Law:

Bankruptcy Judge Cuts Firm's Fees Over Failure to Show Ties to Client
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O'Melveny denies bad times
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O'Melveny & Myers Launches 'Witch Hunt' for Tipsters?
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D.C. Associate Bonuses 'Fairly Healthy' This Year
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Bonus Watch: Getting to the Bottom of the Cadwalader Mystery
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Sidley Austin's Insanely Early Start Dates
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Anonymous Lawyer
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"Us lawyers are at the bottom of the pile now"
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Attorneys Need to Hear the Voice of the Client
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Two law firms announce merger
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Barrett Law Firm Announces Name Change
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SocGen eschews big players as niche Paris firms line up in fraud case
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Hiring Spree By Quarles & Brady in Chicago?
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Some Law School Grads Don't Go the Firm Route
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$21,000 Award Upheld Against Attorney Who Faxed Unsolicited Ads
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Microsoft & Boies: Let Bygones Be Bygones
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US trio lead on Microsoft's $44.6bn Yahoo bid
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Company uses E-auction to pick lawyers
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Attorney General John Edwards? Justice John Edwards?
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With Edwards Out, Many Trial Lawyers Look to Obama
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Nestle bars firm over conflict
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Project Management May Leave GCs With Fewer Surprises
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Former Law Firm Partner Disbarred in D.C. for Insider Trading
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Some States Seek Change in How Lawyers Are Regulated
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A Salmagundi of 'Selyaisms'
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Gazing Into the EDD Crystal Ball
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Lawyer's Bullying Secretary Over Weight, Demands She Exercise Were Likely "Outrageous," Judge Rules
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Five Profs Resign at Law School, Call for Dean's Ouster
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Touro Law For Sale?
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You Know You Work For A Great Firm When ..
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Lawyer Defends 'Fake Bomb' as Free Speech
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Judge Warns Lawyers About Appeals of His Rulings
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Federal judge's social life raises questions
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State Court Recognizes Gay Marriages From Elsewhere
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Will the Recession Hit Legal Services?
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Autos:

Borrowers struggle to pay auto loans
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GM's Car Sales Rise in an Otherwise Tough Month
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Plastech Files for Bankruptcy Protection
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Plastech files bankruptcy
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Claim reveals Dana CEOs left with hefty perks
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Nissan Net Income Up 26.6% at 132.2 Billion Yen in Q3, FY07
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Romney auto industry foray went under
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Celebs:

Wesley Snipes Is Acquitted of Tax Felonies
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The family of a murder victim insist O.J. Simpson's book is a confession to the crime
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Bonds:

Dinallo's Rescue Plan Focuses on Ambac
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Bond-Insurer Foe Soldiers On
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8 Banks Discuss Aid for Bond Insurer
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Ambac Gets A Little Help From Its Friends
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Fraud:

Investigators question French bank executives
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France to Fault SocGen in Report
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How to Lose $7.2 Billion
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Lagarde Says SocGen Controls `Clearly' Failed
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France to seek stricter bank controls post: SocGen
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Religion:

Diocese fund garners $6M
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Soens Says Davenport Diocese Abandoned Him To Save Itself
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Church facing wave of trouble
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Bishop outlines diocese's plan in letter read at Masses
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Enron:

Enron plaintiffs stay in fight despite losing ruling
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Judge to consider dropping firms from $40 billion Enron lawsuit
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Enron investors get new chance; Judge will allow arguments not covered previously
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Accounting:

How 'cash' at companies became risky
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McLean investors drop fraud suits against accountant
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A loophole that's lost its luster
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Chemicals:

Solutia, banks still in stalemate over $2 billion financing deal
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Utilities:

Calpine, debtholders set $52 mln settlement
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Calpine powers out of Ch. 11
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Horse Racing:

NYRA trustee quits, blasting Bruno
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Corporate Reform:

Waxman wants more info on compensation consultants
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Environmental:

Green piece
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Banking:

Three ways to reform bank bonuses
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Banks could write down $70 billion more
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Bank models put credit in doubt
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It's crunch time for Ken Lewis
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Berkshire Bank reports record income numbers
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Real Estate:

Beazer Homes exits mortgage business
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Beazer shrinks business, cuts more jobs to stay afloat
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Judge Sanctions Countrywide, Says It Disobeyed Court Rules
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Scrutiny of Countrywide Business Practices Intensifies
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Judge won't let homeowners buy bargain loans
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Hogan & Hartson's Pro Bono Win - Keeps Clients In Their Homes
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Subprime overseers looking like Kerviel
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A trillion-dollar smile
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Bank of America, Countrywide face hurdles
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NYC Home Prices Start to Dip, Recalling '90s Slump
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Did Greenspan push risky home loans?
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Atlanta's mortgage woes 'will get worse'
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Confessions of a Mortgage Broker
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Moorage broker gets 28 years for swindling clients
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FBI calls mortgage fraud 'substantial'
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Stakes Rise In Subprime Cleanup
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Fair Game Lenders Who Sold and Left
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Big Loans, Lower Rates
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Congress is breaking out its blunt instruments
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A housing rescue that would go too far
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Stimulus might not stimulate us
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Negotiating the mortgage maze
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Dream homes become nightmares for buyers
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Foreclosures move into tony ZIP codes
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UBS focus of U.S. subprime probe
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Deutsche to take over Macklowe's EOP properties
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Investment Group Buys Trend Homes
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Orix to exploit subprime woes with US investment
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Foreclosures as seen in the arts
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Whole ZIP codes defined as 'high risk'
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Risky loans take toll on Alaska borrowers
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Sept. 11 attacks led to the foreclosure crisis
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Bankruptcy Reform:

Warren: The Power of Numbers
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Economy:

Economy's downturn has its upside
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How 'Bout Them Economy
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It's the Economy Again, and Some See Similarities to 1992
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Jim Rogers predicts one of the worst recessions since WW II
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DOL: Payrolls down, not up in January
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Jobs Machine Is Conking Out
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Services Growth Slowed as Housing Slumped
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US Economy Unexpectedly Sheds 17000 Jobs
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Barometers of economy, pawn shops' volume up
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The Fed's good news/bad news scenario
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Lost Innocence, Now Appearing in the Economy
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Credit crisis spreading beyond financial sector
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Gambling:

Moses Lake casino in bankruptcy
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Predatory Lending:

Warren: Wrong Number
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Printing:

'Business as usual' for Quebecor
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Bankruptcy Crimes:

Charges pending a year after drug money goes missing
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Retailing:

Fortunoff files for bankruptcy, agrees to sell to Lord & Taylor
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Dot-coms:

Dot-com bust victims get temporary relief
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Corporate Governance:

The greener the biz, the greener the bonus
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Jewelry:

Dept. of Justice eyes fraud in jewelry store failure
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Family Must Turn Over Fabrikant Info
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Hedge Funds:

Sailfish denies 'blowup' rumors
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Oxford Funding Corp. Forms Hedge Fund To Buy Bargain Real Estate
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UBS Settles Hedge Fund Fraud Case
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Into the valley and through the hedge
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Distress: The silver lining
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Derivatives:

Derivatives is an industry tainted by its side-effects
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Derivatives at the Bottom of Every Chasm
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Tax:

Unpaid taxes amount to 'cheap loan'
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Tax protesters, IRS is not amused
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Layoffs:

Big layoffs no longer limited to finance, housing
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Dell announces call center layoffs in US and Canada
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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Behind the numbers of rising bankruptcy filings
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Consumer Bankruptcy:

Bankruptcy Median Income Data Update
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Poverty:

Hard times on the frontlines in the war on poverty
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Distressed Investing:

Distressed Investing Conference 2008: Videos
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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)
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Trustees:

When businesses fail, consulting exec works to pick up the pieces
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Wall Street:

Massachusetts Accuses Merrill of Fraud
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Merrill brokers fired after CDO sales
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Reps question controversial 'minitenders'
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Brokerages, banks weigh down S&P 500
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It's Even Worse Over There
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China leaps higher
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Stocks Set to Open Flat
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UST:

Even the US Trustee Has an Occasional "Credit Crunch"
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Aviation:

Time factor important in Delta merger
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Delta president: We're strong enough to go it alone
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Mesa plans to appeal Hawaiian lawyer fees
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Trustee Opposes MAXjet Sale
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Credit Cards:

Internet bank Egg to cancel thousands of credit cards
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The Coming Credit Card Meltdown
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Asset Protection:

FBI investigating popular lawyer and 'asset protection' guru
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Alternative Fuels:

Shareholders lose $5 million on Canton plant
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Documents show big losses for investors in bankrupt ethanol plant
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Health Care:

Trials in huge fraud case to begin
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Bankrupt hospital in Paterson moves patients and shuts down
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Urban hospital in NJ closes down
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Suncoast Hospital wins use of cash
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A soaring rise, rapid fall for Pharmed
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Finance:

Higher fees, more covenants seen for speculative-grade borrowers
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Spreads widen, yet credit costs all over map
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Debt Collection:

Insulting collections letter draws lawsuit
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Politics:

California Slump, Illinois Job Loss Buffet Candidates
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Hillary: Garnish wages of workers who refuse to buy health insurance
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Corporate presidential campaign giving surges
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Credit Reporting:

Weird stuff that hurts your credit
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Insurance:

Met investors' hopes fade: Court rulings favor big auditing firms
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Manufacturing:

Radnor lender: Lift exclusivity
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Awards:

Michael Barrett Elected a Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation
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Sovereign Debt:

Is Uncle Sam's top credit rating at risk of a downgrade?
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American debt and the Great Chinese Mind-Bender
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UK:

Bankruptcy doubles over six years
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Insolvency fall 'masks true problem'
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Scots Debt Levels Soar
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Amnesty could result in more clarification over IVAs
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IVA Protocol Agreement Reached
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Business big shot: Mr Average Bankrupt
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Northern Rock set for three rescue proposals by Monday deadline
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Northern Rock's Troubles Demoralize Its Hometown
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Northern England contemplates life without a benefactor
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Final dash for Rock
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Homebuyers are on a high wire with a cold wind blowing and no safety net,
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Citi Cuts Off Some U.K. Credit Cards
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MAC, U.K.-style
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Dirty hospital told to clean up its act
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What should happen when bankruptcy and divorce proceedings coincide?
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Businesses adopt blinkered approach to debt despite looming credit crunch
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UK corporate fraud likely to hit record high in 2008
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Australia:

300,000 Aussies risk losing homes
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Canada:

Bankruptcy raises big stink in little Quebec town
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Pope & Talbot To Announce Any Competing Bids Today
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Workers now have more protection from bankruptcies
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China:

China Bank Sets Aside Subprime Reserves
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EU:

Treatment and the European Perspective: Why Don't We Ask Whether US Debtors in Bankruptcy Have Other Social Problems?
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