Law:
Kirkland & Ellis adds Nash to bankruptcy practice
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NY BigLaw Partner Wins Lion's Share of Partnership, Law License in Divorce
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How to Succeed in Restructurings and Life
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How to Structure 363 Sales of Assets in Bankruptcy
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Lawyer With Stockholm Syndrome Has Advice for Associates
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Advice to Young Associates: ‘Think Like a Partner’
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Jones Day Slams Its Competitors
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With Glut of Laid-Off Lawyers, Temp Jobs are Harder to Find—and Pay Less
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Heller Employees Aren't Happy with How the Bankruptcy Case is Going
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Specter Bill Could Mean Business for Trial Lawyers
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With 401(k)s Clobbered and IRAs Reeling, Fewer Older Lawyers Aspire to Retire
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McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP Represents Canadian Government in Chrysler and General Motors Deals
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Patton Boggs Picks Up Mortgage Finance Group
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GE Pays $50 Million to SEC, $200 Million to Lawyers and Accountants
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Could GC Hire Signal BigLaw Firm Is Fired?
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DLA Piper Lawyer Trades Big-Firm Perks for Boutique
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Chairman of Thompson & Knight Dies
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White House Counsel's Job at Stake?
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Judge Strikes Down La. Restrictions on Lawyer Internet Ads
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Bill Will Establish That Lawyers Cannot Be Trusted
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Lawyer Couple Must Turn Over Prospective Client Information to Former Firm
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Law School Ends Long Struggle by Winning ABA Accreditation
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Citing Cuts, Public Defenders Refuse New Cases
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Speedo Suit: Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back in the Water
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Brief-swapping and bed-hopping in the quest to secure a permanent position
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Suspended Attorney Target of Mortgage Lender's Lawsuit
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Canadians Know How To Stimulate The Legal Economy
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Lawyer Disciplined Over Blog Posts
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Lawsuit of the Day: Bananas Cop Sues Police
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Say What?!
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Judges:
NY Judge Quits Over Lack of a Raise, Rejoins 750-Lawyer Firm
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When the Clock Strikes Five: Pregaming the Sharon Keller Trial
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Battle Lines Set, Senate Debates Sotomayor
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Reverse $3.5M Verdict Due to Taint of Corrupt Judges, Overseer Tells Top Pa. Court
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Souter Buys Home in Swanky Area, Says Farmhouse Won’t Hold All His Books
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Wall Street:
US Index Futures Fluctuate
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Stocks gain after a struggle
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Schumer: SEC to ban flash trading
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What's Happened to Wall Street's Senior Women?
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Goldman orders employees to pretend they're poor
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Why are company insiders selling?
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Layoffs:
National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Jobless find pay cuts hard to swallow
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Second Wyoming soda ash producer announces layoffs
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Eli Lilly plans to cut hundreds of sales jobs with buyout offers, will restructure marketing
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This Year's Best Careers
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Banking:
No end in sight for bank bailouts
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Geithner : TARP II Won't Be Needed
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Bairing Her Claws
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UBS: The Good Days Are Gone
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HSBC: Chicago has too many banks
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SEC Memo says Guaranty Bank to be Seized, not Sold
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Agriculture:
US Farmland Values Fall for First Time Since 1987
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Archer Daniels Midland profit plummets
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You will pay more for milk while dairy farmers go broke
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Finance:
Lender Exodus Allows Survivors to Be Selective
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Diligence Required for Tapping Capital Markets
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CIT Pulls Morgan Stanley in Two Directions
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GMAC:$5.6 Billion New Capital Raising Subject Of Discussion With Fed
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Is the Credit Tussle Easing?
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Distinct Chill Maintains Grip on Credit Environment
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Aviation:
United Airlines traffic falls 4% in July
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Bidder For Eclipse Assets Makes Play
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Five Hours on The Tarmac: Should Congress Step In?
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Cathay Pacific returns to profit
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Solar:
Applied Solar Announces Receipt of DIP Financing
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Gambling:
Donald Is Back
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What Trump Gets, Not Everyone Can
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Trump Bondholders Plan to Challenge Takeover by Donald Trump
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Trumping Bondholders?
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Retailing:
Credit Worries Limit Small Retailers' Stock
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General Growth judge OKs $2.75 million loser fee
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Boscov's Regrouping One Year After Bankruptcy Filing
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Dollar Thrift 2nd-quarter profit jumps 15 pct
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Photography:
Did Condé Nast King Si Newhouse Push Annie Leibovitz Towards Bankruptcy?
