Law:

Judge Rejects Race Bias Suit Against DLA Piper
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Pity the Poor Partners?
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When $250,000 Is Not Enough
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Lawyers Salaries Projected To Rise 5.4 Percent in 2008
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Firm leaders braced for tough 2008
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Bonus Watch: Associate Compensation Overhaul at Boies Schiller? (And They're Going to Jamaica This Weekend)
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A Crash Course for Surviving the Real Estate Market's Nosedive
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Another Argument in Favor of Working in London
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Study Shows In-House Costs Are Rising Faster Than Those for Outside Counsel
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What Clients Think of Lawyers
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The Mess In Mississippi: Are the Katrina Legal Fees In Play?
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Woman Charged With Hiring Hit Man to Kill Lawyer's Wife
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Just the FACTS, Ma'am
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The Lawyer Bride Who Sued Her Florist: She's Back!
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Law firms can go to extremes with holiday parties
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Justice Scalia On the O.J. Simpson Case
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Can You Speak Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader?
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Barry Bonds's Legal Team: Who's On First?
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Lerach: Fallen Plaintiffs Lawyer Emerging As Pundit
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Magna Carta for Sale - To Highest Bidder
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Time for Cameras: Those who are interested shouldn't have to line up overnight to watch Supreme Court debates
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LA Law: Firm Files Injury Suit for Lanky Model
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How Not to Succeed in Law School
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Beware the Long Arm of Delaware Over Out of State Lawyers Practicing Delaware Law
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Economy:

Pessimism Is Growing in Executive Suites
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U.S. four-week jobless claims highest since Oct. 2005
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Corporate Reform:

UnitedHealth's Former Chief to Repay $600 Million
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'NatWest Three' Deal Re-Ignites Plea Bargain Debate in the U.K.
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SEC Probes More Merger-Rumor Trades
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Banking:

Rabobank bails out SIV
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Rabobank to Take on $7.6 Billion of Tango SIV Assets
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Municipalities:

Florida Fund Meltdown: Bad To Worse
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Florida Fund Reopens, Has $1.2 Billion of Withdrawals
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Autos:

Dana says Burns to remain CEO post-bankruptcy
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Dana Announces Board of Directors
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York, ex-auto execs to run Dana board
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Delphi creditors, shareholders OK plan changes
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Highland Capital may offer alternative bid for Delphi
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Auto loan delinquency rises, another sign of stretched consumer
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Awards:

Attorney Recognized For Pro Bono Efforts
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Religion:

The Blessed Second Life of Beliefnet
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Complex matrix to help determine diocese payouts
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Some parishes will be asked to help pay
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Stock Brokers:

E*Trade's not-quite-full disclosure of its deal with Citadel
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Citadel To Handle E*Trade's Lucrative Order Flow
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Health Care:

CEO of Haven Healthcare took firm's money for personal use
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Pharmed headquarters close to sale
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Hospital gets more time to file bankruptcy plan
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Student Debt:

First Marblehead Showing Cracks?
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Politics:

Clinton, Edwards bash Bush's mortgage plan
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Trustees:

New Section 1104(e) May Not Be a Ticking Time Bomb After All
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Real Estate:

Bush announces deal to freeze mortgage rates
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House prices 'seen falling 30%'
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Warren: Slick Deal for the Banks
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Lawless: Show Us the Fine Print!
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Battle Lines Over Mortgage Plan
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Mortgage Policy Conflict at the Wall Street Journal
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S&P Weighs in on Bush's Borrower Rescue Plan
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Bad Mortgage Medicine
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Analysis On Mortgage Relief, Who Gains the Most?
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Tough to calculate mortgage winners
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Homeowner bailout is a lousy idea
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A Marshall Plan for Mortgages
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Bush Touts Subprime Plan Faulted for Coming Too Late
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What the Mortgage Bailout Means For You
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Paulson: Avoiding foreclosures in interest of all
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Californians fear Bush's plan disqualifies too many people
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Paulson Subprime Fix Is Cheered by Democrats, Panned by Right
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Treasury's Paulson says investor lawsuit risk of foreclosure plan is 'manageable'
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Moral Hazard Cited as Bush Acts on Loans
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Bush Subprime Plan: Too Much or Too Little?
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Bush's plan for an interest rate freeze get an icy response
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Mortgage plan only a small first step
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D.C. lenders not part of mortgage deal
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Countrywide, Lennar, MGIC Rise on Subprime Freeze
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Lenders should modify mortgages, regulators say
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Fed Updates Congress on Possible Housing Crisis Fixes
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US Foreclosures Hit Record
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US Mortgage Delinquencies Rise to 20-Year High
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Toll Brothers Posts First Loss in 20 Years
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Delta Financial to File for Bankruptcy
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Countrywide Isn't Out of Woods Yet
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Fannie prices record $7 bln preferred stock deal
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Dozens indicted in Houston mortgage fraud case
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How to protect against a homebuilder's bankruptcy
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Secondary mortgage market still closed to many
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Hot Land Sales Offset Housing Glut
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Troubled home builder's sale has surprise benefit for boss
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Loan mess was avoidable - Lax standards, greed force the administration to intervene to avoid complete meltdown
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More lenders on life support
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'Termination' of Lease Interpreted Broadly
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Bankruptcy Reform:

Bush intervention may slow mortgage plans
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Mortgage intervention should extend to relief in bankruptcy courts
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Furniture:

Levitz Furniture closing all 76 stores
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Aviation:

Anger at 30000 feet
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Air France and Air One move on Alitalia
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Champion Air Faces Uncertain Future
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Celebrity:

McLean's trustee sues over iconic instruments
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Accounting:

Court Declines To Hold Auditors Liable for Failure To Include Ongoing Concern Qualification
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BDO International boasts 20% fee gain
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Utilities:

Southern Co. Wants More From Witness Who Knew Less
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Mass Torts:

Firm loses bid to fight ruling in asbestos case
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Ohio asbestos reforms - Here comes the court challenge
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Mining:

Feds enter claim against smelter
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Interest:

Allocation of Nondebtor's Payment to Interest Before Principal Violated Bar on Collection of Post-Petition Interest
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Chapter 11 Petition Filed Days Before Expiration of Holdover Tenancy Constitutes "Bad Faith"
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
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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
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Bankruptcy Jobs:

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Moody's sees sharp rise in defaults in 2008
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Is the United States on the Brink of Bankruptcy?
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Retailing:

Retailers Post Gains, but They May Be Brief
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US Retailers May Struggle to Boost December Sales on Prices
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Mixed Report Cards For Retailers
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Rumor: CompUSA going out of business in January
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Hancock Fabrics gets filing extension
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Kohl's predicts trouble for December
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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Arizona bankruptcy rate rises
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New Yorkers hit by growing debt
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Manufacturing:

Rockford Products Wants Ch 7 Case
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Hedge Funds:

Ritchie Funds Delay Asset Auction
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Senate Blocks U.S. Tax Shift to Buyout-Firm Managers
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Bankrupt Cayman Islands hedge-fund clients file new claims
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SEC probes bank investments in hedge funds
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Bankruptcy Crimes:

Juries convict WY couple of bankruptcy fraud
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SF couple sentenced to prison for bankruptcy fraud
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Defendant admits to errors, not fraud
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Publishing:

How Solvent Is Tribune Co.?
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Third Party Releases:

Release of Chapter 11 Plan Proponent Overbroad and Impermissible
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Food/Drink:

Senate candidate Andy Martin says Jays potato chip employees, Illinois consumers have been abused by Snyder's of Hanover
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LeNature's insurer wants out
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Committees:

Creditors' Committee Lacks Standing to Seek Equitable Subordination
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Software:

SCO: The Boies Schiller Application Takes a Step Forward
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Intellectual Property:

Actual Test and Footstar Approach Govern DIP's Ability to Assume Patent and Technology License
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UK:

Northern Rock nationalization moves closer as Flowers pulls out
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Olivant Proposes Northern Rock Deal
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Olivant Seeks to Raise $1.6 Billion for Northern Rock
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Bankruptcy viewed as an escape to young people
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Eurodebt launches partnership with Debt Distress for advisers
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BCCI group proposes two-day limit on opening arguments
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Solicitor struck off after collapse of business
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Sweden:

Sweden's ScanMining files for bankruptcy
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Thailand:

Huge fine forces TPI Polene to seek restructuring delay
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Germany:

German Personal Bankruptcies Rise
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Germany's neo-Nazis face bankruptcy moves
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Canada:

NDP: Shield laid-off workers
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At CIBC, the bad old days are back
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Norway:

Black Humor Pervades Norway as Subprime Losses Extend to Arctic
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