Law:
Police Official Moonlights As Bankruptcy Lawyer
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Skadden Arps Advising CIT on Recapitalization Options
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Kirkland elevates 5 bankruptcy lawyers to partner
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Lubic leaves Sonnenschein for K&L Gates
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Lawyers Vexed by New Law Barring Up-Front Fees for Mortgage Modification Work
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Deconstructing O'Melveny Chair's Remarks on BigLaw
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Did BofA Mess Up Its Privilege Waiver?
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Was He Listening? - Legal advice-whether it was taken or not-is at the center of state and federal probes of Bank of America
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5th Circuit to Interpret Departing-Lawyer Rule
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How Alex Sink got 1000 attorneys to work for free
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Defense Counsels Hired For `Not Your Garden Variety Insider Trading Case'
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Start-up Lures Big Firm Refugees with Lower Billing Rates, Higher Morale
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Blog Tracks Federal Jobs for Lawyers
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U.K. Firm Sees 10 Percent of Partners Leave in Ten Months
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Under Scrutiny, Attorney Puts His Firm out of Business
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Billionaire Among 6 Nabbed in Hedge Fund Insider Trading Case
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11thCircuit: Don't Break the Law to Comply With It
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Simmons goes all-out on corporate responsibility
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Litigation-Financing Fund Raises a Record $130M in IPO
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Former Nixon Peabody Associate Faces Criminal Charges for Alleged Insider Trading
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Law Firms to Be Rated on Client Satisfaction in New ACC Index
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Five Types of Corporate Lawyers Predicted for the Future
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MoFo Settles Billing-or-Malpractice Fight
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Artist Admits Using Other Photo for ‘Hope’ Poster, Lawyers To Withdraw
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Hunton & Williams delays record disclosures in Stanford case
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Ex-Red Wings Star Sergei Fedorov Sues Lawyers, Claims Client Conflict Cost Him Millions
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Quinn Emanuel Believes in ‘C.B.A.’ (Check BlackBerry Always)
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Lawyer Facing Possible Discipline Digs Hole a Little Deeper
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Interracial Newlyweds Derailed In Dixie
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Law Firm Swag Contest: The Winner
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Anonymous Wikipedia Libelist Linked to Patterson Belknap
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New Details Emerge About Search Warrants In Letterman Case
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Lawyer Protests 120-Day Contempt Term for Language Used in Court Filing
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The Balloon Boy Bust: Can Authorities Come Up With Federal Charges?
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Heat maps as a way to portray risks of litigation
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Say What?!
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Judges:
New U.K. Supreme Bench Stirs Debate
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RIP: Judge William Wayne Justice
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Justice returns to city: Sotomayor is star at 30th reunion
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Was Judge Transferred Because of His Facebook Activity?
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Is It A Requirement For Judges To Abuse Their Power?
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Wall Street:
US Stock-Index Futures Rise
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US Stocks Rise as JPMorgan's Profit Helps Dow Exceed 10000
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Bailout Helps Fuel a New Era of Wall Street Wealth
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Seniors stiffed as greedy fat cats roll in bailout dough
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Goldman Can Spare You a Dime
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Bear Stearns case: Not so simple
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Even monkeys might resent the return of record profits-and record bonuses-on Wall Street
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Layoffs:
National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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US can't afford pay for no work
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Florida Jobless Rate Worst Since 1975
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Job Program Found to Miss Many States That Need It Most
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Priorities:
Reports of the Demise of Senior-Class Gifting in Chapter 11 an Exaggeration
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Health Care:
Forum Creditors Object to Pishkur Agreement
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Get in shape or pay a price
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Union Upset Over Former CEO's Potential Consulting Salary
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Retailing:
An Early Peek at What Might Be Under the Tree
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Price War Over Books Worries Industry
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Fashion Place sued for $6.6 million in unpaid bills
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Corporate Reform:
Don’t Let Exceptions Kill the Rule
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Obama, Advisers Push Back on Bank Lobbying Against Regulation
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Mr. Storch Goes to Washington
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Fraud:
Hedge Fund Chief Is Charged With Fraud
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Feds: Tipsters aided Silicon Valley insider-trading scheme
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How Galleon Got (and Lost)Its Edge
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Sri Lanka shocked by fund manager fraud charges
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Sri Lanka Stocks Fall Most in 4 Months on Rajaratnam Arrest
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Rajaratnam Gave Lots of Money to the Tamil Tigers
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Hedge-Funder Raj Rajaratnam Got Cranky When People Refused to Partake in His Insider-Trading Scheme
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Insider Trading Defendants, Wasting no Time, Lawyer Up
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Arrest of Hedge Fund Chief Unsettles the Industry
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The Galleon Insider-Trading Charges: The Moody’s Connection
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Rajaratnam Surfaced in Terror Probe
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Prosecutors Ask Judge To Let Key Madoff Defendant Go Home
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Madoff Victims Aren't Entitled to Fake Profit, SIPC Tells Judge
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Mark Madoff Just Wanted to Be Somebody Else for a Day
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Trustee Says More Madoff Aides Tied to Fraud
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Tom Petters bets it all on a trial
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Teachers, principals caught in fraud case
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Skilling, Black Say Ditch 'Honest Services' Law
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Skilling review fuels debate over Enron prosecutors
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Tax:
No Amnesty, But Evaders Still Welcome
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Securitization:
Unpack Those Troubled ‘Repackaged’ Securities
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Health Care:
The hard truth - America's four health care systems
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Economy:
All ears are on Bernanke, Fed report
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2009 federal deficit surges to $1.42 trillion
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Canadian Dollar Climbs Toward Parity With U.S.
