Law:
Women's Groups at Top Law Schools Unite to Fight Big Law's Mandatory Arbitration • Law students pressure firms to stop banning harassment suits • T14 Law School Groups Taking A Stand Against Biglaw Mandatory Arbitration Agreements
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What Have We Learned From Biglaw Bonus Season So Far? • Allen & Overy to Match Cravath’s $100K Associate Bonuses
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Collection Lawsuits Bring Mixed Results In Law Firms' Quest for Fees
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Kilpatrick Townsend Adds New Bankruptcy Partner In NY
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New Management for Klehr Harrison's Bankruptcy/Corporate Restructuring Department
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Roundtable on women and the business of law
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Justices Revive Challenge to Mandatory Bar Association Fees • Challenge to mandatory bar returns to 8th Circuit after Supreme Court orders reconsideration
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Law Prof Who Exposed Big Law's Mandatory Arbitration is Focus of Misconduct Probe • Law School Launches Title IX Investigation Into Prominent Professor
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Beset by Problems, Thomas Jefferson Law School Tries To Avoid A Death Blow
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ABA Approves University Of Illinois-Chicago's Acquisition Of John Marshall Law School
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Senior Service: How Retired Attorneys Are Battling The Justice Gap
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Revealed: The law firms with the best perks 2018–19
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Why Is It So Much Harder To Become A Lawyer In California Than In New York?
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Legal Community Shaken in the Aftermath of Alaska Quake
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8 Hidden Benefits of Using a Mobile App for Timekeeping
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‘The Fastest-Growing Law Firm In The History Of The World’
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1L Gets Statutory Tattoo And It’s Awesome
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On Repeating, And Repeating, And Repeating The Obvious
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Avoiding Social Media Conflicts
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Why Your Client Alerts Fail; Three Ways to Fix Them
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Law Departments Need to Spend More on Legal Tech, Study Finds
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Picking the path: Take time to assess and create an intentional, joyful, satisfying life
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Top 10 tips for business lawyers
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New ethics opinion offers timely reminder of lawyers' duties after disasters
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You've been hacked: Now what?
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Survivor mentality: Law firms are seeking out professionals to hold active shooter drills
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New research and leading barrister warn profession over 'silence'
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Law firms fear Big Four and Brexit
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Management skills trumps traditional legal prowess says report
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Trump praises Roger Stone for not cooperating with Mueller • Trump says Michael Cohen should serve "full and complete sentence" • Trump demands stiff prison sentence for his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen, lashes out at Mueller • Jerome Corsi Ethics Complaint Accuses Mueller of Coercing ‘False Testimony’ • Top 9 Highlights From Jerome Corsi’s Bonkers ‘Criminal Complaint’ Against Mueller • Roger Stone and WikiLeaks: What Mueller Is Investigating • Perjury Chart: Trump Associates’ Lies, False, or Misleading Statements on Russia to Federal Authorities • Facing Prison, Michael Cohen Still Has Allies in the New York Bar • Think President Trump seems rattled now? There may be more to come • Mueller is building a conspiracy case that's likely to ensnare Trump and his family • Kellyanne Conway's husband suggests Trump is tampering with witnesses • Did Trump commit witness tampering by tweet? I asked 9 legal experts •Pro-Trump Activist Behind Discredited Robert Mueller Sex Assault Allegations Has Two Bullets Lodged in His Butt • Manafort tried to broker deal with Ecuador to hand Assange over to US • Trump's Moscow Deals and the Founders • No Sentencing Date (Yet) for Michael Flynn, Charged in Mueller Case • Mueller spokesman says Manafort memo will be made public • Legal Experts Pummel Rudy Giuliani's Defense of Trump's Controversial Roger Stone Tweet • Why Trump’s Tweet About Roger Stone’s Mueller Predicament Is More Problematic After Cohen’s Guilty Plea • Fmr Federal Prosecutor: If I Had a Wiretap and Someone Said What Trump Tweeted I’d Say ‘Wow, We Got Him on Obstruction’
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Trump administration defends Whitaker appointment as lawful
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Trump Tries to Block Discovery in Lawsuit
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Trump Lawyers to Bury Stormy in Court Fines • Trump Demands $778K From Stormy in Failed Defamation Suit
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The Supreme Court rejected an environmental group's appeal to stop Trump's border wall
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Fraternities, sororities sue Harvard, saying penalizing those in single-sex clubs violates Title IX
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Another court rules against Trump administration’s grant restrictions to sanctuary jurisdictions
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New Mexico man applying for marriage license with DC courts told he needs passport • DC Clerk and Supervisor Refuse Man Marriage License Because New Mexico Is A Foreign Country
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DUI suspect crashed car while driving 'like Ace Ventura'
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Lawyer accused of creating fake candidate pages on Facebook and Twitter to influence elections
