Law:
Researchers suspect grit isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
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Social Media 11 Times More Effective Than Online Advertising
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New Legal App Trolls Social Media For Evidence
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NY to 190GB? Robots Will Need To Able To Do More In Order To Replace Human Lawyers
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Finally, A Legal Tool Designed With The Needs Of In-House Counsel In Mind
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Man Charged In Connection With The Killing Of Dan Markel
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Pfizer slashes global legal panel by 25%
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Addleshaws’ US merger: “Completely out of the blue”
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Linklaters exits continue as Kirkland raids PE team yet again
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21st Century Consciousness Raising
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BigLaw takes lion's share of M&A market
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The Tragic Death Of A Biglaw Firm’s Young Managing Partner • Longtime Philadelphia Law Firm Leader Dies at 51
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The 20 Best Law Schools For Getting Government And Public Interest Jobs
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Ten Most-Cited Faculty in Commercial Law (including contracts and bankruptcy), 2010-2014 (inclusive)
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Canaries In The Law School Coal Mine
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Chicago Law School Jumps to No. 1 in Full-Time Jobs After Graduation
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IT Security vs. Users
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Law Firm Libraries Cannot Simply Be A Service… It Must Be A Strategic Partner
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5 Tips For Lawyers to Improve Their Professional Development
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The Most Offensive Way To Refer To Biglaw Bills
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11 states sue feds over new guidelines for restroom and locker room use by transgender individuals • The Transgender Bathroom Debate and the Looming Title IX Crisis
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Private investigator claims ethical breaches by Casey Anthony lawyer •Casey Anthony's Former Lawyer Jose Baez Threatens to Sue • Casey Anthony's lawyer admits she killed daughter Caylee, investigator says
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Couple must pay $572K, plus possible punitives, in 4-year-old son’s fatal shooting of playmate
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Lawyer can appeal sanction order though fine has been paid by her employer, Posner opinion says
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Baylor denies rumored ouster of Ken Starr after report on school’s handling of campus sex assaults
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Peter Thiel Just Invented Revenge Litigation Finance • Peter Thiel Outed as Deep Pocket Behind "Hulk Hogan v Gawker" - Nick Denton Stepped on the Wrong Toe • Hulk Hogan, Peter Thiel, and the Future of ‘Revenge’ Lawsuits • Billionaire's Backing of Gawker Suit Raises Transparency Concerns
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Judge Cries Foul Over a Chicago Law That Favored the Cubs
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Portland Police Chief Lied About Shooting Pal
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Bundy Brothers Rail About Jail Conditions
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Massive Hulk Verdict Against Gawker Upheld
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NYPD Cops Pull Sting Operation on Teens Skipping School to Hit the Beach
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Absolutely Insane Law Firm Recruiting Pamphlet
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Judges:
Public defender handcuffed in court at judge’s order says she was just doing her job • When Handcuffing A Lawyer In Your Courtroom Is The Right Call
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Justice Breyer Reveals Information About The Supreme Court’s Remaining Deadlock Decisions
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RBG Is First Among Equals . . . At Oral Arguments, That Is
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Federal Judge Reamed For Ex Parte Witness Prep
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A hundred days later, White House isn’t giving up on replacing Antonin Scalia
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How far can a federal judge go to punish lawyers’ ethical misconduct?
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Wall Street:
U.S. stock futures catch their breath after Dow’s big 2-day jump
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US stocks close higher as oil gain boosts energy stocks
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Even With Gains, Investors Have Little Enthusiasm for Stocks
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Layoffs:
Foxconn cuts 60,000 factory jobs and replaces them with robots
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Rise of the Machines: Adidas Announces Move Back To Germany To Use Robots As New Labor Force
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Retailing:
Gap's future lies with Bankruptcy Court
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Sports Authority Closing Sales to Begin as Soon as This Week
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Best Buy is dying slowly
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Sears Revenue Declines, Retailer to Explore Deals for Key Brands
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Celebs:
Teresa Giudice's bankruptcy case reopened • Teresa & Joe Giudice Face More Legal Drama • Prison Panic! Teresa Giudice Blindsided After Judge Reopens Case
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Shipping:
For Tanker Owners, Shrinking Oil Glut Is Least of Their Worries
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Dry Bulk's Troubles Continue
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Banks Set To Suffer From Exposure To Troubled Shipbuilders
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Autos:
Takata committee in rescue talks with KKR, other investors-sources • Takata seeks cash injection after air bag deaths, appoints Lazard to lead restructure • Takata Will Restructure, Seek Cash Amid Air-Bag Recalls
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Banking:
Bank Bondholders Get Better Protection
