Law:

Dozens of Big Firms to Appear in New 'Panama Papers' Database • Journalism group releases searchable Panama Papers database that includes a number of law firm names • All five magic circle law firms named in new ‘Panama Papers’ database • Second Tranche of Offshore Docs Reveals More Big Firms
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After $35M Chadbourne settlement, second law firm faces litigation over Stanford Ponzi scheme
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On Growing Forever, When The Economy Is Not
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Robins Kaplan Adds Ex-Weil Bankruptcy Pro in New York
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Dentons Looks to Expand Reach Through Referral Network • Dentons launches free legal referral network that relies on new technology
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In a first, a BigLaw firm announces it will use artificial intelligence in one of its practice areas (bankruptcy)
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Coming and Going Concerns
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Law firms report confidence drop
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Mark Herrmann, as Client, Tells How He's Disrupting Business of Law
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Client-led Change: Toward a More Perfect Legal Market
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How Can Comedy Help Biglaw With Issues Related To Gender, Diversity, And Inclusion?
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Big Law Stays Silent as ABA Weighs Law Firm Ownership Rules
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‘Do Them Your F------ Self,’ Departing Associate Tells Partner
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Bankruptcy Lawyer: Stop Waiting For A Permission Slip
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Lanny Davis opens a new law firm at an age when many practitioners retire
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Dissecting A Partner Move: An Interview With Mark Bravin
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Women Without Support Networks Will Likely Leave Their Law Firms
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With Ph.D. Hiring Trend, Who'll Help Law Students Find the Courthouse?
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Law Student Says He Was Almost Expelled From BYU For Writing Book In Favor Of Gay Marriage
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LSAC Backs Down (For Now) On Threat To Expel University Of Arizona For Use Of GRE In Law School Admissions
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Pace University’s Law Dean on Name Changes and the State of Legal Education
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Professors' Candor About Problems Aids Students
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Formerly Drowning Law School Sees Enrollment Bonanza On Horizon
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Opposition to Arizona Law School's Use of GRE Fizzles
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Law Schools Tackle Mental Health
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This 27-year-old is going to prison for life because his fiancée OD’d
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Arkansas man planned to hang 7 mayors over Common Core and overthrow US with ‘Christian army’
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Cops: Woman, 26, molested fellow female passenger on flight from Vegas
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Man faces hate crime charge over dog's 'Nazi salute'
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For Lawyers, Facebook Friending Your Opponent Can Lead To Trouble
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Fight Over N.C. Bathroom Law Escalates With State, U.S. Suing Each Other • Loretta Lynch Calls Out North Carolina and Governor Pat McCrory
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ACLU sues over Mississippi ‘religious freedom’ law, says it violates landmark SCOTUS marriage ruling
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3 college students have been kicked out of school after charges that they lied about being hate-crime victims
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A master networker shares a simple trick to connect with anyone in a matter of minutes
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A woman who spent more than 2 years in solitary confinement is suing New York for $10 million
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Texas Sheriff with Militia Ties Brings Chaos
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Seattle Lawyer Apologizes For Losing His S--- Over The Sonics
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Lawyer who fired gun in police standoff wants to switch to criminal law
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Texas Man Sentenced and His Mother Awaits Trial For The Killing Prom Date
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Penn Professor Thrown Off Plane After Woman Sees Him Doing Strange Notations . . . That Turn Out To Be Math Calculations
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Did David Boies Just Work For Scale? Prominent Litigator Appears on ‘The Good Wife’ Finale • David Boies Has a Thing for The Good Wife
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Judges:

NY Bankruptcy Judges Irked By Long-Winded First-Day Filings
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ED MI: The Walter Shapero Bankruptcy Symposium
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ED NY: Chapter 11 Lawyers' Advisory Committee, Minutes
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Trump's SCOTUS Could Change America
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What Would Nino Do With Garland's Nomination?
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Merrick Garland to Send Questionnaire to Senate Judiciary Committee
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The GOP's Supreme Court blockade has nothing to do with 'the American people'
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The prospect of Trump picking a Supreme Court nominee doesn't scare Republicans
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Alito Writes Praise for Novel That Promotes Chief Justice to Pope
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History as Farce at the Alabama Supreme Court • Alabama chief justice could be removed again, this time over gay-marriage order • Alabama Chief Justice Suspended, Again
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N--- photos of defendants at judge’s home a ‘turning point’ in resignation decision, official says • Judge Resigns After Prosecutors Find Thousands of Photos of N--- Defendants on Computer
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Wall Street:

US stock futures higher as oil rebounds • Dow futures up 100 points as oil rallies, with jobs data on deck
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Stocks close mixed as energy weighs
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This rare technical signal is flashing red
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Goldman: The Search for Yield Begins
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Goldman Keeps Firing Bankers
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Layoffs:

PA Bill to end Seniority in Teacher Layoffs
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Solar firm NRG cuts 500 workers nationwide
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Personal Finance:

11 perfect gifts for new college graduates
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What hiring managers are really trying to figure out when they ask, 'What are your hobbies?'
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Five Things Never To Do With Your Resume
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Hedge Funds:

Hedge Funds Faced Choppy Waters in 2015, but Chiefs Cashed In
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Bankruptcy Crimes:

Business owner on trial for bankruptcy fraud
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Hollywood:

Netflix Plan to Stream Relativity Films Threatens Studio’s Comeback
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Alternative Energy:

Will TerraForm Follow SunEdison to Bankruptcy ?
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SolarCity Shifting Strategy Spurs Questions About Business Model • SolarCity's Stock Plunges On Big Quarterly Loss, Disappointing Outlook
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Riding the ‘Solarcoaster’ as Shares Plunge Even More Than Coal
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Gambling:

Caesars Appoints Former Bankruptcy Judge As Restructuring Officer As CEOC Talks Appear To Stall
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Economy:

One of the biggest economic warning signs still looks frightening
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More Employment Graphs: Duration of Unemployment, Unemployment by Education, Construction Employment and Diffusion Indexes
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Pace of Total U.S. Consumer Borrowing Surges
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Update: "Scariest jobs chart ever"
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Trump quickly backtracks on remarks about raising taxes on wealthy Americans • Donald Trump replaced a bizarre debt solution with an even stranger one • Trump just threatened your 401(k) • Trump backtracks on proposal to renegotiate U.S. debt • Trump's debt policy smacks of bankruptcy
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Trump Wants End of Federal Minimum Wage
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When Zenefits banned vacations for employees, COO David Sacks went to the Caribbean
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The Bankrupt Delusions of Donald Trump, the ‘King of Debt’
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Fact-checking a $15 minimum wage
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Something in Economy Changed Last Year
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The Meaning of Inequality
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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:

Mortgage Rates Steady Near 3-Year Lows
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Existing-home sales posted best first quarter in nearly a decade
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Phoenix Real Estate in April: Sales up 1%, Inventory up YoY
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The lower Manhattan real estate bubble is bursting
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Regular on New York's 'Worst Landlords' Lists Is Charged
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Fannie Mae: Consumers never felt so poorly about home buying
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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac mortgage modification interest rate falls to new record low
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Municipalities:

Detroit schools face bankruptcy without state help, report says
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Puerto Rico's Economic Crisis: How It Happened, What's Next
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Puerto Rico Bill to Obama by July 1 Is `Feasible,' Bishop Says
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Lew Says Puerto Rico's Future Hinges on Debt Deal in Congress
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PREPA bondholder group offers to pre-fund bond purchase agreement and extend restructuring support agreement
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Jack Lew warns time is running out for Puerto Rico • Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew Tours Puerto Rico to Urge Action in Congress
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Puerto Rico Seeking to Sell Water Bonds Even as Crisis Worsens
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Puerto Rico, Illinois or bust
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East Cleveland City Council -- not mayor -- must file for bankruptcy
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The Most (and Least) Bankrupt States in America
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Oil/Gas:

This infographic shows the explosion of bankruptcies in the energy industry • Oil bankruptcies rack up as banks cut credit lines • The 15 Biggest Oil Bankruptcies (So Far)
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Chaparral Energy Files for Bankruptcy Protection • Chaparral Energy files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection • Chaparral Files for Bankruptcy to Cut $1.2 Billion in Debt • Petition • First Day Pleadings
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Banks anticipate more pain despite crude’s rally
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Crude prices rise as supply outages ease worries about global glut • Oil Rises From Two-Week Low as Threat of Supply Disruption Looms • Oil traders cautious after plunge as Canada fires ease
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Big Oil Abandons $2.5 Billion in U.S. Arctic Drilling Rights
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Russian Oil Executives Not Optimistic About Oil Prices
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Global Rig Count Continues To Fall Global Rig Count Continues To Fall
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Saudi Arabia to maintain production at high levels • Saudi Changes Meet Resistance
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Seventy Seven Energy asks lenders to approve reorganization plan
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Magnum Hunter Resources emerges from Chapter 11
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Breitburn Energy Partners: Interest Payment Grace Period And Credit Facility Concerns
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Exxon Scrambling to Contain Climate Crusade
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Pacific Exploration gets new restructuring proposal from EIG
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Texas energy company owner gets prison for Ponzi scam
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What OPEC Has To Fear From The New Saudi Oil Minister
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Bankrupt Energy Companies Can Return with Winning Mindset
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Mergers? Meh: Deal-making slows to 'pretty dead' pace in Texas
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Nigerian Oil Output Falls Toward 22-year Low as Violence Spreads • Nigeria Oil Union Says Shell, Chevron Workers Evacuated
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Petrobras worker boomtown turns ghosttown as corruption bites
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Norway's Biggest Bank Sees Offshore Downturn Lasting to 2020
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Europe: Corporate Downgrades Top Upgrades in 1Q16, thanks to Oil & Gas
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Oil and gas bust slows state job growth
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CO: Gas companies owed refunds worth millions
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Resilient U.S. drillers squeezing out more oil than expected, Goldman says
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Politics:

Donald Trump believes he is a financial genius, which is a problem • Here are 6 places you could move — besides Canada — if Donald Trump is elected • Reince Priebus acts like he’s still in charge: ‘Trump is not wanting to rewrite the platform, okay?’ • Paul Ryan Says He Would Quit as Convention Chair if Trump Asked • Donald Trump Amplifies His Stances on Tax Cuts, U.S’s Debt • Troops prefer Trump to Clinton by huge margin • Jon Stewart breaks silence with rant on 'man-baby' Donald Trump • Why Donald Trump Needs the Republican Establishment • Trump Trolls America's Bankers • Donald Trump Says He Might Make "Exception" to Muslim Ban for London's New Mayor
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Bernie Sanders takes shots at Trump in Atlantic City • Bernie Sanders Criticizes Atlantic City’s Casino Industry • Sorry, Bernie fans. His health care plan is short $17,000,000,000,000.
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Coal:

Forget coal , just help coal workers
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Coal mining jobs in West Virginia aren't coming back
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Army Corps Blocks Giant Puget Sound Coal Export Terminal • US Government Upholds Its Treaty Obligations - Rejects Giant Coal Export Terminal
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Arch beats deadline in tax payment
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Bankrupt Miner Arch Coal Files Restructuring Plan • Arch Coal Could Have Fight Over Bankruptcy Plan
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Arch Coal may face fight over bankruptcy plan
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Broker-Dealers:

Judge rejects terms of RCS capital bankruptcy
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Brokerages With Checkered Past to Face New Disclosure Focus, Finra CEO Says
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Fertilizer:

Legend International Files for U.S. Bankruptcy Protection
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Shipping:

Third Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Carrier’s “Extended” Maritime Possessory Liens
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Singapore Bunker Supplier Dismisses Bankruptcy Rumors
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Hyundai Heavy Industries Will Cut Jobs, Sell $1 Billion in Assets
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Samsung Heavy may unveil overhaul plan next week
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Alternative Finance:

Lending Club Lays Bare Marketplace Lending's Problems
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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 (27 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (13 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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Bankruptcy Statistics:

US Commercial Bankruptcies Soar
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Venue:

What Are You Doing in This Court? SDNY Bankruptcy Court Transfers Post-Confirmation, State Law Dispute with Non-Debtors Back to the “Home” Bankruptcy Court
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Receivers:

Q: Injunction Junction – What’s Your Function? A: Terminating Bankruptcies
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Avoidance Actions:

Golf Channel Finds the Fairway in Fraudulent Transfer Litigation – Good News for Vendors in Ponzi Scheme Cases
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Recent Pleadings:

UST Doesn't Like Motion To Seal Bonus Plan
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Fraud:

Panama Papers: New Zealand Elvis impersonator linked to Iraqi oil scandal
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Here are all the notable people we've found in the Panama Papers so far
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South Korea's biggest petrochemical company was duped into paying $21 million to a fake Saudi Aramco
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Pharma:

'The company is at risk of getting into a death spiral'
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Autos:

Here's why Elon Musk has been sleeping on Tesla's factory floor
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Retailing:

Gap's Bloodbath Continues As April Sales Plummet
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Analysts: Dick’s Could Take Over 80-180 Sports Authority Stores
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Aeropostale's bankruptcy filing reflects retail changes
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Scoop NYC Closing All Stores, Including LA
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Banking:

Credit Suisse Posts Loss as Thiam Signals Cost-Cutting Progress
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Pensions:

Central States chief warns of insolvency
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Arbitration:

The CFPB's Proposed Rules on Consumer Financial Arbitration
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Distressed Investing:

If junk bonds slip, a big market drop will be ahead: Technician
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Traders Eye $100 Billion More Emerging-Market Fallen Angels
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Tax:

Economists: Tax Havens Have No Justification
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Celebs:

‘Real Housewives Of New Jersey’ Star Teresa Giudice Faces New Legal Battles
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Student Debt:

Parents Tell Kids to Borrow More for College
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UK:

Insolvency decline topples asset recovery firm
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R3's moratorium proposals for insolvent companies could save businesses
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To Brexit or to Bremain? That is the Question on 23 June 2016
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'Abused', 'a-typical' and a £300 million pension blackhole: Here's what we learned from the first day of the BHS inquiry
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UK pensions 'lifeboat' flagged concern about BHS fund in 2012
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PIIGS:

Eurogroup meeting ends without Greek debt deal • What’s Blocking an EU Deal on Greek Debt Aid? • Greek reforms must be reviewed before any debt restructure-Germany • Schäuble: no deal on Greek debt relief until late-May • Greece and its creditors inch closer to debt deal • Greek bonds and shares surge after debt relief progress
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Greek Debt Crisis: This Is Puppet Theatre About How Creditors Lose Their Money, Not Whether
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Canada:

Canadian Wildfires Slow Their Spread • Canada Wildfires: Insurance Claims Could Soar
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Six months into insolvency, Soo steel maker's fiscal woes place Port of Algoma in jeopardy
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Attorney General’s Office had hundreds of complaints before Northwest Territorial Mint’s bankruptcy
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Suncor looks to restart oil-sands production after wildfires • Canada's Oil Output Spared Fire Damage Seen Able to Rebound
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Developer Urbancorp Owes Creditors $70.3 Million, Documents Show
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Venezuela:

Catastrophe Is the New Normal for Venezuelans
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Australia:

Mining, retail lead jump in company insolvency
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No right to terminate for insolvency
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Bad Aussie Resource Debts Weigh on Bank Profits
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India:

How bankruptcy code could benefit both industry & financial services
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New era of reforms: The Bankruptcy & Insolvency Code
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Flaws in the Bankruptcy Code
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Bankruptcy law can be a game-changer
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Bankruptcy code a shot in the arm for ARCs, lenders: Crisil
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Argentina:

S&P raises Argentina's credit rating, but warns about the 40% inflation
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China:

China’s credit cycle will deliver opportunities for the brave
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China Railway Materials says company will try to pay debts in time
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Malaysia:

1MDB Default Deters Funds as Malaysia Can't Put Scandal to Bed
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