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Mystery writers group withdraws award to former prosecutor because of controversial case
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After a mall shooting, police killed the wrong person — and repeatedly changed their story • Private Autopsy Results: Black Man Mistakenly Killed by Cops at Alabama Mall Was Shot from the Back
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Cop Fatally Shoots Army Vet Who Saved Grandson from Naked Intruder, No Charges Filed
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Court Denies Man Who Wanted to Recapture Youth by Legally Changing His Age
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Toddler Shoots His Mother in the Back
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Grandmother Mistakenly Booked into Jail as Man Even Though She Was Strip Searched
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Judges:
Many Courts To Close Wednesday For George Bush National Day of Mourning • 5th Cir. Not Closing For National Day of Mourning • BK ME Not Closing • BK ED MI Not Closing • BK ED NC Not Closing • BK VT Not Closing
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Judicial Integrity Officer Named for Federal Judiciary
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Biglaw Firm Gets Benchslapped Over Controversial Representation
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Federal Judiciary Gets Its First 'Judicial Integrity Officer'
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Wall Street:
Dow futures fall more than 100 points amid doubts over the US-China trade deal
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The Dow rallies nearly 300 points after Trump and Xi reach trade-war cease-fire
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Stocks, Oil Rise as Trade Tensions Ease, but Bonds Signal Anxiety
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Layoffs:
After Sears declared bankruptcy, employees are fighting for severance pay
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Ford’s restructuring could slash more jobs than GM’s, Morgan Stanley says • Ford To Announce 25,000 Job Cuts: Morgan Stanley
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Heartbreaking Moment GM Workers Pray Together After Company Announces Massive Layoffs
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Robot Janitors Are Coming to Mop Floors at a Walmart Near You
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SoFi Is Cutting 7% of Staff and Will Revamp Its Ailing Mortgage Unit
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Phila. bicycle company to layoff workers
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160+ to lose their jobs with closure of decades-old Phila. printing firm
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Travel:
6 airline industry secrets that will help you fly like a pro this holiday season
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United launches new 'premium economy' class between coach and business for long flights
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After massive hack, Marriott pledges to pay for new passports if fraud has taken place
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Politics:
Michelle Obama on Sheryl Sandberg's 'lean in' strategy: 'That s--t doesn’t work all the time'
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What President George H.W. Bush’s day of mourning means for stock, bond and commodity traders • Photo of George H.W. Bush's service dog mourning at his casket pulls the internet's heartstrings • George W. Bush shares the 'profound' moment he shared with his father when he entered the Oval Office for the first time as president • Gary Hart: George H.W. Bush seemed much more comfortable with Obama than Trump, and that’s very telling • George H.W. Bush's simple but profound life advice in 23 words • George H. W. Bush's Forgotten Legacy • Despite bitter family rivalry, Bush wanted Trump at his funeral • Solemn Ceremony Marks Arrival of Bush’s Casket at U.S. Capitol
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Trump begins courting Democrats
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Majority of Iowa Democratic leaders want a young 2020 candidate
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Bernie Sanders eyes bigger 2020 campaign • Looks like Bernie Sanders is running for president again, despite big warning signs
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Wisconsin Republicans are moving fast in the lame-duck session to strip the governor's power before a Democrat takes office • Wisconsin, Michigan GOP are Sore Losers
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Trump’s Political Risk Spreads to Small-Town America, Poll Finds
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Trump's Wall is Ground Zero in New Civil War
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Krugman: Climate Denial Was the Crucible for Trumpism
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Democratic women are replacing men in leadership positions
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But their emails! Some of the most contentious political issues are e-discovery disputes
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Avenatti Insists His Chances at Presidential Bid Have Only ‘Gone Up’ After Domestic Violence Arrest
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History:
1901: Roosevelt Takes on Monopolies
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Economy:
US factory activity jumps in November while construction spending falls for third month
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Jerome Powell Says Fed Has Made Progress in Promoting a Strong Economy, but Not All Have Benefited
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Mnuchin: Trump liked Fed Chair Powell's dovish interest rates speech • Fed chair’s ‘just below’ speech flips Trump from ‘not even a little bit happy’ to ‘pleased’ • Much ado about very little from the Fed
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ISM Manufacturing index increased to 59.3 in November
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GM’s layoffs signal a deeper problem for Indiana and Midwestern factory workers
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Art Cashin: I'm 'quite doubtful' of the number of rate hikes the Fed projected for 2019
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Fed's Quarles: Fed watching data but will not react to 'every wavering'
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The tax cut isn’t trickling down to workers