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Ex-Barclays Trader Had Underlings Do Dirty Work, Lawyer Says
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Currency:
Mt. Gox Creditors Seek Trillions Where There Are Only Millions • Bankruptcy Trustee completes review of all MtGox claims, status determined
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Coal:
The U.S. Coal Industry Is In A Futile War
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Fraud:
Citi was fined $425 million for rate manipulation — here are the secret trader transcripts
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Radio:
Largest Radio Conglomerate In America Battles Financial Implosion
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Gambling:
Christie says North Jersey casino plan 'in big trouble'
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The Supreme Court Faces a Different Trump Contest
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Tax:
HSF warns of US clampdown on tax evasion in Asia-Pacific
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Economy:
Households in Fed Survey Felt Vulnerable Despite Economic Gains
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U.S. Household Debt Increases While Consumers’ Repayment Improves
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These are the states that are suffering while most of the U.S. booms
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The shocking number of Americans who can’t cover a $400 expense
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Japan's prime minister is warning world leaders about a 'Lehman-scale crisis'
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McDonald's Shuts Its Headquarters as Protesters Rally for $15 an Hour • Building robot McDonald's staff 'cheaper' than hiring workers on minimum wage • McDonald's ex-CEO: $15/hr minimum wage will unleash the robot rebellion
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Delaying Rate Hikes Averted Bigger Slowdown, Fed Economists Say
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Corporate America Chases the Mythical Millennial
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Chemical Activity Barometer increased in May
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What Will Wreck Many Americans Retirement
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More Adults Live with Parents Than Partners
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Pimco’s Ivascyn Sees ‘More Negative Tilt’ as Global Debt Grows
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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:
Lawyerly Lairs: What $500K Buys You In The East Village (Hint: Not Much)
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Mortgage Assignments: Assignment of a Mortgage Without the Underlying Note is A Nullity
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Table of Distressed Sales and All Cash Sales for Selected Cities in April
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MBA: "Purchase Applications Increase and Refis Hold Steady in Latest MBA Weekly Survey"
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Chase almost done with RMBS settlement's consumer relief requirement
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Shopping-Center Owners Say Stores to Live On Despite Retail Woes
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Wells Fargo pays $70M fine to lift enforcement order over mortgage servicing
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Zuckerberg to Demolish $30M in Real Estate to Keep Things Private
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Home prices are getting out of control in these 18 American markets
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Municipalities:
How the Puerto Rico Bill Attacks the Minimum Wage
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Puerto Rico clears first hurdle with committee vote • Puerto Rico rescue bill advances to full House vote
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Charles Rangel: Throw Puerto Rico this lifeline — now
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An oversight board can work in Puerto Rico, but not the one in Promesa bill
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Puerto Rico Debt Crises: Is PROMESA the Last Hope?
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Honor Among Thieves? Puerto Rico Debt Faces Debate by US House
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Puerto Rico bill would allow probe into sales of bonds
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Christie says Atlantic City deal has authority he needs
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IL: Comptroller Leslie Munger: 'We would be bankrupt if we could be'
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Other Rust Belt Cities Should Get Grand Bargains, Manhattan Institute Says
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Oil/Gas:
Trouble Down the Pipeline? What Sabine Oil & Gas Corp. May Mean For The Midstream Service Sector
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Oil Industry Headed for Record Third Straight Year of Cutbacks
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E&P Bottom Of The Barrel Club: Livin' On A Prayer
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U.S. Oil Supplies Fell More Than Expected, But…
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Oil at $50: Where Are Crude Prices Headed Next? • Oil Hits ‘Sweet Spot’ at $50, Boosting Producers as Dollar Drops
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Why oil jumping above $50 is actually disastrous for crude
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Crude supplies to dwindle as drillers cut investment
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Oil Chugs Higher But Slips On Gasoline Build
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Why Did Saudi Arabia Kill OPEC?
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Iran-Saudi Row Threatens Any Oil Deal
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Shale Oil Seen Stifling OPEC's Classic Market-Balancing Role
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Shale oil industry a 'Ponzi scheme' or can it boom again?
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Oil Is the Odd Commodity Out. Is that Bad for Crude?
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Shell to cut 2200 more jobs in face of weak oil prices • Shell’s Job Losses Now Equal Facebook’s Entire Payroll
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The Fed Is Set to Slaughter Debt-Laden U.S. Oil Producers
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Emerald Oil Enters Into Stalking Horse Asset Purchase Agreement With CL Energy Opportunity Fund, L.P. and SSC Emerald LP
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Would Regulated Oil Prices, Argentine-Style, Help U.S. Shale?
