Law:

Nationwide Layoff Watch: Another Biglaw Firm Kicks Associates To The Curb
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2017 U.S News Law School Rankings: Average Student Debt
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Along with the Churn, ‘Pockets of Greatness’ at Cadwalader
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Law Firms Must Focus on Profits, Not Revenues
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Lawyers & Blackberry Moments
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Evolving Standards Of Bar Passage Expectations
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ABA Says New 75% Bar Passage Requirement Is Not Attempt 'To Play Jack Welch, Forcing Law Schools To Fire 10% Of Their People Each Year'
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Jury Rejects Unsuccessful Faculty Applicant's Age Discrimination Lawsuit Against Iowa Law School
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Law School Offers Students An Amazing Opportunity — To Bag Groceries
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Well-respected professor predicts a top law school will close soon, and 'we may never see it coming'
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Minority women make slight gain in partner promotions; will minority gender imbalance shift?
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Does Competition Make You A Better Lawyer?
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Lawyer-Client Relationships: Healthy Or Tinder?
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How Practicing Abroad Taught Me To Adapt
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Former UC-Berkeley Dean Obtained Appointment Of Provost To Law School Faculty While Provost Was Investigating Harassment Claim Against Him
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Cybersecurity experts offer stern warnings, tips for security in mass-surveillance era
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Can small firms thrive in a tough competitive environment?
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Hulk Hogan verdict raises crucial privacy issues in the digital age • Transcripts of three Hogan s-- tapes reveal sordid details • Gawker could still win Hulk Hogan suit despite verdict • Let Me Tell You Something Brother, The Hulk Hogan Victory Is Going To Be Reversed On Appeal • Husband cheered on Hogan during s**-tape romps with wife
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When Disobeying the Senate Can Land You in Court
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Louisiana, Where the Poor Don't Have Lawyers
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Attorney faces felony case, accused of punching police officer during courthouse argument
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Is This The Beginning Of The End For Grand Juries
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Rich people are paying lawyers to get truthful stories deleted from the internet
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Legal assistant who deposited $300K in law firm payments to own account takes mail fraud plea
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Judge nixes rare murder case against a corporation
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Judges:

Why Does Judge Merrick Garland Hate Bankruptcy Law So Much?
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How Locking Up Judges Could End Debtors' Prisons
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Obama’s Successor Will Likely Fill Dozens of Judicial Vacancies
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Fact Check: Senate Democrats "have never held up a Supreme Court nomination."
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Obama Warns of SCOTUS Consequences
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GOP’s Mark Kirk Says Senate Should ‘Man Up’ and Vote on Court Nominee
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Reid: Opposition to Garland Showing Cracks
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Will Merrick Garland continue to hear appeals while nomination is pending?
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What do Merrick Garland’s financial reports reveal?
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What Sort of Writer Is Merrick Garland? Seven Clues
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Here's the evidence that suggests Obama's Supreme Court pick isn't really that liberal • Garland would move Supreme Court to left, but how far? • Where Merrick Garland Stands: A Close Look at His Judicial Record
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Kasich: I Would Consider Nominating Merrick Garland Myself • John Kasich Says Republicans Should Meet With Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee • Kasich Walks Back Garland Comment
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Fact Check: Merrick Garland "voted, so the folks know, in Washington, D.C., to keep guns away from private citizens."
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Garland Nomination the Latest Move in Democrats’ Game of Thrones
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Fact Check: "Six justices" on the U.S. Supreme Court have been "confirmed in presidential election years since 1912."
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Shun a President's Supreme Court Nominee? Alexander Hamilton Would Not Be Pleased | Brennan Center for Justice
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Ohio and Republican Opposition to Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee
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The Supreme Court Emoji Challenge
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Judge Garland’s Career in Dissent •The respectful disagreements of Judge Merrick Garland • Judge Garland’s Inconsistent Deference
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Do Republicans really think Donald Trump will make a good Supreme Court choice?
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What’s a court visitor to do with a banned cellphone? Storage lockers are being eliminated
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Is online dispute resolution the wave of the future?
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What Is Obviously Wrong With the Federal Judiciary, Yet Eminently Curable, Part I
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Wall Street:

U.S. stock futures rise as investors try to shake off lower oil prices
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Dow books longest winning streak in 5 months • Dow, S&P end green for 2016
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Wall Street eyes oil in shortened trading week
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Layoffs:

National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Coal:

Corporate coal hub of St. Louis faces more big bankruptcies
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As Coal’s Future Grows Murkier, Banks Pull Financing
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Australian takeover drags Peabody near bankruptcy
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Cloud Peak Energy Will Not Benefit From Peabody's Bankruptcy
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Shares of Peabody Energy Corporation Drop by -61.83%
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Lawyer Tormenting Scientists Revealed Working for Coal Company
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End coal's self-bonding scam
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Don't stick taxpayers with Peabody's bills
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S&P says Foresight defaults on bond payment
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Coal Industry Offers A Way To Bet On The Election
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Religion:

Bankruptcy tests Christ's Household of Faith in St. Paul
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All the Things the Bible Wants to Execute You For
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Student Debt:

A right to debt relief for American students
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The Missing Auto Loan Crisis Says Volumes About Student Loan Crisis
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$121B in student loans are in default across U.S.
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The student loan bubble is starting to burst
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Navient: The Perfect Short
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Soon Your Employer May Pay Back Your Student Debt
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Tech:

Apple’s Former Supplier GT Advanced Survives Bankruptcy
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Lehman:

Lehman employees lose appeal over stock losses from bankruptcy • Court Rejects Lehman Employees’ Appeal Against Ex-CEO
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Hollywood:

Relativity wins approval for bankruptcy exit • Relativity Emerges From Bankruptcy, Judge Rules It’s Met Conditions • Relativity Media's Bankruptcy Comes to a Close • Relativity Media, Studio, Exits Bankruptcy After Last-Minute Financing
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Bad Plot: Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig and a $38.5 Million Loan Stuck in Bankruptcy
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Gambling:

Caesars Entertainment Corp Careens Closer to Bankruptcy
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Politics:

The Big Short Fingered Vulgarian • Secret GOP Plan to Stop Trump Forever :) • A New Theory of Trump • Chris Christie Says Donald Trump Didn’t Mean ‘Literal Riots’ • Trump’s Path to White House May Include Detour on Witness Stand • Donald Trump Owes At Least $250 Million to Banks • The Electoral College Could Still Stop Trump • Experts: Trump Could Give House to Dems • The Donald hits back at Warren • Donald Trump Says He Wants to Go To Court in the Trump University Lawsuit—But His Lawyers Don't
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What Happens to the Withdrawn Republican Candidates’ Delegates?
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Even Barney Frank Thinks Bernie’s Evil Wall Street Act Needs Work
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Elizabeth Warren still won’t endorse Hillary Clinton—and maybe this story is why
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Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are going after activist hedge funds
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Planned Parenthood defund bill cites dentists as reproductive care alternative
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Paul Ryan's Budget Tearing the GOP Apart
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We are witnessing the rise of global authoritarianism on a chilling scale
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Taxis:

Uber drivers' next stop: Bankruptcy ?
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Amusement Parks:

Is Conneaut Lake Park court fight worth the cost? • About $600,000 has been spent so far on legal fees
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Economy:

Fewer Americans Got Hired or Quit Their Jobs in January
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Manufacturing Jobs are Never Coming Back
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Here's how America's middle class stacks up against the rest of the world's
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Fed's Lacker says he is confident inflation will return to 2 pct
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U.S. Companies, Try This: Raise Your Minimum Pay
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The Boomtown Economy
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Top Economic Issue for Working Women? Equal Pay, Union Survey Says
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Half of U.S. May Endure ‘Lost Decade’ of Depressed Employment
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Big Rig Truck Orders Fall Again in February
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How to Get People to Delay Retirement
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It’s Time to Rethink the Bucket-List Retirement
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When Older People Do Better Than Those of Working Age
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Trump, Elizabeth Warren Threaten U.S. Economy, Chamber CEO Says
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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:

Riverside Plaza developer files bankruptcy
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Miami Bankruptcy Judge Sides With Homeowner Facing Foreclosure
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Sports Authority Closures to Impact 25 CMBS Loans
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MGM, Dubai World Sell Las Vegas Mall to Simon, Invesco for $1.1 Billion
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The top 10 cities attracting Millennial mortgage applications
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California property report: Median house price falls 2.3%
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This Problem Is Shutting the Door on Many Would-Be Home Buyers
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Here's how the housing crisis has been brutal on Millennials
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BlackRock's Rieder Sees Opportunity in Commercial Mortgage Debt
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Municipalities:

Scalia, Alito Court Absences Shape Puerto Rico Debt-Relief Bid
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Puerto Rico political leader calls for debt moratorium
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Puerto Rico Debt Crises: Why is It Essential to Freeze Lawsuits?
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Puerto Ricans, Reframed
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Scalia's death may hurt Puerto Rico's debt restructuring plans
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Closing time for Puerto Rico
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Hatch Blasts Democrats Over Unworkable Puerto Rico Proposals
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Don't let a fiscal control board haircut Puerto Rico's debt
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Turning Puerto Rico Into the Walking Dead
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Bill To Allow PR Bankruptcy Introduced
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Republicans Struggle to Meet Own Deadline on Puerto Rico Bill
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Michigan residents favor helping Detroit schools pay debt
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Disagreement Over AC Takeover Bill
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Bankruptcy is the best solution for Atlantic City
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Chief financial officer hired by Stockton
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If county can't resolve $59 million debt, emergency manager may take over
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Gov. Snyder needs an emergency manager • Snyder: No immediate changes to emergency manager law • Snyder 'open' to improving emergency manager law • Gov. Snyder concedes Flint water was failure of emergency manager system
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Study Finds Public Pension Promises Exceed Ability to Pay
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Where Are the American Cities That Aren't Struggling?
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Healthcare:

Presence Health CEO tending to ailing hospital chain
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Pontiac General undergoing rebirth after second bankruptcy in six years • Pontiac General Hospital's health history • 24-year-old leads efforts at hospital • Med school ties aid Pontiac hospital's turnaround
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San Diego Hospice could have been saved
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Survey: Consumers Report Reasonable Healthcare Costs, But Increasing Burdens Over Time
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Newspapers:

Orange County Register owner plans to accept Digital First Media bid for newspapers • O.C. Register to be sold to lower bidder • Tribune's Court Hurdle on Papers Spurs Freedom to Pick New Buyer • Tribune’s Antitrust Battle Highlights a Changing Media Landscape • Feds wrong to block Orange County Register sale
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Newspaper giants in California are in a multimillion-dollar fight for survival
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Judge temporarily halts Tribune bid for California papers • Orange County Register’s Owner Drops Tribune Bid for Digital First • Tribune: Concern over bid for California papers 'antiquated' • Seriously, Justice Has To Change Its Definition Of A Monopoly
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Oil/Gas:

Crude prices fall from 2016 highs as US oil rig count rises • US oil drillers add one rig after 12 weeks of cuts • Despite Fundamentals, Oil Surges Above $40 • Don't Trust the Oil Price Rebound • Saudi Arabia Won't Let Oil Prices Stay Over $40
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IEA: If oil keeps rising, some marginal U.S. production could be “switched back on”
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What Happens When Oil Hits $50?
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An Output Freeze Is Still The Big Red-Herring For Oil
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Bankruptcy filings aren't likely to cause recession
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Unexpected Threat to Our Economic Growth
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Linn Energy faces down bankruptcy • Vanguard Natural Resources: A Potential Linn Energy Bankruptcy Is A Major Risk Factor • Why Did Linn Energy Close Down Over 20%?
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California Oil driller Venoco files bankruptcy after spill • Venoco bankruptcy filing linked to Refugio oil spill
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Maersk Drilling CEO Ready to Buy Used Rigs In Pricing Rejig
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Magnum Hunter Learns From Sabine Ruling
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One Energy Industry Lifeline May Be Running Out of Steam
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Debt deadlines loom for firms
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Texcal Energy LLC files for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
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Petrobras selling oil, gas fields worth up to $2.7b, Business News & Top Stories
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Terra Energy Corp. Announces Demand by Lender to Repay Outstanding Indebtedness and Notice of Intention to Enforce Security, Employment Terminations and Shut-in of Production
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Chesapeake Energy Corporation Considers Another Tactic to Address Looming Debt Maturities
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Natural gas industry could dwindle without LNG facilities
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Energy and materials companies put gloom in capital expenditure outlook
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Struggling U.S. oil and gas companies eye rare financing deals
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Where U.S. Jobs Have Fallen Along With Energy Prices
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Boom or bust, courts remain busy in North Dakota oil patch • With big oil spurned, is the fun done in Williston?
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Alaska's oil industry could decline just like coal
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As US Oil Industry Jobs Decline, Undergraduates Are Ditching Petroleum Engineering Degrees
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'Orphan' wells left behind in oil slump
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Pharma:

Valeant's Unnatural Natural Death • Valeant Works With Lenders to Find Ways to Waive Default • Valeant Seeks Lender List of Demands for Waiving Default • Valeant shares off another 8% Friday • How Analysts View Valeant After an Earnings Catastrophe • This Valeant Investor Is In Even Bigger Trouble than Bill Ackman • 2 Wall Street celebrities fall • Valeant Write-Downs Next? • Valeant's Default: Setting The Record Straight • Five Lessons Big Pharma Should Learn From Valeant's Collapse • Valeant approaches lenders • Loan Buyers Stick With Valeant
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Mass Torts:

EnPro reaches $480M proposed asbestos settlement
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Autos:

No, Tesla Motors Isn't Going Bankrupt in 6 Months
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Auto Supplier Lear in Talks to Return Jobs to Detroit
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Mounting Fears in Subprime Auto Lending Recall ’90s-Era Bubble
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Retailing:

Sears Reaches Pension Plan Deal With PBGC
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Tilly's: What Stems The Decline?
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Aeropostale falls out with former BFF Sycamore Partners • Top Backer Becomes Frenemy • Sycamore in Salvage Mode • Aeropostale Loss Widens , To Explore Strategic Options • The clock is ticking on Aeropostale • Aeropostale Looks Out Of Options
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Financial Advisers:

CFP Board Discloses Bankruptcies By CFP® Professionals
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Lightyear Agrees It Won't Poach Cetera Execs
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Metals:

Horsehead Holding Assets Will Soon Go Up For Auction
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Education:

How a For-Profit College Targeted the Homeless and Kids With Low Self-Esteem
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Baseball:

Adelanto to evict High Desert Mavericks from city-owned stadium • High Desert Mavericks owner says eviction is baseless, violates current contract
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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 (32 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (48 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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Professional Compensation:

Enough With the Fees-on-Fees Already: ASARCO Really Means What It Says
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Miscellaneous:

The Week Ahead
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Rozens on Bankruptcies
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IP:

Alleviate the Fear of a License Counterparty Filing for Bankruptcy
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Sales:

Fourth Circuit Finds That Bankruptcy Court Sale Orders Should Be Granted Preclusive Effect
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Discharge:

The Statute of Limitations Defense in Non-Dischargeability Actions
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Laches in a Non-Dischargeability Action
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Liens:

Statutory Liens vs. Consensual Liens: Why it Matters and When it may Not
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Recent Pleadings:

Evergreen Creditors Who Want To Sue Skadden Object To Trustee's Request To Hire Someone Else To
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Distressed Investing:

M&A Bankers Saying No to More Junk
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Toll Roads:

Frugal Motorists Test Private Toll Roads
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Celebs:

Broke! Mischa Barton's Monster Momager Files For Bankruptcy
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50 Cent to host own variety show • Cent: Secret Service Is Asking About 'Prop' Money
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American Apparel Asks Judge to Order Charney to Comply With Subpoena
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Corporate Reform:

CFPB Wins Final Judgment in Long-Running Morgan Drexen Battle • Court Issues Final Order in CFPB Case Against Debt Relief Company
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Fraud:

‘One of the Largest Frauds in Texas’: Life Partners Trustee Files Rash of Suits
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Bankruptcy court eviscerates Madoff trustee's $220m clawback suit for failing to show investor's actual knowledge of fraud
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Personal Finance:

How four people paid off a collective $1 million in debt
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Banking:

Fed's Dudley: We Can't Stop Banks from Failure
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BCCI case: Court of Appeal refuses to reopen liquidation proceedings
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Here’s how much the big bank CEOs made in 2015
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Awards:

Marc Levinson Named President of American College of Bankruptcy
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Hotels:

Detroit: Roberts Riverwalk Hotel faces insurance settlement dispute, creditor woes
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Shipping:

Creditors of Mercator Lines (Singapore) push for court auction
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Hyundai Merchant Marine on Verge of Bankruptcy as Creditors Reject Debt Rescheduling • Hyundai Merchant Marine signs debt settlement agreement
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Debt Collection:

Bank of America Hit With Class Action Over Debt Collection Litigation on Securitized Accounts
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Tax:

9 Bizarre Items Seized by the IRS
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Electricity:

Texas PUC Will Soon Rule On Proposed Hunt Buyout Of Oncor
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Sovereigns:

Argentina, creditors agree to $155 million more in default settlement: mediator • Argentina reaches agreement with individual creditors • Small Argentina creditors say 'frozen out' of settlements
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Macri praises lawmakers for 'vultures' bill
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UK:

Whitehall clears change for insolvency practitioners
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Troubled Energy Firm Npower To Axe 2,500 Jobs
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Shortlist announced for Credit Today Awards 2016
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Mee Healthcare backed by Cherie Blair owes creditors more than £5 Million
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BHS fights for lifeline to stem decade of decline • BHS boss solicits creditor support for CVA
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BHS: Fears of administration if landlords reject review • BHS 'confident' it has backing of landlords ahead of key vote
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Help for troubled energy sector
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In oil price plunge, North Sea industry faces perfect storm
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EU:

Is 'helicopter money' moving on to ECB's radar?
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PIIGS:

Abengoa bankruptcy has harsh effects
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Abengoa Debt Deal Could Save Company From Freefall
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Creditors' Representatives Leave Athens Without Complete Agreement On Pension Reform • Creditors Meet For Negotiations During the Weekend
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Heads of Greek Bailout Institutions Set to Leave Early
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Europe's refugee crisis could wreak havoc with Greece's bailout programme • Greek Bailout Tranche Deal Eludes as Refugee Challenge Grows
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Catalonia Said to Court Default in Spanish Game of Chicken - Bloomberg Business
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Canada:

Ottawa startup GestureLogic files for bankruptcy protection
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Austria:

German court delays ruling on Austrian Heta case • Heta Wins Time as Austria Stalls German Bondholder Cases
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China:

China's Central Bank Chief Sounds Warning Over Rising Debt
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China Has a $590 Billion Problem With Unpaid Bills
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China Revives Support for Margin Trading That Fueled Boom-Bust
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Lessons In Chinese Debt Restructuring: The Debtor Always Wins
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Kaisa's debt restructuring plan gains support from over 80 per cent of creditors
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As China opens bad debt market, private equity firms step in
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Australian:

Court chases bankrupt murder suspect's lawyers
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Thailand:

US help to be sought in dentist bankruptcy case
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Debt fills Thailand's rice bowl
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India:

Diagnosis and cure for India’s sick banks
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Here's Why The Pickup in India's Loan Growth Has Few Believers
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Romania:

Romanian power company CE Hunedoara faces imminent bankruptcy
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France:

Casino’s Debt Downgraded to Junk by S&P
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