Law:
Judge Slashes $10M in Fees Over Firm's Use of Temporary Associates
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K&L Gates is throwing a party to celebrate Donald Trump’s inauguration
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Fennemore Craig Elects New Bankruptcy Director
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Seyfarth Welcomes Bankruptcy Litigator John Mills In Atlanta
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Morrison & Foerster Further Expands Business Restructuring & Insolvency Group With New Partner
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NALP report on law firm diversity highlights ‘incredibly slow pace of change’
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Global Law Firms Face a World of Questions in 2017
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Busyness And The Billable Hour
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Lawyers Take Note: Don't Sleep On Legal Tech Hardware
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Charlotte School Of Law Should Be More Transparent, Immediately
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Kuehn: Law Schools Do Not Adequately Prepare Students For Legal Practice
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Clifford Chance’s profits jump by nearly a quarter as firm prepares to drastically cut training contract numbers • Clifford Chance bosses receive 7% pay hike after bumper year
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KWM has stopped paying some of its staff • Pay halted at KWM as administration looms
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General Electric creates external law firm ratings
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How do I inquire about work-life balance in an interview without giving off a negative impression?
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‘I Am Not Sorry’ for Massacre, Dylann Roof Said in Journal
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Reagan's Lesson for Trump: Listen to the Lawyers
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Trump adds Goldman Sachs lawyer to his Wall Street dream team
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Xerox spins off legal and business services arm as ‘Conduent’
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CA. hires Eric Holder to help block Trump Policies
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NAACP protesters are arrested during sit-in to protest Sessions’ nomination for attorney general • This Is Sparta: 1,100 Law Professors Against Jeff Sessions
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Making A Mockery Of Honesty In The Courtroom
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Should Venture Capitalists Compete with Law Firm Partners and Judges?
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Why this Texas bankruptcy lawyer ditched the legal field to start a Latina-focused makeup line
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When Clients Try To Be Cheap By Doing The Work Themselves
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An Exciting New Entrant In The Solicitor General Sweepstakes
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Law students are researching lynching cold cases as a form of 'restorative justice'
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Top Partner Accused Of Jumping Out Of Bushes, Groping Jogger
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What is This Smart, Well-Educated Attorney Doing on The Bachelor ?
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Judges:
BK CO: Retirement of the Honorable Howard R. Tallman
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Arkansas Judge Resigns After Allegations of Sexual Misconduct
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How to Stop a Trump Supreme Court Nominee
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Liberals eye Sessions hearing as preview of Supreme Court fight
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Schumer Prepared to Hold Supreme Court Seat Open • Sen. Chuck Schumer Pledges to Block Trump Supreme Court Nominee Pretty Much Forever • McConnell: Americans Won’t ‘Tolerate’ SCOTUS Blockade
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What Chief Justice John Roberts Would Really Say in His Year-End Report If He Could Speak His Mind
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Wall Street:
U.S. stock rally hits pause ahead of key jobs figures
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U.S. stocks close near record levels after moderate gains
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Goldman Confronts Protesters Inside New York Headquarters
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Layoffs:
Macy's Laying Off 6,200 Employees
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Twitter cofounder Evan Williams lays off one-third of staff at Medium, closes two offices
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Retailing:
Amazon, Forever 21 vying for bankrupt American Apparel: Report • Amazon, Forever 21 Weighing Offers to Acquire American Apparel • Amazon's rumored bid for American Apparel could solve its Trump problem
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Amazon Is Poised to Prove the Athleisure Naysayers Wrong
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Macy's Firing 6,200, Closing 68 Stores • Macy's Bloodbath Continues During the Holidays • Macy’s delivers disappointing holiday season, plans to cut more than 10,000 jobs
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Kohl's Reports Awful Holiday Season Sales
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Troubled e-retailer Choxi awaits bidders amid bankruptcy
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The Limited To Close Stores Across the Country
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Sears' CEO just gave the company another $500 million lifeline • Are Malls Secretly Hoping Sears Holdings Goes Bankrupt?
