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Law:
Prevalence of the $160,000 Starting Salary for Lawyers Is Eroding --- Junior JDs - With Exception Of Northeast, Entry-Level Salaries Much Lower Than In 2009
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White & Case Elects 4 New Restructuring Partners
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Definition Of Big Firms Changing - New players match elites for size, but not pay rates
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Judge Bars Kasowitz Breach of Contract Claim Against Client, Allow Quantum Meruit
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More Small and Midsize Firms Might Be Merging
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Business of Law
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Paul Lieber - Did He Bribe Manhattan Court Employee To Refer Wealthy Clients?
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Communication Key in Relationships With Outside Counsel
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Some Conflict Waivers Are Rubbing GCs the Wrong Way
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Top-Paid Fortune 500 GCs Ranked by Total Cash
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Downton Abbey characters’ horror at Inns of Court poverty
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A Prosecutor’s Perspective: "Looking at human beings through the wrong end"
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Another Stupid Defense Of Law School
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Which Law School Has The Best Career Prospects? (2015)
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The 10 Toughest Law Schools To Get Into
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Law students among the lowest earners in new graduate salary list
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As law schools struggle, Tampa Bay campus gets a new name
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Make It Perfect; Then Send It To Me
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Thieves Leave Behind ‘White Sticky Goo’ After Law Firm Break-In
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Is the Legal Profession Showing Its Age?
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5 things I wish I’d known about being a London lawyer when I was starting out
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Law Firms: Cut Costs, Attract Clients, Boost Profits
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George Clooney's wife Amal has taken husband's name according to law firm website
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The Most Impressive Thing About The iPhone 6 Plus --- 14 Of The Best Apps That Take Advantage Of iOS 8's New Notification Center Widgets
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iPad tip: don't let your iPad ring in court!
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I Went To AT&T To Buy An iPhone 6 Plus And They Laughed At Me
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The 15 Best Productivity Apps For Getting Things Done
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Wyoming man accused of stealing train in work dispute
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How Oscar Pistorius Could Escape Prison Time --- Kills Girlfriend, Gets Community Service --- Pistorius Court Told He’s a ‘Broken Man,’ Should Avoid Prison
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Asset seizures fuel police spending --- John Oliver on Civil Forfeiture
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Feds Ask Full Sixth Circuit to Review Amish Beard-Cutting Case
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Appeals Court Hears Chimpanzee Rights Case
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Judge Rules 'Up-Skirt' Photography Is Not A Violation Of Women's Privacy
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Ex-employee charged with using law firm trust checks to make personal mortgage payments for 7 years
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Man practicing open-carry robbed of his gun by armed stranger
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Former NFL exec: Teams hid 'hundreds' of abuse incidents
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17 Years in Prison, She's Freed by Judge
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Chicago generated 77,000 additional red-light tickets by shortening yellow-light times, report says
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Denmark Moves to Ban Animal S-- Due to Rise in Tourism
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Come ride in my lime green Lamborghini, says law firm boss
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Meet the puppy who doesn’t bark in court
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Potential juror is jailed over Internet research on billionaire’s DUI manslaughter case
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The Inaccuracies Grow In Week 3 Of ‘How To Get Away With Murder’
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"The Good Wife" - Alicia The Player
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Judges:
Judges Hit the Stump as Outside Money Pours Into Judicial Races
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How Health Concerns Dashed A Judge’s Supreme Court Dreams
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The Roberts Court's 10th Year: A Term of Deja Vu
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Roberts Considered Representing Clinton in Jones Supreme Court Case
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Karl Rove’s Efforts to “Buy” Courts Harms America, Says Legendary Attorney
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What Did They Put in the Water of PA’s Prosecutors?
