Law:

Top 25 Am Law Firm Announces Special Bonuses — But There’s A Catch
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Cravath announces two bonuses of up to $140K and Paul Weiss follows
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Goodwin to Pay Special Bonuses, Expects to Match Cravath Scale
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Milbank Announces Bonuses: What Does That Mean For The Biglaw Compensation Leader Race?
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Skadden Announces Year-End Bonuses And Makes Up For Lost Time
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Leading Biglaw Firm That First Refused Special Bonuses Includes Them With Their Cravath Match
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Big Law Avoids ‘Lost Generation’ with Remote First-Year Programs
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The Law Firm Office Isn't Dead, And Neither Is Open Space
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Lawyers Calling Themselves ‘Doctor’ Is Still Stupid: Trump Lawyer Edition
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Dan Crenshaw Declares That Fourth Amendment Protects Thanksgiving (Psst… It Doesn’t)
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Former Biglaw General Counsel Disbarred Amid Allegations He Misappropriated $2.5 Million
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Court Calls Out Non-Lawyer For Filing Mandamus Petition in Texas
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Can being forced to listen to ‘Baby Shark’ be considered cruel and unusual punishment?
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ATL’s Legally Themed Halloween Costume Contest: The Winner (2020)
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In a first, San Francisco DA charges on-duty cop with homicide
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Nebraska man who threatened neighbor with chainsaw for being ‘black’ arrested
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Rich Americans Are Increasingly Looking for Second Passport
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Texts: US census manager told counters to use fake answers
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Bail reform in this county didn’t have any impact on new criminal activity, new study says
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Man Raped 14-Year-Old Girl While Out on Bail for Sexual Assault of Another Minor: Police
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DOJ makes no ‘overt moves’ to investigate claims of widespread voter fraud conspiracy
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Crybaby Rand Paul Upset That U.S. Attorney Won’t Investigate Nonexistent Crimes
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Pennsylvania Blasts Trump Bid to ‘Sow Chaos’ in Ballot Suit
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Pennsylvania Urges Third Circuit to Put Trump Campaign's 'Frankenstein's Monster's Monster' Lawsuit Out of Its Misery
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'Tears and Legal Bills': Legal Experts Point and Laugh as Trump's Legal Team Sweats It Out at Third Circuit
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Inside the Fake Michigan Voter Fraud Scandal
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Pro-Trump Congressman Called Out for Claiming in Lawsuit That He Was Harmed by Winning Election
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Democrats Compare Trump’s Legal Team to Monty Python Sketch in Response to Pennsylvania Appeal
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Trump to Appear at GOP Voting Fraud Hearing
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Trump Insists: I Will Still be President
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Trump Claims Lawsuit Will Prove Voter Fraud
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Donald Trump Shares Deep State Conspiracy Article That Says 'We Are at War'
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Trump Worried His ‘Elite Strike Force’ Legal Team Is Full Of Gibbering Idiots • Trump Wonders If He Should Have Gone With A Lawyer From The Yellow Pages Instead Of Leaky Rudy
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Predicting a second Trump term, Sidney Powell says 'massive' Georgia lawsuit coming by Thanksgiving eve
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Trump probably can't pardon himself. He may still try
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Trump Is Reportedly Discussing Plans To Pardon Michael Flynn, Other Aides
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Jailers interrupt Ghislaine Maxwell’s sleep to check her breathing, lawyer says • Maxwell’s Lawyers Say Jail Has Her in ‘De-Facto Solitary’ Lockup
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Alleged cartel boss arrested over slaughter of Mormon family in Mexico
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Judges:

Texas judge will plead guilty to violating his own stay-at-home order
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Trump-Appointed Judge Ensures That Lin Wood’s Bizarre Subpoena of the Atlanta Hawks Won’t Go Anywhere
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Judge Emmet Sullivan Will Oversee Voting Rights Act Case Accusing Trump of Anti-Black Campaign to Overturn Election
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Judge’s threat to add lawyer to pro bono list could be seen as punitive, 6th Circuit says
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Liberal Lawyer Group Ready with Judicial Nominee List for Biden
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McConnell Reportedly Told Trump To Nominate Barrett On Night Of Ginsburg’s Death
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Wall Street:

Dow futures fall slightly a day after the average soars past 30,000
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Global stocks hit record high as Biden transition, vaccines brighten outlook
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Dow soars past 30,000 for first time ever on vaccine hopes, Biden transition
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Markets Throw a Welcome Party of Sorts for Biden
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Layoffs:

Willoughby-Eastlake City Schools lay off more than 200 employees
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A fifth of North Sea oil companies expect job cuts in 2021
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Clariant plans to cut 1,000 jobs amid divestments
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IBM Planning About 10,000 Job Cuts
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Healthcare:

New York hospital warns of possible mass layoffs, bankruptcy
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Hospitals Cancel Surgeries to Preserve Staff During Covid Surge
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Most Americans are still vulnerable to the coronavirus
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California seemingly corralled coronavirus. Now, cases are surging.
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Cuomo: COVID hospitalizations in New York up 128% in 3 weeks
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U.S. is ‘in the middle of the Fight of the Century,’ says former CDC head as cases rise in 45 states, hospitalizations set record
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It’s not just the Midwest: The U.S. outbreak is accelerating all over the map.
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Rural Americans Stopped Staying In. Then Covid-19 Hit.
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Oregon Gov. Kate Brown urges people to call cops on COVID-19 rule breakers
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Horrifying aerial photos show 50 refrigerated trucks filled with bodies of 650 unclaimed COVID-19 dead being kept on Brooklyn waterfront 8 months after the city's pandemic peak
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Keep the mask: A vaccine won’t end the US crisis right away
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Covid-19 Transmission Risk From Using Cash is Low, Study Finds
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Biden team receives Operation Warp Speed briefing, Azar says, after weeks of delays
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Texas hospitals prepare to administer Covid vaccine shots in less than three weeks
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Evidence Builds That an Early Mutation Made the Pandemic Harder to Stop
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Covid Test Crunch Means Hours-Long Waits Before Thanksgiving
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'Don't be like my family': Fifteen relatives got Covid-19 after a small gathering
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Travis Kalanick's $37 million NYC penthouse was reportedly the site of a large party where no one was wearing a mask
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Pandemic Thanksgiving plans pivot after a surge in coronavirus cases
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One third of parents said gathering with family members at Thanksgiving is 'worth the risk of' coronavirus, according to a poll
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Thanksgiving could make or break US coronavirus response
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Millions of people are flying across the US for Thanksgiving, ignoring CDC advice
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NYC Will Have Covid Checkpoints at Key Bridges and Crossings
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Fifth Circuit Reverses Itself, Dealing Significant Setback to Planned Parenthood in Texas
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Disruption? - Health care is going digital and that could make it ‘almost free,’ says tech investor Tim Draper
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Retailing:

How Guitar Center went from jukebox hero to latest pandemic bankruptcy
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What Does the Guitar Center Bankruptcy Mean?
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Gap's profit falls 32% as marketing expenses rise • Gap earnings fall short, sales beat, as retailer ‘optimistic’ about the holidays
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American Eagle posts 3% quarterly sales decline on pandemic hit
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Nordstrom shares rise as retailer shows signs of recovery
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Inside the invisible retail underclass working through the holidays, as booming online sales turn warehouse workers into 'the backbone of our economy'
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Thanksgiving Canceled? Christmas Shopping Isn’t.
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Wadle Steps Up to J. Crew Group CEO; Singer Departs • J.Crew Names New CEO
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Retailers already fear U.S. holiday 'shipageddon'; now here come vaccines
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FedEx, UPS Can’t Get Enough Vans to Keep Up With Delivery Rush
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Economy:

Winter is coming, and millions may lose their jobs in restaurants and hospitality
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U.S. Consumer Confidence Declines More Than Forecast
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Indicators show consumers expect conditions to worsen in the next six months
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Note: November Employment Report Will Show a Decrease of 93,000 Temporary Census Workers
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What Janet Yellen Doesn’t Know
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$169 bn for 29,000 lives? Study calculates cost of US shutdowns
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More than 125 economists, including Obama's former top economic advisor, have signed a letter urging Congress to send a second round of $1,200 stimulus checks
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Fraudulent Jobless Claims Swamp Illinois
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Washington's Stimulus Triumph Remains Underrated
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AOC and Ted Cruz clash over stalled COVID-19 relief bill • Ocasio-Cortez knocks McConnell for dismissing Senate without passing COVID-19 relief
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Mnuchin will put $455 billion in Fed funds out of Yellen’s reach without approval of Congress
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Texas food bank doubles amount of people it serves amid coronavirus pandemic
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Warren Buffett wants more small-business aid, less income inequality, and a robust economic recovery. He'll be happy to have Janet Yellen as treasury secretary
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Elon Musk overtakes Bill Gates to be world's second-richest person
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Deutsche Bank Considering 40% Permanent Work-From-Home Policy
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Trump’s tariffs could give Biden ‘leverage’ over China: ex-U.S. trade negotiator
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MIT: How the Workforce Will Change in the Future
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America’s Largest Private Companies
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Where Midwesterners struggle, Trumpism lives on
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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:

Home prices see biggest spike in 6 years in September, according to S&P Case Shiller • Case-Shiller: National House Price Index increased 7.0% year-over-year in September
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Freddie Mac: Mortgage Serious Delinquency Rate decreased in October
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Home Prices Gain Most on Record With Low Rates Driving Demand
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The legally murky eviction of a North Carolina single mother — despite the CDC’s moratorium: ‘Nobody’s enforcing it’
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Municipalities:

Supreme Court Denies Bondholders’ Claim on Puerto Rico’s Pension Plan
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Court rejects Puerto Rico bondholders’ claim against federal government
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Pennsylvania use of coronavirus relief to backfill budget raises stir
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Chicago Passes $12.8 Billion Budget With More Taxes
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The Case for Bailing Out Cities and States
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Oil/Gas:

Oil Market Sends Most Bullish Signal in Months
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Noble Shares Reorganization Update
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The oil sector's new methane pledge
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The Real Reason Oil Prices Went Negative In April
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Texas oilfield services firm files for bankruptcy
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UK Oil Sector Business Confidence Slashed
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Religion:

Bankruptcy filing was best for victims and diocese
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Education:

A ‘trend of more failing’: Online school has sent F’s spiking by 83 percent in Virginia’s largest school system
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Politics:

Trump claims he directed his administration to start Biden's transition process even as he continues to say he won the election
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Gallup says Trump exit approval worse than Jimmy Carter’s, lowest ‘for a US president’
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Krugman: Trump Wars II: The Loser Strikes Back
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Paul Ryan calls on Trump to concede race and end lawsuits
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Wisconsin GOP Chair Says Republicans Are 'Trying to Disenfranchise People,' Amid Post-Election Turmoil
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Charles Koch: I "screwed up"
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Trump Posts Series of Bewildering, Deranged Videos From Actor Randy Quaid — And a Call to ‘Re-Vote’ the 2020 Election
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Most Republicans in new poll say they'd vote for Trump in 2024
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Democrats are waiting out Trump's 'temper tantrum,' but there may be long-term consequences of the GOP's election subversion
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Pennsylvania certifies Biden's election victory in blow to Trump
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Laura Ingraham told viewers that Biden would be the next president and suggested anyone saying otherwise was lying • Laura Ingraham says that Biden will be president: 'This constitutes living in reality'
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No, you cannot move to Georgia just to vote in the Senate runoffs
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Biden says outreach from Trump admin has been 'sincere' as transition begins
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Joe Biden Getting The Band Back Together
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Biden's response to the transition starting hints at how worried he is about the damage Trump has done to the federal government
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Biden Fills Out National Security Team, Seeking Reset
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What Biden actually promised about replacing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos
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Biden’s foreign policy team lays out a national security vision that differs sharply from Trump’s
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Biden Has the Team Obama Always Wanted
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Mattis: Time to Stop This America First Stuff
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What's behind the disturbing appeal of QAnon?
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He's an ex-Proud Boy. Here's what he says happens within the group's ranks
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Record 788K people request ballots ahead of Georgia runoff elections
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Trump Junks Treaty & Planes Designed to Stop Nuclear War
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Pharma:

Purdue Pharma pleads guilty to charges related to nation's opioid crisis • OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma pleads guilty to three criminal charges
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Student Debt:

Debt Relief on Day One
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How To Bankrupt Your Student Loans
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Coal:

US coal exports to 7 of top 10 destinations declined in Q3'20
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Transit:

Bankruptcy judge approves Monorail sale to LVCVA
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Celebs:

A Bankrupt Boris Becker Just Got Accused of Hiding Over $1.3 Million and All of His Tennis Trophies
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Cosmetics:

Revlon Is Bombed Out But Not Bust
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Forest Products:

Northwest Hardwoods Plans Speedy Trip Through Ch. 11
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Autos:

Ford orders 12 ultra-cold freezers to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to employees
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Sports:

NFL expands mask mandate, threatens to discipline violators
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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 (8 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (6 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code (html) - Bankruptcy Code (pdf) • Prior BK Codes (pick year from list) - Bankruptcy Rules
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UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Case Studies
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Bankruptcy Jobs:

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Bankruptcy Statistics:

March of the Zombies Is Coming Soon
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Pandemic fallout is about to overwhelm the bankruptcy system—and hit small businesses hardest
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Bankruptcy Policy:

Distorted Choice in Corporate Bankruptcy
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Jurisdiction:

FERC aims for 5th Circuit review of pipeline shipper bankruptcy questions
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Tax:

IRS reiterates PPP-paid expenses not deductible if loan forgiven
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CARES Act – IRS Guidance Regarding M&A Transactions and Deductibility of PPP Loan Expenses
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Mediation:

Refusing a Mediation Opportunity
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Cannabis:

Up in Smoke: The Effect of Marijuana Legalization on Personal Bankruptcy
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Aviation:

Airlines See Losses Swelling to $157 Billion Before Virus Clears • IATA says airlines set to lose close to $160bn, exceeding most dire estimates
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Airbus CEO: No Full Recovery Until 2025
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'You should fly': Southwest Airlines CEO said traveling by plane is safe, despite the CDC and infectious disease experts warning against air travel
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Boeing's 737 Max gets tentative nod from European regulator
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Boeing’s 737 Max Is a Saga of Capitalism Gone Awry
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Norway extends duration of pandemic loan guarantees to airlines
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What will it take for India’s oldest private airline to fly again?
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Philippine Airlines Says It’s Readying Restructuring Plan • Philippine Airlines plans court protection as pandemic hits finances
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South Africa Could Sells Shares in Restructured National Airline
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Circuses:

Cirque du Soleil emerges from bankruptcy protection • Cirque du Soleil expects to be back flying high by 2022 • Cirque du Soleil Revival Includes Return of U.S. Shows Next Year
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Food/Beverage:

California Pizza Kitchen emerges from bankruptcy with significantly less debt • This Beloved Pizza Chain Was Just Saved From Bankruptcy
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Manhattan Grocer Dean & DeLuca Gets Ch. 11 Plan Approval
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How 13 casual chains are turning sales around
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LA County joins Oregon, New Mexico in banning outdoor dining
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DC allocates $35M for restaurants as new restrictions loom
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Restaurant workers out of work again as virus surges anew
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History:

A historian on the perils of chaotic White House transitions
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Clubs:

Lifetime Memberships May Not Be For Life if Bankruptcy Intervenes
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Sovereigns:

Senegal Cautions Against Private-Debt Relief for African Nations
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UK:

The EU thanks Joe Biden for his 'clear support' in Brexit dispute with the UK
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Brexit a Symptom of a Civil War in Capitalism
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Goldman in Paris Is Another Blow for London
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U.K.’s Pandemic Bond Burden Seen Hitting Half-a-Trillion Pounds
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By freezing pay and benefits, Sunak will be leveling down, not up
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U.K. Carmakers Warn of $74 Billion Brexit Blow
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Irish Sausages at Risk as Brexit Negotiators Scramble For Deal
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Will There Be A Third National Lockdown In The New Year?
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Row Over England Flu Shots Prompts Fear of Covid Vaccine ‘Chaos’
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EU:

Business activity is plunging in Europe
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ECB warns bank profits will ‘remain weak’ throughout next year
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ECB Warns European Banks May Need More Bad-Loan Provisions
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PIIGS:

Spain’s mortuary workers endure the daily march of death
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Canada:

Insights on bankruptcy, financial restructuring and insolvency in Canada
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Kenney's lockdown is severe but holds out hope for businesses to survive
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Norway:

Norwegian billionaire businessman fears a historic wave of bankruptcies in 2021
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France:

How Restructuring Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic is Likely to Reshape France's Economic Landscape
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China:

Recognition of Hong Kong Insolvency Proceedings in Mainland China – A Test Case in the Making?
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Australian:

Australian State Overhauls Hotel Quarantine After Mystery Cases
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Sweden:

Sweden Says It Sees No Signs Herd Immunity Is Stopping the Virus
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Thailand:

Foreign Tourists Return to Thailand for First Time Since March
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Austria:

Austrian lenders can cope with 2021's wave of insolvencies, cbank says
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Sweden:

Swedish Life Expectancy to Drop Due to Covid-19 Pandemic
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India:

Pre-pack scheme: Insolvency resolution time may be cut to just 3-4 months
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MENA:

What you need to know about the revised UAE bankruptcy law
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