Law:
Law Firms Face 'Uncharted Waters' as Shutdown Grinds Some Practices to a Halt
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Biglaw Firm’s Great New Benefit For New Parents: Bill Less
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The Modern Law Office: Can You Handle It?
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Restructuring Partner Mark Knight Joins Sidley in London
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DE: Potter Anderson Names New Bankruptcy Counsel
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18 LeClairRyan lawyers jump to growing law firm to open office in Boston • Biglaw Firm Loses Over A Dozen Partners As More Firms Spread To Boston
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Numbers Are Up For Women In Biglaw, But Certain Minorities Continue To Fall Behind
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So You Got Your Grades, Now What? (Part II — The Bad News)
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The ins and outs of law practice management software
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An Associate’s View—Data Privacy Security Tips for Working Remotely
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ABA Survey: Only 10 Percent of Law Firms Are Currently Using AI
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Boies No Longer Sharing Ritzy NYC Address With Malpractice Foe Guo Wengui
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DLA Piper Asks Judge to Undo Disqualification Ruling
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5 Steps Every Law Firm Leader Should Take Now To Prepare For 2019
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FBI May Have Probed Trump Over Russia • Trump has concealed details of his face-to-face encounters with Putin from senior officials in administration • Trump dodges question on whether he has worked for Russia • Mueller Draft Report Says Trump 'Helped Putin Destabilize the United States', Watergate Journalist Says • Democrats vow to investigate content of Trump’s meeting with Putin • The FBI reportedly started investigating whether Trump was a Russian asset after he fired Comey • Key Republican to ask FBI about report of Trump counterintelligence probe • Mueller Investigation Could Have Classified Communications Intercepts Proving Trump Worked With Russia: Former FBI Chief • Pompeo: It's "ludicrous" to suggest Trump is a threat to U.S. security • Trump defends firing ‘sleaze’ James Comey amid report FBI opened counterintelligence Russia probe • Why the FBI might’ve thought Trump could be working for Russia • Trump rages against FBI for investigating his suspected Russia ties • Sarah Sanders: "When you're attacking the FBI because you're under criminal investigation, you're losing" • Judge: Mueller Doesn't Have to Explain Info • Trump, Putin and a Test of Presidential Power • Trump denies reports concealed Putin meetings: We discussed Israel • How the big new New York Times scoop changes our understanding of the Trump-Russia probe • How the big new New York Times scoop changes our understanding of the Trump-Russia probe • Witch hunt or mole hunt? Times bombshell blows up all theories • Mark Warner: 'It is a very real question' whether Trump acted as a Russian agent • James Comey Indirectly Responds To Trump’s Morning Twitter Rant With Single Quote • Cruz: Citizens Outside Beltway Don't Care About Mueller • Where Mueller’s Probe Stands as William Barr Faces Confirmation • Lanny Davis: Trump Sees Cohen as 'Greatest Threat' • Top House Democrats warn Trump after Cohen comments
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Grading the Steele Dossier Two Years Later
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Paul Manafort Forfeits Law License Before It Gets Taken Away
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Charged Russian Lawyer Ain't Coming Back
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Judge blocks Trump administration birth-control coverage rules in 13 states
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CA: Davis Rookie Female Police Officer was Ambushed
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Texas Couple Convicted of Slavery • An estimated 41 million people around the world are still enslaved today. Here are 4 charts showing what modern slavery looks like.
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InfoWars: Sandy Hook Families' Legal Victory
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Florida sheriff suspended for negligence during Parkland shooting
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TX: Tent City Closes as Teens Released • Trump FactCheck: There’s "never (been) so many apprehensions ever in our history."
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FactCheck: Apprehensions at the Border
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US OK'd Requests to Bring in Child Brides
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FactCheck: Immigrant Crime Data • Trump ties undocumented immigrants to crimes against children, but he's not telling the full story
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Emergency Q&A: How Opponents Could Sue to Block Trump’s Border Wall •Trump considers using disaster aid for border wall; who will sue?