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Elite schools steer the futures of male and female students in starkly different ways
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Wilbur Ross: The economy is strong — the press is blowing worries about a slowdown out of proportion
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'A deferment of disaster': The Trump-Xi detente shows the US and China still have a long way to go to end the trade war • Trump's trade talks with China are back on — but it's not clear who will lead them Trump claims a "strong and personal relationship" with China's Xi Jinping • Trump Names Lighthizer to Run U.S.-China Negotiations • ‘Good’ but ‘notably light’ — how analysts are reacting to the U.S.-China trade announcement • American manufacturers say orders surge despite tariffs, key shortages, ISM finds • Kudlow says progress in US-China trade will happen 'very quickly' • As Monday's rally fades, traders wonder whether the trade cease-fire was already priced in • Trump's China truce sets up a make-or-break stretch for his promise to overhaul US trade policy • Goldman Pours Cold Water On Trade War Truce: "The Odds Of A Comprehensive Deal In 3 Months Are 20%" • US-China Trade Truce Unlikely to Last • Trump’s car deal with China is great — for other countries • Aides Push Back on China Cutting Car Tariffs • The Trade War Isn’t Over. It’s Just on Hold • Beijing's economic 'red lines' may clash with Trump's 90-day plan, analysts say
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NAFTA Suicide Note
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Trump, citing 'crazy' defense spending, seeks talks with Xi and Putin about halting the arms race
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Congress plans to delay shutdown deadline, border wall fight until the Friday before Christmas • McConnell says lawmakers will avoid government shutdown
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Census confirms: 63 percent of ‘non-citizens’ on welfare, 4.6 million households
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Attenborough: Collapse of Civilization is Near
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Year-to-Date Performance: Employment, Vehicle Sales, New Home Sales
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US Debt Clock
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World Debt Clock
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How People Really Live
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Real Estate:
Where the recovery in the housing market has come up short, in one graphic
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Construction spending dips as public works edge out home building • Construction Spending decreased slightly in October
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Delinquency Rate on Single Family Mortgages Continued to Decline in October
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Toll Brothers profit surges 62%
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Mortgage lender profits reach new low for Q3
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Reflections on the foreclosure crisis 10th anniversary
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Municipalities:
The COFINA Agreement, Part 2: Profits for the Few
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Who Owns Puerto Rico’s Debt, Exactly? We’ve Tracked Down 10 of the Biggest Vulture Firms
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More challenges for Ned Lamont: An insolvent unemployment compensation fund
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Oil/Gas:
Oil’s Swings Hit Junk Bonds, Prompting Fresh Debt-Market Concerns
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Offshore Energy Markets Deep Dive
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Cheaper Oil Isn't the U.S. Boon It Used to Be
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Oil jumps 2% on expectations of production cuts
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Report: Trump stance hurting oil sector, Texas economy
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Energy slump forces helicopter fleets that once served offshore facilities to seek new markets
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Grand jury indicts San Antonio oil and gas businessman Alfaro
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Iran: US Will Not Stop Export of Our Oil
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Energy-Focused Hedge Fund Brenham Capital to Close
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Autos:
Investors Rev Up the Risk in Subprime Auto Deals
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Ford cuts could eclipse GM's, Morgan Stanley says
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Toyota, Honda US sales fall in November
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GM has barely paid federal taxes for years. Here's why
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Post-Reorg GM Continues To Re-Invent Itself
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Fiat's US Sales Fall by Over 40 Percent
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Environmental:
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Media:
Television holds ground for news, as print fades: US study
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Fraud:
November 2018 Ponzi Scheme Roundup
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3 Lessons From Enron's Bankruptcy, 17 Years Later
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The wives of white-collar crime: Support group aims to help families and end stigma
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SEC, CFTC Accuse Utah Man Of $170 Million Silver-Trading Ponzi Scheme
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Radio:
iHeartMedia Announces Overwhelming Creditor Support for Plan
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Student Debt:
FTC Cracks Down on Debt Relief Scheme: How to Find Trustworthy Resources
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Awards:
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP: Corporate, Restructuring Practices Win Four Americas M&A Atlas Awards • Full M&A Atlas Awards List
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Healthcare:
Bankruptcy court approves sale of Mississippi hospital
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Specialized OKC Cancer Clinic Files For Bankruptcy
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Cancer therapy developer Argos files for bankruptcy to sell itself • New Delaware Chapter 11 Filing – Argos Therapeutics, Inc.
