February 12, 2018

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Law:

Why Are You A Lawyer, And Why Are You Here?
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Blurry BigLaw Definition Of 'Partner' Fuels Gender Bias Suits
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Which Am Law 200 Firms Promoted The Most Attorneys?
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New Charges Filed in Case of Slain Florida Law Professor
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Child P--- Conviction Leads to Ex-Skadden Partner's Disbarment
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Go-To Trump Lawyer's Law Firm Changes Name Amid Partnership Split
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What It Really Takes To Go On Vacation
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Texas Firms Lagged in Revenue, Profit Growth in 2017, But Led in Cutting Expenses
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Sidley Tops $2 Billion as Profits, Revenue Rise Again
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Revenue Rockets Up 49 Percent at Kobre & Kim
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White & Case Reaps Benefits From Record High Revenue
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BLP and Bryan Cave to decide on merger by end of February as voting process gets underway
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Survival of the fittest: Darwin wins race to replace Picon as DLA Piper International senior partner
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Why Letting Legal Marketers Take the Lead on Client Discussions Could Boost Innovation
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Corporate Law Still Not Ready for AI, Survey Says
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Last Year, Women At This Magic Circle Firm Earned About 40 Percent Less In Bonuses Than Men UK law firms reveal gender pay gap What the U.K. Is Teaching Us So Far on Gender and Pay
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2,089 wannabe barristers submit 14,516 applications for just 224 pupillage spots The law firms that trainees and junior lawyers most admire – 2018 edition
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Dear Trump: Please Stop Hiring Harvard Law Grads Because We Are The Actual Worst
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The Vanilla Ice Rule
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A Librarian By Any Other Name…
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What Makes The 1st Year Of Law School Crazier? Playing Division l Basketball
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iPhone and iPad apps for lawyers
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LinkedIn for Lawyers LinkedIn a Connection Tool for Lawyers
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Q: What Do Law Firm Knowledge Managers Want? A: Automation
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Berkeley Law Alum And Former NFL Player Colin Allred On Following Obama, The American Dream, And His Path Back To Dallas
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Chevron Fights Cities' Climate Suits With ‘Creative Lawyering ’
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Money Mindset
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The person next in line to oversee the Mueller investigation suddenly stepped down Rachel Brand Just Outmaneuvered President Trump Trump should take the Fifth 'Political theater': The House Intelligence Committee's Russia investigation is nearing the point of no return Darkness at Nunes Trump Blocks Democrats' Rebuttal to Nunes Trump orders redactions to a Democratic memo a week after declassifying a Republican version Ex-Bush lawyer: Trump's memo decision a 'massive strategic miscalculation' Intel Committee Democrat says Trump's hypocrisy on the memos 'reaches out and grabs you by the throat' Trump refuses to declassify 'political' Democratic response to GOP Russia memo Here are all the Russia investigation memos that we know about and what's in them ‘Botox and Looks Horrible’: Anti-Trump FBI Agent Trash Talked Fox News, Megyn Kelly The Grassley Letter Everyone Is Ignoring Is Way More Important Than the Nunes Memo Poll: Americans Trust FBI, Mueller Over Trump Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on 60 Minutes: 6 key quotes
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Woodward and Bernstein compare Trump and Nixon
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Dentons Ousts Partner Amid Probe Into Claims of Inappropriate Behavior Dentons partner leaves firm following allegations of misconduct Women Lawyers in the #MeToo Era Workplace 'Love Contracts' Draw Renewed Focus in #MeToo Era A powerful statement from the family of a Hollywood producer who committed suicide shows a different side of the #MeToo movement Dem Senator Tom Carper Admitted to Giving His Ex-Wife a Black Eye Trump defends former staffer accused of domestic abuse: 'We wish him well' White House reportedly knew about abuse claims against Rob Porter for a year, but kept him on job BatteredWifeGate - Top White House Lawyer Don McGahn Pulled into Scandal John Kelly just said he found out the Rob Porter spousal abuse allegations were 'true' Tuesday night Kellyanne Conway defends jumbled White House response to Rob Porter's ouster in back-to-back interviews Fox News host Jeanine Pirro blames Barack Obama for Rob Porter wife-beating scandal Academia’s #MeToo Movement Expands From Cincinnati to Shanghai As Congress Considers Legislation Targeting Academic Institutions Michigan State University expected to fire dean after Larry Nassar scandal Oxfam: Scandals Could Lose the Charity Millions Next Up for Abuse Allegations? Fassbender Echoes of the Mommy Wars in #MeToo Guess forms special committee to investigate harassment claims against CEO Witch hunts should be left in the Middle Ages’: Oscar-winning film director blasts #MeToo
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Draft DHS Report Called for Long-Term Surveillance of Sunni Muslim Immigrants
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Bail Revoked for Star Witness in NY Bribery Case After Confession To New Crime On Witness Stand
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White House floats DACA compromise Senate free-for-all on immigration Nearly Everyone Loses If Immigration Deal Fails
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Trump takes ‘shackles’ off ICE, which is slapping them on immigrants who thought they were safe
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Princeton Professor Asks If The N-Word Can Be Protected Speech . . . Students Walk Out and Protest To University
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The Curious Case of the ETF Maven Who's Making Lawyers Very Rich
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Police Held This Man Down Until His Flesh Cooked Away. Now He's Suing for $26 Million.
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Car Thief Steals Running Car . . . Then Calls Owner To Help In Restarting It
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FL: Waitress Fired for Complaining About No Tip on $735 Order
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Inside the Abrupt End of Google vs. Uber Google vs. Uber Trial: 9 Goofy Moments Uber Litigator in Finite Women’s League in Big Law
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West Virginia Woman Dragged Out of Capitol for Reading
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Americans Dissatisfied With U.S. Gun Laws Congress considers concealed carry reciprocity across state lines
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Lawyers Can’t Secretly Track Emails, Illinois Bar Says
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Judges:

Supreme Court on the verge of reversing some of its old decisions
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Judge Judy: Viewers like to see women in control
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Devin Nunes Casually Muses About Hauling Chief Justice Before Congress
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Trump-Appointed Judges Laying Down The Law In ‘Baby Judges School’
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Seventh Circuit Tells District Court to Tighten Up Its Orders
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Wall Street:

U.S. Stock Futures Climb as Investors Return After Brutal Week Dow futures rally more than 250 points, as focus turns to Trump’s infrastructure plan US stocks are set to rally at the open as global markets bounce back
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European stocks bounce back after biggest weekly drop in a year
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Investors brace for more swings as U.S. inflation specter rises Investors Brace for More Market Turbulence After Rocky Week
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Market drop is a ‘welcome correction’ for the IMF, says Christine Lagarde
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Global markets could have "a much bigger shakeout coming"
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Stocks whipsaw after falling into correction Dow tumbles 350 points in wild trading, heads for worst week in 9 years Dow tumbles 500 points, another 2%, on track for worst week since 2008 Dow jumps more than 300 points, but still posts the worst week in 2 years
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The stock market has turned nasty. It was long overdue.
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Stocks and bonds can go down together in volatile trading following wildest week in two years
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Record $23 Billion Flees World’s Largest ETF
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JPMorgan strategist calls Dow dive a reminder that 'there's no such thing as a free lunch' in market
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Wall Street is piling back into the trade that blew up earlier this week
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Dow travels more than 22,000 points in one of the wildest weeks since the financial crisis
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Survivor: S&P 500 Edition
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History suggests the correction isn’t anywhere near over
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How low will the Dow go? Brace yourself for the worst-case scenario
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Remember when the head of the world’s largest hedge fund said you’d ‘feel pretty stupid’ holding cash? How’d that work out?
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5 great questions Americans are asking about the market’s crazy ride
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A Fed official called the stock market's plunge 'small potatoes' — but those comments miss the point
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Stock and bond markets are doing a strange thing that is reminiscent of the 1987 crash
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This stock-market shakeout looks a lot like 1996-97
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Wall Street lays out the case for a comeback that would quickly erase the stock market's plunge
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JPMorgan has found a trigger for the next big market collapse
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The former Target manager who made millions on a trade that just blew up refuses to throw in the towel
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What’s really to blame for the sudden shattering of the stock market’s calm?
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Layoffs:

Warning: Avoiding Bankruptcy Pitfalls Under the WARN Act
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OxyContin maker stops promoting opioids, cuts sales staff
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U.S. Workers Unsure About Securing Training if AI Takes Jobs
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Irvine Co. announces 63 layoffs
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Alcon Entertainment to Reduce Operations, Cutting Jobs
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261 to be laid off in Prudhoe Bay
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Pasadena Unified to cut 139
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More than 500 employees to be laid off at DHL Supply Chain
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Michigan auto supplier lays off 77 workers
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Travel:

A $65 million luxury pet terminal at JFK Airport is on the brink of closing after just one year — and its owner is furious
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A flight attendant wants passengers to stop walking barefoot in the aisles — and cabin crew reveal the other irritating things people do in the sky
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Student Debt:

Student loans - the debt collector contracts
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Millennials' Spending Weighed Down by Student Debt, Expert Warns
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The case for erasing every last penny of student debt
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Distressed Investing:

The U.S. Junk-Bond Market Just Had Its Worst Week in Two Years
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Ex-Millennium Manager Starts Fund to Tap Rising Distress
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Economy:

U.S. Budget Director Warns Interest Rates May ‘Spike’ on Deficit
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U.S. Fiscal ‘Deterioration’ Pressures Top Rating, Moody’s Says
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Investors Are the Guinea Pigs in U.S. Fiscal Experiment
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Why America's About to Pivot from Cheering the Economy to Fearing the Debt
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US Treasury yields rise to a new 4-year high as inflation concerns drag on
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Merrill: "The $1 trillion dollar budget deficit"
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Fact Check: "George W. Bush doubled the debt from $5 trillion to $10 trillion. President Obama doubled the debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion. Now we're on course to exceed $30 trillion in the next seven years or so."
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Congress is spending as if we’re in a recession instead of saving up to fight the next one Congress holds its nose over U.S. fiscal restraint
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In big reversal, new Trump budget will give up on longtime Republican goal of eliminating deficit
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Prime Working Age Population
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GDPNow Latest forecast: 4.0 percent
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January was the strongest month for hiring in 9 months: LinkedIn report
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The Fed is officially in a nail-biting showdown with Wall Street
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Americans Didn't Get Much of a Raise in 2017
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Workers are down $10 trillion, and the stock market is worried about a 9-cent an hour raise?
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Growing trend: Employers doling out bonuses instead of raises AT&T, Other Companies Play Tax Arbitrage In Paying Worker Bonuses In Response To Trump Tax Cuts
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Saving Jobs Only After the Crisis is Long Over
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Here’s the really bad news: Only half of Americans actually own stocks
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Trump signs massive spending deal into law and ends year's second government shutdown Bitter immigration fight is no closer to ending after budget deal passes Big-spending budget pact rattles markets, threatens what some analysts see as a 'next fiscal crisis' Congress raids the Federal Reserve's piggy bank again, this time to help pay for the new budget deal Mulvaney: "Probably" wouldn't have voted for "dangerous" budget bill Conservatives who vowed to cut spending keep spending
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Restaurant sales fall in January as tax overhaul fails to boost spending Tax overhaul is a credit negative for tech sector, S&P says CVS Health CEO Reveals How It Will Benefit From Tax Reform How The Trump Tax Cuts Handed GM A $5 Billion Loss
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BAML: The Fed is doing something not seen since the 1987 market crash — and that could mean more pain for stocks
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Workers, here's how to wrangle a pay raise out of corporate tax cuts
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The White House is preparing to release its budget – and it won't balance White House Races to Rewrite Budget as Lawmakers Boost Spending Trump plan will drop GOP’s traditional goal of balancing budget within 10 years Key White House budget request includes billions for Trump's wall
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Trump Wants Cuts to Domestic Programs
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Trudeau Sees Path Forward on NAFTA
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China is Gaining on Us? Does Anyone Care?
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In Houston, 45% Pay Hikes Are Dangled to Lure Immigrant Workers
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Democrats Propose Their Own Trillion-Dollar Infrastructure Plan Ahead of Trump
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White House reportedly wants to privatize the International Space Station The space race goes private
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Number Of Americans Renouncing Their U.S. Citizenship Fell In 2017, The First Decline In Five Years Leaving America: It’s Not as Unpatriotic as You Think
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Hotels: Solid Start for Occupancy Rate in 2018
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Trump set to unveil infrastructure plan Monday Trump's Infrastructure Plan Is Light on Details Trump May Struggle on $1 Trillion Pledge to Fix Crumbling U.S. To Save Our Infrastructure, Make Every Road a Toll Road Here's what's in the Trump administration's $200 billion infrastructure plan Trump's plan to overhaul US infrastructure faces steep hurdles
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Americans Will Struggle to Grow Old at Home
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Big Financial Shakeout is Still Coming
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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:

Housing: Inventory is Key
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Selected Operating Statistics, Large Publicly-Traded Home Builders
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Kushner Companies Decides to Fight Tenants in State Court Rather Than Reveal Its Investors’ Identities
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Mortgage Delinquency Rate Increases in 4Q 2017 Mostly Due to Hurricanes
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Municipalities:

Puerto Rico Hit With New Blackout After Explosion
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Puerto Rico to Get $16Bn in Disaster Aid
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Gov. Tom Wolf expected to end state oversight of Pittsburgh's finances Monday
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Oil/Gas:

Oil falls below $60 for first time this year, on track for biggest weekly drop in 11 months
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Rig Counts Soar as Oil Prices Collapse OPEC hikes 2018 oil supply growth forecast on flood of US crude Oil gains 2 pct as global markets stabilize, dollar dips Oil Prices: Collapse Now, Spike Later
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How soaring U.S. oil exports to China are transforming the global oil game
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50% of Public Buses to be Electric by 2025
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OPEC Oil Price Nightmare Coming True
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U.S. budget deal will trim the nation’s oil reserve by 15%
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Seadrill nears comprehensive restructuring deal
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Uresti accused of taking ‘blood money’ as criminal trial enters week four
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Politics:

Trump’s “Draining the Swamp” Scorecard: One Year In
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The knives are coming out for John Kelly Rob Porter telling different story than John Kelly With John Kelly under fire, Mick Mulvaney reportedly emerges as possible next Trump chief of staff Trump has floated 3 potential Kelly replacements John Kelly Told Staffers to Give Possibly False Account About How He Handled Porter Fiasco, Report Says John Kelly reportedly said he was willing to resign over the Rob Porter scandal Kellyanne Conway says Trump told her to tell the media that John Kelly won't be fired anytime soon Obama's DHS Secretary: John Kelly "should stay in the job"
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The shutdown was stupid, but Congress is now more functional than it has been in years
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Judge Appears Sympathetic to Emoluments Lawsuit Against President Trump
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Trump defends former aide embroiled in abuse scandal: 'He says he's innocent' Trump Praises Porter Trump's Off Script Abuse Remarks The False-Accuser-in-Chief Mick Mulvaney: Trump and Kelly gave Rob Porter "benefit of the doubt" 'Where there is abuse, there is cover-up': Rob Porter's ex-wife slams Trump for supporting former aid after abuse allegations Twisted: Trump says Porter sick, guilty; defends him publicly White House can’t gets its story straight on Rob Porter exit If Rob Porter’s Accusers are Liars, Why Hasn’t He Threatened to Sue? Mike Pence diverges from Trump in response to Rob Porter scandal The cops, the FBI, and the White House all knew about the allegations against Rob Porter — they just didn't care Trump launches into morning tweetstorm on Russia and White House domestic abuse controversy Trump's defense of Rob Porter is eerily similar to ones he used for Putin and Roy Moore Rob Porter Is a National Security Scandal, Too Here are all the Trump-linked officials who have been accused of violence against women The White House just lost a second staffer in less than a week over abuse allegations
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A shadowy Russian tried to lure US officials into falling for 'kompromat' on Trump Negotiating with Russians to Buy Stolen Docs CIA: We Didn't Pay for Russian Trump Secrets
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Pennsylvania Republicans have drawn a new congressional map that is just as gerrymandered as the old one
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How the exact same House election can produce a 65-seat Democratic majority or a 92-seat Republican one Will partisan gerrymandering survive the Supreme Court?
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Senate Democrat wants documents from Trump’s 2008 sale of Florida estate to Russian billionaire Trump Sold a $40 Million Estate to a Russian Oligarch for $100 Million—and a Democratic Senator Wants to Know Why
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Rep. Scalise Says Thomas Jefferson Wrote the Constitution (He Didn't)
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Democrats Seek Records Tying Trump to AT&T-Time Warner
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Author: Bannon 'Didn't Want To Be Wet Nurse' For Trump
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Hillary Clinton Needs to Move On
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Hotels:

Bankruptcy case involving Morgantown hotel dismissed
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Non-Profits:

WV High Tech Consortium officials now ready to dismiss bankruptcy outright
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Solar:

An Uncertain Future for Solar
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What past experience tells us about the impact of new American solar tariffs
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Coastal California has a reputation as a leader in green energy — but only the rich are benefiting
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Corporate Reform:

Wall Street's Hot CLO Machine Freed From Post-Crisis Rules
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Retailing:

Supplier Strategies for the Financially Distressed Buyer
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Sears Canada Creditors Zero In On Lampert Payments
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Sears pensioners seek ex-judge as ‘litigation trustee’ Sears retirees wait to learn fate of their pensions and wonder where the money went
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U.S. retailer rue21 in search of financing months after exiting bankruptcy -sources
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Amazon’s newest delivery program may not be the threat to UPS and FedEx that some think
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Steinhoff's Wiese Takes Billions in Losses as Stake Falls
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Bon-Ton’s Bankruptcy Threatens $171M in CMBS, Worsens Troubled Malls’ Plight
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What’s in Store for the Factoring Business With Fewer Stores on the Retail Landscape?
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings (41 new filings today)
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Automatic Stay:

Developments in Automatic Stay Litigation
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Avoidance Actions:

Looking to Defraud Creditors? Talk to Your Foreign Subsidiary!
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Avoidance limitations period equitably tolled as a result of the bankrupt's misbehavior,
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Preference Actions filed in Hancock Fabrics
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Reclamation:

When is a Package 'Received'? The Answer Can Make all the Difference
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Bankruptcy Crimes:

Iowa farmer sentenced to prison for bank, bankruptcy fraud
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Litigation:

New research elucidates the systemic benefits of litigation finance
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Wondering How Blockchain Can Be Used in Legal? Here’s One: Service of Process
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Eligibility:

Court Not Required to Dismiss Case Exceeding Debt Limits
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Bankruptcy Remoteness:

“Golden Share” Equity Holder Can Bar Bankruptcy Filing
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Plan Confirmation:

One and Done. Cramdown Requirement for an Impaired Assenting Class Applies on a Per-Plan, Not a Per-Debtor, Basis.
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Miscellaneous:

Two important chapter 11 issues dealt with in a recent 9th Circuit case
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European and Emerging Markets Deep Dive
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Education:

University of Wisconsin-Madison offers free tuition to families making less than $56K
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McNally Smith files for bankruptcy Following abrupt closure, McNally Smith files for bankruptcy
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Most Popular Undergraduate And Graduate Degrees For Millionaires
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Higher Education Is Headed For A Supply And Demand Crisis
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Healthcare:

HIPAA and the Stark Law Take Center Stage in '21st Century Oncology' - The automatic stay does not prohibit a governmental entity from enforcing health-care laws against a debtor
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CDC: US flu levels now rival 2009 swine flu
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Autos:

Tesla Burned Through $2 Billion in 2017
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Takata Settles Air-Bag Claims to Clear Way Out of Bankruptcy Takata, Injured Drivers Reach Settlement Takata clears way out of bankruptcy Takata's US unit settles with injured drivers to exit Chapter 11
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A Farm Town’s Electric Dreams Threatened With Chinese Billionaire’s Fortune
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Flying cars will be in the air within five years, CEO of Larry Page-backed firm says
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Guns:

Remington Wants Loans to File Bankruptcy
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Talk of possible Remington bankruptcy doesn’t shake Huntsville Mayor, Chamber CEO
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Electricity:

Oklahoma Pulling up Red Carpet Offered to Wind Industry
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Currency:

Bitcoin: How the skeptics and believers grew so far apart
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Bitcoin billionaires turn to millionaires as cryptocurrency world gets cold feet
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ABA House of Delegates approves novel virtual currency draft legislation
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Iceland is expected to use more energy on mining bitcoin than on powering homes this year
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Personal Finance:

NFL star Richard Sherman says this book changed his mindset about money
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Entertainment:

New York attorney general alleges extensive harassment at Weinstein Co. Weinstein Company Sale Delayed by N.Y. Attorney General Lawsuit New York Attorney General sues Harvey Weinstein and The Weinstein Company Enabling Harvey Weinstein’s s-- life was ‘condition of employment,’ says New York attorney general in lawsuit
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Fraud:

Shkreli Didn't Lose Money, Made Investors Millions, Lawyer Says
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Man sentenced in connection with $20M found in box spring
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Banking:

Wells Fargo Fumbles Efforts to Repay Aggrieved Customers
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Wells Fargo auditors could soon deliver another blow to the bank
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Living in Constant Fear: Credit Suisse Banker Trial in 10 Quotes
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Senate Panel Approves Trump Pick McWilliams for FDIC
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Religion:

The Religiously Distinct States of America
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Celebs:

How One Extremely Risky Prediction Made Mark Cuban A Multi-Billionaire Today. Timing Is Everything.
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Biofuels:

Cellulosic Ethanol Falling Far Short Of The Hype
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Sports:

Hosting The Olympics Or World Cup Is More Trouble Than It's Worth
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South Korea's Olympic bet is unlikely to pay off, economics professor says
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Newspapers:

Despite newspaper closings, hope for journalism
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Aviation:

Airlines body eyes bankruptcy law review to reduce stranded passengers
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UK:

Brexit: EU-UK Relations Sinking Fast
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Hard Brexiteers Driving Britain Into a Wall
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Toys R Us seeks £120m lifeline as survival battle intensifies
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Northamptonshire council faces up to cost of effective bankruptcy
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Children's services at risk as councils raid schools reserves
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Manchester United blames the US tax cuts for its £12.87m loss
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PIIGS:

Bank of Italy Revises GDP Growth Forecast Up
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MENA:

IMF Tells Arab States to Slash Spending IMF’s Christine Lagarde praises the ‘courage’ of Arab countries undergoing economic reform
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India:

Indian Insolvencies: From Blank Slate to Boomtown
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Banks review sale of loans under resolution to ARCs
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Insolvency Board chief to professionals: Don’t look for ready-made solutions
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The Slurry Pipeline That Could Muddy Essar Steel's Insolvency Bid Essar Steel ownership: final bids today, three-way fight likely
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France:

3.5 Million Jobless and French Firms Still Can’t Find Staff
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China:

Why HNA Needs to Fail
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Venezuela:

PDVSA's Debt Restructuring: The Chapter 15 Option
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Catch Veinte Dos
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Venezuela's 20-Cent Bonds Are One Hedge Fund's Emerging-Market Pick
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