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Ending Weed Prohibition Hasn’t Stopped Drug Crimes
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Woman banned from Walmart after riding cart while drinking wine from Pringles can, police say
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Gunman who killed officer left a note accusing police of hitting him with 'sonic waves'
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Being A Bigot Won’t Get You Protection Under Title VII
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Law Student Throws Dance Party In The Airport And Twitter Goes Nuts
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Houston Lawyer Who Sued Over Wrong-Day 'Hamilton' Tickets Gets Settlement
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Judges:
US Bankruptcy Court Announcement of Retirement of Hon. Kevin J. Carey, effective August 31, 2019
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Unpaid Jurors, Bare Evidence: The Cost of Courts Without Money • Fifth Circuit Freezes Big Obamacare Case Amid Trump's Shutdown
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Justice Ginsburg recovering and will work from home next week, Supreme Court says • Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Recovery Is 'On Track,' Supreme Court Says • Ruth Bader Ginsburg to miss another week of Supreme Court arguments • Rejected: The Supreme Court Justice Who Didn’t Want Ruth Bader Ginsburg As A Clerk • Lindsey Graham Tells Fox News He's 'Hell-Bent' On Replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg With Conservative, Then Removes Microphone • White House readies short list of possible replacements for Justice Ginsburg • Jacob Wohl Thinks He Knows About RBG’s Job Status, Doesn’t
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Book review: “Ruth Bader Ginsburg”: The evolution of a justice
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Judge Sanctioned for Citing Her Office Title to Cops After Traffic Accident
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Wall Street:
U.S. stock futures drop as China trade data spark fresh global economic worries • Stocks are falling after a fresh set of horrible data out of China reignited worries about the global economy
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Asian markets fall as China reports slowdown in exports
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US stocks drift in a quiet close to another winning week
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The $4.5 trillion force that's helping to fuel market swings
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Slowing Earnings Growth, Gloomy Forecasts Add to Stock Market’s Woes
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Layoffs:
Musk's SpaceX Cuts 10% of Workforce
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Round of layoffs hits company-wide at NASCAR
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IBM laying off more than 300
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Coal:
Federal bankruptcy judge reopens Alpha Natural Resources proceedings citing concerns
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Religion:
Santa Fe archbishop agrees to open lawsuit records
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Fraud:
How No-Nonsense Litigator Michael Budwick Curbs the Damage Caused by Ponzi Schemers
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Debt Collection:
Supreme Court Split in Unexpected Ways During Oral Arguments for Obduskey v. McCarthy & Holthus LLP
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Non-Profits:
Nonprofit Dream Center Facing Bankruptcy
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Climate:
The oceans are heating up 40% faster than scientists realized
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Male NoJackets: What’s Up With Men Who Don’t Wear Coats in Winter?