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Norway's Oil Activity to Continue to Fall in 2017
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Non-Profits:
ME: Shuttered Brunswick mental health agency files for bankruptcy
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Financial Advisors:
Free At Last: Cetera Announces Emergence From RCAP Bankruptcy
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Cetera Brokerage of Former RCS Faces Lingering Problem
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Corporate Reform:
At Swinging Wall Street Parties, the Feds Are Now on the Prowl
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Wall Street Crime: 7 Years, 156 Cases and Few Convictions
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Telecoms:
Nortel Distribution Appeal Gets Third Circuit Jump-Start
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Politics:
Senate Bill Would Force Donald Trump to Release Tax Returns • Can Trump Whitewater-Raft His Way to the White House? • Top Trump Aide Becomes First Victim of Inevitable Purges • Several Arrested After Police and Protesters Clash Outside Trump Rally in California • NM: Another Trump Rally Turns Violent • Nostalgic Donald Trump Can't Stop Burning Jeb Bush • Donald Trump to Keep Warring Factions of His Campaign on Separate Floors of Trump Tower • How much does Trump lie? Let us count the ways. • Trump Fact Check: "There are places in America that are among the most dangerous in the world" • The boy who escaped Trump country • Obama says Trump displays 'ignorance' on world affairs • Trump Can't Get Past the Door in Rust Belt Homes
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War of Words: Trump vs. Warren • Elizabeth Warren Ramps Up Attacks on ‘Insecure Money-Grubber’ Donald Trump
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Donald Trump’s Unpredictability Concerns Clinton Allies
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State Department lawyers weren’t asked to review Clinton’s use of private server, report says • State Department IG: Clinton Email Use Violated Rules • Clinton's E-Mail Shenanigans Sure Don't Look Like an Honest Mistake
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Crazy People Sue Trump And Clinton A LOT
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Clinton Lurks in Shadows When Sparring With Sanders on Banks • Here are 5 Clinton vs. Sanders policy battles that could blow up the convention • This Is How a Revolution Ends
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(3 new opinions today - DBN)
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 (6 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
(large downloads)
UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Bankruptcy Jobs:
(1) • (2) •(3) •(4)• (5) •(6) •(7) •(8)
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Avoidance Actions:
Fraudulent Transfer Not Deemed "Reasonably Discoverable" Based on SEC Filing Unless the Filing Reveals Both the Transfer and Its Fraudulent Nature
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Third Circuit Holds that Minimum Threshold under Section 547(c)(9) Requires Transfer-by-Transfer Analysis
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Discharge:
Fraudulent Conveyance Scheme Renders Debt Nondischargeable in Bankruptcy
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Not So Fast – Supreme Court Holds Prepetition Fraudulent Transfer Precludes Post-Petition Discharge in Husky International
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Nondischargeability Based on Collateral Estoppel
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Insurance:
Insured vs. Insured exclusions in post-insolvency claims
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Mediation:
The Monstrous Costs of Mediation Failures (the Nortel Networks Bankruptcy
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Facilitative v. Evaluative Mediation = It’s Both: A New Study of Mediation in the U.K.
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Miscellaneous:
Lookback Period – Twelve Weeks (pt 2)
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Structured Dismissal:
Jevic CVSG Recommends Granting Cert
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Plan Confirmation:
Individual Chapter 11 Plans – So I Learned a Few Things at NACBA
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TBTF:
Bank 'living wills' light on information, but reveal problems • Report Finds Big Banks Have to Improve ‘Living Wills’
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Debt Collection:
Collection Agency Hit with $38M Judgment
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Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Determines that a “Debt Collector” filing a Bankruptcy Court Proof of Claim on a Time-Barred Account is an FDCPA Violation
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Sovereigns:
Sovereign Default: It’s Not Personal, Just Business
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Why Defaulting on National Debt May Become More Common
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Mozambique Debt Woes an Eye-Opener, Standard Chartered Says
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UK:
IPA issues first specialist insolvency license
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Olswang takes centre stage in BHS inquiry as MPs question its role
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Pool of buyers dwindles for BHS
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The £1 takeover of BHS was 'a bit of a punt'
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EU:
IMF-euro zone rift set to continue amid debt relief disagreement
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The IMF, Trying to Lend Europe Credibility for a Greek Bailout, Risks Losing Some of Its Own
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IMF Seeks to Keep Wiggle Room While Backing Greek Debt Deal
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PIIGS:
Extending QE to Greece Won’t Do Much Good • Europe's Pointless 'Breakthrough' on Greece
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Deal Between Greek Creditors Doesn’t End Saga • Ross: IMF to Win War, Greece Will Get Needed Debt Relief
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The Fact Of The Matter Is Greece Is Insolvent • Greece’s Journey to Redemption Remains a Long One After Aid Deal
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Canada:
New Rules for Asset Sales by Insolvent Producers (at least for now)
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CIBC braces for oily stress, but beat projections in Q2
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Pick and Choose: Federal insolvency law takes precedence over Provincial legislative scheme governing the Alberta Energy Regulator
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India:
India's bankruptcy law positive for banks: Moody's
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Will Bankruptcy Act instill fear among defaulting borrowers?
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India's new bankruptcy code to boost bargaining power of creditors
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Dissecting Bankruptcy Code: Creditors ' Definition Is Not Sound
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Ukraine:
Ukraine State Company Tries to Fend off Bankruptcy
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China:
China accuses US of hampering trade with steel duties
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Billionaire Wilbur Ross Likes the Look of Chinese Bad Loans
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Old jobs die hard in China's rustbelt
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China thinks the US will default via inflation
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Argentina:
Government bets on debt
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Brazil:
Brazil gov’t commits to austerity
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South Korea:
STX shares tumble in Korea as shipbuilding arm nears receivership
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Bahamas:
Baha Mar Creditors Protected Against 'Backroom Deals'
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Australia:
Australia's shifting insolvency regime
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Iceland:
Iceland pulled off a miracle economic escape by breaking almost every rule
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