relativity And RKA Film Financing Lock Horns As Bankruptcy Hearing Approaches
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Amusement Parks:
Stay sought in Conneaut Lake bankruptcy
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Farming:
Farmers Forced to Sell Grain at Low Prices
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Economy:
Bond Traders Tell Fed Optimism on Growth, Inflation Is Misplaced
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What the Fed Will and Won't Do This Week
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Brace for a massive week in the economy
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Worried About a U.S. Recession? You Shouldn't Be
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Fears of recession in industrial sector grow as pessimism deepens
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Americans' Cycle of Financial Insecurity
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The stock market is terrible at predicting recessions
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Market rout could blow Fed off course if consumers blink
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Pay hikes rising despite stagnant sales: Survey
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Corporate Growth Reflects Global Slowdown
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Are Global Debt Levels Unsustainable?
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Bank Of America: The global economy is experiencing 'death by 1000 blows'
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Relax. We are not heading for a global meltdown
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Darling of Davos, Lagarde has second IMF term sewn up
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U.S. recovery is more advanced than what is happening in euro area and Japan, ECB president says
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How Immigrants Fit Into America's Economy, Now and 100 Years Ago
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Giving poor people cash makes them happier — and their cashless neighbors miserable
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Buckle up! This economic doomsayer sees plenty more volatility
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Almost half of IPO filings include an auditor warning about potential failure
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US Cities with Best and Worst Credit Scores
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
First-time buyers slowly returning to housing market, data show
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Existing home sales soar 14.7% to 5.46 million annual rate in December
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Why the December rebound in home sales?
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You have to live in New York City more than 18 years to make buying a home worth your money
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Virginia reaches $63 million settlement with 11 banks for RMBS fraud
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This is how the suburbs die
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Oil Crash Hitting Texas Housing
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Municipalities:
Democrats to demand restructuring mechanism for Puerto Rico
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Bankruptcy law for Puerto Rico counterproductive -insurers association
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Puerto Rico PREPA's creditors offer to extend restructuring deadline - source
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Puerto Rico Utility's Debt Restructuring Agreement Expires • Puerto Rico Debt Deal Falls Apart After Lawmakers Miss Deadline • Puerto Rico PREPA's declines offer for fresh debt deal deadline • Failed Talks Raise Specter of Biggest Default in Puerto Rico Crisis
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Puerto Rico Electric Maintains Talks After Debt Plan Expires
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Puerto Rico's PREPA extends deal with lenders, not bondholders
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Puerto Rico business leader snared in tax cheat crackdown
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Puerto Rico money woes threaten meals for 12,500 prison inmates
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House Works on Puerto Rico Plan That Faces Skepticism in Senate
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Flint: Hot water for Michigan governor after emails go public • Who Poisoned Flint? • Governor Snyder Will Seek More Federal Aid For Flint • Dirty Water, Dirty Pool in Flint Lawsuits • Rick Snyder at heart of Flint crisis • Flint, Michigan's water crisis has still left the city with fewer poisoned children than Detroit
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10 states with the highest taxes
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San Bernardino: Bankruptcy plan hurts those injured by city
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Atlantic City's credit rating downgraded four notches
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A tale of two Atlantic Cities
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Chapter 9 Bankruptcies
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Chicago school bond sale may attract unusual investors
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Education:
Defunct School Operator Sues Two Big Firms Over Big Legal Bills
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Oil/Gas:
Mon.: Oil falls 3 percent on swelling oversupply • Oil unwinds gains, falls below $32 • Oil Drops as Saudis to Maintain Spending, China Diesel Use Falls • Oil is crashing again
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The oil price crash is completely changing the industry's landscape
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Goldman Sachs: The violent crash in oil prices is creating 'real fundamental change'
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US crude jumps more than $2 a barrel on short-covering: Traders
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How low oil prices went from blessing to curse
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Still Falling: Offshore Spending Could Drop By 25%
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Moody’s may downgrade 120 oil and gas companies, 55 mining companies • Moody's Downgrades The Oil And Gas Business: Or Why Ratings Agencies Don't Matter
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Kilduff: Why there's no end in sight for oil glut
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Oiling the Squeaky Wheels of Lower Prices
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Oil and Gas M&A Market to Re-energize in 2016
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Oil producers to Washington: We DON'T want a bailout
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Moody's Lower Oil Forecast to Accelerate Energy Firm Downgrades
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Texas leads the way in another rig count decline • U.S. Land Rig Count 22 Jan 2016
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The Oil Crash Of 2016 Has The Big Banks Running Scared
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What Are the Credit Options for Energy Companies?