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Is It the 1930s Again?
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US Deficit Worst Since 1945
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Women Earned More During Recession
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Geithner: US Must Live Within Its Means
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The Economic Stimulus Plan, Part 2
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Conditions point to another lost decade
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Too Big to Fail - Even Greenspan Is Speaking Out
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Television and Debt
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Young people bear the brunt of recession
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Economic Stress Index
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Economy Tracker Map
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US Debt Clock
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Recovery Index
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Real Estate:
Drop in foreclosures called ‘very scary’
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Bank Errors Mar Mortgage Relief
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Mortgage Rates Up, but Still Under 5 Percent
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Mortgages: Price Security for Home Sellers
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The media loan-modification program
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Law Prohibits Up-front Fees for Foreclosure Relief Services
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BarCap Expects $2bn of CMBS TALF Requests
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Liquidating Lenders Manage 60% Recovery
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17% Commercial Vacancy in S. California
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Florida Foreclosure Crisis Far From Over
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Giant landlords desperate for refinance money
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New Owner of Madoff’s Montauk House Paid $9.41 Million
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Large Wash. planned community files for Chapter 11
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Chapter 11 for Cascadia
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Orphaned developments victim of market forces
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Ackman says he is shorting Realty Income Corp.
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Mortgage applicants face new checks on spending habits
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Trustee: Most Mastro properties worth less than amounts borrowed
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A new crisis: Lenders abandon properties
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No Recession in Real Estate Litigation, South Florida Lawyers Find
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Education:
Harvard Bet on Interest-Rate Swaps Backfires, Costing School $500 Million
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Layoffs:
A Lifeline Not Made in the U.S.A.
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History:
The View From Inside a Depression
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Celebs:
William Jefferson gets bad news from bankruptcy trustee
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Anna Nicole's last days: Drinking from baby bottle
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Finance:
CIT Group says it marshals support for debt plan
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Oppenheimer's Heinberg on a CIT Group bankruptcy
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CIT presses new plan to avoid bankruptcy
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CIT amends restructuring plan with bondholders
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VC Funding On Pace For First Sub-$20B Year Since 1998
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Constrained lenders and wary borrowers explain falling levels of credit
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Movies:
Producer Fights to Release ‘Six Wives’
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Credit Cards:
Bank of America May Overhaul Cards After $4.7 Billion of Losses
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Sales:
Recession spurs corporate yard sale
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Newspapers:
STMG Holdings investors ID'd
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Aviation:
JAL task force to tap govt-backed rehab body
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Japan Air Said to Resume Talks With Delta, American
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Telecoms:
Three states' lawmakers to meet about FairPoint
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Accounting:
In bad times, fraud pays — for accountants
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Mavericks Need Not Apply at Ernst & Young
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KPMG Shake-up Continues
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Religion:
Diocese balks at judge's order
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Catholic Diocese of Wilmington files bankruptcy
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Bankruptcy filing delays church sex abuse case
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Gambling:
Executive named examiner in Fontainebleau bankruptcy case
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Food/Drink:
Metromedia emerges from Ch. 11
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Oil/Gas:
Particle Drilling back in one piece
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Stallion Oilfield files for Chapter 11
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Sovereigns:
Congress to Outlaw Indiana Pension Funds
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Consumer Credit:
Consumers Continue To Struggle, Issuers Cut Credit
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Ratings Agencies:
How Moody's Sold Out Investors
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Private Equity:
Private equity firms are trying to cash out of their investments. Uh-oh.
