August 23, 2016

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Law:

Ex-DLA Piper Attorney Says He’s Not A White Supremacist
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Baker & McKenzie Rebounds After Down Year
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Judge in Dan Markel murder case approves subpoena for breast implant payment records
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Here’s something junior folks don’t always realize: I’m doing you quite a favor if I ask you to help with stuff.
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13 Signs You’ve Gone To The Wrong Law School
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The secret to repairing a broken conversation
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4 Tips For Lawyers On Saving For Retirement
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Speedo drops Lochte Ralph Lauren is dropping Ryan Lochte Ryan Lochte's Sponsorship Woes Ryan Lochte loses all of his endorsement deals Would Ryan Lochte’s Real Lawyer Please Stand Up? Lochte gets crushed
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Mexican President Pena Nieto is being accused of plagiarizing about a third of his law thesis
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'Making a Murderer' convict Steven Avery's lawyer says she has a new suspect for the murder
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Teen Calls 911 Because Her Parents Made Her Go on a Family Vacation
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This app wants to help you understand why people aren't responding to your emails
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The lawyer who sued Gawker into bankruptcy is now representing Melania Trump Melania Trump threatens to sue news outlets
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Bargain brawl! Female shoppers pile in to huge fight in the middle of a Chicago Walmart
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No charges for New Jersey cop who fatally shot black man with hands up
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TX: White Lives Matter Protests at NAACP
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Lawyer Takes Racist Slight To Tribunal Of Social Media
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Judges:

Hillary Clinton will likely have a unique chance to remake the federal judiciary
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Wall Street:

U.S. stocks set to bounce back as investors shrug off oil slide
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US stocks close mostly lower as oil sheds 3 pct; Yellen speech eyed
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Layoffs:

There's been a 'resurgence' of job cuts
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The Biggest American Layoff Queens of 2016
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Aviation company lays off 186 PDX workers
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Weather:

The majority of Louisianans didn't have flood insurance, and now they could lose everything
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Fishing:

Pacific Andes Peru ops deep in red in first half
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Hedge Funds:

A high-profile hedge fund has lost a third of its assets
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Gambling:

Report: Revel owner planning October soft reopening
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Student Debt:

How An Extra $100 A Month Can Cut Years Off Your Student Loan Repayment
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Wells Fargo to Pay $4M to Settle Student-Debt Practices
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Retail to Feel Pinch of $1.3 Trillion Student Debt
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Prisons:

First Step in Shutting Private Prisons The battle over private prisons is just getting started
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Steel:

Essar bankruptcy filing opens the books
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Telecoms:

Missing rooftop transmitters put wireless firm in FCC crosshairs
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Autos:

Volkswagen: a Humbled Goliath VW Stops Production at Six German Factories VW and Suppliers Settle Their Dispute After Marathon Talks VW Facing Uphill Battle Outside the U.S. in Emissions Claims
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Pensions:

The conflict at the heart of U.S. retirement plans
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Schlichter broadens attack on universities' retirement plans
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Toll Roads:

Texas: Failed Toll Road Divvies Up Ownership
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Shipping:

Daewoo Shipbuilding can survive without merger: McKinsey
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Accounting:

The beach-house lawyer calling big auditors to account
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Health and Beauty:

Spa Sydell files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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Aviation:

The Weather Isn't the Biggest Cause of U.S. Flight Delays
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Economy:

The next big consensus view in economics has arrived
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For the first time, a county in America has lost all of its Obamacare insurers
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US election could be worse than any black swan: Citi
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Business Economists Say Hillary Clinton Is Best for the Economy To professional economists, Trump isn’t even the second best presidential candidate in the race
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20 Years Since Welfare 'Reform' Child poverty has fallen 5 percent since Clinton's welfare reform
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'Hillbilly Elegy,' Trump, and the social-policy question of our time
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Yield Hunt Emboldens Companies to Chip Away Loan Safeguards
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So What If New York Is Unaffordable? That Helps the U.S.
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Banks Rush to Cover $493 Trillion Swaps Margin Rules
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US Debt Clock
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World Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

Black Knight: Fewer homeowners refinancing
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First Look at July Mortgage Data
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Former Fannie Mae CEO settles crisis-related lawsuit with SEC
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No, California's housing market didn’t fall "off a cliff" in July
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Loan officer successfully sued Trump Mortgage, but judgment came too late
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Municipalities:

Fitch cuts US Virgin Islands deeper into junk
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Oil/Gas:

Energy companies are facing another huge problem
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An Umbrella in the Rain: Protection Through Use of the Forbearance Agreement
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California’s One Action Rule: A Cautionary Tale for Energy Lenders
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EIA: U.S. shale oil production to fall sharply through 2017
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Is Oil in a Bull or Bear Market? Depends on the Day Oil on course for worst one-day loss since July Oil prices slide further as Iraq prepares to ramp up exports Oil prices are falling down a hole for one major reason
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The oil rally isn't here to stay Goldman Sachs thinks the recovery in oil prices is ‘fragile’
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Boom, Balance Or Bust: What's Next For Oil?
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OPEC Just Triggered The Biggest Crude Oil Short Squeeze In History
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Pennsylvania wants Atlas bankruptcy plan to address environmental liabilities
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$110b of debt from global oil companies to be due in 5 years
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BNP Paribas Cuts Oil Forecasts for Next Three Quarters
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Maxus Seeks OK for $2.3M Ch. 11 Retention, Severance Deal
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Flint Hills Asks Court To Decide Who Gets Oil Payment
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Pacific's Board of Directors Reaffirms Creditor/Catalyst Restructuring Transaction
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Halcon Gets Nod To Enter Restructuring Pact With Lenders
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Ross’s New Big Bet: Energy
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This S&P 500 sector performs the best when crude oil is slumping
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Involuntary Bankruptcy Petition Filed Against Bennu Titan LLC (f/k/a ATP Titan LLC)
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Politics:

Trump: 'I'm not flip-flopping' Trump’s Hollow ‘Regrets’ Donald Trump threatens to 'tell the real story' about Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski Silicon Valley Keeps Its Distance From Donald Trump Is Trump still planning on deporting 11 million people? A 12-year-old runs Trump campaign operations in key Colorado county Donald Trump’s campaign is spending money on all the wrong things Oaktree’s Howard Marks Says Trump Isn’t a Competent Candidate The Deluge After Donald Trump Trump Staff's Online Racism Posts Focus-group pollster finds that some former Trump supporters have soured on the candidate Former IRS chief says Trump has no excuse to not release his tax returns Trump's Plans for After the Election
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Colin Powell: Clinton Used Private Email ‘For a Year’ Before He Advised Her On His Practices Hillary Clinton's Latest Email Scapegoat: Colin Powell State Dept. Ordered to Review 15k Clinton Emails FBI Finds 15,000 More Clinton Emails and Will Release Them Before Election The Clinton campaign is already assuming victory in two key battleground states Why Hillary Clinton Might Win Georgia Trump: FBI cannot be trusted to 'impartially investigate Hillary Clinton's crimes' Hillary Clinton's newest headache
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Clinton emails include appeals for meetings with Peabody Energy
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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s Attempts to Soften Their Edges
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Clinton proposes standard tax deduction for small businesses
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Coal:

Peabody Energy Reaches Agreement With Illinois On Financial Assurances In Support Of Coal Mine Restoration Activities Illinois granted ‘superpriority’ claims to Peabody’s self-bonding obligations
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Coal Lobbying Loses Steam As Climate Awareness Rises
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Media:

Bankrupt Gawker founder Nick Denton begs judge to approve tenant at 76 Crosby
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Never Mind Peter Thiel. Gawker Killed Itself
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It's official: Gawker.com has closed
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What Univision saw in what's left of Gawker
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One last look at Gawker's impressive numbers
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Food/Beverage:

Fox & Hound Parent Nears DIP Deal With First-Lien Lenders
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Judge: Erie County Farms must submit new bankruptcy plan
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Debt Collection:

Monthly, Year-to-Date Debt Collection Complaints to CFPB Continue to Decline
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The “Least Sophisticated Debtor” Is Getting More Sophisticated, And Has An Improved Memory Too
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
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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 (20 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (5 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code (html) - Bankruptcy Code (pdf) Prior BK Codes (pick year from list) - Bankruptcy Rules
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UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Bankruptcy Jobs:

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Bankruptcy Statistics:

BK NV: July Filing Statistics
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Safe Harbors:

Circuit Courts Divided Following Seventh Circuit's Section 546(e) Safe Harbor Decision
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Circuit Courts Divided Following Seventh Circuit's Section 546(e) Safe Harbor Decision
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Subordination:

Hockey Owner Takes Back Seat to Other Creditors
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Recharacterization:

Too Clever by Half: Bankruptcy Court Re-characterizes Debt Owed to Insider as Equity
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Avoidance Actions:

Sacred Heart University Dodges Fraudulent Transfer Claim For Tuition Paid In Palladino
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Appeals:

Non-Final Finality: Does One Interlocutory Issue Resolved in a Bankruptcy Court Order Render All Issues Addressed in the Order Non-Appealable?
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Finality Governed by Resolution of All Issues in an Adversary Proceeding
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Equity:

Equity Didn’t Help Broker Cheated Out of His Commission by Debtor
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Autos:

VW Supply Dispute Affects 27,000
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Celebs:

Pay Up! ‘Chrisley Knows Best’ Star Todd Chrisley Owes $500K In Tax Liens
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Hulk Hogan taunts Gawker following the site's shutdown
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More 'Real Housewives' Tax Drama As IRS Hits NeNe Leakes With Massive Tax Lien
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What's left of Lou Pearlman's empire after his death?
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The story of Melania Trump's defunct caviar skin care line is sordid, but not Melania's part
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Dead Broke Dance Mom? Kendall Vertes’ Mom Jill Busted For Writing Bad Checks
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Food/Beverage:

A ‘restaurant recession’ sounds scary. Are we really on the brink of one?
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Healthcare:

Why Did Mylan Hike EpiPen Prices 400%? Because They Could 'This is a disgrace'
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Personal Finance:

The Interviewer Didn't Like It When I Started Asking Questions
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Awards:

Primoff Named Best in Insolvency & Restructuring at Americas Women in Business Law Awards
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Religion:

Advocates for alleged abuse victims announce settlement with Bergen Catholic H.S.
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Exhibitions:

Premier Exhibitions Sues France Over Titanic Artifacts
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UK:

In insolvency: Who ‘owns’ legal privilege?
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Brexit will not happen before 2020, says former civil service head
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Late payment or business failure behind a fifth of corporate insolvencies
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EU:

Stiglitz: Europe Headed Towards Disaster
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European stocks step higher, as PMI data rolls in
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PIIGS:

Italy reopens tender for four rescued banks - source
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MENA:

Nakheel becomes debt-free
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More banks join Eliezer Fishman bankruptcy demand
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Japan:

As more lawyers embezzle assets, relief fund eyed for victims
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Bahamas:

Prime Minister's Statement On Baha Mar Agreement
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