Law:
Firm Tells Associates That It’s Not Ready To Tell Associates About The Raises It Might Not Give Them • Firm Offers Raises Retroactive To July 1
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Wherein An Associate Curses Out A Partner Over Pokémon
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Time for a Change? Lessons for Avoiding Lateral Mistakes
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Law Firm HR: How To Give Constructive Feedback
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California Bar Administers The Wrong Question To Test-Takers
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Open the Legal Marketplace
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Suit Revived for Bankruptcy Lawyer, 66, Who Refused to Wear a Speedo
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Big Law Docket Scanner: No Forts at Covington, Suit Alleges
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Law Firms a “Weak Spot” in Money Laundering Detection • Malaysian Fund Pilfering Claim Shines Light on Law Firm’s Role
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The Law Schools With The Least-Indebted Graduates (2016)
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Could Your Social Media Posts Prevent You From Becoming A Lawyer?
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What Happens To Incoming Biglaw Associates Who Fail The Bar Exam?
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Help The Client Achieve A Worthy Goal From Hiring You, Or Don’t Take The Assignment
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Christine Lagarde to Stand Trial for Alleged Negligence in French Legal Dispute • Why Is Christine Lagarde Standing Trial?
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Ex-BigLaw partner avoids long sentence for insider trading; judge notes otherwise ‘exemplary life’
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Police Tase Pokemon GO Player After Park Closed
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Miami Police: I Was Aiming at Autistic Kid, Not Black Man •Miami Police Story Is Probably False, Terrifying If True
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Stats Of The Week: We Are Not All About To Get Murdered, Actually
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Why Poor, Low-Level Offenders Often Plead to Worse Crimes
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Judge orders Trump to pay nearly $300,000 in attorney’s fees in Doral painter’s lawsuit
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Judges:
The Most Influential Bankruptcy Judges In History
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Florida judge is accused of making derogatory comments, overrelying on staffers
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Presidential Election Will Shape Supreme Court, and National Policies, for Years to Come
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Wall Street:
U.S. stock futures waver as investors gear up for ‘pivotal’ week
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Stocks Close Higher For Fourth Week Of Gains As Telecoms Rally
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Layoffs:
Deere & Co. lays off 120 Harvester workers
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ConocoPhillips to Trim 6% of its Workforce
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Coal company donated $100,000 to Trump PAC, announced 4,400 layoffs the next day
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Steel:
Subsidized bankrupt steel plant for the textbooks
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Retailing:
Anxious creditors want Sports Authority bankruptcy handed over to trustee • Unsecured creditors seek quick end to Sports Authority bankruptcy • Vendors, landlords say retailer will never get a grip on mounting administrative claims • Trump Can't Persuade Republicans to Like Him • Cuban: Trump lacks analytical skills for presidency • This could be what really scares the market about Trump
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Broncos are having a surprising problem for a Super Bowl champion
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Aeropostale accuses Sycamore Partners of 'loan to own' scheme
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Judge to hear Hastings liquidation objections
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Politics:
Judge inclined to deny Trump's request to dismiss lawsuit • After Clinching Nomination, Donald Trump Campaigns Like It’s Still the Primaries • Where Trump Went Off-Script • Trump’s Sunday School • The one key word that Trump left out of his speech • Trump's emotional and dark message: How it will play out • Trump's tax numbers just don't add up • Trump Family Would Get $7 Billion Windfall From Estate Tax Plan • Nixon’s RNC speech in 1968 was scary. Trump’s was way scarier. • Trump and Pence: On the Same Ticket, but Not on the Same Page • 50 leading CEOs and politicians were asked if Donald Trump had at least a 50% chance of winning the election — just 5 people raised their hand • Trump Fact Check: On gift taking, "Bob McDonnell took a fraction of what (Tim) Kaine took."
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Leaked DNC Emails: Shades of Nixon and Don Segretti • Hillary Clinton Attacks Trump's 'I Alone Can Fix It' Message • Is Hillary Clinton Vice-Presidential Pick Too 'Responsible' for Her Own Good? • Kaine Pick Won’t Help Clinton Court Anti-Wall Street Critics • The Tim Kaine gift controversy, explained • 5 things to know about Tim Kaine • Sanders: I would've preferred Warren • Democrats want a united convention, but Bernie Sanders supporters could still change that • DNC chair will no longer speak at her party's convention after damaging email revelations • DNC Communications Director Ordered Anti-Sanders Article Be Shared 'Without Attribution' • Emails Show Democratic National Committee Officials Actively Undermined Sanders And Sought To Guarantee Clinton’s Nomination • Clinton Fact Check: Says unlike Tim Kaine, Pence "slashed education funding." • Clinton Fact Check: "I am the only candidate who ran in either primary who said, ‘I will not raise taxes on the middle class.’"
