August 10, 2015

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Law:

Lawyers Keep Lawyering On After JPMorgan's $1.5 Billion Bungle
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Summer Associate Offer Rates (2015): A Round-Up
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Two Big Law Firms Allegedly Involved In Discovery Shenanigans
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U.S. Legal Sector Adds 200 Jobs in July
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NJ: Bankruptcy lawyer joins Woodbury law firm of Sherman Silverstein
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Your Lawyer May Soon Ask This AI-Powered App for Legal Help
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Being Yourself In Your Role As A Lawyer
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Law Firms Have Reined in Partner Board Memberships
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At Gateley, Law Firm Sees IPO as Salve for Legal Industry’s Woes
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The Pill = More Women Lawyers?
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Firm Strategy: Understanding Industry Dynamics
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GC: Call Me When I’m Not Sending You Work
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Clinton Emails Generate Work for Big Law
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Two firms monitor lawyers’ calls in bid to combat stress through voice analysis
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TV bosses want Amal Clooney to replace Donald Trump on US Apprentice
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Hourly Rates for Top Supreme Court Advocates Revealed
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Apple is going to fix the most annoying thing about using WiFi on the iPhone
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People can tell these 9 things about you from the way you look
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12 rules for dating a coworker
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When Apple will start selling the next iPhone
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A close look at why the tablet market isn't coming back
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Here's a Bluetooth keyboard for your smartphone that fits in your pocket
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5 tell-tale signs someone is lying to you
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Here's the trick to removing 'like' and 'um' from your vocabulary
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Take Care Of Your Staff As Soon As You’re Able
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Every man needs to know how to iron a button-down shirt
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Texas Issues Death Certificate After Contempt Threat
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Lawyer demands Game of Thrones-style 'trial by combat'
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Judge Sentences Texas Man to Marriage Idiot Judge Orders Idiot Couple To Marry And They Comply Because Stupid
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Real-life crime-fighting doctors combine the 'school-smarts of a doctor and the street-smarts of a detective'
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The law office that helped inspire Harper Lee's novels is for sale in Alabama Why I refuse to read Harper Lee's record-breaking new book
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Pennsylvania Attorney General Won’t Quit Over Leaks Charges
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Cops Caught Misbehaving During Pot Dispensary Raid Sue Police Dept. To Prevent Recording From Being Used Against Them
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4 murderers tried to dispose of a body using a method they learned on the TV show 'Breaking Bad'
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Stoned Driver Took "Selfie" With Arresting Officer
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Man seeking state police job takes polygraph test, gets 20 years in prison
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San Francisco Bay area news crews targeted by robbers
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Ferguson Still Pumps Out Arrest Warrants Tensions flare in Ferguson on police shooting anniversary... Crowd of 50 loot store
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Judges:

Appeals Court Apologizes for Misplacing Case for Five Years
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Judicial Heroes’ Courthouses Named Landmarks
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Judge in Dewey Trial Known for Fairness, Measured Approach
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Wall Street:

Stock futures point higher
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Stocks close down after jobs numbers bolster Fed rate hike plans
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A golden goose for investment bankers stopped laying eggs
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Layoffs:

10 professions with the best job security
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States Where Unemployment is Still Above 7%
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How rising unemployment rates change students' choice of majors — and it's different for men and women
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CenturyLink plans 1,000-job layoff
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Television:

Cracks in the cable business send media stocks tumbling Cablevision CEO Doesn't See 'Landslide' of Cord-Cutting for Now People are finally panicking about cable TV
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Religion:

Reasonable end to bankruptcy Victim advocates decry settlement plan
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Food/Beverage:

Union, landlords, others raise issues in A&P bankruptcy
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A&P Faces Opposition on Plan to Quickly Sell and Close Stores
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Citing bankruptcy , A&P drops Closter Plaza legal fight
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S. California bankruptcy creates Bello Family Vineyards troubles
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Fraud:

Co-owner of defunct Long Beach real estate firm convicted in $169 million Ponzi scheme
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3rd payment made to investor victims in ZeekRewards
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Movies:

NBC Universal Emerges as Major Unsecured Creditor in Relativity Bankruptcy NBCU Makes Surprise Appearance on Creditor Committee Carat, Cinedigm, NBC Universal Lead Creditors Committee Why investors should have doubted Relativity Media's charming wunderkind
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Shipping:

Overseas Shipholding investors settle lawsuit with execs, others
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Bunker supplier linked to OW fraud scandal declared bankrupt
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Coal:

Is Arch Coal Next for the Bankruptcy Line? Arch Coal Under Pressure Over Debt Dispute
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Walter Energy's Asset Value Dropped in Second Quarter
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The markets dig a grave for Big Coal
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Manchin has question for coal opponents
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Tech:

Apple Watch killing watchmakers?
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Weather:

Here's where over 90% of the extra heat from global warming is going and the billions of dollars it's costing us
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Currency:

Japan court rules against Bitcoin compensation plea
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Aviation:

A flight leaving Norway was delayed almost 5 hours after nearly all crew members failed a Breathalyzer test
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Debt Collection:

New York law firms that act as debt collectors set back by court decision
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Economy:

U.S. economy adds 215K jobs Steady US job gains likely foretell a new era: Higher rates A solid month of job creation, but wages stagnate Jobs report gives Fed the cover to hike in September Only one thing can stop the Fed from raising rates in September
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We're Making Life Too Hard for Millennials Millennials aren't as poor as you think.
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Workers the Recovery is Leaving Behind
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Fed’s Past, Present and Future Seen in Bank of England Data Dump
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Why American Teens Aren't Working Summer Jobs Anymore
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Consumer Borrowing in U.S. Increased More Than Forecast in June Consumers don’t think it’s the right time to buy
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What Would Higher Interest Rates Mean for You?
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Most people in advanced nations think their economy is bad
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This map shows why a $15 minimum wage is a terrible idea
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Need a job? Two industries are desperate for talent
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The hardest states to find full-time work
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America's biggest companies can't stop worrying about these 9 things
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Bill Gross: Global Economy Dangerously Close to Deflation
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Public and Private Sector Payroll Jobs: Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

Federal judge rules Bank of America hurt Jacksonville couple, must pay $204,000
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Mortgage Rates at 4%
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New Proposed Bankruptcy Rules: Focus on Periodic Statements
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Bankrupt Developer Struever Could Be Tapped By Lucchino for Providence Stadium
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Housing is so outrageously expensive in San Francisco the city can't hire enough teachers
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This man collected 50,000 pennies to make a statement about paying his property taxes
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Judge orders disgraced mortgage broker John Torgerson to pay $444K to victims
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The Resurrection of America's Slums
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Mastermind gets 15 years in ‘mind-boggling’ scheme to fleece Vegas HOAs of millions
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Municipalities:

Puerto Rico's struggle with $72B of public debt
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How Puerto Rico got in over its head
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Puerto Rico's 'death spiral' can be traced back to one mistake
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Judge orders Flint to cut water rate, stop disconnections
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Bank Freezes Carroll County's Credit Line
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The debt bomb: Survival, suicide pacts and Illinois - Chicago Tribune

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Taxis:

Uber, Lyft And No More Loans: Twilight Is Here For Big-City Taxi Barons
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Oil/Gas:

Oil prices fall, weighed by weak Chinese data U.S. crude closes at second lowest price of 2015
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Goldman sees oil staying lower for longer to end supply glut Poll: When will the oil supply glut end?
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U.S. rig count grows again despite the price of oil still dropping
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Bullish Bets On Oil Go Sour
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The Game of Chicken Behind Low Oil Prices
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The only major U.S. industry cutting jobs
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US oil drillers add rigs despite crude prices collapse -Baker Hughes
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Cook Inlet Energy faces involuntary bankruptcy petition
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What's happening in the oil market right now is 'unprecedented'
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What Airlines Can Teach the Energy Sector about Adversity
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Surviving the oil industry
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To please investors, Big Oil makes deepest cuts in a generation
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Oilfield jobs decline in July
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U.S. shale drillers struggle amid slumping prices: Kemp
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EOG Resources CEO: Expect US production declines in 2nd half
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Oil to see only slight recovery in 2016, Moody’s says.
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For Norway, Oil at $50 Is Worse Than the Global Financial Crisis
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Radio:

Colorado investor buying North Carolina radio station
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Healthcare:

El Paso: In hospital bankruptcy, key players give starkly different versions of events
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Winsted nursing home's owners still in bankruptcy court
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Retailing:

Does Sears Management Really Think It Can Avoid Bankruptcy?
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Celebs:

Bankruptcy Puns: Available Today For Only Fifty Cents On The Dollar
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50 Cent Bankruptcy Watchdog: ‘You Can’t Get a Dollar Outta Me’
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Here's how 50 Cent says his entire $25 million fortune vanished
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6 ways 50 Cent says he tricked the world into believing he was rich
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Teresa Giudice More Prison Time For Fraud
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Bankruptcy Crimes:

Bossier City man gets 10 months for bankruptcy fraud
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Student Debt:

Education Department Plan Is an Incursion into Banking, Industry Says
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Video Games:

38 Studios Settlement Reached for $12.5 Million with Adler Pollock, Stokes, and Saul
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Politics:

What Trump didn't say about his four big business bankruptcies Going Bankrupt Like Trump Did Is for High Rollers, Not Homeowners Donald Trump's claim about never going bankrupt got quite a bit of traction What Donald Trump gets right about bankruptcy Trump: Treat me 'fairly' or I'll run 3rd party PolitiFact fact checks Donald Trump's claim that Mexico sends criminals to the U.S. Trump on the Ropes at the First Debate Watch: Trump, Kelly spar over comments on women Donald Trump disinvited to speak at RedState event 'The Republican Party Created Donald Trump' Republican candidates pile on Donald Trump for his 'offensive' attack against Megyn Kelly Donald Trump doubles down on 'mess' Megyn Kelly and blasts 'total loser' activist in epic statement Carly Fiorina Says Donald Trump's Perceived Insinuation Is Nothing New Donald Trump Says He 'Cherishes' Women Donald Trump Then and What He Says Now Trump: Trump and China give opposing lessons in failure Jeb's got the woman problem, not me Donald Trump's campaign is in the middle of a major shakeup — and everyone's pointing fingers in the 'civil war' Meet the real people who want Donald Trump to be president
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Icahn Says He'll Be Right There at Treasury for President Trump
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5 takeaways for business from the Republican presidential debates
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The Republican race just got more interesting
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Is Starbucks's Howard Schultz the Liberal Donald Trump?
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All the Ways They Tried to Outshine Trump
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Which GOP Candidates Got Money From “The Donald?”
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Fiorina to GOP field: 'Game on' Carly Fiorina’s Debate Performance Invites New Scrutiny of HP Tenure Will Her H-P Past Doom Her? What You Need to Know About Carly Fiorina Carly Fiorina, Republican Debate Winner, Is The Daughter Of The Late 9th Circuit Judge (And Tax Prof) Joseph Sneed
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John Kasich’s Standout Performance in GOP Debate
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GOP Hopeful Compares Marriage Equality To Slavery, Takes On ‘Rogue’ Supreme Court
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(3 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 (25 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:

(1)-(2)- (3)-(4)-(5)-(6)-(7)-(8)-(9)-(10)
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)

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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Rochester region's bankruptcy filings dip 2.8 percent
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July Chapter 11 Filings Spike, Up 77% Y/Y
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Miscellaneous:

The Week Ahead
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Bankruptcy Reform:

The ABI Commission on Business Bankruptcy Reform: The Sale of All or Substantially All of the Debtor's Assets and Proposed Creation of "Section 363(x)"
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Plan Confirmation:

Second Circuit Articulates the Standard for the Extinguishment of Liens Under a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Plan
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Second Circuit Holds That a Chapter 11 Plan May Extinguish a Lien When the Lienholder “Participates in the Bankruptcy Proceedings”
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Discharge:

Delaware District Court Addresses Dischargeability in WCI Communities Appeal
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Bankruptcy Forms:

Pending Changes in the Bankruptcy Forms
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Proofs of Claims:

Can Filing a Claim in a Debtor’s Bankruptcy be a Violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act? Maybe, But in this Case the Bankruptcy Court Rules in Creditor’s Favor
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Litigation:

In a Deposition, Tell the Client to Answer the Questions
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Insurance:

Tenth Circuit: D&O Insurance Policy’s Insured vs. Insured Exclusion Unambiguously Precludes Coverage for FDIC’s Failed Bank Claims
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Credit Reporting:

Banks, credit bureaus urged to stop reporting erroneous debts; 20% of consumers have credit report mistakes
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Car insurers don't care if you drive well
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Theatre:

What will happen to the Surflight Theatre?
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Education:

New Mexico Academy of Healing Arts files for Chap. 7 bankruptcy
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Autos:

Tesla loses more than $4,000 on every car it sells What 8 Wall Street analysts are telling clients about Tesla
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Resorts:

Baha Mar: Too big to fail for The Bahamas
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Golf:

Trump International Golf sale hits a bunker
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Electricity:

Junior creditors close to taking control at Oncor
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Personal Finance:

Personal-Finance Lessons From the Greek Crisis
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Sovereigns:

Tango With Creditors Takes a Twirl
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Griesa grants vulture funds hearing to discuss motion for sanctions
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New deal for debt overhangs?
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Seven countries near bankruptcy
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Ukraine Bonds End 6-Week Rally as Investors Count Debt-Deal Risk Ukraine Takes Talks to Templeton Turf as Debt Payment Looms
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UK:

Late payments put a quarter of small firms at risk of insolvency
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Economy showing signs of recovery with business insolvency numbers down
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PIIGS:

Greek government says discussing draft of third bailout deal Greek Government Officials Pore Over Third Bailout Agreement Here's why Greece's next bailout is far from a done deal Greece Seeks Resolution to Aid Deal as Creditor Talks Progress Finland Throws Support Behind Greek Bailout It Says Won’t Work Greek yields fall as new bailout deal seen near Greek Debt Talks Have 'More Optimistic Tone'
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Irish developer who planned to build Chicago spire sues NAMA
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Canada:

Insolvencies rising in Sask
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Canada Stocks Fall as Oil Producers Drop With Banks After Jobs
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Herbal Magic Files for Bankruptcy and Closes Stores
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Appeals court decision gives hope to US Steel Canada pensioners
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Germany:

German Industrial Production Drops as Chinese Slowdown Looms
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France:

French Supreme Court rules out liability for undercapitalising companies
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MENA:

Gulf Stocks at Mercy of Oil Price in Qatar-Led Retreat
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Venezuela:

With no money to buy food, 82% of Venezuelans go without
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Conviasa Woes Worsen as Venezuela Crisis Deepens
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Venezuela is tilting toward a major social crisis
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Indonesia:

66 coal firms go bankrupt in Jambi
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China:

How everything in China is shrinking
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Producer prices in China slid to a six-year low in July
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China inflation rate rises to 1.6%
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Chinese exports nosedive China's imports are plunging
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Nobody believes China's growth figures — and the truth could be much worse
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UBS Wary as China Cleans Up Debt Mess
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Cyprus:

Cyprus: New Insolvency Laws
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Brazil:

The world's seventh largest economy is in a downward spiral
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