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Wall Street:
U.S. stocks : Futures climb
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US indexes slide, led by energy stocks
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US stocks close out worst week since May 2012
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Global Growth Is Falling And Its Bringing Down Stocks
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Deutsche Clampdown On Bad Behavior Prompts Exodus Of Traders
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Here's What Some Top Wall Street Strategists Predict For The Global Economy
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Despite Declines, Stocks Are Still Expensive
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Goldman: Strategies For Surviving The Stock Market Whiplash
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Layoffs:
Apple supplier GT Advanced cuts nearly 900 jobs
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Delaware court affirms refusal to extend WARN Act liability to private equity sponsor
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Food/Beverage:
Fox & Hound Former Owner Wants More Time for a Plan
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Crumbs to Reopen Shops in Major Cities --- Resurrected Giant Cupcakery Crumbs Now Wields 'Baissants'
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Electricity:
Energy Future Creditors Bemoan Loss of Higher Basis
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Longview Power asks judge to OK Pa. settlement
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Energy Future Holdings Is Fighting to Give Executives at Least $20 Million in Bonuses
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Shipping:
DryShips Is In A World Of Hurt
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Banking:
Leaked: JPMorgan Earnings Come Out Early, And They're A Miss
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Number of Operating "Problem Banks" Continues to Decline --- Unofficial Problem Bank list declines to 429 Institutions
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Banks Back Plan for Failing Lenders
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Citi Chairman O’Neill: Too Many Banking Regulators
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Fed’s Lacker: Living Wills Will Reduce Risk of Failing Financial Firms
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Tech:
Why Apple's Relationship With Sapphire Glass Supplier Soured --- What really happened to the sapphire glass maker and why
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GTA Technologies wants to drop Apple's contracts --- GT Advanced Technologies Inc's Sour Apple Deal To Stay 'Secret?' --- GT Advanced Technologies Calls Their Agreement With Apple “Oppressive And Burdensome”
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Apple slaps suppliers with a potential $50m fine for leaking secrets
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Workers remain tight lipped at Apple supplier
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Apple's Master Course on Master Supply Agreements
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Bankruptcy turns spotlight on Apple's deals with suppliers
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Apple's got a mess on its hands in Mesa, Arizona
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The Curse of Apple's Sapphire Factory
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How the iPhone 6 may have forced Apple to bankrupt its own sapphire supplier --- Did Apple’s Sapphire iPhone Ambitions Bankrupt This Supplier?
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The curse of Apple's sapphire factory
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GTAT Probably Heading To $0.00
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Trading In GTAT's Shares Could Be Suspended Starting on Wednesday
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Gambling:
NJ lawmaker rejects state aid for casino bid
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A pivotal time for Atlantic City casinos and unions
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Declining casino market helps Atlantic City landmarks sell for pennies on the dollar
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Trump Taj Mahal Protests Create Atlantic City Gridlock
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Trump casinos seek judge OK to end union contract --- Trump Taj Mahal Stakes Survival on Victory in Union Fight
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Television:
Comcast loses round on Houston network plan approval
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Comcast May Appeal Ruling in Houston Sports Network Bankruptcy --- Judge may delay start of new network to Oct. 29 to give Comcast appeal time
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Finance:
Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bones, but Reliance Waivers Can Still Hurt You
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Economy:
Consumer Delinquencies Fall Nearly Across the Board in Second Quarter
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The 'Best' Zip Codes In America
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Dollar falls on concerns over global growth, Fed comments
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One in four Americans think poor people don’t work hard enough
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Goldman on 2015: "Potential Renewed Uncertainty around Fiscal Deadlines"
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Krugman: Revenge of the Unforgiven - How Righteousness Killed the World Economy
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Frenchman wins Nobel in economics for work on 'taming powerful firms' --- Nobel Laureate Jean Tirole Calls for Tough Rules for Big Banks --- The Economist Who Won The Nobel Prize Figured Out Why CEOs Get Such Gigantic Bonuses --- Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics for actually showing us how the real world works
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The World Economy is in Trouble --- Why the Fed Worries About Global Economy
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Paul Volcker’s Headache: The Bank-Regulator Debate
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Where The World's Ultra-High Net Worth Live
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New Thinking on Global Inequality
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Where America’s college grads are moving
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Why is the recovery so weak? It’s the austerity, stupid.
