September 16, 2020

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Law:

Vault ‘Quality Of Life’ Rankings: The Best Law Firms To Work For In America (2021)
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WOW!!! Davis Polk Raises The Bar On Bonuses Davis Polk announces special bonuses that top Cooley's and promises year-end bonuses, too
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In Biglaw, The Rich Partners Keep Getting Richer
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Cooley announces ‘appreciation bonuses,’ commits to year-end bonuses at least this high
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Billion-Dollar Biglaw Firm Reverses Pay Cuts For Associates
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Ropes & Gray Offers One-Year Deferral Program For Incoming And Current Associates; Will Other Big Law Firms Follow?
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Squire Patton Boggs Walks Back Salary Cuts for Associates, Staff
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Biglaw Firm Rolls Back Salary Cuts Earlier Than Anticipated
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New Hurdle for Carlton Fields in Malpractice Suit Over Alleged $100M Fraudulent Transfer
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Male Partner Compensation Grew at Nearly Twice the Rate of Female Partner Comp in Last 10 Years Pay gap has widened for male and female partners in larger law firms, new report says
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Mommy-Shaming Big Law Moms During COVID
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Even After COVID, This Biglaw Firm Is Expanding Their Work From Home Policy
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Build Back Better: For or Against Cities?
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Returning to Work Can Be Tricky, So These Firms Made Apps to Help
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Bar Examinee Tests Positive For COVID After Leaving Last Week’s Exam Feeling Ill
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D.C. Inches Closer to Allowing Law Graduates to Skip Bar Exam
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Amidst 75% Enrollment Decline, Thomas Cooley Abandons Naming Rights To Minor League Baseball Stadium
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California Law School Deans Request Supreme Court To Make Oct. 5-6 Online Bar Exam Open Book With No Proctoring
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Attrition And Bar Performance
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Disabled Grads Sue in California Over Bar Exam, Claim Virus Risk
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Lawsuit: Eckert Seamans helped criminal scam investors
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Winston & Strawn Eliminates Some Staff Positions, Opening Support Services Center
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BigLaw firm confirms layoffs, doesn’t say whether lawyers are affected
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Why lawyers will love the new iPad Air (4th generation)
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Bolton Bet That Barr Wouldn’t Come After Him. He Bet Wrong. Attorneys: John Bolton Deserves ‘No Sympathy,’ But DOJ’s Criminal Investigation Is ‘Plainly Political Retaliation’ Bolton Denies Wrongdoing Amid Reports of Criminal Probe of Book
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Wait, Lindsey Graham wants someone to release tax returns?
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Alan Dershowitz Files $300 Million Lawsuit Against CNN for Portraying Him as an ‘Intellectual Who Had Lost His Mind’
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President Trump and Attorney General Barr are a perfect match - but the question is, who's using whom?
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Bill Barr Pushes 'Wild' and 'Fanciful' Felonious Postman Hypothetical, Says Liberals Are the Ones Projecting ‘B-------’ Barr Makes Up Voting Fraud Problems
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Barr’s DOJ Screws Up ‘Routine’ Effort to Defend Trump in E. Jean Carroll Case
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Assange Won’t Be Safe in U.S. Jail, Lawyer Says, Citing Epstein
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Federal Judge Halts Trump’s Administration’s ‘Legally Dubious and Illogical’ Diversity Visa Policy
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Judge Hammers Pa. Governor's Unconstitutional Shutdown: 'Liberties Protected by the Constitution Are Not Fair-Weather Freedoms'
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Pennsylvania Lawmakers Considering Bill That Would Make Not Wearing A Mask A Misdemeanor
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Iowa bar owner arrested for flouting social-distancing rules
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Experts worry as US virus restrictions are eased or violated
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Louisville agrees to $12 million payout and policing changes in deal with family of Breonna Taylor, killed in police raid Louisville Reaches $12M Settlement With Family of Breonna Taylor
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Los Angeles County sheriff says LeBron James should match reward in shooting of deputies
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Moment driver ‘runs over Black Lives Matter protester and breaks both of his legs’
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$1 billion-plus riot damage is most expensive in insurance history
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Federal officer shot outside Phoenix courthouse
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Portland Protesters Throw Fire Bombs
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Police looking for gunman who shot moving patrol car 3 times
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Last week was a disaster for voting rights in the courts
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Nevada Lawyer Suspended for Not Overseeing Embezzling Manager
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The True Story of the Married Woman Who Smuggled Her Boyfriend Out of Prison in a Dog Crate
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Murders Have Soared While Other Violent Crime Declined, FBI Finds
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An Election So Nice, You Should Vote TWICE! (No, You Shouldn’t)
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Half of All False Convictions in the U.S. Involved Police or Prosecutor Misconduct, Finds New Report
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Judges:

House Judiciary Committee Advances Court Records Access Bill U.S. Court Records Would Be Free Under House Judiciary Bill
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Virtual Civil Jury Trials Are Definitely Divisive - and Likely Inevitable
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Milbank Managing Partner Confirmed to Central District of California
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'All too frequent tragedies demand action to improve judicial security,' Judge tells Judicial Conference
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Judiciary Prioritizes ‘Diversity and Respect’ in New Goals
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Where Can You Get A Ruth Bader Ginsburg Sculpture?
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John Roberts the New Anthony Kennedy?
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Sixth Circuit Criticizes Obama-Appointed Judge for Repeatedly Trying to Go Easy on Child Pornography Offender
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Judge kicked off case after bashing 6th Circuit’s computer sophistication, refusing to budge on sentence
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Judge Deploys Rumpelstiltskin Metaphor for Sixth Time
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Wall Street:

Stock futures flat as investors await Fed meeting
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Here’s what happened to the stock market on Tuesday
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Layoffs:

Kohl’s Will Eliminate 15% of Its Corporate Staff to Curb Costs
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Bank Job-Cull Returns With Global Cuts now Topping 60,000
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British Airways Says 10,000 Jobs May Be Lost Due to Pandemic
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Stripe employees who relocate to get US$20,000 bonus and a pay cut
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Radisson Blu Minneapolis Downtown to cut 126 jobs due to COVID-19
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Delaware North announces more than 500 layoffs
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Raymond James to lay off 4 percent of workforce
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SeaWorld lays off nearly 1,900
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LaPorte manufacturing plant laying off 265 employees
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Siemens to lay off 130
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Bicycles:

COVID-19 brings boom for bicycles
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Hollywood:

Hollywood’s Restart From COVID Brings Higher Rents, Intense Demand for Studio Space
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Personal Finance:

How to stand out in a job interview, from CEO hiring 10,000 seasonal workers
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The Billionaire Who Wanted To Die Broke . . . Is Now Officially Broke
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Sports:

MLB postseason will feature bubbles in Southern California and Texas - and might include fans
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Giants, Mariners Game in Seattle Postponed Due to Poor Air
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LSU Football Team: Most Now Have Covid 19
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Mike Ditka again tells NFL players to 'get the hell out' of country after protests
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Climate:

Seeping under doors, bad air from West’s fires won’t ease up
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Oregon Wildfires Are So Devastating They’ve Brought in a Mobile Morgue
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Wildfire closing in on historic California observatory
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These Scientists Are Studying Why California Keeps Burning
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California Fires Are Emitting Record Amounts of Carbon Dioxide
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Couple who died in California fire were ready to evacuate but reconsidered after 'erroneous information'
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FactCheck: Trump Blames California for Fires
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West’s Raging Wildfires Defy Trump Decree Intended to Curb Them
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‘Nothing left in the bucket’: Wildfire resources run thin
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In Los Angeles, the smoke just hangs all day, every day. Residents say it's taking a toll
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Birds are dropping dead in New Mexico, potentially in the 'hundreds of thousands'
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Hurricane Sally lashes Gulf Coast: "Catastrophic flooding unfolding" Hurricane Sally Slows, Trouble for Coast Hurricane Sally sits in the Gulf, but along the coast deadly floodwaters are rising
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Tourism:

Economic woes widen as Gov. David Ige prepares to pause Hawaii’s reopening again
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Fitness:

Flywheel Sports Will Close, Adding to Fitness Chain Wreckage
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Student Debt:

Those with private student loans have few options. What they can do
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Settlement Reached To Forgive $330 Million Of Student Loans Former ITT students in Indiana to get $10M in debt relief
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How Were 46 Million People Trapped by Student Debt? The History of an Unfulfilled Promise
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Printing:

Atlas Holdings Grabs Printing Co. LSC Out Of Ch. 11 LSC Communications Announces Sale to Atlas Holdings and Supporting Creditors
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Nursing Homes:

Inside a Nursing Home Devoted to Treating Those With Covid-19
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Economy:

Richest Americans got richer in past decade, far outpacing poor
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Empire State factory index signals improving conditions in September
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Gains in U.S. Factory Production Slowed in August, Fed Says
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World May Not Return To Pre-Pandemic ‘Normal’ Until At Least 2022, Warns WHO, Bill Gates
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OECD lifts economic outlook on stronger-than-expected U.S., Chinese recoveries OECD projects global GDP will collapse by 4.5% this year
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U.S. Median Household Income Jumped 6.8% in 2019; Poverty Fell Incomes rose 6.8% in U.S. in 2019—but a closer look shows slow long-term growth
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Ray Dalio Warns of Threat to Dollar as Reserve Currency
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Jamie Dimon sees long-term damage if people don't get back to work
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Pelosi says House will stay in session until new deal reached on economic relief Kushner Says Agreement on Next Stimulus May Come After Nov. 3 White House open to 'Problem Solvers' compromise in coronavirus aid fight Congress’s Last Chance to Avoid a Long Recession
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Centrist Lawmakers Offer Stimulus Compromise: $1,200 Stimulus Checks, Enhanced Unemployment Benefits, No Student Loan Relief $1.5 Trillion Stimulus Deal Proposed: Second Stimulus Check, $450 Unemployment Benefit
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The $88 Trillion World Economy in One Chart
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Early economic effects from “safer at home” practices
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Industrial Production Increased 0.4 Percent in August; Still 7.2% Below Pre-Crisis Level
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NY Fed: Manufacturing "Business activity expanded at a solid clip in New York State" in September
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The Federal Reserve will stay on hold until 2023, according to CNBC survey
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Fed to Meet After Sharp Changes to Its Outlook
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Fed's New Policy Approach Needs Some More Explaining
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Fed's Lifeline To Main Street Flops With 99.8% Of Cash Untapped
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Is anything left in the Federal Reserve war chest?
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Trump’s Controversial Fed Nominee Judy Shelton Lacks Senate Votes, Thune Says
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The recession is testing the limits and shortfalls of the Federal Reserve's toolkit
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26% of Americans have taken advantage of some type of payment deferral plan
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World Trade Organization rules Trump's China tariffs are illegal Trump: We'll Have to Do Something to WTO
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Social Security cost-of-living adjustment could be 1.3% in 2021
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LA Area Port Inbound Traffic up to New Record High, Outbound Traffic Down Year-over-year in August
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JPMorgan Reportedly Sends NYC Workers Home As Employee Tests Positive For COVID-19
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Biden’s Tax Plan: Who Really Pays More?
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U.S. Removes Canada Aluminum Tariffs Amid Retaliation Threat
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Working From Home Was Fine for 6 Months. Now It’s Not.
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Politics creates economic illusion in Houdini's hometown
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Gallup: Optimism About Black Americans' Opportunities in U.S. Falls
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Social Security Trust Fund Battered by Virus
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US Debt Costs Falling Even as Borrowing Soars
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US Poverty Rate Fells to 10.5% in 2019
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US Debt Clock
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World Debt Clock
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How People Really Live
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Real Estate:

Lower-Credit Homeowners Weigh Heavily on U.S. Mortgage Market
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WeWork Looks at the Office Market’s Post-COVID Future
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What’s Lost In The Work-From-Home Debate: What Happens If People Don’t Return To The Office?
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London Firms Are Dumping Office Space as Workers Resist Return
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Mortgage lending volume in 2020 likely to break records
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Mortgage demand fell last week as interest rates stalled
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Municipalities:

Biden Urges Puerto Rico Debt Relief While Seeking Florida Votes In a historic first, the Biden-Harris campaign releases a recovery plan for Puerto Rico Biden releases plan to revive Puerto Rico Biden Teases Canceling Puerto Rico’s ‘Illegal’ Debt In New Plan For The Island
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U.S. Municipalities Selling Taxable Bonds at Near Record Pace
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Chicago Is Considering Issuing A Pension Bond - And Taking A Gamble
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West Coast's massive wildfires put new pressure on state, local budgets
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Oil/Gas:

‘Substantial’ E&P Bankruptcies Likely Before Year’s End, Says Haynes and Boone Energy Bankruptcy Reports and Surveys
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Energy bankruptcies up 62 percent from last year
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US shale producers bleed cash despite slashed spending
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Expect More Venezuelas in the Post-Peak Oil Era
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Seadrill to suspend debt payments as restructuring talks continue
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Valaris lender fight breaks out over $500 million bankruptcy loan
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Big Oil's green makeover: BP reinventing itself as an energy company BP’s Clean Energy Push Starts With Five-Year Dash on Solar, Wind
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Oil Billionaire Rokke Says It’s Time to Move Focus to Renewables
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Oil Giants Plan for a Future With Less Crude and More Hydrogen
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The Future Of Fracking In The United States
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Oil faces "treacherous" path as COVID-19 digs in
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Oil Demand Has Collapsed, And It Won’t Come Back Any Time Soon
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Trump's fossil fuel agenda gets pushback from federal judges
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Denbury Resources: Set To Emerge From Bankruptcy Soon
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Healthcare:

Fewer Americans had health insurance in 2019 than in '18, report shows Uninsured Numbers Rise in Wake of Trump’s Attack on Obamacare
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Gallup: How Governors, CDC and Trump Stack Up on COVID-19
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Trump Says Long-Promised Obamacare Replacement Is ‘All Ready’
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Scientists want to predict covid-19's long-term trajectory. Here's why they can't.
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First full at-home COVID-19 test
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A Maine wedding is linked to the deaths of 7 people who didn't attend Maine wedding 'superspreader' event is now linked to seven deaths. None of those people attended.
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We can't stop covid-19 if we don't know where and why it's spreading
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Updated COVID metric shows Texas outbreak on the decline since mid-July
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New York City Prepares for a Second Wave, With a Chance to Blunt the Worst
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New York City's lockdown reduced spread of coronavirus by 70%, study finds
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Bill Gates Wonders Whether FDA Can Be Trusted on a Covid Vaccine Is Bill Gates right about the FDA's vaccine credibility?
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Trump Says Coronavirus Vaccine May Be Ready Within Four Weeks
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Pence says he 'wouldn't hesitate' to get COVID-19 vaccine
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Trump Says With ‘A Herd Mentality’ Covid-19 Coronavirus Will Go Away
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HHS chief overrode FDA officials to ease testing rules
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The UAE has approved a Chinese-made coronavirus vaccine for emergency use
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Trump advisor Kushner defends plan to cut drug prices
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Coronavirus Courses Through U.S. Prisons
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Covid-19 kills far more Hispanic and Black children than White youths
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'They're still not taking this seriously': Whistleblowing nurse warns of covid-19 safety neglect at ICE facility
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Apple Watch Series 6 Will Measure Blood Oxygen Levels
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Food/Beverage:

Meg's choice: She could reopen her Kansas diner. But what about the hungry people she's feeding?
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Education:

As school goes online, so does discipline
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FL: Children Covid Cases up 26% in a Month
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Rate of COVID Infection in U.S. Children Rising
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Location In Red Or Blue States Influences Whether Colleges Are Teaching On-Ground (Red) Or Online (Blue) This Fall
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'Where are the kids?’ Inside the first day of online learning for one Detroit school
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Days into the new school year, virtual classrooms have been disrupted by hackers and pranksters
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Teens dislike online learning
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NYU places entire dorm on quarantine following several reported cases of Covid-19
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University of Missouri expels two students, suspends three for violating coronavirus rules
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At least 24 million students could drop out of school due to the coronavirus
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Hedge Funds:

Ray Dalio's Clients Yank $3.5B From Hedge Fund Amid Insider Criticism
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Hedge Fund Managers Get Out Of Goddamned Miserable Hedge Fund Business
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Newspapers:

COVID-19 is crushing newspapers, worsening hunger for accurate information
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Gig Economy:

Biden allies demand help for gig workers
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Newspapers:

Miami Herald editor blames 'internal failures' after publishing an anti-Semitic, racist insert
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Fraud:

Texas Woman Took $2M in PPP Loans
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Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings (19 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Pandemic Borrowing Seen Driving the Next Bankruptcy Surge in 2021 Bankruptcies in US likely to surge in 2021 on pandemic borrowing
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Small Business:

The Pros and Cons of the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019
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Hotels:

Hotel Bankruptcies: 8 Key Issues for Hospitality Advisors
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Bankruptcy Bonuses:

US corporations file for bankruptcy and lay off workers. Why do execs still get bonuses?
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Insurance:

Cost of insuring board directors from lawsuits doubles in Covid era
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Latest COVID-19 insurance coverage loss shows narrowing path for policyholders
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Advisers:

MACCO Restructuring Group, LLC Announces Firm Promotions
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Mediation:

Mediating Civil Cases: A Disconnect Between Theory and Practice
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Litigation:

3 Questions For A Litigation Finance Consultant (Part II)
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Aviation:

Lufthansa CEO prepares staff for deeper cuts to jobs and fleet
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Avianca appeals order that blocked $370 million emergency loan
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US airlines reveal profitability of frequent flyer programmes
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Can Airlines Avoid Another Bailout?
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Congressional report faults Boeing, FAA for 737 Max failures, just as regulators close in on recertification House Report Condemns Boeing, FAA 'Horrific culmination' of errors led to 737 Max crashes
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Retailing:

Forever 21’s Bankrupt Shell May Stiff Creditors of $200 Million
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Apparel retailer Francesca’s issues ‘going concern’ warning as sales tumble
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Deloitte: Holiday sales to inch up 1% to 1.5% amid ‘unparalleled uncertainty’
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The running list of 2020 retail bankruptcies
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H&M bounces back from coronavirus slump
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SF retail woes spark lease disputes, calls for government action
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How Retailers Should Prep for a Weird Black Friday
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Insurance:

Insurers Face Covid Hit as U.K. Court Ruling Favors Clients Host of top law firms advise as Commercial Court makes landmark Covid-19 insurance ruling Small firms thrown lifeline in insurance test case ruling
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Politics:

‘QAnon’ book claiming Democrats eat children is climbing the Amazon charts
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A Washington lawmaker shared conspiracy theories. She threatened a reporter who wrote about it.
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Pro-Trump group pays teens to post online
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Trump says he'll be on Fox & Friends every week — but host Steve Doocy doesn't agree to have him
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What Candidate Trump Knew That President Trump Forgot
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Trump shockingly shares post calling Biden a ‘PEDO’ with ‘misleading’ vid of ex-VP whispering into woman’s ear
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Scientific American Makes First Presidential Endorsement In Its 175-Year History
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Internal documents show officials waved red flags before Trump's Tulsa rally
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Monmouth poll: Biden up 5 points on Trump in Florida
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Pence: Trump sees Florida, Minnesota, Arizona as keys to 270
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Trump says there are 25 'witnesses' disputing the Atlantic. Nope.
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In Florida, Biden criticizes Trump for remarks on veterans
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Puerto Rican voters, battered by crisis, could be pivotal for Biden in Florida Biden looks to shore up Latino support in Florida
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There was 'denial across the board' in White House about severity of coronavirus, Woodward says Trump Says He ‘Up-Played’ Virus In Reversal Of Woodward Defense
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Jared Kushner Not Sure Why You Are So “Hysterical” About a Virus That’s Killed 195,000 Americans
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Woodward book: Former intelligence head Dan Coats thought it useless to speak out against Donald Trump
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Trump's ABC News town hall: Fact-checking the president's answers Trump fumbles during tough encounter with undecided voters Trump's ABC News town hall: Four Pinocchios, over and over again
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Post-ABC Wisconsin poll shows Biden holding narrow edge over Trump
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House Committee subpoenas Trump labor board over conflict of interest questions
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Trump won't cooperate with congressional oversight. Here are Congress's options.
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The many post-election concerns about the United States
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Krugman: The G.O.P. Plot to Sabotage 2021
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‘The US feels very volatile’: former ambassador warns of election violence
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Trump Allies Claim Biden Is Attempting To ‘Steal’ Election And Warn Of Armed Revolt
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Global views of U.S. plunge to new lows amid pandemic, poll finds U.S. Image Plummets Internationally as Most Say Country Has Handled Coronavirus Badly
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Ohio Judge Slams Republican Effort to Limit Ballot Drop Boxes
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UK:

Restructuring Plan for Companies in Financial Difficulty Under the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020
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New Look's CVA - unsecured creditors approve controversial amendments to leases New Look creditors back turnover-based leases restructuring plan
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The new debtor-friendly changes to the UK’s insolvency regime and implications for financiers
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A no-deal Brexit would be more costly for the UK than coronavirus, Goldman says
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No-deal Brexit and Covid threaten 'double whammy' for car industry
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U.K. Law Officer Denies Boris Johnson Bill Breaches International Law
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UK businesses show signs of tension as Brexit looms again
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U.K. Could Limit Virus Testing to Worst Cases as Labs Struggle
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UK redundancies rise at sharpest rate since 2009
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U.K. Housebuilder Sees Market Rally Fading When Stimulus Ends
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Coronavirus wipes out 700,000 payroll jobs as unemployment rate spikes to 4.1% with 2.7million on benefits
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Young people hit as unemployment rate rises
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Victoria's Secret secures Next chapter in deal saving hundreds of jobs
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Energy bills could increase to cover coronavirus defaults
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EU:

European Parliament doesn't want to spread the coronavirus by traveling to France. The French are furious.
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Europe’s leaders choose targeted measures over nationwide lockdowns, even as cases rise.
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Europe’s Virus Stars Scramble After Declaring Victory Too Fast
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PIIGS:

From Bad to Dead: 2 Years Later, Southern Italy’s Olive Groves Turn Into Ghostly Places
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Canada:

Canada reports no new deaths from coronavirus for the first time since March
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Canadian Banks See Borrowers Resuming Payments After Deferrals
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Pent-Up Demand Drives Canada Home Sales and Prices to Record
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Germany:

Far-Right Police Officers Suspended in Germany After Sharing Hitler Pictures
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MENA:

How can businesses in financial stress benefit from insolvency procedures under UAE Bankruptcy Law
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Israel signs pacts with 2 Arab states: A ‘new’ Mideast? A historic peace agreement
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Iran’s Daily Coronavirus Cases Surge to Three-Month High
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Africa:

IMF Chiefs Say Africa’s Recovery Needs Billions and Reforms
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India:

India's coronavirus case numbers surge past 5 million 5M people infected, India’s virus outbreak still soaring
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Venezuela:

Venezuela Reaches Out to Bondholders After Months of Silence
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