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108 Kmart stores closing across U.S. • Sears is closing 150 stores — here's the full list
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The Entire Retail Sector is a Short
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Retail stores are getting crushed after reporting disappointing holiday sales
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Walgreens reports surprise drop in quarterly sales
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Electricity:
Energy Future Cleared to Poll Creditors on Bankruptcy Exit
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Taxis:
“Taxi King” Gene Freidman Ordered to Revoke 46 Cab Medallions to Pay Off Outstanding Debts
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Pensions:
Retired ironworkers could face pension cuts next month
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Father of the 401K Plan Now Regrets It
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Autos:
Looming Takata Bankruptcy Presents Risk and Uncertainty to Trade Creditors
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Judge Orders Volkswagen to Face Investor Lawsuit Over Emissions Scandal
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Economy:
The Fed has its eyes on Trump • Fed Minutes Cite 'Considerable Uncertainty' About Trump's Impact on Economy
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Fed Officials Grapple With a Welcome New Problem: Faster Growth
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Here's the massive gap in average income between the top 1% and the bottom 99% in every state
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Mnuchin transition team defends OneWest mortgage operations • Trump Treasury pick's bank broke foreclosure rules: Leaked AG memo
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GOP Sen. Paul blasts party for debt-laden budget
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U.S. Light Vehicle Sales increase to 18.3 million annual rate in December, Record Year
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Fed Outlook On Trump Economy: [Shrug Emoji]
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Mexicans Are the NAFTA Winners? It’s News to Them
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Big Banks Get Ready to Flex Their Muscles in Washington
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The real reason Ford abandoned its plant in Mexico has little to do with Trump • Scuttled Ford plant has Mexico fearing more under Trump • Mexico spooked by Trump's leverage in keeping jobs in the US after Ford's pivot
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Battle With Trump Puts GM in Tough Spot
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Corporations Trump Has Attacked Over Jobs
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How Tyler Lost Its Carrier Factory to Mexico
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States Where Residents Carry The Highest Credit Card Debt Burdens
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Trump's strategy to propel the US economy is based on selling Americans on the idea of optimism
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Barclays: These are the 13 'black swans' that could cause chaos in the markets in 2017 • These Are the 10 Biggest Risks the World Faces in 2017
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Tax Cuts Designed For People Like Trump
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With one bill, Republicans fast track plan to undo Obama regulations
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Ryan Standing Behind Border Tax Adjustments Amid Industry Criticism
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Technology killed manufacturing jobs; trade is what will bring their replacement
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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:
Lease Rejection Cap Doesn’t Apply to Past-Due Rent Accrued Before Rejection
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Lenders - Missing Parenthesis Could Cost You a Bundle • “Individually or Collectively, as the Context May Require”—Clarifying the Meaning of Defined Singular Terms; It Might Actually Matter
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Borrowers keep getting better at paying their mortgage
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Office Vacancy Rate declined in Q4 to 15.7%
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Own a Home? Then You're Gonna Hate The Republican Tax Plan
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Municipalities:
Mortgage Delinquencies and Foreclosures by Period Past Due, Since 2002
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Puerto Rico seeks proposals for legal, financial advisers
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Assured Guaranty Continues to Protect Insured Bondholders from Puerto Rico Defaults
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Municipalities:
Rhodes: It's time 'to write a new story for education in Detroit'
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Dallas: Senator Whitmire's Pension Provocations
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Malloy Hints at Pathway For Hartford to Avoid Bankruptcy
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Heal Puerto Rico
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Oil/Gas:
Thurs.: Oil Prices Hover Near 17-Month High
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Bonanza Creek Energy: How Bankruptcy News Led To A 55% Rise • Bonanza Creek Energy Initiates Prepackaged Chapter 11 • Colorado energy company files prepackaged bankruptcy plan • New Delaware Chapter 11 Filing – Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc. • Bonanza Creek Energy Files For Bankruptcy in Delaware
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Woodlands energy engineering, construction firm files for bankruptcy
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Texas oil , gas industry continues 2-year decline
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Weds.: Oil rises 2 percent amid expected draw in US crude inventories • US crude settles at $53.26, up 1.8% • Oil at $65 Per Barrel? Energy Pros Hopeful In 2017
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Why Russia Expects $40 Oil This Year
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Early sign OPEC’s push to normalize oil market may be working • Iraq, OPEC’s 2nd biggest producer, may have hard time cutting oil production • The Oil Trade That Shows Where OPEC's Cuts Are Starting to Bite • Aramco Raises Oil Pricing to Asia and U.S. as OPEC Cuts Output
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U.S. gasoline spending could spike by $50 billion in 2017
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Oil Industry Fears Trump May Hit Them Up on Tax Reform
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Ex-CEO of Platinum-linked energy company convicted of tax evasion
