Law:

U.S. judge rejects creditors' request to remove Caesars' lawyers
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A Day in the Life of a Big Law Partner
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Firms face life or death challenge over innovation, says Lexis report
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Hogan Lovells fights subpoena for its files
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Desperate law schools are admitting too many poorly qualified students.
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Bonus culture delivers wrong messages to associates, says NY law professor
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Dumping Your Spouse Could Jump-Start Your Career
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The ‘Nice To Haves’ For A Small-Firm Practice
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Women In Law: Making Rain, Climbing the Ladder and Forging Your Path
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Law Firms Could Go Paperless by 2020 • Going Paperless May Mean Less Rental Space for Law Firms
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Why Lawyers Should Not Feel So Sure Of Themselves
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Kilpatrick Townsend to merge with 21-lawyer Dallas firm
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Baker Botts increases California presence with San Francisco launch
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UK 200: Latham still number one international firm in London
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GC: Big Law Firms May Have Tough Time In Detroit
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Dean Allard Responds To New York Times Editorial On The Law School Crisis
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New Owner To Turn Charleston Law School Into Non-Profit, Ending Possibility Of Sale To Infilaw
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Harvard Law To Digitize All Case Law For Free; Are Paid Competitors Worried? • Ravel and Harvard "Free the Law": You've Read the News, Now Watch The Movie: Spine-tingling Scenes of Libra-cide
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4 Attorneys Paved the Way to Kill bin Laden
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It's not just the iPad — the entire tablet market is in decline
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The new iPhone update is shutting off some people's alarms and making them late to work
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The 11 best new iPhone and Android apps you might have missed recently
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I had a speech coach analyze my voice and found out I’m making 4 huge mistakes
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Believe it or not, the comb-over is suddenly in vogue
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Want to be more productive? New desk lets user work while lying down
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Prosecutor Pulls Pistol On Fake Spiders Decorating Office
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Attorney testifies in murder case, says he found spent bullet in then-client’s home
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Flight attendant admits he smuggled cocaine in his spandex
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Sometimes Being Vindicated Doesn’t Help At All
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Witch wins protective order against warlock in Salem court
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Pig’s head-carrying Christians ejected from Muslim festival may collect damages, 6th Circuit says
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Storm isn't over for Ashley Madison cheaters
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Attorney Talks About The Apple Watch
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BigLaw v. The Rest Of Us: A car park comparison
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Retired Florida cop will use ‘stand your ground’ defense after gunning down moviegoer who threw popcorn at him
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For One Illegal Poacher, the Most Dangerous Game of All Was the Lion that Ate Him
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Unexpected excitement as trainee vomits on lawyers at awards
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Law firm website depicts senior partner as laughing crow
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Twin Sisters Arrested For Armed Robbery
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Report: Houdini-Like Outlaw Sheriff's Deputy Can't Stop, Won't Stop
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How To Not Get Away With Bad Storytelling
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Judges:

Former Chief Judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the District of Maine Joins Bernstein Shur
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Discipline recommended for judge who put woman on probation, then wrote her seeking relationship
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Why Is Rubio Blocking His Own Judicial Nomination?
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Wall Street:

U.S. stocks eye small gains
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U.S. stocks come under pressure after weaker economic data
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Layoffs:

General Mills to cut more jobs and close more plants
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The 12 jobs most at risk of being replaced by robots
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Deutsche Bank Bonus/Layoffs Watch ’15: The Bonus Is You Get To Keep Your Job • l advisers face uncertainty as bank retrenches
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Politics:

The best ideas and worst ideas of the Republican debate • 3 winners and 3 losers from Republican debate • The conservative war on the mainstream media hit a new phase at the GOP debate • How Republican debate stands up to fact checking • GOP has itself to blame for shoddy debate format • GOP debate comes up short on tax, budget solutions • Zingers! The debate's best quotes • College-level speaking not required at GOP debate • Who Won The Third Republican Debate In Terms Of Temperament? Nobody • Ben Carson Wants Debate Changes, Citing ‘Gotcha’ Debate • Fantasy Follow-Up Questions From GOP Debate
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Trump says gun-free zones are targets for ‘sickos and for the mentally ill.’ Is he right? • A screenshot from his Web site reveals Donald Trump’s true feelings about immigration • What Trump was trying to say about immigration • Donald Trump’s entire debate performance on immigration was a massive flip-flop • This is the one thing that sets Donald Trump apart from other negotiators
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Secretaries, billionaires, and Ted Cruz’s strange kind of populism • Ted Cruz Tax Plan Would Yield Big Gains to Top 1% — Report • Cruz adds to GOP divide on how best to overhaul tax system • Cruz's Simple Flat Tax Plan • Cruz Fact Check: "Under Barack Obama and the big government economy, the median wage for women has dropped $733."
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Carly Fiorina and the problem of smiling while woman • Forina Fact Check: "92 percent of the jobs lost during Barack Obama’s first term belonged to women." • Cornered Carly Fiorina turns hostile rather than explain why she lied during Wednesday’s GOP debate
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There’s actually a big economic fight happening in the Democratic Party
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Bernie Sanders has a pretty revolutionary idea to change America’s post offices
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Ben Carson’s Mannatech Problem • Carson: 'I was wrong' about oil subsidies • Huh? Carson's Healthcare Overhaul
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Five Revealing Economic Exchanges From the Republican Debate • Best quotes about business from 10 candidates at Republican presidential debate
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Bankruptcies emerge as issue in several mayoral races
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Cameras:

GoPro plummets 18% to an all-time low after weak earnings and ugly guidance
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Resorts:

Izmirlian 'Planned To Make Baha Mar Redundancies'
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Baha Mar may not open for another year
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Baha Mar Founder Said to Offer Funding to Prevent Liquidation
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Electricity:

Energy Future Holdings Fights $460 Million Interest Claim
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Banking:

Deutsche Bank's New Strategy of Trimming Clients, Jobs
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Shipping:

The big-box game
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Fraud:

Ex-Skadden Lawyer Who Botched Suicide Pleads Guilty To Running $5M Ponzi Scheme
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Florida Woman Gets 9-Year Sentence For $25 Million Ponzi Scheme
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Stanford's Appeal Denied; 110-Year Sentence Stands
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Charles Bennett - Sad Ending To Ponzi Scheme, But Not A Life
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Economy:

Inventories hurt US third-quarter GDP, domestic demand strong • America's Merchandise Trade Gap Shrinks to Seven-Month Low • Inventory Correction Masks Resilient Demand in U.S. GDP Report
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Treasuries Decline as Chances of 2015 Fed Rate Boost Reach 50%
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Senate OKs debt limit, budget bill, sends to Obama
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US economy slowed to 1.5% growth rate in third quarter • U.S. Economy Slows, but Consumers Are Still Spending • Economists React to Third-Quarter GDP: ‘Growth Should Pick Up’
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The World Bank's Distorted Rankings
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What U.S. Growth Looks Like Without the Government Spending Slowdown
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Fed's New Neutral Policy of Zero or Negative Rates
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Why the market is misreading the Fed decision
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Why Education Reform Can’t Fix American Inequality
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Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims increased to 260,000, 4-Week Average Lowest since 1973
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Americans have spent their gas savings on gas
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This Kardashian headline shows why two Nobel winners say the economy is broken
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Larry Summers: The Wall Street Journal published the 'single most confused analysis' of the Fed I've read this year
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Bernanke’s Biggest Blunder
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The 2 US jobs suffering the biggest wage declines
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

New Case Poses Threat to Mortgage Servicers in Bankruptcies
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NAR: Pending Home Sales Index decreased 2.3% in September, up 3% year-over-year
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Freddie Mac: Mortgage rates barely waver, move lower
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Data show even housing is now getting a bit wobbly
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Major civil rights groups join push to recapitalize Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
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13 US housing markets where speculators are making a killing flipping homes
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Municipalities:

Puerto Rico Leaves Bondholders Guessing on December Payments
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A balanced plan for Puerto Rico
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Puerto Rico's Debt Crisis Is Kind of Congress's Fault
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Detroit natives wary as recovery threatens to push them out
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America's Most Dangerous Cities: Detroit Can't Shake No. 1 Spot
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History: Ford to City: Drop Dead in 1975
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Dallas's Credit Rating Cut by Moody's Over Growing Pension Debt
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Corporate Reform:

Goldman Sachs Fined $50 Million For Fed Data Leak
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Autos:

A new study estimates that the VW emissions cheat will cause 59 premature deaths in the US
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As many as 20 VW employees could be responsible for emissions cheating
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The Clown Show at Volkswagen
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History Points To A Light At The End Of The Tunnel For Volkswagen
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Volkswagen unable to quantify cost of legal risks
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Education:

This article about for-profit education from 10 years ago shows just how quickly the industry has declined
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Detroit Public Schools: 93% Not Proficient in Reading; 96% Not Proficient in Math
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Personal Finance:

How I paid off $80,000 of debt in 3 years, starting with a salary of $40,000 a year
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One decision could save you thousands of dollars on your student loans
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7 things successful people never pay for
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Oil/Gas:

Fri.: Crude prices pull back on U.S. worries
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Crude prices choppy amid economic data, abundant supplies
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Will Less Money From Banks Lead O&G Players to Hire More Lawyers?
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Conoco posts quarterly loss, cuts 2015 spending target • ConocoPhillips suffers biggest earnings loss since ’08 crash
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Shell posts largest loss in 16 years amid oil price slump
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Oil Majors’ Earnings Highlight Wider Industry Woes • Major oil companies unveil the damage of $45 crude
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For oil industry , next few weeks will be brutal
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Oil industry slipping into the red as outlook dims
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Samson Chief Randy Limbacher Resigns Amid Bankruptcy Setbacks
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Shell CEO: “We have to live within our means”
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Marathon Oil cuts dividend 76 percent
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BP Adjusts To Oil Slump, Plans Divestments Of Up To $13 Billion Through 2016
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Oil Companies Curtail Spending on Everything - Except Dividends
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How to Adjust to Any Oil Price Scenario
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Noble Energy planning more layoffs, company confirms
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Pioneer Energy posts quarterly loss
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These Private Equity Giants Are Selling Their Shale... To China
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Sovereign Wealth Funds Face Their Rainy Day
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China's Oil Giants Lose Almost All Profits Amid Crude Crash
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Samson restructuring deal 'in jeopardy'
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Debt Collection:

Cell Phone Ringing? It May Be a Robocaller for Uncle Sam's Debt • Robocallers may win big after federal budget deal • U.S: No Robo-Calls, Unless You’re Collecting Government-Backed Debt
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Four Plead Guilty in Alleged $31M Collection Scheme
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Weather:

El Nino: The companies that lose — and win
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Awards:

TMA Global Elects Gowling's David Cohen as 2016 President
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Food/Beverage:

Haggen's risky expansion largely bankrolled itself
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Debt Collection:

NY Senator calls for end to zombie debt
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Celebs:

These Two! Starring George and Amal
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Bankrupt rapper 50 Cent boasts about lavish Ferrari-themed birthday party for 3-year-old son Sire
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Neighbors Be Damned, Phil And Lisa Falcone Continue Tradition Of Scaring The Bejeus Out Of Passersby On Halloween
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Pharma:

Valeant shares fall as it cuts ties with mail-order pharmacy Philidor
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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 (19 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (212 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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Distressed Investing:

As Defaults Rise, Distressed-Debt Investors Seek an Edge by Buying the DIP
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Bankruptcy 101 for Investors: Acquiring a Debtor's Assets in a Bankruptcy Case
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Escrow:

Don’t Count Your Escrows Before They Hatch
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Involuntary Bankruptcy:

Third Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Good Involuntary Petition for Bad Faith
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Litigation:

Litigation Finance: Is Champerty An Issue? Are Communications With Funders Protected by Attorney-Client Privilege?
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Recent Pleadings:

Samson Committee Claims Kirkland Covered Up Conflict
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Student Debt:

Now there's an employee benefit that helps pay your student loans
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New Rules Expand Student Loan Repayment Plan
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Aviation:

Quebec's $1 billion bailout to Bombardier is a 'gamble on the unknown'
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Boeing Loses $17Bn Order from China
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Bombardier CEO: We were overwhelmed
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Religion:

Judge grants Archdiocese six more months, nixes requested advisers
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First hearing for Minnesota archdiocese facing criminal charges for failing to curb abuse
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Construction:

Contractor Payments: Take the Money and Run, Even if the Bankruptcy Trustee Later Comes Calling
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Healthcare:

Bankruptcy deadline near for PVGH
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Bankruptcy or death: The high cost of fighting cancer
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Insurance:

Life Partners Trustee Seeks To Recover $91 Million for Creditors
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Sovereigns:

Big Hedge-Fund Windfall in Store If Macri Wins Argentina Runoff
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Griesa urges gov’t to resume debt talks
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UK:

Personal insolvencies up for first time in a year
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Insolvency increase driven by a rise in IVAs
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Insolvencies in Scotland down by a quarter since 2014
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Construction insolvencies fall to record low
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Barclays' board just secretly signed off on a huge restructuring
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From bad to worse: how administration turned even uglier amid legal battles
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Kids Company once got 20% of all the government's charity funding • Ministers were warned about Kids Company finances six times, NAO report finds • Thirteen years of concerns about Kids Company • Founder of bankrupt Kids Company charity brags of 'ghetto strategies' to secure more taxpayers' cash
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Former Rangers owner Craig Whyte declared bankrupt
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Bank of Moscow Can Sue `Banana King' for Fraud, U.K. Judge Says
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PIIGS:

JPMorgan to pay Parmalat $47M to settle dispute
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Canada:

Court of Appeal Confirmation: The "Interest Stops Rule" Applies in CCAA Proceedings
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Union rejects proposal, Essar Steel Algoma struggles continue
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Liquidated damages clause in employment contract backfires on Quebec employer
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2015 Annual Cross Country Check-Up (Ontario)
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Why investors are shorting Canada's housing market
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China:

Why China is ending its one-child policy
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How Analysts Calculate China's True Bad-Loan Burden
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State-Controlled Oil Firms Feel Brunt of China's Slowdown
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India:

Draft Bankruptcy Law Likely in 10 Days
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Govt eyes bankruptcy reform to end decades of gridlocked projects
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Venezuela:

Venezuela running out of cash, selling its gold
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Austria:

BayernLB says Austria to pay $1.3 billion in Heta settlement
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Brazil:

Distressed debt sales get under way in Brazil
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Two Tales of Brazil Steelmaking as Currency Collapse Lifts Debt
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Ukraine:

IMF urges Russia and Ukraine to talk on debt restructuring
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IMF to Consider Lending-Policy Change That Would Help Ukraine
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Mexico:

Rothschild Hiring Spurs Tumble in ICA Bonds After Earnings Miss
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Australia:

Australian Freezing Orders Are Valuable Recovery Devices
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Boutiques and national firms go head to head for Australian work
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Japan:

Bank of Japan stands pat on stimulus
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Singapore:

Insolvency Practitioners' Fees - A New System for Approval
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