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
Americans face post-foreclosure hell as wages garnished, assets seized
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The Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Conservatorship: Bankruptcy Without Rules
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City, State Warn Bankruptcy Case Could Undermine Rent Stabilization
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Real Estate Agent Boom and Bust
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Most ResCap Suits Against Originators Go to Minnesota
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Here's How Much Americans Owe On Mortgages In Every State
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Ex-foreclosure king hid $7 million from creditors, faces 16-count indictment
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Jets Owner Woody Johnson Will Reportedly Sell His Never-Used Apartment For A Record $80 Million
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Bankruptcy Might Spell Doom for Detroit's Grand Old Police HQ - Demolition Watch
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Thousands of spiders 'bleed out of the walls' and force family from home
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Municipalities:
Bankruptcy trial resumes as creditors make their case
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Officials consider action over pay increases at DIA --- State lawmaker calls on DIA to reconsider pay raises --- Says DIA Management Raises Are A Misuse Of Taxpayer Money
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United Nations rapporteurs to visit Detroit over water shutoff
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Detroit creative when it comes to fixing what's broken
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Real Housewives of Atlanta Cast Member to Donate $20,000 to Detroit Schools
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What They Said: Bankruptcy in the governor candidates’ town hall --- Schauer's bankruptcy answer isn't convincing --- Snyder, Schauer clash over Detroit bankruptcy
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Moody's: Regional Detroit water deal 'positive' --- New Detroit water authority may protect bondholders -Moody's
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An Introduction to Puerto Rico's New Public Corporation Debt Enforcement and Recovery Act
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Q&A: Puerto Rico's Public Corporation Debt Enforcement and Recovery Act
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Billionaire: Lawmaker "Selling Out" Atlantic City
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Jefferson County Fights to Keep Sewer Bond Increases --- Jefferson County responds to a federal judge's ruling that threatens its bankruptcy settlement plan
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Aliquippa leaders searching for the light at the end of the tunnel
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No Smoke, No Mirrors: The Dutch Pension Plan
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CalPERS CEO on Pensions and Bankruptcy
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Politics:
Elizabeth Warren: Obama sided with Wall Street over people losing their homes --- Elizabeth Warren Explains Why Democrats Who 'Protect' Wall Street Are Better Than Republicans
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Wall Street Is Pumping More And More Money To Republicans
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Retailing:
JCPenney Names Home Depot Executive As Its Next CEO --- But Where's The Vision?
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Kmart becomes latest retailer hit by data theft --- Kmart offers free credit monitoring after cyber attack
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Alco Stores Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, to Liquidate or Sell --- Small-Town Sales Slow
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Does Standard General Have RadioShack 'A Little Bit Pregnant'?
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Eyeware:
Luxottica CEO Quits After Six Weeks, Shares Tank
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Oil/Gas:
Endeavour Files for Bankruptcy in Debt Swap With Bondholders --- Endeavour Files for Swap to Cut Debt by $568 Million --- Endeavor goes bust on North Sea operations --- Endeavour Executes Restructuring Support Agreement --- Houston energy company files for bankruptcy protection --- Blames North Sea assets for ballooning debt
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U.S. Oil Producers May Drill Themselves Into Oblivion
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Bad News For U.S. Drillers As Saudis Signal No Cuts To Oil Output --- Saudis To The Oil Market: Get Used To Lower Prices
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Gasoline Prices Lowest in Nearly a Year --- Oil Prices are Plunging: Don't Cheer Yet
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WTI Extends Drop From 22-Month Low as Demand Slows
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Producers may wait till crude falls to $80/barrel
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Fraud:
Former bank exec indicted, accused of aiding disbarred attorney Scott Rothstein’s $1.2B fraud
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Banks harvest callers' voiceprints to fight fraud --- Privacy Concerns
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Bangor doctor and son tied to alleged Ponzi scheme charged with tax fraud
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Blue Mountain Consumer Discount investors feud over settlement in Ponzi scheme lawsuit
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Healthcare:
RBC Ordered to Pay $75.7 Million in Rural/Metro Lawsuit: ‘A fraud upon the board’
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Crittenden Regional was on verge of missing payroll, affidavit shows --- Crittenden Hospital saga thickens, but money picture brightens
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DMC files to make 565 layoffs official
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Poll: Insured and Struggling with Medical Bills
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Hospital Staff Quits Over Ebola Fears
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Here's Where Ebola Is Going Next
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CDC to Hospitals: Think Ebola
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The inevitable rise of Ebola conspiracy theories
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What happens when the government quarantines people
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NYC Has Already Investigated More Than 80 Suspected Ebola Cases — Here's How They're Getting Ready
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Judge blocks disposal of Ebola victim's burned belongings in Louisiana
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Nurse accused of killing 38 patients she found annoying
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Religion:
Landmark suit against St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese is settled --- Plan to handle clergy sex abuse emerges in landmark case
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Attorneys, Winona diocese, archdiocese will settle abuse claims --- Diocese calls Adamson's actions 'horrific crimes'
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A new turn on priestly sex abuse
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Ohio pastor forced vasectomies, abortions because kids divert money away from church: report
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Coal:
Arch Coal: Any Chance Of A Rebound?
