Law:
Greenberg Traurig Ends Merger Talks with London Law Firm
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What Kirkland Departures Signal About Law Firm Branding
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How Much Should Lawyers Fear The Future?
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What Does It Mean To Work Hard?
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Delaware Court Sees The Distinction Between Modern Litigation Finance And Medieval Champerty
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Evolve Law unveils jobs board
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US News.com 2016 rankings: a few remarkable "facts", plus reputation scores
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2017 U.S. News Peer Reputation Rankings (v. Overall Rankings)
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Legal Ed Section’s council proposes tighter bar-passage requirement for law school accreditation • New Bar Passage Rates Could Set ABA Up for a Fight
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Law School Lets Prospective Applicants Know They’re Nothing More Than An LSAT Score
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UCLA Law School Announces 3-Year Tuition Guarantee
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Yale Law School remains No. 1 in US News rankings
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Women could be majority of law students in 2017; these schools have 100-plus female majorities
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Prince Harry May Be Heading To Law School, But Which One?
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Apple's Withering Fact Check Against the FBI
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Judges:
Obama announces Merrick Garland as US Supreme Court nominee
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GOP Stands Firm on Vow to Block High Court Pick • Obama Calls the GOP’s Bluff with Garland Nomination • Here Are All the Times Republicans Praised Merrick Garland, Obama's Supreme Court Nominee • Standoff Over Garland Rings Familiar • GOP Split: Lame Duck Confirmation of Garland
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Merrick Garland Deserves a Hearing
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Inside Obama's Supreme Court Nomination • Who is Merrick Garland? • Merrick Garland: Your SCOTUS Nominee • Getting to Know SCOTUS Nominee Merrick Garland • 7 questions about Obama's Supreme Court nomination • Judge Merrick Garland, In His Own Words • Merrick Garland, President Obama’s Sensible Supreme Court Choice
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Cut Merrick Garland some slack
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Merrick Garland's Supreme Court Nomination Is a Smart Bet
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Reactions to Garland Nomination
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How Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Complicate GOP Opposition to Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee
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Business Could Do Far Worse Than With Justice Garland
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The History Of Unsuccessful SCOTUS Nominees
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Pennsylvania justice retires amid email controversy
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Judge who survived driveway attack says she wasn’t told of prior warning to DA’s office
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Judge Delivers Stinging Rebuke To Partners For Freezing Out Associates
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Federal judge ‘excoriated and mocked counsel,’ 9th Circuit says; he is booted from a fourth case
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Cases pile up in US federal courts as judicial vacancies climb
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Wall Street:
U.S. stock futures turn lower as Fed-fueled rally loses steam
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S&P, Dow close at 2016 high after Fed stands pat on rates, signals gradual hikes
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Wall Street's Awful Quarter Is Hitting Goldman Sachs, Too
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Layoffs:
McKesson Fires 1,600
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Retailing:
NRF: Retail sales growth slows to near-standstill
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Sports Authority Plays Hardball in Suits Against Suppliers
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Alternative Energy:
The Financial Alchemy That’s Choking SunEdison
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SunEdison Ability to Borrow Seen Hindered After Accounting Snag
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Could Blistered SunEdison Yieldco TerraForm Power Face Delisting?
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SunEdison Offers Another Excuse For Its Missing Financials
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Politics:
Trump's Bankrupt Brand of Hate • Donald Trump Warns of ‘Riots’ and ‘Bad Things’ if Supporters Ignored • The Simpsons Predicted President Trump • The Economist: President Trump a Bigger Threat Than Terrorism • 5 Cops Disciplined Over Failure to Act After Trump Supporter Sucker-Punched Protester
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Rest In Peace To The Republican Party • The Final Stage of Republican Grief
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Fox News Debate Is Canceled as Trump, Then Kasich, Withdraw
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John Kasich, Mainstream Republicans’ Last Hope
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Celebs:
Mark Cuban takes his grudge against the SEC to the Supreme Court
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Pensions:
The World's $78 Trillion Pension Nightmare
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Hedge Funds:
Bond Hedge Funds Facing `Worst Quarter in History,' Loomis Says
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Food/Beverage:
The End of Automatic Tipping Has Devastated Restaurant Paychecks
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Economy:
Fed Scales Back Rate-Rise Forecasts as Global Risks Remain • Fed Ratchets Down Rates Forecast, Two Hikes In 2016 Not Four • A Dovish Fed: Why It's Bad for Banks • FOMC Statement: No Change to Policy, Concern about Global developments • Economists React to the Fed Decision: ‘They Do Not Appear To Be in a Rush’ • The Fed is Still Living in Denial
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Sheila Bair: Central Banks Been Pushing on a String
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Key Measures Show Inflation slightly above 2% in February
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Governments Dump US Debt at Record Rate
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Cheap Oil Masks Stronger Inflation in February
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Business inventories have ballooned to 'crisis levels'
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Factory Production in U.S. Rose in February for a Second Month
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Fed: Industrial Production decreased 0.5% in February
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Factory jobs trickle back to the U.S., giving hope to a once-booming mill town
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Consumer Credit Default Rates Remain Stable
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These Maps Divide the World into 4 Income Classes
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Most U.S. Dealmakers See Volume Drop This Year After Record 2015
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Americans less happy now than in 2007, says latest World Happiness Report
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Caterpillar Sees First-Quarter Sales, Profit Below Estimates
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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:
Seventh Circuit’s Warning to Landlords: Getting Out of Your Lease With a Distressed Company May Expose You to Bankruptcy Risk
