Law:
Consultant sees ‘pervasive’ trimming of BigLaw equity partners • Law Firm Partners Not Forced Out = New Heroes of American Capitalism
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The Gender Pay Gap for Big Law Partners: 44 Percent
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Law Professor Left In Critical Condition After Brutal Attack
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Will This Big Law Firm's 'Innovation' Strategy Have Legs?
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Third-party litigation funding in US enters mainstream, leading to calls for reform
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Honigman experiences high turnover rate as it embarks on expansion plan
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For Fastcase founders, the message is: Change, and do it faster! (podcast)
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Attorney Not at All Happy With FindLaw
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Pennsylvania Bar Exam Results Reveal Worst Passage Rates In More Than A Decade
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The Dan Markel Case: Wendi Adelson’s Lawyer Calls Out Her • Accuser • Adelson sighting could 'implicate' Markel's ex • Rivera: 'We were coming up here to kill somebody'
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The University Of California’s Extraordinary Legal Battle With Ex-Berkeley Law School Dean
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What Would An Efficient Market For Law Schools Look Like?
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Meet A Former Supreme Court Clerk And Wife Of A Biglaw Partner Who Vocally Supports Donald Trump
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You don’t need a Cadillac when a Chevy will do
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Referring Bad Potential Clients To Colleagues Can Jeopardize Your Reputation
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The (Nobel-Winning) Theory Of Contracts
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Announcing The alt.legal Innovation Awards Finalists
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Firm Accused of Filing Collection Suits Without Review by Lawyer
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The Unexpected Surprise Of Starting A Law Firm
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11 websites every modern gentleman should bookmark
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How America Outlawed Adolescence
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Art of the Comeback: Pierce O’Donnell and Jackson Pollock
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Texas has been locking people up for possessing traces of drugs too minuscule to be measured
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Let’s Talk About These Creepy Clowns
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Texas attorney general's appeal rejected, trial likely • Texas’s Paxton Must Face Criminal Securities-Fraud Trial
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Federal prosecutors will charge Sheriff Joe Arpaio with criminal contempt; he vows a fight
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Judges:
Is Ruth Bader Ginsburg's slam on Colin Kaepernick out of character? • The ‘Notorious RBG’ Myth Shattered By Kaepernick Comments
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Part one of Charlie Rose's conversation with Ruth Bader Ginsburg •Pt. 2
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Justice Ginsburg’s accent returns to her New York roots, linguists say
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Bio of Judge Thomas Donovan
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Judge Loses It Over A Little League Game
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Why it Took 12 Judges to Replace Scalia for Bryan Garner's Latest Book Project
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Wall Street:
Dow futures fall 100 points as China comes back to haunt stocks
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Stocks Go Nowhere
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Stocks are almost as expensive as they were during the tech bubble
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Get ready for a 'severe fall' in the stock market, HSBC says
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Layoffs:
Lloyds is slashing 1,340 jobs
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VW to Start Cutting Jobs
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Verizon to cut 250 jobs in Rockland
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IN: Community Health to Lay Off Nearly 200
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Taxis:
One chart shows how swiftly Uber and Lyft are killing traditional taxis
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Education:
Americans worry about the cost of college, but cable networks don’t seem to care
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Congress should empower universities in the fight against student debt
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Can bankruptcy laws save higher education?
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Charter schools: America's new subprime mortgages?
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Celebs:
Elon Musk’s Wild Ride
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Radio:
Judge confirms sale of Lowell Register’s radio stations
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Food/Beverage:
Cosi Seeks to Sell Its Assets in What Could Be an Auction
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Bankruptcy Crimes:
Former CEO of Monarch Mortgage pleads guilty to concealment of bankruptcy assets
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Ethanol:
Ethanol Pain Could Increase
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Banking:
Wells Fargo CEO Out • Wells Fargo CEO Stumpf walks away with up to $137.1 million • Warren skewers Wells Fargo over CEO retirement • Warren goes on tirade after Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf retires • Former Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf has no one to blame but himself for having to 'retire'
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Wells Fargo: Where Were the Lawyers?
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FDIC Seeks to Recoup $17M in Bank Collapse Trial
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Awards:
McGuireWoods Partner Richard Mason Named Co-Chair of International Bar Association’s Insolvency Section
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Student Debt:
The ‘No-Brainer’ Fix To America’s Student Loan Mess
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Student Loans: Don't Call It a Crisis
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Solar:
SunEdison Gets SEC Subpoena for Emails
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Economy:
Job openings unexpectedly fell in August • U.S. job openings fall to eight-month low in August
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Several Fed members think interest rates should rise 'relatively soon' • Fed minutes: Hawks worry that delay in rate hike could cause recession • A Fed Divided Against Itself
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There has been a big shift in thinking at the Fed
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America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs
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How Hillary's plan to raise the estate tax could hurt small biz
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Loan Issuance Surges in Q3 2016
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All 50 states and DC, from least to most average
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All this talk of “inner cities” is missing a bigger problem affecting the African-American middle class
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Wal-Mart raises salaries by enough to beat new overtime rules
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President Obama: We'll be debating unconditional free money 'over the next 10 or 20 years' • A new survey highlights exactly why helicopter money will never work
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Gov't Workers Quitting at a Historic Pace
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Capitalism Behaving Badly
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Who Else Doesn't Pay Taxes?