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Derivatives:
Federal Reserve Board and FDIC Welcome ISDA Announcement --- New derivative rules 'offer asset managers nothing'
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Student Debt:
Mark Cuban: The Student Loan Bubble Is 'No Different' Than The Housing Bubble
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How Honest But Unfortunate Student Borrowers Became Scapegoats in Bankruptcy
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Kids’ college loans jeopardize parents’ retirement
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College costs: A student, a professor and parents tell their stories
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Environmental:
Frisco accuses Exide of minimizing cleanup at closed plant
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Video Games:
Allan Fung claims Wall Street investors went bust on 38 Studios deal
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Non-Profits:
Bye, Y: YMCAs close amid negotiations, speculation about bankruptcy
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Fishing:
Pescanova auditors BDO resign
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Paper:
Great Northern Paper filings show deficit
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Buyers for paper mills don't grow on trees
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Creditors petition for Old Town Fuel and Fiber’s bankruptcy, claiming $1 million in debt
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Aviation:
1 Bizarre Way This Airport Balances Its Budget
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The Gulfstream G650, The Best Private Jet $65 Million Can Buy
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Privacy:
Nearly 7 Million Dropbox Passwords Have Been Hacked
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Weather:
Pentagon: Global Warming a Clear and Present Danger
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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 (39 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (15 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
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UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Bankruptcy Jobs:
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NCBJ 2014: Chapter 9, Closely Held Businesses, e-Discovery, Claims Buying and Sale Free and Clear of Interests --- Fed Economist Says "I've Got to Admit It's Getting Better, A Little Better All the Time (It Can't Get Much Worse)" --- Ethics and Supreme Debate --- Thinking the Unthinkable: Bankruptcy for Large Financial Institutions --- Hedging Your Bets, Examining an Expert and Secured Creditors in Charge --- Chapter 9, Closely Held Businesses, e-Discovery, Claims Buying and Sale Free and Clear of Interests
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Bankruptcy Filings Are Low, But Not Everywhere
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30 Stocks Traders Are Shorting Like Crazy
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The 10 biggest energy company bankruptcies
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Miscellaneous:
The Week Ahead
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Marijuana:
Weil: #Hashtag: Thinking of Starting Your Own Marijuana Business?
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Calendaring:
Closed for Columbus Day Because of Bankruptcy Rule 9006(a)(6)
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Environmental:
Environmental Claims: The Gift That Keeps On Giving
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Plan Confirmation:
The Momentive Decisions: Cram-Down Interest Rates and Make-Whole Mania
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Cross-Border:
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Insurance:
D&O Insurance: Insured vs. Insured Exclusion Applicability to FDIC Failed Bank Claim Held Ambiguous
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TBTF:
Banks Back Swap Contracts That Could Help Unwind Too-Big-to-Fail --- Change in Derivatives Contracts Goes Only So Far
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Too-Big-to-Fail Banks Face Up to $870 Billion Capital Gap
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Lacker Says Bankruptcy Code Should Handle Bank Failures --- Lacker: Living Wills Only Realistic Way To End TBTF
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When the Art of the Deal Becomes a Crime
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Bernanke Testifies That He Was Reluctant to Lend Money to A.I.G.