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Foreclosure Effects: Beware of State Laws
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US housing starts rebound as single-family projects soar • Comments on February Housing Starts • Housing Starts increased to 1.178 Million Annual Rate in February
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Jump In Single-Family Homebuilding In Feb May Signal Turn In Housing Market
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MBA: Mortgage Applications Decreased in Latest Weekly Survey, Purchase Applications up 33% YoY
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CFPB Director Cordray: Credit unions misrepresent mortgage success
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Municipalities:
Puerto Rico Bondholders: Fact and Fantasy
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And Now for Something Nutty on Puerto Rico
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Not Yet. AllianceBernstein Preaches Patience on Puerto Rico Debt
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No bankruptcy for Puerto Rico
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Michigan Considers Legislation to Avert Detroit School Shutdown
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Houston's finances are worse than we thought • Houston's $3 Billion of Debt Cut by Moody's After Oil-Price Drop
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Chicago Settling $390 Million Tab When City Can Least Afford It
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Museums:
Philadelphia children's museum out of bankruptcy
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Coal:
Largest U.S. Coal Producer On The Edge Of Bankruptcy
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How Peabody Energy Will Avoid Bankruptcy
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Peabody may file for bankruptcy as coal crashes
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Peabody short sellers paying 100 percent to borrow shares
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Peabody's Clearance Sale Heads to Australia • Thousands of Australian jobs at risk as Peabody Energy warns over survival
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Coal's ‘Last Man Standing’ Dragged to the Brink of Bankruptcy
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Here's the Data Beleaguered Coal Is Watching for Signs of Relief
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Coal goes up in smoke
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Wall Street is turning coal mines into canaries
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Gambling:
Report: Paul Weiss Likely Not Liable for Caesars Conflicts
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Will Caesars Examiner’s Report Help Junior Creditors in Restructuring Talks?
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Apollo’s Tactics Questioned in Examiner’s Report
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Caesars could take $5 billion hit from unit's bankruptcy
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Caesars investors weigh impact of harsh examiner report
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How Apollo and TPG's plan for saving Caesars backfired
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Oil/Gas:
Sabine Court Issues Industry-Affecting Non-Binding Opinion
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Recent Bankruptcy Cases May Have a Significant Impact on the Midstream Oil and Natural Gas Pipeline Industry
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Downstream Service Providers Hit a Dry Well: Bankruptcy Court Permits Rejection of Service Contracts
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U.S. oil rallies on smaller than forecast storage build
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SandRidge Energy makes $50.1 million in interest payments
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Pacific Exploration & Production Considering Six Buyout Offers
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IHS: “If producers have the money, they drill”
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Oil investors see $7.4 billion vanish as dividends are targeted
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The rise and fall — and rise? — of Pa.'s oil and gas industry
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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 (17 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (8 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 Bankruptcy Case Filing Statistics Available
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TIA:
Retail Bondholders Latch Onto TIA to Attack Private Distressed Debt Exchanges
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TBTF:
JP Morgan, Citi to Vote on Breaking Up Banks
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Avoidance Actions:
Lease Termination Before Bankruptcy May Be ‘Avoidable Transfer,’ 7th Circuit Rules
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Autos:
GM should not benefit from bankruptcy protection in ignition-switch cases, lawyers claim
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Retailing:
Bankruptcy leads Sports Authority to sue more than 160 suppliers
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Consumer Finance:
Delaware Chancery Court voids ‘unconscionable’ payday loan, awards borrower damages
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Corporate Reform:
Congressman Apologizes To Banks For Waterboarding Them With Dodd-Frank… Literally
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Trucking:
Port Trucker Files for Bankruptcy Protection
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Aviation:
In re Avantair: Is My Airplane Now Yours?
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Student Debt:
Increased Scrutiny On “Auto-Defaults”— Road To Enforcement Or Impetus For Change?
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Bankruptcy Crimes:
Burlington man sentenced to 2 years for bankruptcy fraud
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Sports:
CSN Houston can continue suit against Comcast, judge rules
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Banking:
FDIC’s Thomas Hoenig: Verdicts on Banks’ ‘Living Wills’ Coming in Weeks
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Distressed Investing:
Stone Energy, Halcon, iHeart, Azure Join LCD’s Restructuring Watchlist
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Defaults:
Leveraged Loan Default Rate Expected To Rise, Though Only Modestly
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Pharma:
Valeant a bitter pill for its creditors
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Valeant lenders to prepare tough demands for default talks – sources
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S&P Warns It May Cut Valeant Credit Ratings Deeper Into Junk
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Sovereigns:
Lower House passes holdouts bill
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Judge Griesa sends strong message of support for Argentina
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IMF's new debt rules not vulture-proof
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UK:
KPMG's Burlison moves to Lazard • Lazard Adds KPMG’s Burlison for Restructuring in Commodity Slump
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PIIGS:
Spain's Abengoa may need more time to seal restructuring plan
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Abengoa Lines Up $1.7 Billion From Funds Led by KKR, Oak Hill
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Abengoa says will have debt of 4.9 bln euros after restructuring
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A Journey Across Greece, a Bankrupt Land at Risk of Becoming a Refugee Prison
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Brazil:
Brazil’s Crushing Debt Loads Are Leading to a Restructuring Boom
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India:
India’s Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2015
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Heineken eyes control of indebted Indian tycoon's brewery
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