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz Resigns As Democratic Party Chair • As convention opens, Democrats face disarray on many fronts
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Unemployment is Low in Key Swing States
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Rudy Giuliani: At Convention, Cruz ‘Hung Himself’ With Trump’s Rope
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Peter Thiel gave a remarkably critical speech of the Republican Party right in front of its face
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Democratic Party Platform Includes Call for Fed Changes
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Why Democrats and Republicans Literally Speak Different Languages
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Personal Finance:
How Boomer Parents Can Stop Babying Their Millennials Financially
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Food/Beverage:
Judge will rule whether Southern Season can borrow $6 million during bankruptcy
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Distressed Investing:
Distressed Debt Funds' Investments Increase
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Junk-Bond Rally Hides Some Cracks
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Bankruptcy Crimes:
Woman pleads guilty after tricking bankruptcy lawyer
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Ethanol:
Ethanol Survivors Bid on Failed Rival to Expand as Demand Grows
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Gambling:
China's Giant Said to Lead Group Bidding for Caesars Online Unit
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Economy:
GDP, other vital signs show U.S. economy stable, even if Fed not convinced
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What the Fed Will and Won't Do this Week
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Beware the $10 Trillion Glut of Treasuries as Big Deficits Loom
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Adjusted for inflation, the federal minimum wage is worth less than 50 years ago
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How the pieces are falling into place for another global financial crisis
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What to expect in the Fed statement this week
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Law firms are ‘implicated’ in rise of inequality, says ‘Saving Capitalism’ author Robert Reich
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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:
Former Subprime Lender NovaStar Files for Bankruptcy
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FL: Luxury condos placed in bankruptcy after $6.9M foreclosure lawsuit
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Municipalities:
Misery Breeds Renewed Struggle in Puerto Rico
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The Puerto Rico problem is on its way to getting bigger
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Puerto Rico Sued For Diverting Cash After Federal Law Passed
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Oil/Gas:
Heavy debt loads could slow energy's recovery
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Is This The Next Big Headache For Oil Prices?
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Oil prices dip on ongoing oversupply, economic headwinds
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How Much Oil Is in Storage Globally? Take a Guess
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Rig Count Up Again
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Southwestern’s Gas Drilling Revival Said Bad Sign for U.S. Bulls
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Oil prices slump amid bloated inventories reviving fears of a new crash • Oil settles down 1.25% as glut fear persists
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Gloss Comes Off Dubai as Oil Woes Spill Into Expat Promised Land
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Goldman's Hopeful Oil Call
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Energy giant profits 'five times too high'
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Energy companies continue to cut jobs nationwide, locally
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Schlumberger begins switch to offense after calling the ‘bottom’ of the bust
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Education:
Caught in the Cross-Fire: Student Loan Lenders and Servicers’ Risks in the Bankruptcy Fight over College Tuition Clawbacks
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Historic Black Colleges On The Verge Of Bankruptcy
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Number of Colleges Undergoing Greater Financial Oversight Drops
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Trump Says Hype Not Racketeering in Bid to Toss Ex-Student Suit
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Autos:
Napa auto dealer bankruptcy leaves buyers in the lurch
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Derivatives:
The Netting Fairy
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Healthcare:
Auction set in hospital bankruptcy
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Justice Department charges three in $1 billion Medicare fraud scheme in South Florida
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Go Ye committee requests adjustments to Baptist Village consulting agreement
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Bankruptcy Courts Lack Subject Matter Jurisdiction Over Medicare Issues, Eleventh Circuit Rules
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Student Debt:
New proposal offers debt forgiveness after a stint in public service
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Who are the people having the hardest time repaying student loans?
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Obama administration has forgiven $171 million owed by former Corinthian students
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Senate Bill Would Exempt Student Loans Discharged For Any Reason From Being Taxed As Income
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Autos:
Facing $17 billion loss, color-coding helped Alan Mulally turn around Ford
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Consumer Finance:
Payday Loan Limits May Cut Abuse but Leave Some Borrowers Looking
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Coal:
Peabody Bankruptcy Judge OKs Self-Bonding Challenges
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Lehman:
Pointing a Finger at the Fed in the Lehman Disaster • Researcher: Fed Could Have Saved Lehman Brothers From Bankruptcy
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Fraud:
JPMorgan Accused in Suit of Failing to Protect Peregrine Funds
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Alternative Energy:
Appaloosa, Brookfield consider joint bid for SunEdison's interest in yieldco
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Celebs:
Real Housewives of New Jersey: Can A Leopard Change Her Spots?
