December 14, 2020

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Law:

Elite Boutique Law Firm Wows With Market-Beating Bonuses
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Biglaw Firm To Eliminate Salary Cuts And Award Lump Sum True-Up Payment On New Year’s Eve
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Law firms mostly fall in line with associate bonus scale; Boies Schiller offers 2 options
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Clifford Chance restores NQ lawyer pay following COVID cut
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More law firms pay back furlough funds
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Biden Granddaughter To Join D.C. Biglaw Firm
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Tenured George Washington Law Professor Says He Was Suspended Without Cause
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Princeton Review's Best 164 Law Schools (2021 Edition)
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Associate Compensation Scorecard: Biglaw’s 2020 Bonus Bonanza
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Am Law 200 Firm To Actually Get A Woman Of Color As Its Global Chair Black woman is appointed to lead BigLaw firm as other firms ramp up diversity goals
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Boies Schiller Elects Managing Partners in Latest Shuffle The Future of Boies Schiller Is Female
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Appeals Court Denies Bail For Katherine Magbanua As She Awaits Trial In Dan Markel's Murder
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Spicing Up Zoom Client Meeting
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12 Cognitive Biases Prevent Being Rational
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Supreme Court rejects Texas' and Trump's bid to overturn election Supreme Court Spurns Partisanship in Denying Trump Election Case Short work by high court of Trump’s `big one’ Trump blasts AG Barr over Hunter Biden probe secrecy, condemns Supreme Court order tossing election challenge 'No Wisdom, No Courage!': Trump lashes out at the Supreme Court after it rejected a Texas bid to overturn the election results Trump Ramps Up Criticism of AG Barr Trump Rants About SCOTUS Trump Attacks the Supreme Court; Offers Bizarre Praise To Justices Alito, Thomas After Losing 2020 Election Lawsuit Trump's spin on his big Supreme Court failure is as bad as his legal case ‘An Indelible Stain’: How the G.O.P. Tried to Topple a Pillar of Democracy
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Trump's bad week in courts and in Congress
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Attorney General Bill Barr Got It Right This Time
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Trump demands to know why Barr did not reveal Hunter Biden federal tax probe
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Bill Barr ‘not intimidated’ by Trump’s ‘deposed king ranting’ on Twitter as pressure mounts over Hunter Biden probe
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Dershowitz: Supreme Court ruling shows 'you can't count on the judiciary' if you're Team Trump
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Texas sued the wrong parties if it wants to stop presidential electors' votes from being counted
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Trump Lost Because SCOTUS Answers to the Constitution, Not to Him
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Trump Looks to Fire Bill Barr and Appoint Special Counsel to Pursue Election Fraud, Hunter Biden: Report
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The Top 10 WTH Things In The Texas Election Suit … So Far
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Texas Stands by Claim That Biden Win Statistically Impossible
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Chris Christie calls Trump's legal team's legal theory an 'absurdity'
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'Every single case has been ruled on': Trump legal team vows to pursue appeals, file new challenges
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Trump says election challenges 'not over' Trump flays former allies, calls to ‘fight on’ after Supreme Court defeat Trump and his GOP allies vow to 'fight on' after Supreme Court defeat
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Michael Flynn Tells ‘Stop the Steal’ Rally That On a 1-10 Scale, His Confidence That Trump Will Remain President is ‘a 10’ Flynn: We Won't Let Biden be Sworn In
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GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander Says Trump Has No Right To Bring ‘Specious Lawsuits’ To Court
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How to Stop These Baseless Election Fraud Cases
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Some House Republicans plan last ditch challenge to election results during Electoral College tally
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Trump Allies Eye Long-Shot Election Reversal in Congress, Testing Pence
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Trump loses election challenge lawsuit in Wisconsin, further cementing Biden win in presidential race Wisconsin Supreme Court: Trump Lawsuit Smacks of Racism
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Trump acknowledges there will be a 'Biden administration,' effectively admitting he lost while still calling for the election to be overturned
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Another Trump-Appointed Judge Rejects Another of the President's Meritless Post-Election Lawsuits
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Sidney Powell’s ‘Military Intelligence Expert’ Witness Was Actually an Army Mechanic Who Never Worked in Military Intelligence: Report
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The Kraken Goes to SCOTUS and Argues: Voting Is a 'Sacrament,' So Certification of Georgia Election Should Be Overturned
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Bannon Hires Giuliani’s Attorney to Defend Him in Criminal Case
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Biden’s AG pick will be scrutinized amid probe of his son; will special counsel be appointed?
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4 stabbed, 23 arrested in clashes between pro-Trump supporters, counterprotesters in Washington
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Poll: 55 percent disapprove of Trump pardoning family members before leaving office
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Manhattan D.A. Intensifies Investigation of Trump Manhattan DA Questions Deutsche Bank, Aon Over Trump Dealings
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Cuomo among contenders for attorney general pick
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Former development aide accuses Cuomo of sexual harassment
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NJ gym now facing over $1.2M in fines for defying Gov. Murphy's coronavirus lockdown orders
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Driver shouted anti-Semitic slurs, ran over a man at menorah lighting, authorities say: 'Hateful, hurtful and cowardly'
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Critics of Electoral College push for popular vote compact
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Judges:

House Passes PACER Bill As Budget Office Says It Will Cost Less Than $1 Million A Year To Provide Free Access To Court Documents
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Tear Down This Judicial Paywall
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How dozens of judges across the political spectrum rejected Trump's efforts to overturn the election
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Florida Lawyer Alleged Female Judge Couldn't Be Impartial Because of Gender, Bar Complaint Claims
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Ex-Hedge Fund Manager Better Hope The Next Judge He Sees Doesn’t Think He’s A Thief And A Liar
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Wall Street:

Dow futures jump 200 points to start the week on vaccine, stimulus hopes
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Wall Street shakes off labor market data with stimulus in focus
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Americans increasingly see the stock market as a barometer just for the rich, not the whole economy
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Layoffs:

Parsley Energy lays off most workers as part of sale to Pioneer Natural Resources-government notice
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Exxon Mobil to cut 700 jobs in Houston -government notice
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Southwest Airlines to layoff nearly 400 Las Vegas employees
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Drugmaker Viatris says restructuring plans could affect 9,000 jobs
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More than half of pre-pandemic hotel jobs still gone
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Food/Beverage:

New York Gov. Cuomo says indoor dining in NYC will close on Monday as coronavirus cases rise
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U.S. Restaurant Owners Get Creative to Try to Keep Workers Safe
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Perdue Farms Asks CDC to Prioritize Poultry Workers for Vaccine
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Paying $2.13 Plus Tips Doesn’t Cut It Anymore, Investors Say
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Fast-food chains are vultures feasting on the carcasses of independent restaurants. But, the American government killed those mom-and-pop businesses in the first place.
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US restaurants face higher costs under Biden plan to boost federal minimum wage
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Retailing:

It’s a record! 11,000 closed stores and 40 retailer bankruptcies in 2020
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JCPenney, Under New Ownership, Is Homeless For The Holidays
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Neiman Marcus CEO Geoffroy van Raemdonck blasted over pay, lavish perk
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Designer Brands mulls the closure of as many as 80 stores
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The Name Lives On: the eCommerce Rebirth of Brick and Mortar Brands
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Jeff Bezos' Amazon could end up bankrupt for these reasons, according to specialist
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Holiday shopping trends changing in big ways
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Healthcare:

Springfield Hospital to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy; it’s ‘a brand new day’
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American Purchasing Files In BK SD FL - First Day Dec

