Law:
Schiff Hardin lays off 11 current and incoming associates after 22 partners leave
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Associate Bonus Watch: More Money At McDermott
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Proskauer Adds Distressed Investing Pro In NY
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Coming and Going Concerns
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Jones Day: Helping Donald Trump To Make America Great Again • Jones Day: Branding v Everyone's Right to a Defense
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Study reveals perception gap between fee-earners and partners
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The Curse Of Competence
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Sorry, But Millennials Aren’t Interested In ‘Disrupting’ Biglaw
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What Killed Greenberg Traurig's U.K. Merger
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ATL March Madness: And Then There Were 16 Law School Scandals
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Weaker Earnings for Top Firms Despite Record M&A
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Litigation Boutique May Be Disqualified for “Egregious” Conflict
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A Software Glitch Leads To A Reprimand For Bankruptcy Attorney
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This LSAT Hack Is Also A Life Lesson
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Displaced Lawyers Who Can't Find Work - There's correlation between high grades and workplace failure
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LCCA sets standard for cloud computing in legal industry
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Bankruptcy Lawyer: 1 Simple Change That Can Increase Happiness
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The new iPhone is here • The new small iPhone SE
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15 things you didn't know your iPhone headphones could do
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Survey Reveals Role of Procurement in “High-End” Legal Services Market
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Texas A&M Law School Shrinks Entering Class By 42% (To 140), Vaults 38 Spots (To #111) In U.S. News Rankings
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12 Big Trends Facing the Legal Media, PR and the Business of Law
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Which law schools charge the most and least?
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4 simple phrases that instantly earn people's trust
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Baptist pastor sentenced to 50 years for hiring mistress and her husband to set his wife on fire
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Crying 6-year-old put in handcuffs under school’s stairs for taking candy off teacher’s desk
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Hulk Hogan's $115M Gawker Verdict Comes With A Bonus
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Retired Pennsylvania trooper who police say killed 2 filed for bankruptcy in 2015
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Patriots owner Robert Kraft wrote Roger Goodell a letter asking him to reduce the punishment for Deflategate
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Supreme Court rules that stun guns are protected by the 2nd Amendment
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With latest $22K sanction, attorney’s total for case tops $166K
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Appeals Court: Looking Like a Rich American Isn’t Grounds for Asylum
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Husband of disbarred lawyer sues her and her former clients over claimed real estate forgery
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Drunken potential juror was entitled to lawyer in contempt hearing, top state court says
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Lawyer, a Harvard law grad, gets house arrest after he is convicted of theft and barratry
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Professor Resigns After Accusations Of Sleeping With Students
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Lawyer’s suit seeks declaratory judgment that he shoved state treasurer in self-defense
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Commemorative toilet roll tells of female struggle to enter legal profession due to lack of toilet facilities
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Who Is The Man Behind The Kalamazoo Spree-Shooter’s $10 Million Uber Lawsuit Hoax?
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A Former State Department Employee Is Going to Prison for Twisted Sorority-Girl Scheme
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iPhone Hearing Canceled as FBI Tests Hack Without Apple's Help • An 'outside party' may have shown the FBI how to crack iPhones
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TSA Seizes 70 Lbs. of Coke, Attendant Flees
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Will $115M verdict for Hulk Hogan survive appeal? • Sorry, Hulk Hogan, the First Amendment Is on Gawker's Side • Jury awards Hulk Hogan $25 million in punitive damages
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Judges:
John Roberts Criticized Politicization Of Supreme Court Confirmation Process, Before There Was a Vacancy
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2016 Election is ‘Judgment Day’ for Federal Bench
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Supreme Court Flip-Flops
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Republican senators skipping recess to block Obama Supreme Court appointment
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Chief Justice Roberts to Senate: Stop It!
