October 26, 2016

The Daily Bankruptcy News

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Law:

Weil, Sidley Snag Roles on Two More Big Energy Bankruptcies
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Women And The Panopticon Of The Law (Part 4): Death To the Queen Bee
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5 Reasons Compensation For Women Partners Lags Behind That Of Male Partners
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Biglaw Hiring Bias? Men With High-Class Hobbies More Likely To Get Summer Associate Interviews Than Women
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Judge Tosses $35M Malpractice Claim Against Skadden
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Law Firm Seeks Dismissal of Case After Raid on Litigation 'War Room'
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The American Bar Association’s Cowardice ABA official expressed concern but didn’t ban report calling Trump ‘a libel bully,’ spokeswoman says How ABA's Unease Over Trump Article Hatched a First Amendment Flap
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Deloitte Survey Finds Increase of IP Cyberthefts on the Horizon
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Contingent Value Rights Offer A Model for Litigation Finance
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You Are Probably Asking Yourself The Wrong Legal Technology Questions
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What To Do When Work Is Too Intense
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Are You Experiencing Job Burnout?
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$1,000 To Write My Law School Assignment
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Beyond Biglaw: Testing For Practical Intelligence
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That Terrible Feeling When A Client Totally Screws Up Your Friday Night Over Nothing
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Travel Tips From A Road Warrior
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Meet the World Series' Legal Heavy Hitters
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New Jersey Bar Exam Results Reveal The Worst Passage Rates In A Decade
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4 essential body language tips from a world champion public speaker
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Artificial intelligence predicted case outcomes with 79% accuracy by analyzing fact portrayal
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13 Federal Crimes that are Almost Too Bizarre to Believe
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AT&T is Spying on Americans for Profit
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Judges:

Clarence Thomas: 25 Years Without Footprints Did new black history museum snub Justice Thomas? Spokeswoman says it can’t include everyone
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Judge Robert Martin accepts Distinguished Achievement Award
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Retired judges to hear appeal from suspended Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore
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Posner says Supreme Court is ‘awful,’ top two justices are OK but not great
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Harry Reid's Parting Shot: Dems Will Nuke The Filibuster For SCOTUS
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Supreme Court Appointments Don’t Always Work Out
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Narrowing Down Clinton’s Choices For Supreme Court Nominee
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Wall Street:

Stock futures
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Stocks close in the red on mixed earnings
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Layoffs:

Layoffs at Twitter: What's going on?
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Baker Hughes posts loss after cutting 2,000 more jobs
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Autos:

Judge approves $15B Volkswagen settlement Anger still flares after judge OKs Volkswagen emissions deal
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Politics:

Bankruptcy expert studies Trump casinos Trump descends into lengthy defense of conduct with women when asked about baseless 'rigged' polls claims Trump's Graying Army Does Trump Understand What Obamacare Is? Experts explain why the presidential election would be next to impossible to rig How Donald Trump spends his billions 3 US senators want the women's US golf open moved away from Trump's New Jersey course Hillary Clinton Campaign Video Highlights Trump Housing Discrimination Case Fact-free conservative media is a symptom of GOP troubles, not a cause Another Victim of This Election: The Verb 'To Trump' Donald Trump’s Visit to Mexico Could Have Gone Better, President Peña Nieto Says Trump in 2014: “I don’t like to analyze myself because I might not like what I see” Richard Branson: 'Dangerous' to have Trump in White House Trump cites police, military, ICE endorsements that didn't happen 'Watch what happens to her': Trump campaign goes after Megyn Kelly
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Campaigns Brace for Election-Day Legal Battles
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Bernie defended Clinton on her leaked emails — but he couldn't resist taking one shot
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How Democrats Ran Off Their Own Voters
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George Soros is at the heart of one of the most misguided conspiracy theories of the 2016 election
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What Happens to Paul Ryan If Trump Loses?
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Why have Americans lost trust in government?
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Personal Finance:

The 6 rules you should always follow if you're considering loaning money to a family member
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Distressed Investing:

Oak Hill Advisors Raises $2.7B For New Distressed Debt Fund
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Gambling:

Caesars unit reaches deal with holdout creditor Trilogy
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Economy:

Consumer Confidence Falls in October
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Caterpillar Lowers Sales Forecast as Rebound Proves Elusive
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Chemical Activity Barometer indicated Solid Growth in October
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Easy business exit is as important as easy business entry
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Slow-motion crisis has echoes of Savings & Loan
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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:

Judge Farris Disagrees with 11th Circuit on ‘Surrender’ as Waiver of Foreclosure Defenses
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U.S. Home-Price Growth Warmed Up in August Case-Shiller: National House Price Index increased 5.3% year-over-year in August
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US May Delay Bank's Fines Over Mortgages
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Real Prices and Price-to-Rent Ratio in August
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Mortgage "Foreclosure Rate Falls to Nine-Year Low" in September
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Paramus building manager files Chapter 11
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Schuylkill Mall owner files for bankruptcy
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Judge rules that DR Horton engaged in deceptive practices, must pay $16.3M
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Municipalities:

Atlantic City's 5-year plan to avoid bankruptcy includes service, city staff cuts
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More than half of Detroit school board candidates have money problems
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Oil/Gas:

Oil dives below $50 on report Russia is against a production cut US crude settles down 1.1% at $49.96, pressured by OPEC squabbling Oil is falling on fears that OPEC's production cut deal is dead Lowest level in a week Oil Prices Fall Ahead Of Inventory Reports
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World Bank: Oil to Cost $55 in 2017
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Oilfield cutbacks continue in the early steps of a potential recovery
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213 oil companies have declared bankruptcy ; How hard it is to be an oilfield service company
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Texas wildcatter eyes IPO after previous company exits bankruptcy
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Why Oil Bankruptcies Are Backfiring
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Crude Decline Brings Rise of ‘Quickie’ Bankruptcy
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Hard times in the oil patch: tax implications for investors in the era of price fluctuations
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Key Energy Services Commences Reorganization via Voluntary Chapter 11 Filing; Receives Approval of Critical "First Day" Motions Moody's downgrades Key Energy's PDR to D-PD on Chapter 11 filing
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Weatherford International reported $1.78 billion loss, completes job cuts
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Valero’s profit falls by more than half in third quarter
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Samson Set To Seek Final Approval Of $660M In Ch. 11 Sales
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Deferred Rig Deliveries Drive Singapore's Sembcorp Marine Into 3Q Loss
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Canadian Oil Is Building A Wall And Mexico Is Paying For It
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Basic Energy Services: The Opportunity After the Storm
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Lawyers Warn Pipeline Case May Turn Midstreamers “On Their Heads”
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Big Oil Braces for More Profit Pain as Refining Safety Net Slips
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Retailing:

Sports Authority Bankruptcy Puts a Dent in Under Armour's Business Under Armour shares tumble on downbeat growth outlook Under Armour takes biggest plunge since 2009
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The U.S. Retail Environment? It's Doing Just Fine, Thanks
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Education:

What the ITT Tech bankruptcy trustee wants
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Shuttering of For-Profit College Brews Fury
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Healthcare:

'Cancer made me broke'
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Obamacare rates rise over 50% in Arizona for 2017 Arizona O.Care Plan to Jump by 116%
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Obamacare: Sick - but not in death spiral
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Solar:

D.E. Shaw offers to replace SunEdison as TerraForm Power's sponsor
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Shipping:

Managing the aftermath of a major carrier bankruptcy
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After 20,000 job cuts, world's biggest shipyards brace for more
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Agriculture:

Suit: Grain buyer cost Turner $14M
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(2 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 (13 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (3 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:

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

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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Percentage of Business Bankruptcy Filings by State for Q3 2016
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Cross-Border:

Cross Border Insolvency Regulations 2006- Lifting the automatic stay on proceedings in the English courts
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Sanjel (USA) Inc. – Chapter 15 Creditors May Challenge Reach of Stay in Recognition Order
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Sovereign Immunity:

Sovereign Immunity Insulates Government from Emotional Distress Claims
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Mediation:

Include “Settlement Document Preparation” in Pre-Mediation Checklist to Avoid Wasteful Litigation
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TBTF:

New Bank ‘Living Will’ Structure A Creative Effort In Shuffling Titanic Deck Chairs
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Deceptive Trade Practices:

Can Forcing a Company into Bankruptcy be an Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practice?
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Banking:

Wells Fargo fallout could tally $4 billion in revenue, up to 30% customer drop, study says
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First NBC Bank's Troubles Mount - Investor says it should consider a pre-packaged bankruptcy
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Celebs:

What you can learn from the NFL stars who lost millions in bad investments
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Dance Moms’ Abby Lee Miller “Freaking Out”
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Wrestling:

WWE in negotiations to buy insolvent TNA wrestling
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Fraud:

11th Circ. Backs Fraud Conviction Despite Privilege Breach
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UK:

New rules to guide insolvency practice from April 2017 published
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The pound fell off a cliff
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A warning to 861,000 U.K. workers: Robots are coming for your jobs
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PIIGS:

Spain Moves From Deadlock to Gridlock
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Abengoa units must turn over documents to creditors -U.S. judge
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MENA:

UAE bankruptcy law could put court system under pressure
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New bankruptcy law will draw investment, says DIFC Courts chief
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The UAE’s Bankruptcy Law For Businesses Is Finally Here
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Can Saudi Arabia Scramble Out Of The Pit It Dug for Itself?
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Bahamas:

Call For Clarity On Baha Mar
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Izmirlian Bids To Regain Control Of Newly Sold Baha Mar
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South Korea:

Bank Of Korea Chief Calls For Consistent Corporate Restructuring
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Mozambique:

Mozambique Yields Hit Record After Admitting Debt Distress Mozambique tells creditors debt levels "unsustainable" Mozambique Approaches Creditors Over Debt Restructuring Mozambique's $726m tuna bond hits record low
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Venezuela:

4 reasons why Venezuela became the world's worst economy
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