Law:

Profits Rise at Weil Gotshal as Equity Partner Ranks Contract
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Number of Resumes Skyrockets
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Reverse Perk Watch: No More Tech Stipend at Weil
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Partner John J. Rapisardi Named Co-Chair of Cadwalader's Financial Restructuring Department
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Rapisardi settles in at Cadwalader
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Bankruptcy: The Gathering Storm
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Profits, Revenues Dip at Willkie
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Law Firm Consultants Admit Broken Business Model And More Pain
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Sacked A&O associate to take action against firm
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Hammonds redundancy talks end: 77 to go
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Akin Gump loses 10 lawyers to Greenberg
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Carlyle’s experienced Delaware bankruptcy team becomes even stronger
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Associate Bonus Watch: Morgan Lewis Announces Bonuses With Special Reductions for Tardy Time-Keepers
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Survey Results: What Did You Really Bill?
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Non-Legal Jobs For Lawyers: Is The JD A Kiss Of Death?
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Continued Decline in Law Firm Profits Seen for '09
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How Some Big Law Firms Erred in the Boom Years
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Expert Sees Possible Big-Firm Shift to More Temp Lawyers, Pay Cuts
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Many law firms are not harnessing the potential of their female workforce
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UK Snowstorm Closes Courts, Keeps Law Firm Employees at Home
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British Biglaw: Home for 'Elites'
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Major Maine Firm, Pierce Atwood, Lays Off Some, Hires Others
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Bankruptcy lawyers, firms seem boon
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GCs Warned to Prep Litigation War Chests
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‘Broad Doctrinal Shift’ Expected at DOJ as Eric Holder is OK’d as AG
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Will ABA Ease Recommended Conflicts Rule for Lateral Lawyers?
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Suit Over Firm's Collapse Tests Limits of Poaching Lawyers
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Dreier Seeks Bail (Again); Partner Liability Remains a Question
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Dreier Pleads Not Guilty, Judge Will Rule by Friday on Bail
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New NY Judge Assigned to Marc Dreier's Case
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New Partners 2009: With the Financial Rewards Come Challenges
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Dissolution Watch: Locke Lord Locks Down Morgan & Finnegan Laterals
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Lawyers Aren't The Only Ones Getting Laid Off
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Firm That Swung the Ax Last Week on Staffers Discloses Layoffs of Lawyers
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Five Key Suggestions to Help Summer Associates Get Offers from Their Firms in a Difficult Economy
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I'm about to be laid off because my department has no work. Should I tell headhunters and potential employers?
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Working on Cubs bid a career highlight for lawyer Laurie Levin
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Hildebrant, Citi: 2008 Was Bad, 2009 Will be Worse
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Hillary and the Emoluments Clause, Part II
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A Subtle Shift: The Role of the Likely New SG, Elena Kagan
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High Tolerance for Stress? A Law School Deanship Might be for You
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Self-Marketing Is Key to Being a Top Lawyer
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Client Faces Sentence of Up to 50 Years for Kidnapping Lawyer
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Chicago Litigator is Roller Derby’s ‘Ying O’Fire’
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Judges:

Federal judge quits over pay raise issue
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Lehman Bankruptcy Judge Charged With Slapping Wife
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Judge of the Day: Bankruptcy Judge Needs Family Law Refresher Course
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Former Judge Disbarred for Conviction of Sexual Exploitation of a Minor
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Juvenile Cases May Get New Look Following Kickback Charges Against Former Judges
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Prosecutors Boycott New Judge
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Fellow Judges Honor Ron Whyte -- With Song
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Wall Street:

US Stock-Index Futures Fall
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UK Stocks Swing Between Gains and Losses
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German Stocks Fall
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Dow, S&P 500 off Mon. on data, bank woe; Nasdaq flat
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Wall St. Already Down 10% For Year
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S&P 500 to Fall as Bank Bailout Stalls, Barclays Says
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Today's Outrage: Wall Street Bonus Babies
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Wall Street’s $18.4 Billion Bonus
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Wall Street’s New Status
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Goldman Says Buy Puts as US Stocks May Resume Drop
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Wall St., a Financial Epithet, Stirs Outrage
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Piper loses $153 million as IPOs nearly vanish
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MBA Job Outlook Dims
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UBS Hired Brokers in US With ‘Super-Sized’ Bonuses
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Autos:

Chrysler offers buyouts to all hourly workers
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GM Said to Offer New Union Buyouts as Industry Sales Slow
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Union Says Isuzu in Talks to Buy GM Medium Truck Unit
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Fiat Still Analyzing Chrysler Under Alliance
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Chrysler’s New Ally Takes a Pragmatic Approach
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Counting Ford’s Cash
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GMAC Returns to Profit
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Auto supplier losses continue to mount
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Slow Economy Forcing Auto Dealers to Change Their Ways
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Auto lender says Denny Hecker owes $550 million
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Carlyle-Owned Auto Parts Maker Enters Bankruptcy
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Dana fights to distance itself from bankruptcy
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Contech felled by Big Three's ills
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More Toledo firms pick closure, not bankruptcy court
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Wayzata Makes Progress Toward Buying Bankrupt Auto Suppliers
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Auto Sales May Hint at Borrowing
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Country Star Croons ‘Bout Shuttin’ Detroit Down
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DesRosiers warns of auto slump
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S. Korean carmakers' Jan. sales dip 35 pct
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South Africa Vehicle Sales Drop 35%, Most in 25 Years
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Volkswagen’s Audi May See Sales Fall for First Time in 14 Years
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Municipalities:

Ominous news about state and local spending
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Obama Says Governors Want 'Swift Action' on Stimulus
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Near bankruptcy, California starts issuing IOU's instead of checks
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New York May Run Out of Cash by March Amid $1.6 Billion Gap
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NY Governor says budget delays risk ‘crisis’
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Letter to JeffCo from Book Hill Partners
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Personal Finance:

In tough times, US consumers forging new behaviors
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Keeping up with Joneses no longer favorite sport
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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Bankruptcies continue to plague consumers
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Ariz. bankruptcies continue to rise
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Toledo personal bankruptcies up 20% from Jan. '08
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AZ: Jan. bankruptcies surged
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Newspapers:

Bad News in Philadelphia - The worst bailout idea so far: newspapers
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Dying big papers
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Newspapers fight negative perceptions in new ads
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Star Tribune bankruptcy imperils 1,400 Minnesota jobs
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LA Times to slash 10% of staff
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Gambling:

NJ to seek Tropicana sale at auction
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Station Casinos near brink of default
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Greektown seeks $46M in survival loans
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IRS raids Vegas casino
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Telecoms:

Bankrupt Virgin Islands telecom may get new owner
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Which Assets Will Nortel Keep?
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Level 3 -- Tale of Survival in Tough Times
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Nortel asks court to keep morale-boosting program
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Motorola Forecasts Wider-Than-Expected Loss, Scraps Dividend
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Health Care:

More Hospitals Facing Grim Prognosis
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Small Payroll, but Big Woes on Insurance
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Alzheimer’s Hits Educated as Hard as Less Schooled, Study Says
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Plastics:

Craaytech creditors discuss debts today
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Financial Literacy:

Oregon students could get crash course in cash
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Resorts:

Sawiris Slows Pace of Resort Development in Recession
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Mining:

Apex Silver heads for plan hearing
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Economy:

Manufacturing Shrinks, Spending Falls
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US Senate's McConnell warns against nationalization
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Stimulus Would Pump $700 Billion Into Economy by 2010, CBO Says
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Stimulus: How Porky Is It?
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EU attacks 'Buy American' clause, seeks removal from stimulus
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Lawmakers Seek to Revise Stimulus Bill as Senate Debate Begins
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Treasury to unveil new bailout plans next week
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New York’s Schumer Pushes for More Transit Spending in Stimulus
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Summers Carves Out Powerful Role
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Groundhog Day 2009: How Many More Weeks of Recession?
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Obama Urges Lawmakers to Overcome 'Differences' on Stimulus Package
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Obama vows stimulus plan oversight board
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The White House's New Tone
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A Republican supports Obama’s stimulus package!
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Gingrich: Economic crisis worse than pols admitting
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Consumers Save More and Spend Less
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Stop Bailing Out Wall Street
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Uncovering TARP's hidden costs
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Agencies asked to submit budget cuts
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Real Estate:

US Property Owners Lost $3.3 Trillion in Home Value Last Year
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Zillow: so long to $6.1 trillion in home values
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Fannie Mae's Overpaid Board
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Loans Are Reworked, but Many Borrowers Fall Behind Again
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As Home Prices Go, So Do Cities
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Co-Tenancy Could Drive Retail Landlords into Bankruptcy
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Dodd to Refinance Countrywide Loans After Criticism
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NJ developer files Chap. 11
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D.R. Horton Narrows Loss
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Plan Orange: Killing the Mortgage Crisis Quickly
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S. Fla. home values fell 23.5% in 2008
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NC: Triangle builder files for bankruptcy
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Suit against Cedar trustee dismissed
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S&P lowers 1800 RMBS classes
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Class Claims Wells Fargo Cheats on Appraisals
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Layoffs:

Macy’s Slashes 7,000 Jobs, Reduces Quarterly Dividend
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Morgan Stanley Said to Be Planning as Many as 1,800 Job Cuts
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SAS to Cut 3,000 Jobs
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Boss, What Else Besides Termination?
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140 to lose jobs as Va. auto industry plant closes
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LandAmerica to cut 291 more jobs
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Silverton Marine to lay off over 200 employees by March 26
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WR Grace Reductions Are to Include Job Cuts
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Hundreds line up for days for Miami firefighter positions, camp out for days
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Where the people feel like spare parts
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The recession is throwing millions out of work. What the new jobless class can tell you about what it's like out there
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A career counselor takes his own advice
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Sleepless nights after the mill winds down
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An odyssey of downward mobility
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Back from war but fighting for a job
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The whole family joins the army
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From Yahoo to layoff in Internet time
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Job Loss in the Age of Blogs, Twitter
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Finance:

Banks loosen standards, but credit still tight
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Fed: Corporate Demand for Loans Plummets
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Lehman:

Judge in Lehman, Madoff Cases Charged After Domestic Incident
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Lehman Brothers’ Debt Has Shrunk by Two-Thirds to $200 Billion
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Letting Dick Fuld off the hook
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Lehman to divide illiquid assets between two firms
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Mohawk Ends Lehman Credit Commitment
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Learning from the Lehman catastrophe
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Lehman lawyer says CEO not to blame
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Lehman-backed cat bond may default
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Looking for life after Lehman Brothers
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Debt Exchange:

When A Distressed Exchange Isn't Distressed
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Chemicals:

Nova Chemicals' stock hammered after ratings cut
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Dow Chemical Has $1.55 Billion Loss on Weak Demand
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Tax:

A Tax Dodge or an Honest Mistake?
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Treasury Faults I.R.S. in Handling Tax Evaders
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I.R.S. Is Said to Broaden UBS Inquiry
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Theme Parks:

Hard Rock Park seeing buyer interest near the end of Chapter 7 case
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Defaults:

S&P forecasts 200 defaults
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Radio:

For Sirius, chapter 11 looms
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Sirius Faces Debt Payment in Test of Its Viability
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Alternative Energy:

Jefferson ethanol plant files bankruptcy
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Financial Details of Renew Energy's Bankruptcy Case Unveiled
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Ethanol plant project not dead yet
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Silver Point is USEB stalking horse
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Credit Counseling:

Why debt settlement is no alternative
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Resorts:

Possible sale for Double JJ
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Aviation:

Alitalia Cargo Gets Offer
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SAS announces massive overhaul after 4Q loss
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Korea Air records fifth straight quarterly loss
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Lufthansa Says 2008 Earnings Beat Target, Forecasts ‘Risk’
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China Eastern Air Cuts Growth, Seeks Smaller Loss
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Private Equity:

The First Step Is Admitting You Have A Problem
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PE Fund-Raising: Long, Bloody, Painful
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Venture Capital:

Playing Hardball With Venture Capitalists
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Construction:

Construction Spending Posts Record Drop in 2008
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Publishing:

American Media in Bondholders Pact
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Politics:

Obama’s Ethics Reform Promise Faces Early Test
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Promises, Promises: No lobbyists at White House, except...
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Derivatives:

Policy Makers Weigh Fed Oversight of Derivatives
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CDS regulation in Europe moves closer
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Oil/Gas:

Oil holds above $40 after more grim economic news
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BP Posts First Quarterly Loss in Seven Years on Oil
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Powder River pushed into bankruptcy
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M&A:

Apollo says buyouts dead, debt investing the focus
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KKR’s Kravis Says Focusing on Investments as Economies Shrink
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Hotels:

Anxiety Moves in to the Nicer Hotels
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Pensions:

Companies struggle to defuse pensions time bomb
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Bonds:

Citigroup Leads Hybrid Bond Drop on Bailout Concern
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Food/Drink:

ADM quarterly profits jump 24%
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Pecus ARG's DIP, bidding rules OK'd
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Poultry Growers, Producers Face ‘Hard Time'
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Accounting:

Ernst & Young bank audit criticized
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KPMG tries to lure more staff to cut hours
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Poor job prospects pile the pressure on accountants
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Corporate Reform:

Financial regulation shaping up as a political battleground
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