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We have a new worst-case scenario for Obamacare
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ACA enrollment slides even with state mandates
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FactCheck: "$21T in Pentagon accounting errors. Medicare for All costs ~$32T. That means 66% of Medicare for All could have been funded already by the Pentagon." • The Misleading Claim That $21 Trillion in Misspent Pentagon Funds Could Pay for ‘Medicare for All’
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Bankruptcy Crimes:
Benicia Man Pleads Guilty to Bankruptcy Fraud
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Tech:
Apple downgraded by HSBC, which said iPhone maker is 'facing the reality of market saturation'
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Sharp contractors axe 3,000 staff as iPhone sensor output shifts: union
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Slowing economy could increase pressure on Big Tech
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Coal:
Trump officials, energy execs to speak at pro-coal event during UN climate talks
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Defaults:
US Leveraged Loan Default Rate Dips to 1.61%
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Electricity:
FirstEnergy Solutions’ Chapter 11
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Conglomerates:
Why Woebegone GE Just Might Turn Around
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Religion:
New Mexico's largest diocese files bankruptcy petition • Santa Fe archdiocese submits bankruptcy filing • New Mexico archdiocese to file for bankruptcy over abuse • SF Archdiocese filed its bankruptcy petition Monday
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Minnesota diocese aims to sweep litigation with insurers into bankruptcy
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Pa. Grand Jury Priest Abuse Report to Remain Redacted, Justices Rule
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Russian Orthodox Church Priest Consecrates Holy Anti-Aircraft Missile Of Antioch
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Marijuana:
Fox & Friends pushes string of misleading claims about marijuana
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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 (20 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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Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Case Studies
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Bankruptcy Jobs:
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
BK CD CA: Bankruptcy filings in October, 2018
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Why are so many American farmers going bankrupt?
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Weekly Bankruptcy Claims Trading Activity
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Hawaii bankruptcy filings for 2018 jump to 3-year high
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Bankruptcy Reform:
US Lawmakers Want Cheaper Chapter 11 For SMBs
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Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Bankruptcy for Banks and Proposed Chapter 14
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U.S. Lawmakers Propose New Bankruptcy Process for Small Businesses
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Claims:
Appellate Court Reverses Disallowance of Lender’s Post-Bankruptcy Unsecured Legal Fees
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DIP Finance:
Ninth Circuit BAP Denies Retroactive Approval of Postpetition Financing
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Valuation:
Fifth Circuit Adopts Flexible Approach to Collateral Valuation in Cramdown Chapter 11 Cases
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Litigation:
Other People's Money: Rise of litigation finance companies raises legal and ethical concerns
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Top 10 tips for litigators
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The Privilege When Your Attorney is the Best (or Only) 30(b)(6) Witness
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Venue:
28 U.S.C. § 1404 or 28 U.S.C. § 1412? The Debate Over Venue Transfer Statutes Continues.
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Contracts:
My Favorite Two Sentences From a Recent Case . . .
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Contract 'busts': Trying to decipher provisions that literally make no sense
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Lien Avoidance:
Can the Court Avoid a Judgment Lien under 522(f) When the Debtor Owns no Real Property?
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Miscellaneous:
Eye On Bankruptcy
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Priorities:
Did Jevic Doom Future Chapter 11 Recovery Efforts By Unsecured Creditors?