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Art:
Sotheby's 2Q Profit Drops 87 Percent
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Food/Drink:
Domino's Pizzas owner declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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Bashas' closings having trickle-down effect
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Creditors voting on Copia liquidation plan
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Advertising:
Nothing to shout about
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Corporate Governance:
ABA Task Force on Corporate Governance
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Jewelry:
162-Store Jewelry Chain, Ultra Stores, Emerges from Bankruptcy
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Economy:
US consumer spending, pending home sales up
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Consumer Spending Rises in June, But Worries Continue
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Higher Costs Spur Rise in Spending
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Cost of Living in America
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US Incomes Fall 1.3%, Biggest Drop in Four Years
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Bernanke’s Exit Dilemma
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Obama Setting Out to Put Brighter Face on Economy
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Economic Statistics Improve, but Hope Is Elusive
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Biden: Economic Stimulus Plan Meeting Its Goals
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Economists React: Consumers Still 'Missing Link' in Recovery
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Sheila Bair not cowed by Geithner tantrum, criticizes Obama
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Economic Stress Index
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Economy Tracker Map
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Recovery Index
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Real Estate:
Obama mortgage rescue: Only 9% getting help
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Home Sales Rise for Fifth Straight Month
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Pending Sales of Existing Homes in US Surge 3.6%
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'Uneven' Mortgage-Plan Results
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Treasury's Loan Mod Progress Report: Read the Fine Print
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Who's Modifying Mortgages?
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ACORN Asks HAMP Servicers to Forgive Principal
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BofA, Wells Fargo failing new mortgage effort
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`Name and shame' reports begin on mortgage servicers
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Paradise Lost: The State of Commercial Real Estate Lending
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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Likely to Be Wound Down, Moody's Says
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NYC Foreclosures Drop, but Some Areas Struggle
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Bad mortgages widen GMAC losses
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GMAC Financial's Loss Widens to $3.9 Billion
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DR Horton, Pulte Report Losses, Say Outlook Remains Difficult
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Ex-owner of USA Capital pleads guilty
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Judge extends time for DBSI accounting inquiry
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Judge orders DBSI president to answer questions
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Fla.-Based Mortgage Company Suspended
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Developer Mastro to fight bankruptcy demands
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Trump's Trump Card: the $20m Discount
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Corporate Reform:
Geithner's Blowup
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GE Pays $50 Million to Resolve SEC Accounting Probe
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Geithner's Meltdown Over Financial Reform
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Sports:
Reports: Arena league to announce demise
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Union official: AFL on brink of folding
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Foster, Kurz: AFL is not dead
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Storm coach dismayed by reports of Arena league's demise
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So long Arena Football: It won't be missed
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Chemicals:
Lyondell seeks extension of bankruptcy financing
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Oil/Gas:
Chinese company high bidder for SemFuel assets
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Big Oil Speculator Defends Practice in Washington
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Ethanol:
Ethanol industry ailing
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Municipalities:
Guard troops may be needed in troubled Alabama county
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Gov. Bob Riley says special session call could come this week
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Judge clears way for Jefferson County to cut sheriff's budget
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Jefferson County employees rally at courthouse
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California Won't Accept Its Own IOUs
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Personal Finance:
Chickens in the Backyard
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For frugal food shoppers, dented tomato cans, crushed cereal boxes are too good to pass up
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Fraud:
Citing Madoff, Judge Slams SEC for 'Relentless' Pursuit of Legitimate Company
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Specter Law Would Let Investors Sue Fraud Accomplices
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Madoff funds 'squandered on legal fees'
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Madoff Litigator Chasing JPMorgan For Clawback
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Madoff-tainted Merkin pocketed $35M a year
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Settlement Payment Defense May Insulate Investors from Madoff Securities Trustee
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Joan's Message To Madoff
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More finger pointing at Mrs Madoff
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Ruth Madoff 'knew about fraud', claim associates
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Ruth Madoff: 100 Pounds of Rage?