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Snow blankets mid-Atlantic states as strong winter storm blows east
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The cost of climate change for PG&E is a warning to big business
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One planet, divided under global warming
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Economy:
U.S. Economy Is Floating on an 'Ocean of Debt', Gundlach Warns
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Death of a talking point: Real wages are growing the most in two years
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Adjusted for Aging, the US Employment Rate Continued to Rise Above Its Pre-Recession Level in 2018
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Millennial women are fueling the job boom
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Fewer new businesses are emerging than before the Great Recession
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OECD sees further global growth slowdown ahead
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Sovereigns, Corporates in Focus as Credit Cycle Turns
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Shutdown Pinches Economic Growth • Ironically, US Border Agents Aren't Being Paid • Impact of Shutdown About to Snowball • Farm Country Stood by Trump. But the Shutdown Is Pushing It to Breaking Point • What the government shutdown looks like inside federal prisons • The government shutdown could have widespread consequences for the US economy • A new nightmare for furloughed workers — preventing damage to their credit scores • Low-Income Renters Face Eviction, Thanks to the Government Shutdown • Human and financial costs mount as shutdown enters fourth week with Trump threatening longer standoff • The Longest Government Shutdown In History, No Longer — How 1995 Changed Everything • Tensions rise in federal prisons as weary guards go without pay, work double shifts • Credit unions aid government employees affected by shutdown • How the Government Shutdown Is Affecting Mortgage Lending • Uber and Lyft’s long-awaited IPOs could crash into government-shutdown wall • The government shutdown enters record as longest in US history • We're All to Blame for the Shutdown • WH Economist: Fed Workers are Better Off • Miami to Shut Terminal for Lack of TSA Agents • The FAA is reportedly about to bring airline inspectors back to work during the government shutdown • Canadian air traffic controllers are buying hundreds of pizzas for US colleagues who aren't getting paid in the government shutdown • Trump biographer rips ‘trust fund baby’ president for ignoring financial pain of furloughed federal workers • Freedom Caucus to Trump: Back Off on Wall • Why Hasn’t Trump Folded? • Before 1980 There Were No Gov't Shutdowns • The Shutdown Was Never Really Going to End last Week • If the shutdown lasts two more weeks, the cost to the economy will exceed price of Trump’s wall • Avoid these foods during the government shutdown, experts warn • Trump shutdown threatens America’s 99-month job growth streak • Poll shows most Americans blame Trump, GOP • Support for Trump's wall reaches all-time high: Poll
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Trump channels Theresa May's Brexit plan for NAFTA 2.0
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Republican senators roll out bill that would end all future shutdowns
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U.S. Bailout From Last Recession Lives on as Downturn Risks Rise
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US-China Dispute is Not About Trade • Elon Musk got some time with China's premier in a sign that the heat is going out of Trump's trade war • Chuck Grassley talks trade • China's trade surplus with U.S. hit record in 2018 • China’s trade growth slowed in 2018, as global demand weakened • Toyota Exec: Tariffs Will Raise Prices
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Economist: Gov't Debt Not So Bad
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Jeffrey Gundlach on the Growth of U.S. Debt
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The Trump Tax Cuts Didn’t Pay for Themselves in Year One
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Ivanka May Run the World Bank?
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Most and Least Trusted Professions
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Homeless Surge Puts Hollywood's Progressive Ideals to the Test
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Grocery stores would run out of food in 3 days if long-haul truckers stopped working
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UK-US: Two Governments in Paralysis
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The market is about to get bad news from corporate America
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Bank and Thrift Failures Since 1921 • No FDIC-Insured Bank Failures in 2018
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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:
IRS Reopens Key Program for Mortgage Loans
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New Home Sales Tanked 18% to End 2018
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Serious Delinquency Rate for Single Family Mortgages Declined in November
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Texas Bill Keeps People from Not Knowing Their Home is in a Flood Zone • The Reason
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America's golf slump is taking a toll on homeowners
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MI: 616 Lofts files for bankruptcy
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NY: Bankruptcy judge places McKinley Mall in receivership
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Palm Beach officials extend deadlines for Palm House settlement
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El Paso billionaire bids for huge West Texas ranch
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Municipalities:
Muni Lowdown