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Bernanke Denies Bailout Terms Were Meant to Punish AIG --- Bernanke: Government Wanted to Save AIG, Not Punish It
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Jon Stewart Destroys Hank Greenberg Over His AIG Lawsuit
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AIG Bailout Architects Leave Questions for Executives
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U.S. and UK to test big bank collapse in joint model run --- Financial ‘war game’
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Cross-Border Recognition of Resolution Actions
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Construction:
XL Specialty challenges Trulands effort to block assets from federal lawsuit
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Autos:
In GM bankruptcy , an ex-con and hedge funds find common ground
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Who will take the claims? New General Motors or Old-GM?
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The Auto Loan Business Is Booming, And Regulators Want To What's Going On
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2014: Auto Industry's Winners and Losers
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5 Things to Know About Fiat Chrysler's US Listing --- Fiat Chrysler shares close down in 1st day on NYSE
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Electric Porsche
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Alternative Energy:
The Bell Tolls for KiOR
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Solar Stocks Waving A Major Red Flag
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Celebs:
Teresa and Joe Giudice 'Ordered to Keep Their Finances Separate' as They Prepare for Jail
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Angie Everhart's Bankrupt From Cancer Fight
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Sovereigns:
Stiglitz: The world needs a sovereign debt restructuring mechanism
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Meeting At World Bank Points To Sovereign Debt Solutions
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‘Argentina is not precluded from international credit, it has decided not to take it’
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Argentina bonds : high yielding for a reason
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Argentina and Hedge Fund Negotiations To Resume In 2015
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Economic projections reignite IMF tensions
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Lawyers in Argentine debt dispute to meet with mediator --- Special Master Pollack to meet with Argentina's and holdout lawyers next week
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Holdouts to seek contempt for Central Bank, Banco Nación
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Warning bells sound as low-income countries start issuing bonds
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UK:
National retail chains speed up high street exodus, data shows
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UK Supreme Court Modernizes Agent's Duty to Account
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UK banks pay out $2.5 billion for swaps mis-selling
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Quinn Emanuel hired for RBS restructuring lawsuit
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EU:
Germany will stick to zero deficit target, Merkel aide says
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PIIGS:
ie: Drumm's US sanctuary to end as gardai seek extradition --- David Drumm: the rise and fall of a banking baron --- €920 charge for going bankrupt faces cut to €400 --- Bankrupt solicitor seeks to set aside judgment as Judge had bank shares --- Irish plan growth budget after 6 years' austerity
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Italy on Sale to Chinese Investors as Recession Bites
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Greece Is Getting Demolished, And Its Bond Yields Are Soaring
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Germany:
The German Economy Is Crumbling
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German sub bonds rocked by threat of stress test failures
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Krugman: German Weakness
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France:
France's Subnational Insolvency Framework
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China:
Chinese economy to expand steadily: official
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China's Economic Rise Challenges The IMF's Relevance
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Chinese Property Company Crashes After Chairman Is Detained
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Russia:
The Russian Central Bank Admits Defeat
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MENA:
Dubai Stocks Crash
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Finland:
Finland Downgrade Should Wake Up All Europe --- The Prime Minister Of Finland Blames Apple For His Country's Economic Problems
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Netherlands:
Two accountants suspended over Ecoconcern accounts
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India:
Espirito Santo India arm riding out a storm
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There Are Factories In India That Make Absolutely Nothing
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Taiwan:
Taiwan High Speed Rail Near Bankruptcy
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Pakistan:
Pakistan on the verge of bankruptcy , says Imran
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Hong Kong:
Hong Kong Police Are Starting To Clear Out Protest Barricades
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Australia:
Aussie majors await bail-in news
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Mexico:
Oceanografia Mediator Said to Deny Some Citigroup Claims
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Mexico: Bodies in Mass Grave Not Students
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