Law:
Will This Firm’s Bonuses Prove Troubling For Associate Taxes? • The Year Is Almost Over, Where’s Your Bonus?
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The year in perspective: Disappearing law firm brands in 2017
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Change at the Top? Many Law Firms Remain Unprepared
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New Dean Will Be Only Woman Of Color To Lead Top 30 Law School
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Building the Big Law Escape Kit: The Boutique Option
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Former Biglaw Partner Faces Up To 20 Years In Prison For Fraudulent Scheme
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Cybersecurity Spending at Law Firms, Legal Departments Is Predicted to Increase in 2018
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Apple apologizes for battery slowdown: 'We know that some of you feel Apple has let you down' • A huge wave of harassment claims is about to hit Congress—hard
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Mueller's team to question former RNC officials on Russia • Trump campaign adviser indicted in Mueller probe wants out of house arrest to party on New Year’s Eve • What we learned about Trump, Russia, and collusion in 2017 • Trump boasts of his policy knowledge, says Mueller will be fair • Trump: So What? Collusion with Russia is Not Illegal
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Academia faces #MeToo movement over harassment • How Hollywood is aiming to change its culture of harassment
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Eric Schneiderman Has Been A Busy Little Bee
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Greenberg Traurig Shareholder's Happy Place: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
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Sessions to Courts: Jail People for Being Poor
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Uncovered: FBI Files on Frank Sinatra
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Apple apologizes, will cut battery price after admitting it slowed down old devices
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Tightest security ever for New Year’s after deadly attacks
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12 Dead In Belmont, Bronx Fire
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Court Rules Against Anti-Gay Baker
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Judges:
Laughing Isn't Banned at US Supreme Court. Here Are Some of the Year's Best Lines
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Chemerinsky: The most important SCOTUS stories of 2017
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Wall Street:
Wall Street set for a positive open as 2017 draws to a close
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Dow sets record close, tracking to end year with 6 full weeks of gains for the first time since 1954 • Stock optimism swells as S&P 500 hits most overbought level in 22 years
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Layoffs:
Depomed reveals plans for hundreds of Newark job cuts
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HHGregg to layoff 268 company employees
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How Sweden is preparing for the robot revolution
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Politics:
Alabama's top election official — who voted for Roy Moore — rejects his 'election fraud' complaint • Roy Moore claims he took a polygraph test to dispute misconduct claims • Doug Jones certified as Alabama's first Democratic senator in 25 years • Roy Moore's Last Gasp
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Trump threatens China, says Russia inquiry makes America 'look very bad'
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Trump has set a new record for most White House departures
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Russian pranksters trick Nikki Haley
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The Rise of the Alt-Right
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Vanity Fair backlash proves the left needs to divorce Hillary Clinton
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Retailing:
Claire's pulls makeup popular with girls amid asbestos allegations
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Here's What Retailers Have to Prove in 2018
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Police disperse some 1,000 'disorderly' young people at Cherry Hill Mall
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Why the new tax bill may drive retailers to hire less, automate more
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Amazon vs. retailers: 7 takeaways from tracking holiday prices
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Steinhoff falls deeper into junk
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Holiday Shopping Rebound Dispels Doomsday Chatter for Retail in 2018
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Education:
Bishop Gorman landlord blames family who built campus for bankruptcy
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Autos:
Creditor committees want more Chapter 11 plan details from Takata's U.S. unit
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VW Tries to Block Emissions Audit in Court
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GM Wins Again as Two More Ignition-Switch Suits Are Thrown Out
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Coal:
US Officials Say They Wrongly Announced Coal Mine Expansion
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Economy:
Americans have more credit cards - and more debt, says CFPB
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New Jobless Claims Stable at 245,000
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Charities worried about donations under new tax bill • Andrew Cuomo is waging an all-out assault on the GOP tax law • Blue-state governors gear up for possible legal fight over GOP tax law • Former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros says new tax code threatens the 'fragility' of the US system • GOP Tax Bill to Add to Exploding Deficit • Is It Legal to Tax Democrats More Than GOP? • Trick May Help Blue States on New Tax Law • How to Fix the GOP Tax Plan • Netflix gives top executives a big raise, citing the new tax law as the reason • Banks Offer Cash-Strapped Clients a Way to Game Trump’s Tax Plan • US Tax Change Costing Foreign Firms Billions • How Trump’s Tax Overhaul May ‘Punish’ Foreign Banks With U.S. Units
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U.S. Is Becoming the World’s New Tax Haven
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Bill Gates says people with these 3 skills will be successful in the future job market
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The 10 jobs with the biggest annual cash bonuses
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Many Americans don't have a plan to pay off their debts
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2018’s challenge: Too many jobs, not enough workers
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What should investors worry about in 2018? Here’s a big, fat list of risk factors
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The economy is normal again
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By almost every measure, America's still on the upswing heading into 2018. Just one thing...