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The economic outlook is gloomy, and this time the government can't help
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America's working population is stagnating
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Climate change could plunge tens of millions of city dwellers into poverty by 2031
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Stop whining about your 9-to-5 job — workers want stability more than flexibility
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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 applications down 6% as rising rates take a toll
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Demographics are positive for home buying
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The Fed has its eye on the 'new housing crisis'
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Here are the most mortgaged metros in the U.S.
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Fannie Mae to sell $1.39 billion in non-performing loans
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Municipalities:
Puerto Rico Court Rulings Favor Bondholders
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How Puerto Rico's Oversight Board Can Emulate the Success of Others
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Oklahoma's money woes continue, state income down 12.4 percent
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Oil/Gas:
OPEC tries to build momentum for global oil freeze • OPEC oil output rises in September
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OPEC is All Talk and No Action
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Are OPEC members inflating output ahead of possible production cuts?
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Oil Glut to Last Until Mid-2017
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Investors May Be Betting Oil Glut Will End Soon, But Crude Traders Differ
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Houston's boom is over
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Oil Drillers Trapped in a High-Debt-No-Cash Vicious Circle
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The Coming Oil Price Crash The Coming Oil Price Crash
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SEC Says Breitburn Can Afford Shareholder Payout In Ch. 11
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A potential OPEC deal has big oil worried about a shortage
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Goodrich Petroleum Announces Emergence From Bankruptcy
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Linn Energy Has New Deal With Creditors to Take Over Company
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Interior Objects To Samson Ch. 11 Sales Over $137M Claim
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Investors hunt for US oil and gas opportunities
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Politics:
What Elizabeth Warren really wants from Hillary Clinton
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Trump's Puerto Rican Golfing Trip (That Ended In Bankruptcy ) • Trump’s Atlantic City debacle: He racked up debts that no honest man could pay • Trump's Casino Experience Demonstrates Job and Revenue Losses, According to Legal Scholar • Trump Poll Disaster • 'A poll showed Trump’s support in a key state plummet after tape scandal • Party Of One': The New York Post sums up Donald Trump's future • LeBron James rips Trump's 'locker room talk' excuse for lewd comments • Donald Trump's empire is under siege as his glamorous image fades • Things aren't looking great in the polls for Donald Trump •Can a President Trump Keep His Business Intact? • Former NBA player says what he thinks would have happened if someone spoke like Trump in the locker room • Obama: Trump couldn't get a job at 7-Eleven • 'Law & Order: SVU' is making an episode about a Donald Trump-like character • Donald Trump's New Attack Strategy: Curb Clinton Vote • Why Paul Ryan won't unendorse Donald Trump • Trump: murder is at a 45-year high. Actual statistics: that’s not remotely true. • A conservative scholar makes the case that Trump is the disruptive force America needs • 29 celebrities who love and endorse Donald Trump • GOP to Trump: Elections Aren't Rigged • Trump to head to court in December for allegedly assaulting a 13-year-old girl: report • Multiple women say Donald Trump made inappropriate sexual advances on them • 'We’re going to turn him into Bill Cosby' • In 1992 clip, Donald Trump reportedly jokes about a 10-year-old girl: 'I am going to be dating her in 10 years' • Trump: 'This entire story is fiction' • Putin Ally to US: Vote for Trump or Face Nuclear War • Putin: We're Not Meddling in US Election
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Emails Show Hillary Clinton Campaign's Response to Fallout • What the WikiLeaks Emails Say About Clinton • Clinton emails reveal needle-threading on trade • The 6 Most Explosive New Wikileaks Revelations on Clinton • Hillary Clinton's Campaign Knew She Didn't Tell The Truth About Bankruptcy Bill Vote • New email suggests DNC chair had exact CNN town hall question in advance • Here are all the major newspapers that have endorsed Hillary Clinton for president • Investigator Claims ‘No Agent Working The Case’ Agreed With Comey’s Decision to Let Clinton Off Hook
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How the US election map would look if just men voted
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Trump tax plan adds trillions to country's debt; Clinton's trims deficits • Trump Tax Plan Gives 47% Of Cuts To Richest 1%, New Analysis Finds • Windfall: The Best Explanation Of Donald Trump's $916 Million Tax Loss
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Curt Schilling Eyeing Sen. Elizabeth Warren 's Job
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Russia no longer denies hacking DNC: 'Does it matter?'