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Cryptocurrency:
Bitcoin drops 8% to kick off December
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Retailing:
Ace Hardware, Centerbridge consider bid for Sears' home services unit
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Eddie Lampert Shattered Sears, Sullied His Reputation, and Lost Billions of Dollars. Or Did He?
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U-Haul shells out millions for 13 shuttered Kmart, Sears stores
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Neiman Marcus bondholder revolts over restructuring • Neiman Marcus Creditor Steps up Attack on MyTheresa Transfer Plan
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Costco downgraded as members-only retailer faces higher sales hurdles
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Amazon briefly becomes the world's most valuable publicly traded company • The man who predicted that Amazon would buy Whole Foods now expects the tech giant will soon be the world's fastest-growing healthcare company • Amazon reportedly just took one step closer to automating Whole Foods stores, and it reveals a road map for the future of shopping
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Bankrupt Performance Bicycle starts store-closing sales; Philly warehouse gets layoff warning
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Gymboree considers closing half its stores
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Jet's Cyber Monday revenue plummeted 39%
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Tech:
The shocking truth: In Silicon Valley wages are down for everyone but the top 10 percent
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Personal Finance:
John Ninfo: Should personal finance classes be required in high school?
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Millennials are using Facebook and Twitter to name their children
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Climate:
After a California Wildfire, New and Old Homeless Populations Collide
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Celebs:
Duane Martin Accused of Scamming Bankruptcy Officials by Hiding Funds
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Boris Becker drops claim of diplomatic immunity from bankruptcy
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Reggie Rucker, ex-Cleveland Brown who stole from anti-violence nonprofits, files for bankruptcy
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Milo Lost His Audience, Still Owes Millions
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Cardi B Was Too Busy for Court, Says Her Big Law Attorney
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Al Sharpton Sells His Own Life’s Story To His Own Charity For $531,000
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Radio:
Is iHeart's Combatant Creditor Quandary Overblown?
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Auto Racing:
Bondurant Racing School Reopens, but Gears Still Stuck in Bankruptcy
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UK:
Presenting legal advice, May fans flames of Brexit rebellion • UK’s May says she’ll still have her job after Brexit vote • U.K. Can Revoke Brexit, EU Court Advises • Theresa May Faces Brexit Defeat • UK Expects Sharp Brexit Slowdown in 2019
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Katie Price due in court as she attempts to swerve bankruptcy for second time • Katie Price miraculously swerves bankruptcy as she ‘reaches agreement’ with creditors
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Taxman has too many powers and taxpayers are treated unfairly, says report
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Northamptonshire council handed bailout to avert insolvency
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PIIGS:
Greece delays bond sale after Italian market turbulence
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Boom times for Ireland's legal profession
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Canada:
Retailer Crabtree & Evelyn files for bankruptcy • Crabtree and Evelyn closing stores, seeks bankruptcy protection amid 'significant losses'
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Craft brewers may be left high and dry by supplier's money woes
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Sears pensioners hope to recoup their losses in $509M lawsuit
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Investors burned in Istuary bankruptcy claim auction process for group’s assets was a ‘fraud’
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France:
Photos show Paris streets erupting in protest and 'extreme and unprecedented violence' • Riots, looting and violence: Here's what's happening in France and why it matters • The French "Yellow Vest" Movement and the (Current) Failure of Representative Democracy • High school students are blasted with tear gas and whacked with batons as thousands leave school to protest amid 'Yellow Vest' riots across France • France’s Antigovernment Protesters Balk at Negotiations - "Leaderless movement" • France to announce delay on fuel tax hike after violent riots: reports
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MENA:
Saudi Arabia’s New Bankruptcy Court Gets a $6 Billion Test
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India:
Single solution for IL&FS crisis, debt not possible, NCLT told
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Making home owners creditors under IBC may not solve the problem
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Supreme Court Upholds Equitable Value Maximization Under The Insolvency And Bankruptcy Code.
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Australia:
RCR Tomlinson creditor claims forecast at $630m; investors last in the queue
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Late Payments Spur Australian Subcontractors’ Advocacy
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High Court of Australia rules that “holding” deeds of company arrangements are valid
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Barbados:
External creditors present proposal to Govt
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