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On Supreme Court , Republicans can't keep their story straight
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Merrick Garland Is The Right Man For The Job, But Not The Job You’re Thinking Of
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Questionnaire respondents split on Garland as nominee
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Poll: Senate should consider Supreme Court nominee
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Man with rifle case, but no gun, outside courthouse gets 210 days for obstruction, resisting arrest
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Federal judge tells law firms their motion is a ‘monumental waste of resources’
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Proof That Being A SCOTUS Clerk Helps Your Career Prospects
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Wall Street:
Markets assess new risks as blasts rock Brussels; at least 21 reported dead
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Stocks Close Modestly Higher Following Choppy Trading Day • Wall Street ends flat as recent rally spurs caution
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Layoffs:
300 Nabisco Layoffs Start Today
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Politics:
The great unsettling
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'Trump is a loser': Elizabeth Warren tweetstorms against Donald Trump • Donald Trump swings in all directions as he tries to fight back against Elizabeth Warren • Donald Trump Tries to Convince Washington That He's Presidential Material • Fear and loathing in Trumpland • George Will shreds Trump’s new Republican Party • Donald Trump finally reveals foreign-policy advisers • The Most Absurd Parts of Donald Trump's Interview with the Washington Post Editorial Board • Judge asks Obama administration to shield criminal history of Donald Trump associate • Trump will trigger ‘global growth scare,’ Gundlach says • What Trump’s taxes could tell us about the candidate • The New Yorker's latest cover hilariously mocks Donald Trump's hands • Now the Anti-Trump Ads are Getting Nasty
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John Oliver: All Of The Legal, Economic, And Practical Problems With Donald Trump’s Wall
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Ted Cruz Declines Opportunity to Disavow Foreign Policy Advisor's Belief That President Obama Is a Secret Muslim
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The Global Rise of ‘Us vs. Them’ Politics
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RNC chairman ready for convention fight over Trump
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Study: Presidential Candidates Speak From Seventh To Tenth Grade Level
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Fraud:
Firms Fudging Numbers Most Since Meltdown
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Economy:
Chicago Fed: "Index shows economic growth slowed in February"
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Lockhart Says Economy Supports Fed Rate Hike As Soon As April
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The biggest threat to American workers is slowly starting to go away
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Immigrants started half of U.S. $1 billion companies, study says
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The Time and Place for ‘Helicopter Money’
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Housing: Potential Economic Warning Sign
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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:
Previously Owned U.S. Home Sales Decline More Than Forecast • Existing Home Sales decreased in February to 5.08 million SAAR • US existing home sales tumble in warning sign for housing market • Comments on February Existing Home Sales • Inventory shortages, affordability concerns crush existing-home sales
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Legal Issues Associated with Selling & Purchasing Failed Residential Subdivisions in Florida
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'Zombie mortgages' still haunt evicted home owners in Cleveland
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Lenders quoting 30yr fixed rates of 3.75%
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The next housing crisis is here
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America's vanishing housing supply in one chart
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More young people are buying homes in Boston than anywhere else in the US
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Municipalities:
Rauner Still Pushing CPS Bankruptcy ... But Won't Come Out And Say It
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As Cuba Rises, Puerto Rico Falls
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Supreme Court to hear arguments regarding Puerto Rico bankruptcy today • Puerto Rico takes restructuring law to U.S. high court
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Puerto Rico May Redirect Sales-Tax Cash in Fiscal 2017, S&P Says
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Atlantic City mayor: City government will shut down within 3 weeks • Atlantic City Mayor Warns of Shutdown Amid Push for State Rescue
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Oil/Gas:
Ride to the Bottom: U.S. energy workers hit hard by company stock bets
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Mon.: US oil ends at $39.91, up 47 cents, or 1.19 pct
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Kilduff: Forget $40 Oil It's Back to $25
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Gas prices are increasing to top $2 a gallon, here's why
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US rig count drops 4 last week to all-time low of 476
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Does a $5 price change affect oil companies ?
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S&P: Oil & Gas Cos. Lead the Way in Potential U.S. Credit Downgrades
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Debt fears flare up
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Bondholders suffer $150bn oil price hit
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The world's largest oil driller just gave a very bearish presentation on the future of the industry
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A Massive Funding Source Emerges In Oil And Gas
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BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust ‘Dying’
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The oil crash is almost over
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Big Oil moves to drill in Brazil despite crisis
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Oil market speculators profit as central banks hand out free cash
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Terra Energy Corp. announces shut-in of production, cessation of operations and resignation of directors and officers
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Canada's Pacific Exploration delays interest payment
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MLPs: Risk-On Rally Resumes
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Schlumberger chief: Oil services crisis isn't just oil prices
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Schlumberger Expects 1Q Revenue To Fall 15% From 4Q
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Natural gas prices — vaporized
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Struggling US Oil, Gas Companies Consider Using 1.5 Lien Debt
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Court orders winding up of Morocco oil refinery • Morocco's sole oil refinery ordered shut
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Petrobras just reported its biggest-ever quarterly loss
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Oil Giant to Lose AAA Credit Rating
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HSBC Said to Take Loss on Irish Oil Minnow Loan as Pain Hits
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Newspapers:
Digital First purchase of OC Register parent approved by bankruptcy judge • Tribune Loses Out on Local Newspaper Deal Over Antitrust Issues
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Hulk Hogan may win more money from Gawker, bankrupt the site
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Tech:
Jumio Files for Bankruptcy, Plans Sale to Facebook Co-Founder •Petition
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Coal:
Illinois asks Peabody Energy for info on future cleanup costs
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The Violent Remaking of Appalachia
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Banks back away from the coal industry
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Coal stockpiles grow to highest level in at least 25 years
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Arch Coal paid execs $8M in bonuses on eve of bankruptcy
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Shipping:
HMM applies for self-rescue deal
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John Paulson Increases Stake in Company He Backed in Bankruptcy
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Healthcare:
Michigan hospital works to emerge from bankruptcy
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American Hospice Management Files Chapter 11 • New Delaware Chapter 11 Filing - American Hospice Management Holdings • First Day Dec
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Student Debt:
Department of Education: Student Loan Repayment Improves
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Banking:
Deutsche Bank at Risk of Moody's Cut on Struggle to Overhaul
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Autos:
This Is What's Going On Beneath the Subprime Auto-Loan Turmoil
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Personal Finance:
Even if you’ve got money, live like you’re broke
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35 things to do for your career by 35
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22 things you should definitely do the next time you book a hotel if you want to score the best deals • 9 ways you can spot the best hotel room when booking online
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5 simple etiquette habits that help the rich get ahead, according to a man who spent 5 years studying millionaires
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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 (22 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (10 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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SCOTUS:
SCOTUS Denies Cert In Challenge To Equitable Mootness • Docket • 3rd Cir. Opinion • Summary
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Professional Compensation:
Delaware Judges Double Down on the Boomerang Ruling Solidifying it as the Law of Delaware
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ASARCO Update: Fee Premium Disallowed Under Baker Botts v. ASARCO and Boomerang Tube
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Intercreditor:
Delaware Bankruptcy Court Rules TCEH First Lien Distributions Are Governed by the Bankruptcy Code, Not by Intercreditor Agreement Waterfall
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Avoidance Actions:
Seventh Circuit Holds That Termination of a Commercial Lease Prior to Tenant’s Bankruptcy May be an “Avoidable Transfer”
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Consignment:
Sports Authority - Consignment Actions Have Begun
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Mediation:
Proactive Mediation: The Great Innovation of Detroit and Diocese Reorganizations
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Derivatives:
Credit Default Swaps Make Restructuring More Difficult
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Mining:
U.S. Mining Losses Last Year Wipe Out Profits From Past Eight Years
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Insurance:
Genworth Schools Bondholders In Long Term Care Costs • Genworth Rallies After Bondholders Avoid `Devastating Risk'
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Gambling:
DraftKings, FanDuel agree to stop accepting bets in New York • DraftKings challenges AG's opinion in Texas
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Pharma:
Valeant Admits To 'Improper' Conduct, Ousts CEO And Could Break Up • Schiller May Be Forced to Pay Back Valeant Up to $26.1 Million • Valeant's ‘Circular Firing Squad’ Claims CEO Pearson • Valeant Sold Some Drugs Twice • Valeant: Pearson Is Out, Ackman Is In, Controversy Continues • Valeant Could Have Trouble Getting Clean Opinion From Auditor • Valeant’s Focus Shifts to Talks With Debtholders • Why Valeant Could Approach Zero, And Why It Matters To All Investors • Valeant Pharmaceuticals CEO Pearson: I Promise We Won't Go Bankrupt
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Lehman:
Looking Back at Lehman's Collapse With the Woman Who Fell Farthest
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Alternative Energy:
Blue Earth to Restructure Through Chapter 11
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Awards:
Marc Abrams Elected to American College of Bankruptcy’s Board of Directors
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Celebs:
'Real Housewives' Joe Giudice set to report to prison Wednesday
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Retailing:
Aeropostale: Situation More Desperate By The Day
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Karmaloop gets acquired by California footwear retailer
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Tween and teen retailers remain financially vulnerable
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Religion:
Gallup Diocese Files Plan to Compensate Abuse Victims
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$21 million settlement announced in Diocese of Gallup bankruptcy
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Electricity:
PUC signals it will greenlight Hunt group's purchase of Oncor
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Distressed Investing:
Investors sense buying opportunity after sell-off in US risk debt
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Distressed Assets in Connecticut: What to Know Before Jumping In
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Hirtle Callaghan Seeks Up to Five Distressed Funds
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Sovereigns:
Holdouts: Senate to hear expert opinions
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The Political Economy of Argentina's Settlement With the Vulture Funds
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UK:
There's a huge unanswered question in the collapse of Powa Technologies — where did the money go?
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"There can sometimes be good forum shopping "
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BOE Says 700,000 Households May Be in `Danger Zone' on Mortgages
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EU:
Five countries are seen breaching EU deficit rule this year
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Composition and Pre-insolvency Procedures in Europe – All Change?
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EU on lockdown after Brussels rocked by three explosions • Terrorism: 'What we feared has happened' • UKIP defense spokesman blames the EU for Brussels bombing • Brussels Attacks: the key pictures and videos
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PIIGS:
Schaeuble Says Don't Let Greek Review Founder on Pension Impasse
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Canada:
Danier Leather Makes Assignment in Bankruptcy; Receiver Appointed and Directors Resign
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Raging River CEO Covets Troubled Canadian Rival's Light Oil
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China:
A Deep Dive Into Chinese Markets, Credit and Debt
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Australia:
Men more likely to go bankrupt than women
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