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Defaults:
Stocks That Ignore Defaults Are Cruising for a Bruising
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Metals:
Bankrupt US zinc recycler Horsehead lost another $10.1 million in June
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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 (19 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (12 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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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Texas Bankruptcy Courts Boom With Commodities Bust
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Mootness:
Equitable Mootness in the Eleventh Circuit – Due Diligence Required
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Mediation:
Mediation:“Open-Mindedness” v. “Militant Open-Mindedness”
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Plan Confirmation:
The Absolute Priority 'Rule' (APR) in Bankruptcy : Has It Now Been Enabled by the Courts to Allow Creditors to Liquidate Productively Viable U.S. Corporations?
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Corporate Reform:
A Clue to the Scarcity of Financial Crisis Prosecutions
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Insurance:
Transparency Alliance Presents Safer, More Cost-Effective Reorg Plan to Life Partners Holdings' Creditors
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Safe Harbors:
Delaware Bankruptcy Court Declines to Follow Second Circuit and Holds Safe Harbors Do Not Apply to Some State Law Fraudulent Conveyance Claims
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Discharge:
Husky v. Ritz – the Supreme Court Really Needs Some Bankruptcy Basics
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UK:
Bankrupt fraudster jailed for disguising his £1.2 million luxury mansion as a barn and filling it with antiques and cannabis
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How to manage your law firm post-Brexit
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Thousands Of Jobs To Go As BHS Name Vanishes • All BHS stores to shut down by 20 August
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Sir Philip Green Accused Of Doing What Is The Point Of Being In Business • Sir Philip Green threatens to sue former BHS owner over the alleged misuse of £12m of the store’s funds • Sir Philip Green left BHS on 'life support', MPs find • Greedy Green savaged as 'unacceptable face of capitalism' • 'One Person Alone Is Responsible'
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BHS verdict to shine a light on demise of high street stalwart • The report on the collapse of BHS is out and it is damning
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Goldman blamed for role in doomed deal leading to BHS failure
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Britain's economy wilting fast after Brexit vote, may prompt more spending • ‘Dramatic downturn’ • Brexit dragging on eurozone growth, ECB survey finds
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Theresa May’s Vision of a Radical British Conservatism
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Accountants prepare for fresh push into legal services
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Late Russian oligarch Berezovsky's estate 'hopelessly insolvent'
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G20: Brexit Means Higher Economic Risks • The Beginners’ Guide to Brexit: What Have We Learned So Far?
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EU:
The Failure of Europe's Stress Tests
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PIIGS:
Visco Says Italian Bad Loans No Systemic Risk as Amount Overdone
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Paschi Drops Amid Capital Concerns Before Stress Test Results • How Monte Paschi Could Raise Funds as Bank Stress Tests Loom
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Italy: Reform of insolvency procedures: pre-bankruptcy composition agreement
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Portuguese banks face potential big losses
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Canada:
Second-quarter earnings low for energy companies after Fort Mac fire
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India:
Government seeks applications for Bankruptcy Board chief
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Panel suggests ways to harmonize Sarfaesi Act with Bankruptcy code
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A reform for next 25 years: Activate bankruptcy courts
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Bankruptcy Code – a much-needed boost for corporate bond market?
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Venezuela:
Venezuela Nightmare: A 30-Day Hunt for Food in a Starving Land
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Brazil:
Brazil’s Banks Ramp Up Bid to Halt Torrent of Bankruptcy Filings
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Fallen Billionaire Batista Lands Olympic Seat After Funding Bid
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Brazil court picks PricewaterhouseCoopers as Oi bankruptcy administrator
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Brazil's Oi shareholders reiterate support for in-court reorganization
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Australia:
Corporate Insolvencies Remain At Elevated Levels, Mining Economies The Hardest Hit.
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Melbourne's most notorious b------ in receivership
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Dick Smith creditors vote to wind up retailer • Deloitte under microscope as Dick Smith goes into liquidation
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MENA:
Saudi's Algosaibi signs deal with steering group on drawn-out restructuring
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Saudi Arabian Conglomerate Agrees to $6 Billion Debt Plan With Creditors
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Asia:
Asian Defaults Are Just Getting Started
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China Bank to Turn $1.6 Billion of Bad Debt Into Securities
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South Korea:
Korean Air arrives with Hanjin Shipping rescue package
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