Law:

Davis Polk Goes Over The Top On Salaries • Davis Polk Boosts Big Law Associate Salary Scale to $365,000
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The First Biglaw Firm To Make It Rain On Associates With A $205K Davis Polk Salary Match
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An Unexpected Biglaw Salary Match
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Cleary Gottlieb Makes Associate Compensation Move
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Biglaw Firm Makes A Quick Move To The Height Of The Associate Compensation Market, As They're Wont To Do
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Biglaw Firm Proves They're Serious About The Lateral Market With $205K In Associate Compensation
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The New Normal Sinking In As More Firms Join Davis Polk With $205K Scale
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Salary Wars Scorecard: Which Firms Have Announced Raises? (2021)
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Salary Boost for Big Law’s Overwork Heralds More Change to Come
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'Tone-Deaf And Unseemly': In-House Counsel A Bit Put Off By Biglaw Salary Hikes
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Stat Of The Week: Remote Work Or More Money?
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Ninth Circuit Rejects Lenore Albert’s Plea to Retain Assets Despite Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
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Longtime lawyer is investigated in shooting outside his law office; ‘a number of attorneys’ carry guns
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Judge Spanks Lawyer on MLB Lawsuit
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Jeffrey Toobin is back at CNN eight months after exposing himself on Zoom • Jeffrey Toobin's CNN return after Zoom call was a class in performative accountability
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In closing brief, disbarred environmental lawyer claims his prosecution is ‘run by an oil company’
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Buchalter Grows After Ex-Client’s $200M Billing Fraud Suit Ends
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Why Garland's DOJ is siding with the Trump administration in several cases • Garland looks like he's protecting Trump. But Biden could benefit bigly.
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DOJ leak probe sought Apple data on 73 phone numbers • Trump-era Justice Department emerges as scandal of the summer • Pelosi demands Barr and Sessions testify on data subpoenas • Top Justice Department officials Sessions, Barr and Rosenstein all deny knowledge of secret subpoenas targeting Democratic lawmakers • Justice Department probes Trump DOJ targeting of media and Congress • Barr distances himself from Trump-era subpoenas of Democratic lawmakers • Barr's Despicable Actions Now on Full Display • The Trump administration forced Apple to turn over lawmakers’ data. Democrats are outraged. • How Apple, Google, and Microsoft reacted to Trump-era DOJ subpoenas and requests for data on political rivals and journalists • Apple says it didn't share pictures or emails from lawmakers' phones with Trump DOJ under subpoenas seeking to unmask leakers • ‘Hard-nosed, buttoned-down guy’: Colleagues defend prosecutor who oversaw leak cases •Schumer demands Barr and Sessions testify over DOJ’s targeting of House Democrats • Seized House records show just how far Trump admin would go
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Reports: Trump DOJ subpoenaed Apple for records of WH counsel Don McGahn • Apple told former White House counsel Don McGahn that his and his wife's records were subpoenaed by Trump DOJ in 2018: NYT
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‘We mean it’: FBI takes on sexual misconduct in its ranks
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At least 13 injured in shooting in Austin's 6th Street entertainment district • Video Shows 'Chaotic' Scene in Downtown Austin, Texas After 13 Were Reportedly Injured in Early Morning Mass Shooting • Police seek 2 in Austin mass shooting that wounded 14 people
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Rash of mass shootings stirs US fears heading into summer
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Chaos in Manhattan: A violent mob runs riot again in Washington Square Park • Violence and chaos continues to overrun Washington Square Park