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No, the Republican Party Isn't Imploding • For or Against Trump, GOP Fears Intensifying Civil War If He Loses
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A Democratic sweep is a realistic possibility, conservative scholar says
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Coal:
Last Wyoming coal company in bankruptcy seeks extension on exit
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Peabody Said to Grab Highest Met Coal Price in Four Years
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Celebs:
Ex-Billionaire Blixseth's Wife Ordered To Hand Over $9 Million In Hidden Assets • Jury: Founder of posh Montana resort gave assets to wife
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Debt Collection:
FDPCA: If You Want to Collect Debts from a Consumer, You Better Know What You Are Doing
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Court Holds Company Licensed as Debt Collector is Not a Debt Collector Under FDCPA if Servicing Debt Not in Default
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(2 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 (14 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (3 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code (html) - Bankruptcy Code (pdf) • Prior BK Codes (pick year from list) - Bankruptcy Rules
(large downloads)
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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Avoidance Actions:
GT Advanced Technologies files hundreds more clawback lawsuits
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Court Finds that Parents Convicted of Ponzi Scheme Received Value from Child's College Tuition Payments
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Proofs of Claim:
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Debt-Collections Case • Justices To Resolve Clash Over Stale Debt In Bankruptcy
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Supreme Court’s Upcoming FDCPA Decision Also May Govern RICO Suits
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TBTF:
The New Plan to Bail Out 'Too-Big-to-Fail' Banks
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Big U.S. Banks Plan To Bail Themselves Out
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Trustees:
Curtis “Cleve” Reding, Jr. Has Passed Away
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Ch. 7 Trustee Sought In WD WA
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Class Actions:
Del. Bankruptcy Judge Axes Fresh & Easy Ch. 11 Class Waiver
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Shipping:
Mitsubishi Heavy To Scale Down Shipbuilding Operations
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Daewoo Shipbuilding laying off 3000 employees
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Korea Court to Get Final Bids for Hanjin Asset by Early November
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Hanjin Shipping Asia-U.S. operations to be put up for sale as early as Friday
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World Fuel Services Arrests Hanjin Ship in Korea
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Preparing for the Next Unthinkable Sinking
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American Shipping Company seeks refinancing of bonds
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Corporate Reform:
How the PHH Decision Could Limit CFPB's Enforcement Powers in Two Critical Ways
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Telecoms:
EY reaches settlement over long-running $7.3bn Nortel Networks •Settlement Reached in Nortel Fight Over $7.3 Billion • Nortel settles fight to divvy up $7.3 bln from liquidation • $7bn in residual Nortel assets: but how much will pensioners get?
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Sprint plans to Mortgage Airwaves to Raise $3.5B
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Prisons:
The prison industrial complex is bankrolling efforts to keep pot illegal
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UK:
The pound is back below $1.22 as the recovery runs out of steam
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Positive Economic Signs Canýt Cut Through Brexit Fog
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Bank Of England Official: Relax, Brexit doesn't mean the death of the City of London
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David Davis's own advisor says Brexit is a 'dead weight' that carries a 'permanent cost' of 1.2% UK GDP
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Creditors v Private Pension Holders – has UK bankruptcy law gone too soft?
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Cannot Pay Creditor Invoices? Tips for Dealing with Pressure from Suppliers
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Directors’ responsibilities when putting a company into liquidation
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A session on cessions of debtors in business rescue
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UK High Court judgment on ISDA Default Rate calculations in Lehman Waterfall IIC, and supplemental judgment on statutory interest and currency conversion claims in Waterfall IIA and IIB
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PIIGS:
The Big Reasons to Save This Small Italian Lender
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Coeure Says Greece Needs Clarity on Debt to Regain Market Access
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Canada:
CHC takes first step out of bankruptcy with $450m debt rescue
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Poland:
Number of bankruptcies in 2016 will fall
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China:
More Chinese firms unveil debt swaps as Beijing struggles to reduce leverage
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Why China’s banks may eventually need a nearly $2 trillion capital infusion
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Chinese firms are moving rapidly to announce debt restructuring plans
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Major Chinese state steel maker starts bankruptcy process after failed debt-to-equity attempt
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Germany:
Deutsche gets cautious vote of creditor confidence • Germany Pressures Deutsche Bank to Speed Overhaul
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Brazil:
KKR Said to Write Off First Brazil Deal Amid Aceco Legal Battles
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Nigeria:
Nigeria’s insolvency law and arbitration – like oil and water?
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Austria:
Bad Banks, Bail-ins, and the Importance of Following Plans
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South Korea:
Toshiba's S.Korea unit to commence bankruptcy proceeding
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