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Puerto Rico on Monday asked the federal judge overseeing its bankruptcy-like restructuring to streamline the disbursement of federal disaster relief funds to help the island rebuild in the wake of Hurricane Maria's devastation, and one creditor has read more

 A Missouri bankruptcy judge on Tuesday tossed three lawsuits filed by two California counties and one city accusing Peabody Energy Corp. of causing climate change-related damage, saying the company's bankruptcy agreements prevent it from fa read more

A law firm and an accounting practice asked the New Jersey Supreme Court for first dibs on the assets of a bankrupt lawyer who owes them money for their services, arguing Tuesday that she has no true interest in future legal fees she pledged to a cre read more

Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP has added a veteran attorney who spent the last decade at Kirkland & Ellis LLP to co-chair its bankruptcy and corporate reorganization department, the firm announced Tuesday, highlighting his extensiv read more

There are various barriers to corporate pro bono work, including lack of malpractice insurance coverage, limited resources, and the transactional nature of the majority of in-house legal work. But at the end of the day, we've overcome many of these read more