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After historically deadly 2020, Atlanta homicides are up nearly 60% in 2021
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267 mass shootings recorded in U.S. so far this year
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Man gets 10-year sentence for attacking and coughing on person who asked him to pull up mask
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US closes Trump-era office for victims of immigrant crime
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Biden Gives Military $2 Billion Trump Allotted for Border Wall • Biden allocates additional $46 million to "unexpected urgent" migration needs
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AG Garland to double enforcement staff to protect voting rights • Garland declares voting rights expansion 'central' to democracy
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Ex-Police Chief And 5 Others Charged In Capitol Riot Conspiracy •  The Geophysicist Who Stormed the Capitol • Chicago Cop Charged in Jan. 6 Siege Ignored Friend’s Warnings About Sidney Powell, Texted 'N**** Don’t Snitch' a Week Later: Feds • 'This Is Our Capitol': Penn State Grad and Former Substitute Teacher Arrested for Allegedly Fighting with Numerous Cops, Stealing Property During Pro-Trump Riot • Minnesota Man Charged in Jan. 6 Capitol Siege Was Prepared to Die and Leave Four Kids Behind: 'I Was at Peace with That Knowledge' • Judge Allows Marine Veteran Charged in Oath Keepers Conspiracy Case to Stay Out of Jail Ahead of Trial • FBI Says Father and Son Duo Busted for Storming the Capitol Blamed Destruction on Antifa, Were Fixated on Crowd Size • Chicago Cop Donned Police Hoodie While Storming Capitol: FBI • Half of Capitol Rioters Didn't Vote in Election
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Florida Tourist Charged with Hate Crime, Told Asian Family to 'Go Back Where They Came from' After Kids Pet His Dogs: Sheriff
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$350,000 settlement offered in police takedown of wrong man
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50% of Indian Americans experienced discrimination in past year, study finds
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2021 set to become deadliest year on record for trans Americans
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Jury awards $15 million in landmark case over embryos, eggs destroyed in fertility clinic tank failure
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Biden calls for gun reform 5 years after Pulse nightclub shooting
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She bought 47 guns last month. Police are already finding them in shooting investigations
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Florida supermarket shooter had recently declared bankruptcy • Gunman in South Florida grocery store shooting ID'd
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Major cyberattacks have rocked the US, and there are 'a lot of different ways that ransomware actors can disrupt everyone's lives,' experts say
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Man Blew Up His Home with Fireworks and Died After Code Enforcement Confronted Him About Hoarding: Police
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Man urinating in middle of street, shot and killed by confronting residents
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Father Left 80,000 Pennies Worth of Child Support on Front Lawn. A Mom and Daughter Gave It to a Domestic Abuse Center.
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Federal Prosecutor Touched Intern's Breast Without Her Consent and Sexually Harassed Other Federal Employees, Won't Be Prosecuted: OIG Report
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Lawsuit: ICE detained US citizen for a week in Tacoma
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Virginia Tech football player accused of killing Tinder match after discovering his date was a man
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Wife Arrested After Allegedly Agreeing to Have Husband Killed on Installment Plan of $100 Per Week for 40 Weeks
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62-year-old Missouri man who has spent 43 years in prison in still behind bars even though prosecutors say he was wrongly convicted for 3 murders
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Judges:

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has announced that Pam McAfee, an attorney of counsel at Ellis & Winters, LLP, will be the next bankruptcy judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina
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BK WD NC: Updated COVID Operating Order
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BK MD PA: Court Operations Under COVID-19
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BK MD PA: Law Clerk Vacancy Announcement
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Less travel, plenty of royalties for justices in 2020
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Judge Judy Keeps Losing Her Lawsuits
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With a backlog of over 1.3 million cases, the 500 immigration judges in the US feel overburdened and pressured to deport
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Wall Street:

S&P 500 futures are little changed with benchmark at a record, Nasdaq futures gain
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JPMorgan staff irked over order to save texts on personal phones
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A hedge fund lost 10% in just a few days after a sudden spike in AMC stock derailed an options trade, new report says
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Mudrick’s AMC bet backfires after meme frenzy wrecks hedges
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Zombie Stocks Defy Bankruptcy Logic as Meme Traders Bid Them Up
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Layoffs:

Katerra employees fire back with lawsuit over abrupt closure
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Cerner confirms 500 layoffs in Kansas City as part of 'company transformation'
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Politics:

Did Biden give Boris Johnson a $6,000 bike and get a Wikipedia printout in return? Not exactly.
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Dem leaders look to deescalate Omar drama
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White boys who grew up with Black neighbors are more likely to become Democrats, study finds
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The bogus claim that Democrats voted against funding for Israel
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Ocasio-Cortez: Senate Democrats 'blocking crucial items in a Democratic agenda' • Pelosi: 'I don't give up on Joe Manchin'
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Democrats seek to undo institutional racism embedded in pivotal New Deal law
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Biden "definitely" brings U.S. back into "club," Macron says at G7 summit
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G7 source praises Biden after 'complete chaos' of Trump
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Putin says Trump is an 'extraordinary' and 'talented individual' who is an outsider to the US political establishment, unlike 'career man' Biden
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Community reacts to Latta plantation Juneteenth event focused on "white refugees" from emancipation • NC plantation: No apology, slams mayor and other critics of Juneteenth event promo
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Texas will build a wall along its border with Mexico, governor says
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Brad Raffensperger Speaks Out on Disturbing Death Threats His Wife Received, Efforts They Took to Protect Their Family
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It's Hard to Gauge Support for QAnon
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she doesn't "believe in evolution"
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What the new IG report about the gassing of protesters around Lafayette Square actually says • Trump's false Lafayette Square exoneration
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Lara Trump calls on Americans at border to 'arm up and get guns and be ready'
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An anti-abortion program will receive $100 million in the next Texas budget, but there’s little data on what’s being done with the money
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Economy:

Inflation is hotter than expected, but it looks temporary and likely won’t affect Fed policy yet
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The Fed says inflation is transitory, but these 10 companies have already said they'll pass along rising costs to customers
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Four states cut off federal unemployment benefits Saturday - and the White House is very unlikely to step in and prevent the loss of stimulus jobless aid • States push back against federal unemployment policies delaying economic recovery
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Push to end pandemic benefits may not be panacea for U.S. labor shortage
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Expiring unemployment benefits will boost job growth by over 150,000 in July and over 400,000 in September, Goldman says
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U.S. Chamber CEO Suzanne Clark calls worker shortage "tragic"
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Chamber of Commerce CEO Suzanne Clark defends overture to Democrats
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From $2,000 sign-on bonuses to free hotel rooms and even iPhones, companies like McDonald's, Amazon, and JBS are finding creative ways to lure in new hires amid the labor shortage
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Workers are taking power back
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Fed explores ‘once in a century’ bid to remake the U.S. dollar
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GOP governors tie economy to relaxed approach to coronavirus
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California Gov. Newsom signs order to end most of state's coronavirus restrictions, reopen Tuesday
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As virus cases wane, governors weigh ending emergency orders
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A new industrial revolution presses the reset button on work
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What meat, clothing and five other everyday items tell us about inflation
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Deal or no deal? Confusion rules Senate infrastructure talks • Bidenworld on bipartisan infrastructure talks: Little harm in still trying • Go green or go bipartisan? Biden’s big infrastructure choice • Collins says infrastructure bill won't have gas tax increase or undo 2017 tax reform bill • Biden’s Plan B could be a bust
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How the pandemic is still ruining our plans
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Why America's post-vaccine summer is off to a slow start
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Teens juice the summer recovery
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COVID-19 was meant to usher in a flexible work revolution. But for part-timers, it's making things worse.
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Trump's shadow still looms over cloudy skies at G-7 summit
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Biden and G-7 leaders will endorse global minimum corporate tax of at least 15% • Low Taxes Brought Ireland Prosperity. a Global Tax Deal Now Threatens It
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‘The selfie summit’: Why some economists and activists are disappointed with the G-7
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Biden wants the G-7 to unite against China. Beijing’s trade wars are helping.
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Biden’s plan to increase legal immigration could aid the pandemic economy recovery
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G7 members will spend 'hundreds of billions' on infrastructure to rival China's Belt and Road initiative, according to a US official. China says G7 proposals are doomed to fail.
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Why the world is in a shipping crisis
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Executive pay soared during the pandemic, widening the gulf between CEOs and employees. These were the 5 execs who received the largest pay packages in 2020.
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Elizabeth Warren rips into Jeff Bezos over his upcoming trip to space: 'He's laughing at every person in America who actually paid taxes' • Fat Cats on a Hot Tin Roof • CNBC’s Jim Cramer Calls For Billionaire Tax After ProPublica Report: ‘These Revelations Make Me Sick’ • Billionaire Tax Leak Referred to FBI as Probe Grows, IRS Says
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Billionaires pay no taxes while workers get no raises
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Maersk CEO: Global businesses should be wary of politics
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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:

Mall owner Washington Prime Group files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing COVID-19 • Mall Owner Washington Prime Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy • Owner of 100 malls across US files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy • Washington Prime Group Commences Voluntary Chapter 11 Financial Restructuring with RSA Supported by Over 70% of Holders of Secured and Unsecured Corporate Debt • First Day Dec
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A Retail Crusader’s Eclectic Portfolio Is Giving Malls New Hope
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Wall Street isn’t to blame for the chaotic housing market
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From Picasso’s estate to squatting in Soho: The 470 Broome Street affair
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Judge upholds dismissal of case against resort developer
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Municipalities:

Puerto Rico enacts law to halt pension plan cuts
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Oil/Gas:

G7 leaders to announce plan to phase out gasoline cars
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Shell considers selling assets in the largest US oil field, Reuters reports, highlighting pressure to focus on low-carbon investments
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Exxon losing veteran oil traders recruited during past expansion
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Three top executives exit Chesapeake Energy
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Oil Markets Baffled As The IEA Calls For More Production
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Pharma:

Insys Seeks Ch. 11 Clawback Of $10M In Ex-CEO's Legal Fees
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Hotels:

Queen Mary: Urgent repair plan for deteriorating former ocean liner
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Transit:

Flatlined transit systems try new tricks
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Biden restores $929 million in funding for the California high-speed rail project that was canceled by Trump
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Newspapers:

Why Has Local News Collapsed? Blame Readers.
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Awards:

Legal 500: Corporate Restructuring
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Corporate Governance:

Chancery Recognizes Reverse Veil-Piercing
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When the well runs dry – A look at directors’ and officers’ duties and liabilities in COVID
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Autos:

Hertz’s Plan Of Reorganization Confirmed By Bankruptcy Court • Now it’s Hertz’s turn to try harder as it prepares to exit bankruptcy
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Fraud:

Missouri accountant who used Ponzi scheme to fund lavish lifestyle is sentenced
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A man stole $1 million from monks in Kentucky. Now he wants out of repayment.
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Virginia woman got $499K in pandemic unemployment for friends and inmates, feds say
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Utilities:

Texas Ratepayers Are Being Saddled With Nearly $38 Billion In Excess Energy Costs From Winter Storm Uri
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Griddy Argues It Was, in Fact, a Champion of Consumers
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Food/Beverage:

The Rise and Fall of Planet Hollywood
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Taxis:

New York's yellow cabs make a comeback amid Uber, Lyft driver shortages
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Healthcare:

America’s biggest hospitals vs. their patients • Public spotlight on hospital lawsuits may slow them down • Big New York hospitals dominate list of hospitals that sue a lot • Some hospitals turn to liens instead of lawsuits
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Most top hospitals charge a more than 5x markup
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600,000 dead: With normal life in reach, covid's late-stage victims lament what could have been • Can We Ever Know the Real Covid Death Toll?
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FDA: 60 Million J&J Vaccines Can't be Used
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More than half who said they would turn down Covid vaccine have now had one
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A federal judge just ruled against over 100 Houston hospital workers who will be fired if they don't get the COVID-19 vaccine
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Undervaccinated red states are nowhere near herd immunity as dangerous Delta variant spreads
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G-7 leaders to pledge 1 billion doses of Covid vaccines to low-income nations
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G7 leaders call for investigation into coronavirus origins • Blinken calls on China to be transparent, share information for probe into COVID-19 origins • State Dept. Fought Over Covid Lab Leak Theory
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'Disgraceful' COVID-19 Ward Worker Used 83-Year-Old Woman’s Card to Buy Snacks Just 17 Minutes After Her Death: Police
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In World’s Worst Vaccine Line, the Wait Lasts Hours and Gets You Nothing
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HIV infections have dropped by 73% in the past 40 years
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Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory

Recent Ch. 11 Filings (101 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (14 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 Statistics:

Hawaii bankruptcies maintain downward trend
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Avoidance Actions:

No Time Runs against the King (IRS): The Golden Creditor Rule and its Discontents
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Bankruptcy Research:

Chapter 11 under Duress
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Personal Bankruptcy and the Accumulation of Shadow Debt
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Litigation:

Don't Plan The Work Too Much; Just Get To It
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Professional Fees:

Update on Business Bankruptcy Legal Fees and Professionalism
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Aviation:

TSA screens 2 million people for first time since coronavirus lockdowns began
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American Airlines flight attendant reprimands passengers for ‘making flight living hell’
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Video Shows Passengers and Crew Subduing Off-Duty Delta Employee Who Threatened to 'Take Down' the Aircraft
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Eastar may pick preferred bidder next week: sources
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S African government sells 51% stake in SAA to consortium
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Religion:

Advocates for sexual abuse survivors call on Diocese of Rochester to stop prolonging hearings
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Rochester diocese seeks approval for $35M settlement with insurers for sex abuse victims
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Secret recordings, leaked letters: Explosive secrets rocking the Southern Baptist Convention
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Education:

Teachers wary of new laws limiting instruction on race
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Nevada group proposes forcing teachers to wear body cameras to ensure they don't teach critical race theory
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Teachers across the U.S. protest laws restricting racism lessons
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Is there an uncontroversial way to teach America’s racist history?
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Florida Restricts How US History is Taught
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Two Black Students Won School Honors. Then Came the Demands for a Recount.
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Virtual School Opens a Divide That U.S. Parents Fill With Fury
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Golf:

Trump lost $40 million on his Scottish golf clubs by failing to implement a very basic financial practice, say experts
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Fishing:

Creditor plan to take over China Fishery’s Peru assets approved by bankruptcy judge
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Student Debt:

Biden tells Chuck Schumer to 'go ahead' with calls for $50,000 in student-debt cancellation
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Millennials are about to get screwed yet again if Biden doesn't cancel student-loan debt
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A federal college loan program can trap parents in debt
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Movies:

Weinstein Company Buyer Lantern Capital Facing December Trial In Battle With ‘Mob Wives’ EP Marvin Peart Over Assets’ Purchase
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Jewelry:

US Trustee Balks At Alex And Ani's Bid To Seal Ch. 11 Details
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Private Equity:

Private Inequity: How a Powerful Industry Conquered the Tax System
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Climate:

No severe tornadoes hit the U.S. this May for first time on record
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Photos: California’s Growing Drought Disaster
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Across US West, drought arriving dangerously early
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The West is the driest it's been in 1,200 years — raising questions about a livable future
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Drought in the Western US is Here to Stay
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‘Dire situation’: Silicon Valley cracks down on water use as California drought worsens
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Ice shelf protecting Antarctic glacier is breaking up faster
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Alaska's Melting Permafrost
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Sports:

Violators of Summer Games virus rules to face fines
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UK:

Convergent Divergence: When bankruptcy and the family courts collide
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Boris Johnson gets an EU earful on Northern Ireland • Boris Johnson hints he may rip up EU rule book over trade with Northern Ireland • Boris Johnson's warning to EU: 'I will not hesitate to take unilateral measures over Northern Ireland'
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Johnson voices caution over next lockdown easing in England
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U.K. Set to Beat Vaccine Target by a Month Even as Cases Surge
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Scientists issue warning that UK could see 100,000 daily Covid cases by July
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EU:

Europe keeps aiding companies to avoid surge of covid-19 insolvencies
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Canada:

SCC disposes of recapitalization case in favor of oilfield services provider
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DavidsTea creditors authorize plan to split $18M owed by insolvent beverage company
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Brazil:

Bolsonaro fined for not wearing a mask at rally in Sao Paulo
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MENA:

Saudi Arabia limits annual pilgrimage due to Covid
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India:

Frequently asked questions on regulations on insolvency resolution process for corporate persons
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Pandemic relapse spells trouble for India’s middle class
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China:

China reports 35 new coronavirus cases on June 11, Foshan airport cancels flights
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G7 leaders agree to call out China's “nonmarket policies and human rights abuses"
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Russia:

Moscow residents told to stay off work to combat COVID-19 • Moscow orders new restrictions as COVID-19 infections soar
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Chile:

Chile shuts capital Santiago once more as vaccines fail to quell rampant cases
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Malaysia:

Malaysian court rejects ex-PM Najib's bid to halt bankruptcy order
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South Korea:

Debt-laden SsangYong Motor's workers to take unpaid leave for two years
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