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Connecticut pension commission heads into overtime to solve funding crisis
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Puerto Rico: The Perfect Storm
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“It is more devastating than many of us realized”: Congressional delegation visits Puerto Rico
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Puerto Rican Officials Livid At Reports Trump May Use Disaster Funds To Pay For Wall
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Oil/Gas:
The Merger That Made a U.S. Gas Giant Is Failing
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Oil winning streak Is longest since 2010 as outlook brightens
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Tech:
Demand for new smartphones is in free-fall and this chart shows that the bottom is not yet in sight • Apple is reportedly cutting iPhone production by 10% after one of the darkest weeks in its history
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Politics:
Ian Bremmer: America is more politically divided than ever — here's why
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The Trump Bankruptcies Start to Make Sense
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Trump invented a new nickname for Jeff Bezos in a tweet mocking his divorce
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Trump reportedly sold $35 million worth of real estate last year
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Record shutdown hits Trump states hard • DHS agents: Where drugs really come into the U.S. • The El Chapo Trial Shows Trump Is All Wrong About Drugs • Trump touts shutdown plan, but advisers say 'no one knows what he will do' • Border Patrol Union Just Deleted a Webpage Saying a Wall Would Be 'Wasting Taxpayer Money' • Congress Should Act to End Shutdown, Trump Says • A GoFundMe campaign raised $20 million for a border wall—now all of the funds will be returned • Cornyn opposes redirecting Harvey disaster funds for border wall • Government shutdown: How much longer can Mitch McConnell sit it out? • Freshmen Democrats in Trump country feel pressure over shutdown • Lindsey Graham: Trump is "not going to give in" on border wall • Lindsey Graham Urges Trump To Reopen Government Before Declaring National Emergency Over Border • GOP Senator Pushes Temporary Deal to Open Government • Both sides must compromise to end the longest shutdown in our history • Trump’s Five Craziest Arguments About the Shutdown • Trump: There’s almost nobody in the White House but me • Dreamers-for-wall trade going nowhere in House
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Advisor Compares Shutdown to Vacation Time • Trump Backs off Calling National Emergency
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Rushed Syria retreat undermines U.S. interests and betrays allies • Trump threatens to ‘devastate Turkey economically if they hit Kurds’ • Democrats' support for foreign wars has jumped under Trump
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The Hitchhikers Guide to Impeachment
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US Ambassador Finds Few Friends in Germany
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Megyn Kelly Leaves NBC with All $69 Million
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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard announces she's running for president in 2020 • Tulsi Gabbard Is Running for President. Can She Shake Her Ties to Dictators and Nationalists? • Gabbard's Anti-LGBTQ Past Under Fire
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Gillibrand Wants to Run for President
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Democrats Try to Reign in Ocasio-Cortez • Ocasio-Cortez reportedly in line for banking post, and that could be bad news for Wall Street • Ocasio-Cortez mocks aging Joe Lieberman, 76, for hoping 'she's not the future'
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Mnuchin to Dems: Trust Trump on Russia
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Trump dressed down Mulvaney in front of congressional leaders
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Inside the Oval: How Trump tormented Mattis
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Biden's Brother: We Voted for Trump • Joe Biden's Political Baggage Could be Heavy
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Trump Calls Elizabeth Warren ‘Pocahontas’ Again • Trump Says He Has 'More' Native Blood Than Warren
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Silence over "white supremacist" comments like Steve King’s is why Republicans get accused of racism, says Sen. Tim Scott • Iowa Republican Steve King faces party action over 'white supremacist' remark • McCarthy: Action Will be Taken on Rep. King
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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 (32 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (8 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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Mediation:
Can You Teach An Old Lawyer New Tricks? A Longtime Attorney Takes A Weeklong Mediation Training
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IP:
Trademark Licenses . . . Again (Update No. 6)
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Advisers:
AlixPartners Promotes 22 Individuals to Managing Director
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Miscellaneous:
2018 Chapter 11 Filing Year in Review
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Autos:
Tesla Won't Buy GM Plant Over Union Jobs • Tesla is engaging in a risky expansion as the rest of the auto industry is playing defense
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Lutz: GM Will Continue to be Profitable
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Smaller tax refunds in 2019 could slash U.S. auto sales
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The Next American Car Recession Has Already Started
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VW could face recall of more cars over emissions: report