Shuttered Los Angeles Surge Hospital That Treated COVID-19 Patients Now Appears To Be Site Of Full-Scale Hollywood Production
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Lawmakers reach deal on surprise medical bills
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Viral spread: Americans paying the price for Thanksgiving
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Covid's U.S. toll: Nearly 300,000 dead and a stalemate between fatalism and hope U.S. suffers its worst week of cases, deaths and hospitalizations since the start of the pandemic
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Los Angeles Mayor Sounds Alarm on Rising Covid-19 Deaths Los Angeles Virus Cases Surpass 500,000 Amid ‘Thanksgiving Surge’
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New York’s New Covid Surge Is Deep, But Less Deadly This Time
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More Americans Practicing Strict Social Distancing
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ER doctor's animated covid-19 video gives stark view of pandemic's toll on medical professionals
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This doctor has fought covid-19 in his patients for 267 days straight. 'I was meant to do this.'
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Americans get stern holiday COVID warning: 'No Christmas parties'
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U.S. vaccine near, but deaths rising by 9/11 proportions each day
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As vaccines move out, Warp Speed leader rues political pressure
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Trump And White House Officials May Get Coronavirus Vaccine Within Days U.S. officials prioritized to receive COVID vaccine Trump says he will take COVID-19 vaccine, but reverses plan to give WH staff priority
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The coronavirus vaccine distribution plan raises ethical questions
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Determining which essential workers to vaccinate first
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Airlines, investment firms and Uber urge me-first in vaccination
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Doctors treating some COVID patients at home as Alabama hospitals run low on beds
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Bay Area county launches door-to-door testing amid 'dire' surge
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NIH director: People need to 'hit the reset button' on whatever made them skeptical about vaccine
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FDA chief: Americans' hesitancy to get vaccine a 'significant problem'
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Fauci says he will receive coronavirus vaccine in public
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Moderna says U.S. to buy 100 million additional vaccine doses
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US says COVID-19 vaccine to start arriving in states Monday
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Operation Warp Speed head says 40M doses of vaccine will be distributed by end of the month
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Demoralized health workers struggle as virus numbers surge
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Tennessee state Rep. David Byrd asks for 'miracle' after COVID-19 diagnosis
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Republican Congressman-Elect Says Covid Is A ‘Phony Pandemic’ As U.S. Deaths Near 300,000
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Who is really ‘first in line’ for the vaccine? It depends on your state.
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DeSantis refused to disclose White House coronavirus report that contradicts him
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Rudy Brags About Celebrity Covid Treatment
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The State Department ignored COVID-19 safety guidelines to host a 200-person holiday party
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Dave Ramsey Throws Massive Indoor Party
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Medical conference linked to 300,000 COVID-19 cases
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We're Pediatricians In A Pandemic. We Shouldn't Be Taking Care Of Your Grandparents
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Economy:

Manchin says bipartisan coronavirus relief bill will be unveiled Monday Pelosi, Mnuchin sound upbeat notes on fresh COVID relief To save thousands of lives, Congress must extend unemployment benefits and paid leave Full $908 Billion Pandemic Bill Coming Monday, Democrat Says Congress reaches make-or-break week on coronavirus relief, with deal elusive
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Analysts: US Needs $4.5T Stimulus to Recover
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Consumer sentiment in U.S. rises unexpectedly on vaccine news
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GAO: Millions of Full Time Workers Rely on Government Benefits for Poor
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America’s two-track economy: the small business credit crunch
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Stimulus checks should take back seat to jobless aid, economists say
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Trump Wants Stimulus Checks For ‘More Money Than They’re Talking About’
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Trump Leaves a Historically Bad Economy
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Mohamed El-Erian warns of a 'vicious' economic slowdown that can only be saved with more policy efforts
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The U.S. economy is showing more coronavirus cracks and the fissures are growing
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Here’s everything the Federal Reserve could do at its policy meeting next week
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FOMC Preview
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Q4 GDP Forecasts
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Everything We’ve Learned About Modern Economic Theory Is Wrong
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63% of Americans have been living paycheck to paycheck since Covid hit
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Class 8 Big Rig Sales Slipped in November
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Amid a hunger crisis, Houston struggles to keep food on people’s tables
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Trump signs one-week funding bill to avoid shutdown
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10 cities where the cost of living has gotten cheaper
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The U.S. is facing ‘unprecedented’ levels of child hunger—and it could get worse this winter
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People Are Going Hungry as Trump's Food Aid Program Runs Out of Money
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The gig worker pandemic safety net
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The death spiral of public life
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Maine Gives $600 Stimulus Checks As Unemployment Benefits End And Federal Package Stalls
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One silver lining of the pandemic: Millennials are saving more
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Deutsche Bank May Eventually Allow NYC Staff to Move Elsewhere Deutsche Bank May Move Half of New York Staff Elsewhere
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Barclays Rethinks Real Estate Needs in Cost-Cutting Push
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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:

Eastern District of Virginia Bankruptcy Court Finds Landlord’s Lender Has No Right to Enforce Landlord’s Lease with Bankrupt Retailer
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'Trouble brewing' for malls, including Brookfield and Simon: S&P Global
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Sacramento Housing in November: Sales increase 22% YoY, Active Inventory down 47% YoY
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Houston Real Estate in November: Sales Up 28% YoY, Inventory Down 27% YoY
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Mortgage Equity Withdrawal Increased in Q3
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Black Knight: Number of Homeowners in COVID-19-Related Forbearance Plans Decreased Slightly, New Starts Increased
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NYPD Criticized by Lawmakers for 'Beating Up Tenants,' 'Violent Response' to Anti-Eviction Protest
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Airbnb nomads are ditching their apartments in pandemic-ridden cities
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Americans used disaster housing more than 1 million times in 2020
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U.S. Poised for Wave of Evictions in January as Federal Ban Expires
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Pandemic Housing Shifts Will Speed Recovery in 2021
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Municipalities:

Budget toll from virus hits both Democratic, GOP-led states
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States brace for budget cuts in order to distribute COVID-19 vaccines
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New York State receives negative outlook from S&P
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Oil/Gas:

Ferrellgas plans pre-packaged bankruptcy filing
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Electric Car Sales to Grow 50% in 2021
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Some US refinery shutdowns could be permanent as margins stay 'in the gutter'
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Movie Theaters:

AMC warns it may run out of cash in January 2021 AMC Seeks More Liquidity to Avert Movie Theater Bankruptcy AMC Entertainment to get $100 million investment from Mudrick Capital AMC, World's Largest Movie Theater Chain, Raises $100 Million Lifeline, But It Needs $750 Million To Survive Next Year AMC Entertainment Turns to Distressed-Debt Market to Avoid Bankruptcy
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Cineworld Avoids Bankruptcy. Will It Still Survive the Pandemic?
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Gig Economy:

Deep dive on the gig economy
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Bigger Battle for Gig Worker Rights Coming
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Corporate Governance:

Caveat Venditor: Sellers (and their Directors) Beware Nine West Has an Important Message for Boards Considering an Exit
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U.S. Congress bans anonymous shell companies
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Hotels:

Unsold U.S. Hotel Rooms Near 1 Billion as Lodging Crisis Deepens
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Hoteliers, industry experts predict 2021 trends
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Climate:

A $7 trillion climate change warning to the stock market from its biggest shareholder
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EU leaders agree to cut carbon emissions at least 55% by 2030
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Federal Reserve steps up climate-change response and gets immediate backlash from some House Republicans
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Lofty Climate Goals Get Reality Check at Global Summit
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Nursing Homes:

Azar: Nursing homes residents could receive COVID-19 vaccine by Christmas
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A ‘debacle’ — AARP slams entire nursing home establishment
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After 110K virus deaths, nursing homes face vaccine fears
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Education:

21.7% Fewer High School Graduates Enrolled In College This Fall Due To COVID-19
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CDC: Public schools need about $22 billion to safely reopen doors
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The Pandemic Hasn’t Stopped This School District From Suing Parents Over Unpaid Textbook Fees
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Resorts:

Vail Resorts posts wider Q1 loss as sales fall
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Music:

Barcelona concert tests use of same-day COVID-19 screening
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Cruise Lines:

Super-Spreader Cruises May Give Biden an Early Covid-19 Test
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Banking:

Citibank Trial Features Perelman’s Record and Revlon’s Debt Load
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Distressed Investing:

Hedge Funds Eye Distressed Malls and Hotels
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Sound Point Dives Into Deep Distress for Attractive Returns: Q&A
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Utilities:

PG&E Expects Loss of at Least $275 Million for Deadly Zogg Fire
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Student Debt:

10 Questions About Biden’s Plan To Cancel Student Loans
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Senator Warren: ‘We need to broadly cancel student loan debt’
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U.S. student loan system will lead to 'inevitable cancellation,' expert argues
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Here’s the average student loan debt by age
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Pharma:

VIVUS Receives Court Approval of Joint Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization
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Sports:

XFL Owner Gets Ch. 11 Plan Approval After Sale To 'The Rock'
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Reports: Cleveland Indians to drop nickname Cleveland Indians Change Name, Trump Rants
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Autos:

There’s Still Zero Reason to Own Bankrupt Hertz Stock
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Fraud:

Own The Bankers Who Rejected Your Fraudulent PPP Application
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History:

Hijacking the electoral college: The plot to deny JFK the presidency 60 years ago
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Trump has the power to issue preemptive pardons. Here's how past presidents used it.
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Historian: US is Crazy Now, Won't Go Away
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Bankruptcy Statistics:

U.S. retailer, restaurant closures surge to high level as COVID-19 ravages nation
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November filings in Central District drop 22% from last month and 35% from last year.
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Bankruptcy Reform:

Crushed by student loan debt? You may get a bankruptcy option
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Subchapter V:

Fantastic SBRA Resource from Judge Bonapfel
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Missouri Bankruptcy Court Holds Debtor Must Be Currently Engaged in Commercial or Business Activities to Be Eligible to Make Subchapter V Election
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Bankruptcy Remoteness:

Don’t Lend No Hand to Raise No Flag Atop No Ship of Fools: Breach of SPE Provisions by Non-Borrower Exposes Non-Borrower to Potential Tort Liability
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Discharge:

Opinion of Interest – Manikan v. Peters & Freedman LLP
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Mediation:

Practicalities of Mediating Via Zoom
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Cross-Border:

Value Tracing and Priority in Cross-Border Group Bankruptcies: Solving the Nortel Problem from the Bottom Up

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Commodity Brokers:

CFTC Adopts "Comprehensive Update" to Bankruptcy Regulations
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Miscellaneous:

This Year’s Top 8th Circ. Bankruptcy Decisions
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Aviation:

United Airlines sees Q4 revenue down 70% as bookings languish due to COVID-19 spike United Airlines expects more cash burn as virus cases spike United Air Holds Out Hope for Summer Travel on Vaccine Progress
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Five Bold Predictions For The U.S. Airline Industry In 2021
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Lufthansa CEO sees bookings tripling in Summer 2021: media
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Dublin Airport’s 23.5m missing passengers, Norwegian’s creditors, and Cliff Taylor on Brexit
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Portugal predicts TAP will need $2.4 billion to keep flying
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South African government at loggerheads with unions over airline wages
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Thai Airways Lists Two Airbus A380 Superjumbos For Sale
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Air India employees bid for 51% stake in struggling flag carrier
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Once A Fine Dining Experience, Then A Bad Joke, Could Airline Food Be Primed For A Comeback?
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Newspapers:

Ailing newspapers abandon newsrooms as pandemic deepens woes
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Politics:

Electoral College set to vote to make Biden's 2020 victory official
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Florida Newspaper Apologizes for Endorsing Congressman Who Wants to Overturn Election
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Texas GOP Chair Calls for Secession Imploding MAGA World Turns to Civil War Fantasies, Secession After Supreme Court Disaster
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Republican congressman rips Texas GOP for suggesting secession and says 'my guy Abraham Lincoln and the Union soldiers already told you no'
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Fears of violence grow amid threats to election officials, lawmakers
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Majority in Fox News poll says Trump disputing results is weakening democracy
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Four in ten voters say Trump will go down as 'one of the worst presidents' in U.S. history as 58 per cent say they don't believe election was stolen Most US voters don't want Trump to run in 2024 and 42% say he is 'one of the worst presidents' ever, Fox News poll finds
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Trump's cable news diet expands beyond Fox to OAN and Newsmax
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Trump Campaign to Run Ads Promoting Effort to Overturn Election
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Trump's election goal posts keep shifting
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MyPillow Guy: Fox Rigged Election for Biden
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MAGA Protesters Chant 'Destroy the GOP' at Pro-Trump Rally
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Trump engages in self-sabotage ahead of historic vaccine rollout
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Alexander: I hope President Trump 'puts the country first' after Electoral College vote
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Republican officials have followed Trump along his dangerous and destructive path
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Fox News Poll: US Worse Off Than 4 Years Ago
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Some Should Not be Seated in New Congress
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Trump appoints flurry of allies as presidency winds down
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A Wall Street Journal op-ed about Jill Biden pairs virulent sexism with academic elitism
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Biden leans on Obama-era talent for top posts
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Biden's Catholic faith will be on full display as the first churchgoing president in decades
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Democratic lawmaker: Republicans 'privately' acknowledge Biden's win
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Biden's Obama-era Cabinet picks frustrate liberals, civil rights leaders
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Georgia Senate Runoffs: Numbers Show Democrats In A ‘Good Place’ To Win, Says Stacey Abrams
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Trump Says He Will Veto Defense Spending Bill Approved by Congress
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GOP Congressman-elect calls the coronavirus pandemic 'phony' while rallying with Trump supporters in DC
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Republican legislators are refusing to pay two Wisconsin counties the $3 million they're owed for conducting election recounts
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O'Brien takes wife on COVID-era tour of Europe
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Hackers, Supported By A Foreign Power, Reportedly Spied On U.S. Government Email US agencies hacked in monthslong global cyberspying campaign DHS, DOJ And DOD Are All Customers Of SolarWinds Orion, The Source Of The Huge US Government Hack WashPost: Russian hacking group is behind Treasury and Commerce email breach
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Gavin Newsome May Face Recall
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Trump Lashes Out at Former Allies
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Sovereigns:

As Pandemic Rages, Debt Burden on Developing Nations Grows
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UK:

Authentic Brands plotting double takeover of Debenhams, Arcadia: Telegraph
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Commercial Rent Arrears, Recovery and Administration
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British stores stockpile food on Brexit no-deal concerns — but shoppers urged not to panic buy
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Brexit trade talks extended beyond Sunday’s deadline as leaders pledge to go ‘the extra mile’ With Tories at His Back, Boris Johnson Can’t Cave in on Brexit
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Brexit Logjams Force Freight Trains to Leave Goods at Port
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Brexit could disrupt $200 billion in derivatives trading, BoE says
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NHS Commercial Terrifies Children by Showing Santa Dying of COVID
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How a year stuck at home in lockdown taught me to live with £76,000 debt
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PIIGS:

Italy’s staggering virus toll poses uncomfortable questions
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Italy Overtakes U.K. as European Country With Most Covid Deaths
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Canada:

Household Debt Ratio in Canada Climbs on Renewed Borrowing
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Halifax airport requests relief from creditors amid low travel demand
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France:

Brexit sends ripples of uncertainty down France's coast
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Germany:

Silent nights: Germany tightens lockdown over festive period Germany set for stricter lockdown from Wednesday: report
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Sweden:

Swedish Covid-19 workers are quitting, leaving ICUs short-staffed
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Turkey:

What is the Future of Bankruptcy Proceedings in Turkey After the Covid-19 Lockdown?
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India:

Faster resolution under IBC can help GDP grow: Tata Steel CFO
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Analyzing The Jaypee Judgment With Respect To The Roles Of Third Party Mortgage Under The Insolvency And Bankruptcy Code
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Japan:

Japan sets new daily coronavirus record
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Australia:

Australia’s Shops See Year-End Spending Boom as Optimism Returns
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Crown Resorts' dire 2020 just got worse as shareholders take legal action
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South Korea:

S. Korea Says Tightest Virus Restrictions May Be ‘Inevitable’
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MENA:

Nearly half of UAE's first phase of flexible package to support economic recovery completed
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Saudi Oil Tanker Hit by Explosion
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China:

One key part of China is behind in the economic recovery
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