Law:
Professional Services Firms Increasingly a Target of Pay Equity Suits • What the Data on Law Firm Comp Shows About Partner Pay Equity
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Biglaw Offering ‘Hot Fudge Sundae Bars’ And ‘Gift Cards’ To Laterals
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Former Dewey finance director signs new plea agreement with shorter recommended sentence
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New Study Shows Major Gains in Compensation for U.S. Law Firm Partners
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GC: Remind them what you’re talking about
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When Sharing Offices, Appearances Matter
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Research: A quarter of law students would be willing to falsify time sheets
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Assault on Wage Gap Forcing Industry to Pay More Than Lip Service
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Junior lawyers are failing to hit billing targets
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5 Tips For In-House Lawyers To Make Discovery Less Painful
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The Dan Markel Case: Is Katherine Magbanua Cutting A Deal? • The Dan Markel Murder Investigation: Why Was Katherine Magbanua's First Degree Murder Charge Reduced To Second Degree Murder?
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Harvard Law Professor Takes Finding Out He Was Insulted Via Wikileaks Like A Boss
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ABA Finally Adopts Tougher Bar Passage Standards For Accreditation — Well, Almost
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The Camera That Doesn't Let You Lie
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Artificial Intelligence trends and their impact on the legal sector
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What Tech Skills Should Law Schools Teach Future Associates? Step One: The Basics
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Practice Management Pricing Gets Murky
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Robot Justice: AI Predicts Outcomes of Trials
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‘I will not forget’: Black federal judge brands Ohio voting law an insult to slain civil rights activists
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Pennsylvania’s former attorney general is sentenced to jail • Decade Term for Convicted Ex-Attorney General of PA
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Why Would Anyone Work In Philadelphia?
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Texas AG Paxton Faces New SEC Fraud Suit
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Lawyers Are Basically Paid Liars
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'They Were All Lying,' Former Aide Says of Christie & Senior Staffers
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Americans’ Respect for Police Reaches Highest Level Since 1967, Poll Finds
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Firm rolls out wellness coaching and 'emotional fitness' classes for employees
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Lawyer storytellers break free from the clock to deliver persuasive arguments
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Biglaw Gets In On The Funnies This Halloween
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A grandmother is suing KFC for $20 million because she didn’t get enough chicken
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Suit claims lawyers used ‘stooge defendants’ to get courts to order scrubbing of bad online reviews
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Judges:
Judge Richard Posner On SCOTUS: ‘The Supreme Court Is Awful’
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BK NV: Bankruptcy Court Newsletter - October 2016
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Georgia Pols Want To Gut Judicial Ethics Commission Because Bad Judges Want Pity
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Wall Street:
U.S. stock futures point to gains, as Apple set to take the spotlight
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Stocks rise amid corporate news deluge, but oil and dollar cap gains
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The massive AT&T-Time Warner deal could mean up to $390 million in fees for Wall Street banks
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Big Payday for M&A Bankers Reorders League Tables
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The U.S. stock market is stuck in the danger zone
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Goldman Sachs just cut its S&P 500 earnings outlook for 2016 and 2017
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Layoffs:
Nearly half of financial services employees fear tech will take their jobs
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Gannett to lay off 350
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Retailing:
Retailers Rushed to Hire for Holidays • Holiday Season Retail Hiring Since 1979
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Citigroup sees Williams-Sonoma, 5 other retailers having a big holiday shopping season
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Retail Sporting-Goods Bankruptcies Weigh on Vans, Timberland Parent In Q3
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The CEO of REI just ripped Macy's for opening stores earlier than ever on Thanksgiving
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Ollie's Bargain Outlet has $100 million to buy cargo from delayed or canceled orders
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Liquidators Largely Prevail In Golfsmith Bankruptcy
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Former American Apparel CEO: I Needed a Bodyguard to Go to Work
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Politics:
Trump's Business Credit Score is Only 19 • Trump Makes Bizarre Promise About His Legal Authority as President • Why Donald Trump Dodged Chris Wallace’s Question About Social Security and Medicare • Report: Trump Took $17 Million in Insurance for ‘Hurricane Damage’ That Might Not Exist • Trump Destroys Brand, Investors Fear Worse • Trump, Name Now Awash in Controversy, Readies New Brand • Trump Criticizes Media for 'Phony' Polls • 54 Percent of Trump Voters Casting Ballots Against Clinton • Why Trump's first big newspaper endorsement came with an 'asterisk' • How a Trump election challenge could play out • Trump puts press freedoms in his crosshairs • Krugman: It’s Trump’s Party • Donald Trump's Gettysburg Address • Donald Trump is the best thing to happen to American women in decades • Trump Campaign: We're behind! Trump: We're winning! • The New York Times used two full pages to print all of Donald Trump's insults during the campaign • The Concession Speech Donald Trump Has Already Started to Give • ‘They Don’t Get Out and Vote’ and Other Republican Remarks That Could Spark Blowback • Donald Trump's tax plan would stimulate the economy. But not for long. • President Obama Takes Aim at Republicans for Sticking By Trump • Donald Trump responds to accuser: 'Oh, I'm sure she's never been grabbed before' • Trump just stepped up his calls to weaken First Amendment protections • Trump Gives Rambling Answer About Press Freedoms In Miami TV Interview • Note to Eric Trump: "Contra" Means Against • Trump Supporters’ Fear of Election Fraud Driven by Non-Citizens • Sheldon Adelson Has Reportedly Had It With Donald Trump
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Goldman Sachs CEO: I support Hillary Clinton • Are Clinton's Emails Doctored? • What a Trump loss could mean for Hillary Clinton's presidential mandate • The Hillary Clinton "scandal” involving Morocco, explained • Fox News Got a Clean and Brutal Hit on Clinton
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Yes, it is possible for Trump and Clinton supporters to have productive (and calm) conversations
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21 maps and charts that will change how you think about the election
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Elizabeth Warren to Trump: "On November 8th, we nasty women are going to march our nasty feet to cast our nasty votes" • Elizabeth Warren : Trump thinks 'a mouth full of Tic Tacs' means he can 'force himself on any woman' • Elizabeth Warren says a Hillary Clinton administration would overturn Citizens United • Clinton and Warren: Friends now, trouble ahead
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So You Think You're Going to Move to Canada After the Election
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Your Facts or Mine?
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Education:
When For-Profit Colleges Prey on Unsuspecting Students
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ITT's Dirty Truth Was Exposed 17 Years Ago
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Law Firms Spar To Rep Ex-ITT Tech Employees
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Economy:
Fed's Dudley Weighs Scope for Sharing Treasury Data With Public
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Fed only needs to nudge up interest rates despite being very close to its targets, Bullard says • Fed's Bullard thinks low rates will be the norm
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US Treasurys slip after manufacturing data
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Here's every US state's September unemployment rate
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From US to Europe, the face of employment is changing
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Chicago Fed "Economic Growth Picked Up in September"
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Sputtering Startups Weigh on U.S. Economic Growth
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The productivity paradox: why we're getting more innovation but less growth
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Workers will simply try to survive, rather than prosper, as tech takes over the economy
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The Slow Slog Toward ‘Full’ Employment
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AT&T to Pay Time Warner $500M If Antitrust Kills Deal
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The Rich Get Ready for Higher Taxes Under a President Clinton • Clinton Readies Post-Election Push on Highways, Corporate Taxes
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DOT: Vehicle Miles Driven increased 3.4% year-over-year in August
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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:
Table of Distressed Sales and All Cash Sales for Selected Cities in September
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HUD Watchdog: Servicer Foreclosure Delays Cost FHA $2.23 Billion
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Bankruptcy Court Assesses Sanctions on Mortgage Servicer for Failure to File Notices Relating to Residential Mortgage Loans
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Homeowners facing foreclosure hits 9-year low
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Municipalities:
Atlantic City Belt-Tightening Plan Aims to Avoid Takeover • How Atlantic City plans to fix its finances, avoid state takeover • Atlantic City approves recovery plan that calls for job cuts, Borgata settlement • A.C. approves recovery plan , puts takeover ball in Christie's court
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Junk-rated Chicago school system seeks $1 billion bond sales
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Investors in Puerto Rico's debt clash in US federal court
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Who's to blame for poisoning of Flint's water?