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Academia:
Empty Creditors and Debt Exchanges
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Lehman:
Barclays owed $3 bln in assets from Lehman-lawyer
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Lehman execs aware of Barclays discount: court documents
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Lehman Bankruptcy Fees Approach $200 Million
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Trucking:
Some YRC Worldwide union workers again reject concessions proposal
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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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Bankruptcy Prediction:
Report finds new wrinkle in U.S. bankruptcies
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Bankruptcies in WA hit four-year high
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Bankruptcy filings soar in Nevada
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Litigation:
So Long Chapter 11: Charter Defeats Lenders at Trial over $11 Billion in Debt
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Insurance:
Ninth Circuit Weighs In on Insured-versus-Insured Exclusion in Chapter 11
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AIG, Greenberg in settlement talks
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Asbestos claims for purchased companies covered: Court
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Poor Credit? 35% Higher Insurance Costs
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Obama: Insurance Co's Deceptive, Dishonest
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Bankruptcy Reform:
House Bankruptcy Hearing Scheduled
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Autos:
Detroit’s post-bankruptcy enthusiasm misplaced
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Saturn out of orbit
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Union confident in Chrysler future after meeting
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Chrysler Finance-GMAC Dispute Traps Dealers
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GMAC: Most Chrysler dealers to qualify for new loans
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Chrysler Bank Sues Former Española Dealer
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Ssangyong contacting potential buyers
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EU warns on German aid in Opel deal
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Germany says EU concerns don't endanger Opel deal
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GM Ready to Keep Control of Opel, Make Deeper Cuts
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Carlos Ghosn Bets The Car Company
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Frank Stronach sought CAW bailout
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Avoidance Actions:
The Evolution of a Majority Rule: Two Circuits Rule Payments to Shareholders in Private LBOs Shielded From Avoidance by Settlement Payment Defense
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Compensation:
To the Horror of Wall Street, Czar Goes After Lewis’s Pay
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Pay rules complicate GM CFO search
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Freedom execs can get bonuses, severance, bankruptcy judge says
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Banker Bonuses In A Time of Crisis
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Hands off our pay
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Personal Finance:
For Financial Planners, a Year of Tough Questions
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Banking:
California bank becomes 99th in US to be closed in 2009
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Bank of America Posts Third-Quarter Loss on Defaults
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Bank of America Tells Congress Merrill Disclosures Were Proper
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Calculating Merrill’s Losses — A ‘Wild A– Guess’
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Bank of America: Profit by the Pen, Loss by the Pen
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FDIC bank fund in the red until 2012
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The Banks Are Not Alright
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Citi Gets Left in the Dust
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BofA’s Lewis Sheds No Tears in Final Conference Call
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DSB boss said to have two takeover plans
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DSB bankrupt after sale failure
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DSB bankruptcy : 1,300 jobs lost today
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Resorts:
Another Caribbean Resort Goes Belly Up
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COBRA problem solved, Premier Resorts says
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Hockey:
Glendale spent $2.1M on Coyotes campaign
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We Win, You Win
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Fashion:
Mariella Burani sees debt restructuring deal imminent
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Utilities:
Calpine Loan Holders 'Led to Slaughter' With Exchange, KDP Says
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Credit Reporting:
Credit quick fixes should raise warning flag
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Municipalities:
Orange County Dodged Calpers Bullet
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Armageddon in Alabama Proves Parable for Local US Governments
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Judge recuses herself from Arthur Blackwell embezzlement case
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Video Games:
The death of a studio
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UK:
The party's over for Fergie
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U.K. Perspective Recognition of Overseas Insolvency Procedures: Spoiled for Choice?
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Car Wash-Valuation in the Context of a U.K. Scheme of Arrangement
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Borrowers with Pension Schemes: Risks and Issues for Lenders in the United Kingdom
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Pre-packs face scrutiny and calls for more transparency
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EU:
European Restructuring Deals Could Double
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Canada:
Teamsters Union supports demands of Nortel Retirees' Protection Committee
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Pocklington fraud case may get resolved soon
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Secret complaint could bankrupt Manitoba Hydro
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The Insanity of the New Bankruptcy Canada Rules
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Germany:
Germany Confident of Opel Deal
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Japan:
Bank of Japan minutes show stimulus concerns
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Australia:
Vultures go hungry as banks extend loans
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Asset protection after Richstar
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Iceland:
As world climbs out of recession, Iceland's economy remains in deep freeze
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Emerging steps do little for Icelandic confidence
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