Law:

Supreme Court Heads Into New Term
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Business Cases Back Before Friendly Court
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Lessons from The Global 100
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Law firm international strategy is so much easier to understand once you think of it as adolescent dating - except with better grammar
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Fight the Ripple Effects From the Associate Salaries Spike
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Bonus Watch: Texas
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Law Firm Leverage, the Lost Opportunity
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Credit crunch casts NY shadow
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US District Judge Reprimanded After Harassment Complaint
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Judge: Qualcomm Firms Can Disclose Work Product
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Touched by an Angel - A relentless focus on globalization and tight management has made Linklaters one of the world's biggest and richest firms
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Sunday's Catholic Mass Had a Distinctly Legal Flavor
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What's Better Than Billables?
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So a Lawyer Walks Into a Comedy Club
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Morgan Lewis' Business/Finance Head Joins Orrick
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Missouri Firms Explore Possible Merger
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Firm Videos Lacking Sense End Cent-less
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At The Supreme Court It's Kennedy's World
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Survey Says Skadden Arps Is the 800-Pound Gorilla of Corporate Firms
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Firm Figures the Fewer Real Partners the Better
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UK firm axes Kramer Levin transatlantic alliance
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Tier Four Law Students: They Can Be P---y B----es, Too
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Non-Top-Tier Law School Graduate of the Day: Eric Krautheimer
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Firms Withdraw from Fabian Case
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New business pitches are more about standing out and making yourself look better than the rest
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Lawyer Disbarred for Treating Clients Like "Commodities"
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Firm sends lawyers back to school to learn to write more clearly
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An unusual financial niche: lending money to lawyers
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See the Lawyer, Be the Lawyer
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Ice cream on spoon, malpractice on the brain
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Survey Says: Career Satisfaction a Struggle
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The Dollars and Sense of Recruiting the YouTube Generation
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Could a GC Job Be a Ticket to the Top?
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Practicing Lawyer Also Sells Luxe Goods
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Litigation costs rising as firms face fewer suits
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Rogues gallery of class action attorneys
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How important are judges?
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Influential friends: Attorneys General can steer millions toward litigators
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Judicial hellholes | Lawsuit magnets
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Say What?!
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Banking:

NetBank Files for Bankruptcy After Regulators Take Over Unit
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FDIC Says "Nyet" To NetBank
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Feds shut down NetBank after big subprime defaults
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US regulators close NetBank but ING steps in
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Citigroup expects third-quarter net income to slump about 60% due to "dislocations in the mortgage-backed securities and credit markets, and deterioration in the consumer-credit environment
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ATM fees reaching new highs
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UBS expected to report large loss from fixed-income unit
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UBS to Write Off $3.4 Billion
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Does UBS's Q3 loss mean trouble for U.S. banks?
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Economy:

Central banks less able to move long term rates
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In an about-face, central banks may start cutting rates
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To spend without end
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Recession isn't an 'if' but a 'when'
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The Muted Roars of Hogs and RVs
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GAO bearish on U.S. fiscal health
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Profit Growth in U.S. May Hit 5-Year Low on Housing
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Unemployment May Rise, Factories Slow
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Reality of household expenses hasn't been reflected in inflation numbers
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Wall Street:

Wall Street awaits key economic reports
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Credit Crisis Could Dash Hopes for a Fall Rally
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Telecoms:

Hard Times at Alcatel-Lucent
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Gambling:

Trump Casinos: the Art of the Comeback?
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Fitness:

Bally posts $7.5 mil. gain for 2nd quarter
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Mining:

Asarco asks judge to accept settlement
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Judges:

Idaho's first bankruptcy judge laid to rest
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Predatory Lending:

Ohio payday lenders may face stiff rules
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Military town limits payday lenders
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Number of payday lenders indicator of fiscal mindset
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Credit Cards:

How much should credit card companies have to disclose?
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Sleazy credit card tactics under fire
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Autos:

UAW: Deal will save jobs
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GM, UAW Find a Cure at Last for Union `Cancer
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GM Strike Marks End of an Era
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GM retirees worry about health care costs
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Gettelfinger and his VEBA are the toast of Wall Street
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UAW could hold top GM stake
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UAW leaders, retirees praise GM deal
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US unions find the highway to a new era
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The UAW's Awakening
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GM trades jobs for concessions in UAW contract
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Contracts with Ford, Chrysler are next
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Ford will seek deeper cuts than General Motors when UAW comes to town
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The GM-UAW contract: Pace car for the US?
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Honda wages won't match Big 3 pay
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Auto sales are expected to slide
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Mass Torts:

Defendants See a Case of Diagnosing for Dollars
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Bankruptcy Judge Appoints Mediator to Address Asbestos Claims in the Asarco Bankruptcy Proceeding
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How they do it: Favorite tactics of liability lawyers that tip the scales for their fame and fortune
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Personal Finance:

Consumer group blasts binding arbitration clauses
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Mandatory Arbitration Stacks Deck Against Consumers
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The 'good hands' people make a fist
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Poor families grasp for calm amid the chaos
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The hidden price of war - The economic casualties
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Real Estate:

Can These Mortgages Be Saved?
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It takes discipline, planning to save a house
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American Home says it can seize deferred comp savings
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Remaining New Century Founders Leave Board
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Six Fingers of Blame in the Mortgage Mess
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FL Expects Surge of Mortgage Fraud Cases
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Moratorium on Katrina foreclosures to end Thursday
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Mortgage bailouts run into opposition
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The Foreclosure Pickings Are Plentiful but Not Easy
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Foreclosure fallout spreads
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Hidden drop in house prices
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CM Development's bankruptcy leaves many In a bind
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Judge orders Lajitas Resort to be auctioned
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Auction for Lajitas Resort includes its jet strip and beer-chugging goat
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ARMs escalation brings borrowers DOWN
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For Housing, the Summer of the Unsold
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For sale: Building that would've been Adelphia's headquarters
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Unsettled Housing Market Still a Major Wild Card
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Foreclosure 'rescuer' is your best pal - and then he cons you out of home
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Health Care:

Monrovia Community Hospital Acquired in Bankruptcy Sale
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Judge prepared to pull plug on BMC
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Judge blasts BMC takeover bid, threatens to close hosp
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Rising Cost of Health Care is Causing Finance Fears
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Hospital's Getting Better
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Officials say ER closure possible if voters don't approve sale
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Kessler not only hospital in the red
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Insurance:

AFC Beats Insurer in D&O Case
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Aviation:

Consultant reaches deal with Hawaiian
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Mesa came to isles via Hawaiian's data
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Columbia Owners To Band Together For Bankruptcy Representation
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The elephants learn to dance
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Finance:

Oaktree, BlackRock Plan Funds to Purchase LBO Loans At A Discount
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Bondholders firmly in deal driver's seat
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Tax:

Bankrupt companies get help for MI tax credits
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Municipalities:

Cash woes lace Lansing's lingo
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Debt Collection:

Dealing With Deadbeats
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Bankruptcy Schedules:

Pay attention to the bankruptcy papers
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Retailing:

Slapping the hand that sells for you
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Horse Racing:

Ex-Monitor of Horse Racing Interviewed in Bruno Inquiry
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Software:

SCO chief confident
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SCO Staves Off NASDAQ Delisting
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Financial Literacy:

Lessons on finance go a long way
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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:

(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12)
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Bankruptcy Claim Auctions Sell your Chapter 11 claim to the highest bidder www.T-REXauctions.com Are You Getting the Best Price?

LoPucki v. Baird Redux: Bankruptcy Titans Blog "Head to Head" Over Chapter 11's Utility or Futility
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It's party time for Wilbur Ross
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Student Debt:

High-priced student loans spell trouble
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Questions student borrowers might pose
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Religion:

Iowa Diocese Seeks Extension from Bankruptcy Court
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History:

Civil War-Era Letters to Be Auctioned
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Food/Drink:

Interstate Bakeries reaches agreement with 1 of 2 unions
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Creditors urge Interstate Bakeries to exit Chapter 11
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Enron:

Enron Creditors Recovery Corp. Distributes More Than $1.7 Billion to Creditors
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High court to rule on third-party liability
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Corporate Reform:

$100,000? Too High. $120 Million? Fine.
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Higher benchmark for class actions
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Corporate Counsel, Internal Investigation and the Government Investigation: A Brief Primer in Making Your Way Through a Potential Minefield
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Celebrity:

McLean's legacy sad, bitter one
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Bob McLean earned $20000 borrowed $50 million
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McLean saga ensnares fabled instruments
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Hedge Funds:

Hedge fund access to capital dries up, exposing new risk
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Lake Shore awash in questions, mystery
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Hedge fund assets soar to almost $2,500bn
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Basis Capital proposes splitting fund
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A Senate panel is reviewing the practice of offshore hedge funds avoiding dividend withholding taxes
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Rating Agencies:

Congress' impasse saves rating agencies - for now
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Credit Counseling:

Even after crackdown on credit counselors, consumers must be wary
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Accounting:

Let companies pick and choose which accounting standards they follow? No way, says the chief U.S. accounting regulator
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Bankruptcy Reform:

Impact of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act on Franchisee Reorganizations Under Chapter 11
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Internet:

Deutsche Bank loses bid against JP Morgan to recover $47.6 million from Genuity bankruptcy
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Furniture:

The Bombay Company, Inc. Secures DIP Financing
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UK:

Darling Unveils Plan to Guarantee UK Bank Accounts
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Northern Rock accused of bullying debtors
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PwC slammed for Northern Rock non-audit work
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Butter fingers of regulation heightens cost of Rock affair
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Hedge funds bet on fall in house prices
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Chief executives' pay up 16% in 2007
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London banks' profits to suffer from credit crunch effect
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Credit crunch could cost London $800m
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Tremble for your old age
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More higher earners 'getting into trouble'
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Debt culture 'driving downturn'
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Number of bankrupt pensioners doubles as debt crisis deepens
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Why Ninja mortgages could wreak havoc
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Banks hooked on a numbers game that didn't add up
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Debtmatters' shares in dramatic 70pc plunge
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Canada:

Omnitech Consultant Group files for bankruptcy, PwC appointed trustee
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Australia:

Unpaid debts on the rise
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Japan:

Country's largest English conversation school is on the brink of collapse
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Poland:

Gdansk shipyard may be victim of Solidarity
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Russia:

Yukos is finally being put out of its misery. Guess who profits?
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