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Oil/Gas:
Key Energy Files for Chapter 11 After Striking Restructuring Deal • Houston’s Key Energy files for bankruptcy • Toting $1B Debt, Key Energy Files Prepackaged Ch. 11 • Houston energy co. files for Chapter 11 with prepackaged reorganization plan
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Basic Energy Files Prepack In DE • First Day Dec • Plan • Disclosure Statement • Fort Worth oilfield company to reduce debt with pre-packaged bankruptcy • Basic Energy Services plans bankruptcy to reduce debt burden • Basic Energy Services Initiates Prepackaged Chapter 11
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Oilpatch servicers slip into bankruptcy as prices rally too late
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Tidewater warns of bankruptcy , continues negotiating with lenders
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Emerald Asks For OK On Operating Deal With Ch. 11 Buyers
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Oil Companies Reach Debt-Restructuring Deals
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OPEC Production Cut Deal on Shaky Grounds • Oil Prices Fall As Iraq Goes Rogue, Refuses To Scale Back Production • Russia Sends Mixed Signals To Oil Markets After Saudi Meeting
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Tidewater warns of bankruptcy as it gains limited waiver extensions
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Basic Energy's stock loses over half its value as company preps for bankruptcy • Basic Energy Plans Bankruptcy Filing to Reduce Debt Burden
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Pacific Exploration & Production provides update on restructuring transaction
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Venezuela Reels From Oil Woes • Venezuelan struggles seen in their oil exports
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Will Mexico Oil Giant Pemex Default?
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Venezuela PdVSA Restructures Debt • Venezuela Winning Bondholder Relief as 39% Accept PDVSA Swap • Venezuelan Bond Swap Deal: Good News For U.S. Refiners
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Oil producers haven't been this cautious on oil prices since 2007
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Venezuela Escapes Bankruptcy… But Oil Production Continues To Plunge
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Fraud:
Trump U. fraud trial: Why Trump's lawyers want campaign statements excluded
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Patriarch Partners’ Tilton Battles SEC as Fraud Trial Begins
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TelexFree Founder James Merrill Pleads Guilty to Fraud Charges
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Lynn Tilton’s Lawyer Seemingly Alludes To Her X-Rated XMas Cards In Fraud Trial Opening Remarks
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Fed Judge Halts Trump U Document Dump
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Fishing:
Alaska season so bad, no one wants defunct processor’s plants
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Hedge Funds:
Highland Capital Investors Allege Wrongdoing in Long-Closed Hedge Funds
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Student Debt:
The Racial Disparity of the Student-Loan Crisis
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Football:
The NFL is in Decline
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Accounting:
U.S. Says Ernst & Young to Pay $11.8 million to Settle Audit Charges
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Security:
Implant Sciences Ch. 11 Gets Official Equity Committee
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Environmental:
WV water crisis trial delayed 1 day
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Fishing:
China Fisheries Seeks To Keep Control Of Its Ch. 11
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Oyster venture seeks Chapter 11
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Celebs:
Lindsay Lohan Bankrupt? Did The ‘Mean Girls” Star Steal Millionaire Fiance’s Valuables?