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Top US oil industry group lobbies Trump for lighter regulation
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Healthcare:
North Philly Health System Files for Bankruptcy
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North Philadelphia Health System explains bankruptcy filing
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Report: Gainesville Hospital to File for Chapter 9 Bankruptcy
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Bankruptcy plan for ex-Charleston Naval Hospital developing
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Repealing Obamacare Puts Rural Hospitals at Risk • Rand Paul warns Republicans not to repeal-and-delay Obamacare • Obama Fights for Health Law as G.O.P. Vows Quick Repeal • How Republicans Might Replace Obamacare • House GOP Plans to Send Obamacare Repeal to Oval Office in February • Democrats Dare GOP to Repeal Obamacare Sans Replacement • GOP Wants to Kill ACA, but Not Take Blame • Trump to Issue Executive Orders on ACA • Expert on GOP Plan to Repeal Obamacare • Will Blue-Collar Whites Change Their Minds About Obamacare? • As Republicans get ready to dismantle the ACA, insurers are likely to bolt • The battle lines are being drawn in the fight over Obamacare • Trump’s “if you like your insurance, you can keep it” moment • Republicans Are Courting Disaster on Health Care • Republicans’ Plan to Repeal Obamacare Might Be Collapsing Already
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Food/Beverage:
Transmar's US cocoa unit files for bankruptcy • Bankruptcy Filing Deepens Woes for Cocoa Firm Hit by Brexit
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Coal:
Peabody Moving Toward Emergence from Chapter 11
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Football:
College Football’s Top Teams Are Built on Crippling Debt
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Debt Collection
CFPB Monthly Report Reveals 39% of Complaints Concern Debt Collection
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Ethanol:
Trump Promises Ethanol Lovin' EPA Head
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Tax:
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Climate:
Global Warming 'Hiatus' Never Happened, New Study Confirms
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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 (13 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (19 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:
Chapter 11 filings up 42 percent in Texas in 2016
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Rochester: Dec. bankruptcy filings rise • Western New York bankruptcy cases continued to dwindle in 2016
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Raleigh: Dec. bankruptcy filings rise
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Proofs of Claim:
Time-Barred Proof of Claim: To File or Not to File, That Is the Question
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Avoidance Actions:
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UCC:
Minimal Blanket, Maximum Comfort: Less Is More When Drafting “All Assets” UCC-1 Descriptions
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Professional Compensation:
New York Bankruptcy Court Saves Investment Bankers’ Transaction Fees
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Finance:
Still Not Valid When Made
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Sanctions:
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Insurance:
D&O Insurance: Despite Trial Court “Fraud” Determination, Fraud Exclusion Not Triggered
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Corporate Reform:
Trump Nominates BigLaw Partner And Goldman Sachs Ally To Lead SEC • After Ripping Wall Street, Trump Taps Insider to Police Industry
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Trump's SEC pick Clayton points to capital formation, not enforcement
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Celebs:
Miami Heat Legend Races To Sell Condo Before Commandos Seize It!
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Corporate Governance:
Corporations Need a New Reason to Be
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Gambling:
Atlantic City mayor urges Icahn to sell ex-Taj Mahal casino
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Why Caesars Entertainment Corp's Shares Plunged 13% in December
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With $150M and Counting in Big Law Bills, Caesars Bankruptcy Approaches Finish Line
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Media:
Speak Now and Forever Hold Your Release: Gawker Breaks News One Last Time
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Education:
Closing Out a College
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CFPB report on college-bank deals: Many schools more focused on bottom line, not students
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Solar:
SunEdison settles contract fight to help close $150 million sale
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Hedge Funds:
No One Questioned This Hedge Fund’s Madoff-Like Returns
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Art:
Special Rules Govern Consignments of Art in New York
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UK:
DLA Piper Profits As BHS Administration Fees Near £3 Million
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U.K. Cruise Company Seeks Creditor Protection
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BHS advisers' bill rises £1m in six weeks amid pension wrangle
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Inside France's Secret Plan to Lure Brexit Bankers
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PIIGS:
The Italian Banking Crisis: No Free Lunch – Or Is There One?
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Marinopoulos misses December 2016 payroll pending court ruling on bankruptcy
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Greece Heads Into Another Economic Crisis: Time To Finally Exit the European Union?
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MENA:
Egypt approves bankruptcy law to spur investment • Egypt cabinet approves law abolishing prison terms in bankruptcy
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Hanjin Shipping - Current jurisdictional status and options - United Arab Emirates
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France:
Le Pen Aims to Redenominate French Debt in New National Currency
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South Korea:
Korean govt to introduce Korean version of Chapter 11
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Sign of book industry's collapse?
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Hanjin Shares Surge Despite Corruption Claims
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India:
New liquidation processes under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India
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Brazil
Brazil Real Estate Is Now Cheap And Distressed
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