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Ruth Madoff's Financial Life Comes Full Circle
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Mark Seal on Ruth Madoff
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Prosecutors want to keep Stanford behind bars
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Stanford Asks Judge to Let New Lawyers Argue for Fees
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Stanford advisers want their CD commissions
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Con Man Edward Okun Gets 100 Years for Fraud Scheme
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Okun Joins Madoff in Century Club
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Asset freeze stays put at 2 Detroit-area firms accused of orchestrating $53M Ponzi scheme
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Drabinsky Sentence Bid Would Draw Laughs in US, Lawyer Says
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Newspapers:
Journal Register Punts Sweet Eagles Suite
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Region jolted by newspapers' bankruptcy
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Publisher of Journal Sentinel to cut 92 jobs, or 6 percent of work force
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New judge assigned to papers' bankruptcy
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Hockey:
Cardinals Protest Tax to Save Coyotes
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Bettman may have to clean up his own mess
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Moyes allowed to question Reinsdorf on collusion
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Television:
Utilities withdraw objections to Youngstown TV bankruptcy
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DIP Finance:
Debtor-in-Possession Financing: Looking Beyond the Debtor
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Shipping:
Sea of troubles
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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 Statistics:
Consumer bankruptcies jump 34%
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Study: Bankruptcy filers seek to hold on to homes
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Bankruptcy Reform:
Barney Frank Threatens Return of 'Cram-Down' Legislation
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Bankruptcy Humor:
Bankruptcy Bill
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Tax:
In Inquiry, I.R.S. Could Investigate Advisers of Wealthy
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Autos:
Chrysler Creditors Seek to Sue Daimler, Former Directors Over Asset Sales
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Board endorses direction of reorganized GM
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Tentative Signs of Cooperation Emerge in Auto Supplier Workouts
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Senate will OK 'clunker' extension this week-Reid
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`Cash for clunkers' effect on pollution? A blip
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U.S. vehicle fuel efficiency has increased only 3 mpg in 80 years
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Obama administration withholds data on 'cash-for-clunkers' program... Not selling American cars?
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Cash for Clunkers Boosts Foreign Car Sales
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Auto-Battery Makers to Get Stimulus
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'Clunkers' Boon for Car-Killing Chemical
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Automakers Give Rave Reviews to Cash-for-Clunkers
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G.M. Chairman Vows to Defend Market Share
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Another Chrysler-Daimler lawsuit possible
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Buick drives away from PGA Tour
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European carmakers outperform after BMW results
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South Korea Police Raid Worker-Occupied Factory
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Commandos Storm Ssangyong Plant
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50 injured as South Korean police raid plant to end strike
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Creditors File for Ssangyong Liquidation
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Toyota struggles to get back on track
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GM Opposition to Magna Weakens, German Officials Say
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GM Board Ends Meeting Without Recommendation on Opel
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Weddings:
Jilted by a Wedding Vendor, Newlyweds Get Help From the State
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Consultants:
FTI Consulting Q2 profit tops St; outlook disappoints
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Huron should be last firm with accounting woes
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Huron Book Cooking Lawsuits Likely to Be Filed this Week
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Lehman:
New York Seeks Hundreds of Millions in Tax From Lehman
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Private Equity:
PE returns aren't so bad, but need validation
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PE Industry To SEC: 'Please Stop All This Nonsense'
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Accounting:
Accounting Tricks Catch Up With GE
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Grant Thornton Offers Business Bankruptcy Service
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Barney Frank Doesn't Legislate Accounting, He Only 'Exerts Pressure'
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Deloitte UK CEO Does All Right For Himself
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Insurance:
Swiss Re makes surprise Q2 net loss, hedges backfire
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Mass Torts:
Judge Robreno: Cleaning up clogged asbestos MDL
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Asbestos MDL Clearing Docket With Shocking Tactic...
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Health Care:
Checking the Pulse of Healthcare Financing
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Medical Papers by Ghostwriters Pushed Therapy
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Health Care Reform and the Unpopular T-Word
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Health Lobbyists Blitz Congress
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Surprise Bills at the Doctor’s
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Credit Cards:
Banks Get Picky In Issuing Cards
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UK:
Profession still exposed despite Moore Stephens 'landmark' win
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In Britain, Signs of Rebirth in Housing
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UK July services PMI up more than expected
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UK June industrial output rises 0.5 pct m/m
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Lloyds Loses $5.3 Billion in H1 on Bad Loans
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UK Recovery Signs Mount as Services, Manufacturing Expand
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UK Credit Card Charge-Offs Surpass 10%
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Bridge Business Recovery called in at Trak
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Canada:
Adaltis liquidates assets, goes out of business
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Canwest faces uncertain future
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Venezuela:
Chavez May Seize Coffee Companies, Extend Takeovers
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China:
China is a Ponzi scheme
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Official says China's jobless situation 'very grave' despite improving economy
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Germany:
German car sales up 29.5 percent on year in July, but scrap bonus boom fades
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Ireland:
AIB bad debts soar, "bad bank" seen to the rescue
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Sweden:
Sweden's Economic Recovery Next Year to Be Slow, Fitch Says
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