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Agriculture:
Suit: Grain buyer cost Turner $14M
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Media:
Bankrupt Gawker seeks to dismiss $35 mln defamation claim
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Healthcare:
California hospital owner files for bankruptcy
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Obamacare premiums skyrocket • Obamacare premiums to rise sharply as choices dwindle, administration confirms
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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 (46 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (9 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code (html) - Bankruptcy Code (pdf) • Prior BK Codes (pick year from list) - 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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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Energy Companies Lead 22% Rise in Chapter 11 Filings
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Weekly Bankruptcy Claims Trading Activity
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Bankruptcy Rules:
BK ND MS Seeks Public Comments On Local Rules Amendments
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TBTF:
Plan to Bail Out 'Too Big to Fail' Banks Raises Skepticism
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U.S. Oversight of MetLife Called Into Question at Court Hearing • U.S. Lawyer Asks Court to Reinstate MetLife Too Big to Fail Tag • Appeals Court Delves Into MetLife’s Systemic Importance
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Paul Volcker: Breaking Up Big Banks Wouldn't Help
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SCOTUS:
Brief for Amici Curiae Law Professors in Support of Petitioners, In re Jevic
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Subordination:
Ending the 10b-5 Hold-up: Aéropostale Rejects Debtor’s Attack on Traders
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Indentures:
Non-Contractual Claims of Noteholders: Who Can Bring Them and How Must They Be Brought?
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Plan Terms:
Avoiding Illusory Recoveries: The Importance of Black-Scholes Protections for Warrants Issued Under a Bankruptcy Plan
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Make-Whole:
Compelling Redemption of Notes With a Make-Whole Premium as a Remedy for Breach
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Bankruptcy Remoteness:
Blocking the Blocking Provision in the Intervention Energy Case
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Priority Claims:
Judge Carey Holds that Severance Claim is a Priority Claim
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Shipping:
Creditors must file Hanjin claims in South Korea immediately
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Hanjin in troubled waters as global shipping sinks
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Olympic Ship says extends stand-still agreement with creditors until Oct 28
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Hanjin announces operations in Europe will be axed – but staff are the last to know
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The Reluctant Ship Owner
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Gambling:
One year after taking over the fantasy football world, DraftKings and FanDuel are reportedly running out of cash and can't pay their vendors
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Corporate Reform:
Feds Look at Costs of Wall Street Safety Rules
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Autos:
Takata's fate lies in hands of global carmakers after safety scandal
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Ratings:
Ratings Inflation Is Back, Subprime Style
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UK:
Fewer UK Companies Seeking Insolvency After Brexit
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From 80s pop star to bankrupt surgery addict: Pete Burns' volatile relationship with money
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BOE Optimism Wilts in Long-Term Debt as Brexit Sparks Rout
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EU:
Commentary of the New Chapter VI on Data Protection in the Recast European Insolvency Regulation
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PIIGS:
IMF says Spain review on hold until new cabinet is in place
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Greece Set to Receive Fresh Loans Under Bailout Agreement • Creditors sift through budget
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Greek PM Tells Euromed Summit That EU Creditors Need to Meet Their Commitments • Tsipras calls for debt relief by year end, warns delay could benefit far-right
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Abengoa unit details creditor recoveries as Spain deadline looms • Spain's Abengoa on path to win creditor approval for plan- source
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Monte Paschi Jumps as CEO Pledges to Boost Profit, Cut Branches
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Canada:
Canada's Record Household Debt Is Threatening Its Financial Stability
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MENA:
Oman covering two-thirds of budget gap with foreign borrowing
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Sheikh Khalifa decrees bankruptcy law • Khalifa issues laws on bankruptcy , judiciary
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UAE President issues long-awaited decree on bankruptcy
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Final draft of UAE bankruptcy law approved
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Saudis angry at 'lazy', ' bankruptcy ' comments
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India:
Insolvency regime to be fully operational by end-Dec
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Singapore:
O&G Bad Loan Charges to Hit Singapore's Three Biggest Banks
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South Korea:
South Korea economy slows amid cluster of corporate woes
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