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Why banks won't cut off energy's 'drunken sailors'
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Watch Out for Those Falling, Oil-Soaked Angels
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Red flag: Oil company defaults are spiking
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US junk-rated energy debt hits two-decade low
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Quicksilver Resources sold for $245 million on auction block
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Chesapeake halts preferred stock dividends
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Schlumberger cut thousands of jobs in fourth quarter on $1 billion loss • Schlumberger Optimistic It Has Completed Necessary Job Cuts
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Halliburton reports a quarterly loss and continues to expect pain in the oil industry
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SandRidge Energy explores debt restructuring options-sources
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Layoffs hit hard at Swamp Donkey Oilfield Services
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Keppel Uncertainty Prolongs as Brazil Client Delays Decision
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Frustrating Future For North Sea Oil
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EIG CEO: Pacific Exploration Needs a Reorganization
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The Weak Dollar Fueled Oil's Price Rise, Not Shale
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Energy creditors get nasty lesson in asset values
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Oil: US shale’s big squeeze
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Oil's negative grip on stocks could be challenged
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Saudi Arabia Will Be the Big Loser from the Plunge In Oil Prices
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Just How Much of America’s Debt Does Saudi Arabia Own?
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Saudi's Shale Mistake: You Can Price War A Company, An Industry, To Collapse But Not A Technology
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Saudis 'will not destroy the US shale industry '
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OPEC secretary: The glut wasn't our fault
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Only America can save the oil market
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New Study Shows China’s Oil Demand Slowing Down by Almost 60%
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MBA: How will oil concerns impact housing?
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Saudi Aramco expects oil prices to stabilize
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Distressed Investing:
Investors Pull $4.9 Billion From Corporate Junk-Bond Funds
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Autos:
Plaintiff Encouraged to Drop First GM Ignition-Switch Suit • GM ignition switch suit dismissed, but company isn’t out of hot water just yet • For GM in Deadly-Defect Cases, It’s One Down, Hundreds to Go
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Problem With GM Test Case Emerged Early in the Trial
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Elizabeth Cabraser Tapped to Lead VW Consumer Litigation
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VW Given Deadline to Come Clean by Second-Biggest Shareholder
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The secret history of GM’s Chinese bailout
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Electricity:
If Oncor Delivers Your Electricity, You've Been Warned
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Compensation:
A third of bonus-earners are expecting a bigger payout this year
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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 (30 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (27 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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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Las Vegas, Reno and Annual Bankruptcy Case Filing Statistics
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Miscellaneous:
The Week Ahead
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Rules:
Key Considerations for Bankruptcy Practitioners Regarding Amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
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Subordination:
Debt Investment Equitably Subordinated, Not Subject to Avoidance or Recharacterization
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Standing:
Bankruptcy Court Rules Parties Lack Standing, Reminds Litigants of the Parameters of §1109(b)
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Avoidance Actions:
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Subordination:
Insider Loans Equitably Subordinated
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Discharge:
2nd Cir Holds Debtor Can Bring Post-Discharge FDCPA Claims in District Court
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Student Debt:
3 proposals from Elizabeth Warren and other Senate Dems to fix student debt
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Food/Beverage:
A&P continues efforts to sell stores, prepares for next phase of bankruptcy
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Albertsons to pay $5.75M to settle $1B Haggen lawsuit
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Press:
Bankruptcy Judge Limits Probe of Bloomberg News Sources • U.S. judge narrows probe into leaks to Bloomberg reporters
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Healthcare:
HealthSpot CEO, executive team salaries outstripped revenue
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Feds find serious problems at Theranos lab
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Politics:
Ted Cruz Likes Being Hated • In Reversal, Campaign Says Ted Cruz Does Have Health Insurance • Ted Cruz's Tithing Problem • Billionaire donors helped Cruz rise in GOP presidential bid • How Ted Cruz Loses Friends and Influences People • In Nine Trips to Supreme Court, Ted Cruz Saw Mixed Results • Rick Perry Endorses Ted Cruz for President • Young Ted Cruz
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This Year's Iowa Caucuses Could Be the Wildest Yet
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Trump or Cruz? No Sweat, Wall Street's Big Republican Donors Say
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Republican Establishment Faces Double Headache • GOP Establishment Takes Sides Between Trump and Cruz • Why GOP establishment is warming up to Trump, for now