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Renault Auditors Can't Find Ghosn Fraud • Nissan's investigation into its ousted chairman Carlos Ghosn is expanding to more countries, report says • Ghosn Received $8 Million From Nissan-Mitsubishi Entity, Nissan Probe Alleges • Renault Hits Out at New Ghosn Allegations
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Healthcare:
As Arkansas hospital struggles, workers, residents on edge
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CDC says it's another severe flu season with 7 million sick
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Health care's Q4 earnings expected to break records
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Personal Finance:
What a Single Mom of Four Spends on Her Kids During One Week in Indianapolis
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The 5 Cheapest Ways To Pay Off Credit Card Debt Fast
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Travel:
Aviation system hits crunchtime as workers face payless 'payday' • TSA Begins to Feel Squeeze From Government Shutdown • Some airport security lanes to close as shutdown squeezes TSA • Miami airport closes terminal as TSA workers refuse to work without pay during government shutdown • Terminal B security checkpoint at Houston's Bush Airport closed due to shortage of TSA workers
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Retailing:
Kentucky-Based Mattress Retailer Files For Bankruptcy • Mattress Warehouse, Sleep Outfitters company files Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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Gymboree expected to file for bankruptcy, liquidate all its stores
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Sears bankruptcy raises old questions about cost
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Poler Bankrupt: Why It Matters the ‘Outdoor Stuff’ Brand Failed
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Chico's to close 250 stores over 3 years
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Steinhoff woes continue to pile up in Europe
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Pier 1 is a 'dumpster fire' and it's fighting for its survival
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The dollar store future
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The death of department stores
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Macy's just had its worst day ever, but there are still bargain buys in the retail space
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How the government shutdown could hurt retail
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Electricity:
PG&E Prepares to Enter Bankruptcy Protection After Wildfire Fallout
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PG&E said to be talking to banks on massive bankruptcy financing • PG&E expects to have $5.5 bln of committed DIP financing at the time if files for bankruptcy • PG&E Sparked at Least 1,500 California Fires. Now the Utility Faces Collapse • PG&E may notify its employees this week of potential bankruptcy • California's biggest gas and power company is in multibillion-dollar bankruptcy talks after last year's devastating California wildfires
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PG&E CEO steps down amid bankruptcy reports • PG&E Chief Executive Geisha Williams leaves as utility readies for possible bankruptcy • PG&E CEO abruptly leaves company amid bankruptcy speculation • PG&E Seeks New CEO as Fire Costs Push It to Brink of Bankruptcy
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PG&E's stock loses half its value after plan to file for bankruptcy
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PG&E doesn't expect bankruptcy to affect electric or natural gas service to customers • If PG&E goes into bankruptcy, what does it mean for customers?
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California Officials Focused on PG&E’s Fire Liabilities
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PG&E Faces a Crisis of Confidence Crisis From Wall Street to San Francisco
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Food/Beverage:
Gigi's Cupcakes files for bankruptcy amid ongoing fight with franchisees
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Health and Beauty:
New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filing - Beauty Brands LLC
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UK:
Britons Most at Risk in a Messy Split From EU Are Least Worried • Brits to vote again? Brexit delay creates headache for Europe • Brexit: John Major Says Revoke Article 50 • Theresa May warns of "catastrophic" outcome if Brexit deal fails • Brexit disaster looms • EU Prepares to Move Brexit Back to July • The EU sends letter of reassurance to Theresa May in last ditch attempt to prevent Brexit deal defeat
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FTSE 100 drops on China gloom, Brexit-vote jitters
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New Look falls into the hands of its creditors
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Forrest collapsed owing £28m to unsecured creditors
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EU:
Eurozone rebound hopes hit by factory output slump
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Venezuela:
John Bolton calls Venezuela's Maduro an "illegitimate" leader
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Brazil says it recognizes Venezuelan opposition leader as president • Opposition-controlled Venezuela legislature calls for protest to oust Maduro • Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó briefly detained
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MENA:
Lebanon 'absolutely not' proposing debt restructuring : finance minister
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Brazil:
Avianca Brasil lessor set to seize 20 pct of airline's fleet -source
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Philippines:
Hanjin bankruptcy 'must lead to review of cheap labor, tax incentives at eco-zones'
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