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CEOs Earn 245 Times More Than Workers
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Trouble ahead? What 4 recession indicators say about the economy
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Issuance of Collateralized Loan Obligations Climbs in 2017
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Licensing Makes It Harder to Go Where the Jobs Are
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Return of Volatility Foreshadowed In Economic Data
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Ca. Minimum Wage Workers get a 50 Cent Raise Next Week
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Americans’ 2018 Predictions : Foreign Strife, Strong Economy
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US Debt Clock
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World Debt Clock
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Real Estate:
Homes in US Gained $2 Trillion in Value This Year, Zillow Says • Zillow Case-Shiller Forecast: More Solid House Price Gains in November
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Freddie Mac: Mortgage Serious Delinquency rate up sharply in November
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Mortgage rates end 2017 with a whimper not a bang
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The 17 US cities where rents are soaring the most
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What to do right now if you want to prepay 2018 property taxes • No, you probably shouldn’t rush out and prepay your 2018 property taxes • This one weird trick lets blue states avoid Trump’s tax hike • The IRS’s Guidance on Property Taxes Has the U.S. Confused
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More than 13% of the homes in these states are worth more than $1 million
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Woodbridge Group of Companies Takes Action to Protect and Maximize Recoveries to Its Stakeholders • Woodbridge Files Motion To Prevent SEC Appointing Receiver Over Debtor's Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Estates?
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Reis: Apartment Vacancy Rate increased in Q4 to 4.5%
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Municipalities:
Puerto Rico Discards Activation of the National Guard
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Puerto Rico Relief Package Demands More Than Half Measures
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Oil/Gas:
Crude oil inventories fall again
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U.S offshore drilling agency rolls back safety regs
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Hyperdynamics files for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
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Mass Torts:
Retailer Claire's pulls makeup from its shelves over asbestos concerns
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Travel:
This airline has the absolute worst food (for health-conscious passengers)
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Brokers:
Citigroup Fined for Telling Clients to Buy When It Meant Sell
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Agriculture:
Judge approves McM Inc. payout to secured creditors
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Telecoms:
Judge rejects $100K daily fines in middle-mile litigation
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Media:
Point.360 Enters Into Debtor In Possession Financing Agreement
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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 (3 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (2 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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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Religion:
Judge overseeing Archdiocese’s bankruptcy case rejects both sides’ plans • Judge rejects rival proposals for ending archdiocese bankruptcy • Judge Orders Parties Involved in Archdiocese Bankruptcy Case to Return to Mediation • Twin Cities Archdiocese Bankruptcy Plans Denied By Judge • Judge overseeing Twin Cities archdiocese bankruptcy rejects both sides' plans
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Insurance:
Squire Patton Team Obtains $123 Million Judgment for Insolvent Insurer
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Miscellaneous:
2017 Bankruptcy Review And 2018 Distressed Debt Forecast
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Valuation:
Eight Unfortunate Ninth Circuit Words in Sunnyslope: “We Take the Supreme Court at its Word.”
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Distressed Investing:
Billionaire John Fredriksen Is Locked in a Junk Bond Sea Battle
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Healthcare:
New year, new affiliation, merger, and leader at TLC
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Why American doctors keep doing expensive procedures that don’t work • Maybe Half of Medical Procedures Don't Work
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Student Debt:
How race affects student debt
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Currency:
Bitcoin dips below $14,000 as South Korea bans anonymous trading
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Climate:
Megadisasters devastated America this year. They’re going to get worse.
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Southern California is (still) on fire. Now it has the largest blaze in state history.
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Trump mocks global warming in tweet
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PIIGS:
Greek government developed ambitious privatization program for 2018
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SEKAP bankruptcy set to be decided on Friday
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Is Greece Ready for a Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher?
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Austria:
BA's owner to buy bankrupt Austrian airline, Niki • One bidder still interested in buying airline Niki, Lauda pulls out
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Russia:
Aeroflot CEO warns of bankruptcy risks for Russian air carriers
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Russian court sentences Browder to 9 years in prison for deliberate bankruptcy
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India:
China Development Bank says talks with India’s indebted Reliance Communications underway • India's Reliance Jio to buy RCom's wireless assets in $3.75 bln deal • RCom-RJio deal protects lenders’ interest, says SBI chief Rajnish Kumar • RCom shares jump nearly 35% on Reliance Jio deal
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RBI won’t extend deadline for 2nd list of defaulters
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Insolvency Bill eases rules for SME promoters
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China:
Beijing court seizes assets of LeEco's Jia Yueting
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China's leaders fret over debts lurking in shadow banking system
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