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Tina Fey Returns as Sarah Palin on ‘SNL’ to Endorse Trump • Palin's double-edged Trump endorsement • National Review Kicked Out of GOP Debate After Anti-Trump Stand • One tweet that captures the problem with National Review's anti-Trump crusade • There's one huge problem with National Review's anti-Trump editorial • Donald Trump’s response to National Review, in 3 tweets • Trump-Cruz Rivalry Escalates, Goes on Air • For Donald Trump, beating Cruz in Iowa is the key to a huge primary run • Donald Trump Says He ‘Could Shoot Somebody’ and Not Lose Voters • Why Trump Is Winning Over Christian Conservatives • The Trump effect • Why Donald Trump plays Phantom of the Opera at his rallies • Trump: If I'm president, 'Christianity will have power' in the US • Donald Trump says he uses 'every single thing in the book' to avoid paying taxes • Donald Trump Wants 'Biased' Megyn Kelly To Skip the Next Debate • Donald Trump Says Running for President Has Been Good for His Business • Now Bob Gates Trashes Trump
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Jeb Bush Defends Negative Campaign Ads • Jeb Bush had the perfect response to Donald Trump taunting him for using 'mommy' in a campaign ad
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Clinton, Sanders Play Up Wall Street Crackdown Plans • Hillary Clinton Suggests Bernie Sanders Doesn’t ‘Deal in Reality’ • Clinton Angers Iowa Fans for Waited for Hours
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Clinton's Emails: A Criminal Charge Is Justified • Report: Clinton Emails Contained Human Intelligence Classified At Highest Levels • Hillary's Stumbling Cakewalk • Hillary's Journey • Hillary Is in Big Trouble • Hillary Clinton's odd new Sanders attack shows the Democrats are a mess on foreign policy • Hillary Clinton faces the same challenge that George H.W. Bush faced in 1988
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Feeling the Bern: Why voters are turning to Sanders • Bernie Sanders's America • Here's what the tax code would look like if Bernie Sanders got everything he wanted • How Bernie Sanders helped make an expensive city in Vermont permanently affordable • Bernie Sanders: I can beat Michael Bloomberg and Donald Trump • Sanders Fact Check: Donald Trump "thinks that climate change is a hoax, invented by the Chinese."
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Ben Carson ‘Horrified’ By His Own Campaign Ad • Ben Carson Cites Mom’s Influence in Surviving Campaign Meltdown
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Michael Bloomberg Mulling Presidential Run as Independent • Closer than ever to jumping into race for president • Mixed reception • As Bloomberg weighs White House run, Iowa voters ask, 'Who?' • Bloomberg May Spend $1bn to be President • Why now?
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Sovereigns:
Venezuela risks Argentina-style legal drama if it defaults • Fears of Venezuela debt default rise
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Argentina's Fix-It Man Is Slowing Down and Investors Are Worried
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UK:
British woman facing eviction found hanged next to note addressed to David Cameron
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Mark Group administrators get £2 million while creditors get nothing
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Insolvencies at UK oil services groups jump
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Credit Suisse: Here's just how disastrous a Brexit could be for the UK economy
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EU:
Market Turmoil Hinders European Banks' Recovery
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European stocks gain most in nearly 4 months on QE hopes, oil spike
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Europe Stocks Halt Rally as Oil Producers Fall With Italy Banks
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PIIGS:
Italy bank runs could be the 'Northern Rock' signal of global financial meltdown • What’s the Future for Italy’s Bad Banks? • Italy's Rescued Banks to Draw `Long List' of Bids, Chairman Says • A Fix for Italy's Banks Can't Wait
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Italian Finance Minister on Banks, Reform Agenda
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Italian Finance Minister Calls for Caution on Eurozone Financial Reforms
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Italy's Padoan Says Bad Bank Talks Move Ahead Amid New NPL Plan
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3 centuries of booms and busts in Spain
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So Many Bribes, a Greek Official Can’t Recall Them All
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S&P upgrades Greece by 1 notch to B-, outlook stable
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China:
Don't blame China for US market woes: Economist
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China Shanshui Cement defaults on 1.8 b yuan bond
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Venezuela:
Fears of Venezuela Default Grow Amid Drop in Oil Prices
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Caracas risks legal drama if it defaults
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Brazil:
Nearly 50 Brazilian cities cancel carnivals over money woes
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Petrobras Rescue Could Cost Brazil $21 Billion, Citigroup Says
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India:
India’s optimism blurred by economic gloom
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Austria:
HETA Creditors Reject Austria's Settlement Offer
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Ukraine:
Ukraine Debt Deal With Russia Still Possible, Finance Chief Says
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Australia:
Clive Palmer and the nickel refinery collapse that wasn't • Clive Palmer nickel refinery 'insolvent trade' doubt
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Sherwin fights to shield payout
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Defunct Dick Smith, David Jones Deal Was 'Lipstick On A Pig'
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If You Got Paid By Soundwave Recently, You May Be Sued To Get The Money Back
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Russia:
Russian GDP shrinks 3.7% as oil slumps
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Japan:
While all eyes are on China, the world's 3rd-biggest economy is also sliding — badly
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