September 16, 2016

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Law:

Law firm says software biz, competitors, banks, conspired to overcharge for bankruptcy disbursals
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Firms’ revenues come increasingly from representing businesses, not individuals, census shows
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Firms Bag Roles on Golfsmith's Bankruptcy Weil Advises Retailer Golfsmith International Inc. in its Chapter 11 Restructuring
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Chadbourne Class Action Lawsuit Gets Juicy AF — Lawyer Fires Back Against Criticism
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Should the Lawyer Suing Chadbourne Have Contacted More Women Partners?
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Lawyer in Chadbourne Gender-Bias Case Fires Back
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It’s Letter v. Letter in the Chadbourne Gender Bias Case
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GC Says Firms Risk Losing Work Over Associate Salaries
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7 Benefits To Being A Sober Lawyer
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BigLaw Docket Scanner
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UK: DLA Piper bumps newly qualified pay by 8% to £70,000
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Biglaw Firm Introduces New Hours Requirement — For Partners
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Prenda lawyer Paul Hansmeier has his law license suspended
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Latham Built Itself A Robot
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Slaughter and May lawyers are training a computer to do their boring jobs
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Freshfields bans “Dear Sirs” from all communications worldwide
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UK: The law firms with the best profits/sq. ft.
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Lawyer: A Few Notes on iOS 10 Thoughts on iPhone 7, Apple Watch Series 2, and AirPods Nine iPhone apps for lawyers
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TrialPad – How to Create Key Docs and Witness Folders
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Navigating the New Normal and Increasing Your Productivity Through Mindfulness
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Ex-Law Dean Sues Berkeley for Racial Bias in Handling of Harassment Claims
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Lawyer learns the hard way: Copying co-party's appellate brief is not fair use
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Columbus Police Kill 13 Year Old with BB Gun
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Drugs, guns, and $400,000 vanished from a Massachusetts police department — and now hundreds of cases could be thrown out
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Can You Guess What This Person Was Charged With?
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Judges:

Bad News — Or Not — For Chief Judge Garland’s SCOTUS Hopes
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Clinton Says She May Not Choose Garland for Supreme Court
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Changing Work Patterns in the Supreme Court
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Judge pens his verdict especially for kids
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Wall Street:

U.S. stocks set for losses with key inflation data ahead Dow looks set to open sharply lower ahead of another data dump
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Stocks close sharply higher as tech rises more than 1%; Fed in focus
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Zombies May Be Prowling The Stock Market
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Layoffs:

More Weeks of Unemployment Benefits Don’t Lead to Better-Paying Jobs
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NBCUniversal To Eliminate 200 Jobs
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CenturyLink employees receive memo regarding 3,500 layoffs
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Lockheed Martin to lay off 330 employees at Kirtland
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Retailing:

Golfsmith expects to close stores after filing for bankruptcy
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Golfsmith And Golf Town Receive Court Approval Of "First Day" Motions Golfsmith Gets Interim OK On $135M Bankruptcy Lending
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Golfsmith Bankruptcy Follows Ill-fated Store Expansion
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Golfsmith bankruptcy also hits suppliers
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Golfsmith's bankruptcy likely will sting Callaway Golf in the short term, but maybe not as bad long term as Wall Street fears
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Sporting Goods Store Apocalypse Continues With Bankruptcy Of Golfsmith
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Dick's Sporting Goods Leads A Crowded Field
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Retail Sales Decreased Slightly in August
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Marketing:

Delivery Agent Files for Bankruptcy , Seeks Buyer
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Gambling:

Caesars: Expect Another Plummet On October 5th
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Hollywood:

Netflix Loses Relativity Appeal, Now Facing a Big Legal Fee Tab Netflix Loses Appeal Over Relativity Film Streaming Rights
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Compensation:

Wells Fargo Scandal Hurts Wall Street’s Bonus Rule Battle
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Corporate Executives Are Making Way More Money Than Anybody Reports
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Economy:

What Those Household Income Figures Really Mean
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Consumer inflation and sentiment data on tap for markets Friday
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The Lives of Poor White People
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Sensitive data again leaked out of the Fed early
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Manufacturing Jobs Rise with Democrats
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This is the big national debt problem Congress won’t talk about
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Hello self-driving cars, goodbye 4.1 million jobs?
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The Fed Is About to Make a Mistake
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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:

U.S. Households Make Long-Awaited Gains in Housing Recovery
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10 Worst Cities for Homeowners
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Deutsche Bank rebuffs $14 billion settlement demand in U.S. mortgage probe
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Municipalities:

With city nearly insolvent , manager gets OK to work as outside lawyer
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Hartford budget gap grows to $22 million; city may run out of money by next year
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For Cities Getting Richer the Fastest, Look to the South
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Oil/Gas:

JOAs in bankruptcy cases
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Why The Bankruptcy Wave In Oil & Gas Isn’t Over Yet
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Why the Stimulus from Low Oil Prices Never Really Boosted the Economy
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Energy companies may be spending again, but lean times aren’t over yet
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Saudi Arabia Is Buying Up America's Oil Assets
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Crude Rises In Spite Of Poor Economic Data
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Dakota Midstream Fights Emerald Oil's Bid To Kill Contracts
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Russia Calls for Melting Polar Cap for Oil
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Why 31 million barrels are set to disappear from U.S. oil inventories
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Oil Setting Up for a Monster Rally
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Tervita, Creditors Pave Way for Recap, Reducing Total Debt by $2B
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Shipping:

Lack of Planning Hampers Hanjin Shipping Bankruptcy
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Hanjin Cargo Owners Say Bid to Unload Vessels Isn’t Working
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Lawyers the winners so far from Hanjin Shipping crisis
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Hanjin Shipping Bankruptcy - What Cargo Owners Need to Know
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Dozens of Cargo Ships (and a British Performance Artist) Are Still Stuck at Sea
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What does Hanjin’s collapse mean for global trade?
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Stuck on Ship, One Gloomy Hanjin Crew Waits to Learn Its Fate
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Dozens of giant cargo ships, and hundreds of crew, are bracing for typhoons after Hanjin Shipping’s collapse
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Hanjin Shipping vessels now 'under arrest' off B.C. coast over $3.6 million in unpaid bills
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Shipping service sector faces choppy waters
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High Court stays all action against Hanjin
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US – CBP updates Hanjin scenarios
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Judge Allows Hanjin Ships to Depart U.S. - Lawyer for group of Hanjin Shipping Co. creditors, who had hoped to seize the ships, files appeal
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Hanjin says U.S.-bound ship is being held 'hostage'
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Awards:

FTI Consulting Wins Mega Company Turnaround of the Year Award from TMA
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Education:

College operator ITT Educational Services plans bankruptcy: Sources ITT Tech Is Preparing to File for Bankruptcy
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ITT Educational Hires Liquidator After Government Crackdown
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Will This Student ‘Debt Strike’ Force The Government To Forgive Loans?
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Chicago State, president to part ways after just nine months
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Lehman:

8 years ago Lehman Brothers became the 'only true icon to fall in a tsunami' that rocked the global economy
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The 27 scariest moments of the financial crisis
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The Lehman Moment Still Is With Us
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Charts: Eight years after Lehman’s collapse, this is what has happened to the global economy
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Alternative Energy:

Michael Dell-Backed Noble Environmental Files for Bankruptcy
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SunEdison $144 Million Sale of Assets to NRG Renew Approved
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(8 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 (13 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (11 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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Cross-Border:

Gibraltar Court Recognizes Chapter 11 Bankruptcy as a Foreign Main Proceeding
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Avoidance Actions:

Massachusetts Bankruptcy Court Rules That Parents Receive Reasonably Equivalent Value in Exchange for Paying Their Child's Tuition
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UST:

Judge Scott Clarkson Refers Matter to Office of the Inspector General To Examine Possible Undue Influence By UST
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Mediation:

U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals: Above-and-Beyond Examples of How a Federal Mediation Rule Works
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TBTF:

Summers: Banks no safer now than they were before the crisis Summers: Banks May be More Dangerous Now
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Sanctions:

Mortgage Servicer Saddled with $375,000 in Sanctions for Violating Rule 3002.1
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Paper:

Suit alleges Lincoln mill directors pocketed settlement money Lincoln mill executives took millions rather than restart mill
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Private Equity:

Mass. District Court Holds Private Equity Funds Liable for a Portfolio Entity’s Pension Benefits
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Healthcare:

93 Year Old Drug Costs More Than Mortgage
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Autos:

BlackRock Joins Investors Taking Legal Action Against VW
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Fraud:

What Can We Learn from the Wells Fargo Consent Orders?
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Defaults:

S&P: Global Corporate Default Tally Rises to 122
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Corporate Reform:

Elizabeth Warren wants feds to answer for lack of Wall Street prosecutions Elizabeth Warren wants the FBI to treat big bank CEOs the way they treat Hillary Clinton
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Politics:

Trump refuses to say President Obama was born in US Peter Thiel denies he's talking to Donald Trump about Supreme Court job Donald Trump's Mysterious Personal Debt Paul Ryan Says Donald Trump Should Release Tax Returns Trump's Taxes: You Can't Handle the Truth 54 days: Trump promises 25 million new jobs, big GDP growth Trump's 25 million new jobs promise doesn't add up Donald Trump Jr. Refers to Holocaust in Complaint About Media Coverage of Campaign EU Parliament President: Trump a Threat Trump's Foreign Policy Is a Scary Black Hole Donald Trump flip-flops on plan to scrap the ‘death’ tax Trump scales back tax cuts in new economic plan Trump vs. the GOP: His economic push is 180 degrees from the party’s long-held platform Trump Jr.'s Holocaust Joke
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Clinton Says She Won’t Discuss Colin Powell’s ‘Private Emails’
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Want to Fix the U.S. Economy? Start With the Broken Political System
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House Conservatives Shelve Plan for Impeachment Vote on IRS Chief
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Polls Darken for Democrats
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Food/Beverage:

Fox & Hound Produce Vendors Rip Greenberg Traurig Fee Bid
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PIIGS:

Debt-laden Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena loses its chairman but gains a new chief exec Monte Paschi's Chance to Lift Up European Banks
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Canada:

City joins call for public inquiry into US Steel bankruptcy process
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Bahamas:

Contractors No 'Cap In Hand Beggars' On Baha Mar Recovery
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Singapore:

Recognition of foreign liquidators in Singapore
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