Law:
O'Melveny on SonicBlue Problem: Ain't Our Problem
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Legal Sector Loses 2,000 Jobs in September
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Mixed news for Class of 2009: Wildman rescinds offers; Katten moves up start date
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Nixon Peabody Hiring Partner: Student Recruitment Model Is ‘Antiquated’
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Seasonal Work For Laid Off Attorneys: Halloween Time
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Crowell & Moring Asks Staff To Voluntarily Lay Themselves Off
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Overhead Cost at Large Law Firms Matters After All
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Law Grads Scramble for Interim Jobs; More Deferrals, Fewer Stipends in Future?
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Associate Salaries: The War is Over
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Bingham McCutchen to Adopt 'Merit Lockstep' System
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Bad News for Laid Off Associates: Your Résumés Are Not Welcome
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DLA Piper Previews the 2009 Bonus Season
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Has the Recession Forever Changed Large Law Firms?
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New Headache for Greenberg Traurig: The Allen Stanford Scandal
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Report: Receiver Looking at Greenberg Traurig’s Work for Allen Stanford
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High Court Debates Value of Attorney-Client Privilege
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Did Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis Listen to His Lawyers?
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After Some 20 Years and $20M, Was $42M More a Fair Fee for 4 Months’ Work?
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2009 Plaintiffs' Hot List: The Firms to Watch
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Law firm mergers on the rise
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BigLaw Firm Acquires NY Financial Services Litigation Boutique
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A Prognosis For Future Bankruptcies
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Allen & Overy names new restructuring group senior counsel
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Cloudy With a Chance of Shortfalls: NY Leader Loses Rainmaker
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Goodwin Procter Enters CIT Mess
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Bear Stearns Fund Judge to Weigh Lawyer's Conflict
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Ralph Cioffi's Florida fishing trip
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As bankruptcy crisis plays on, Cincinnati law firms still swamped
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M&A Market Rebound Buoys Corporate Practices
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Private equity phoenix set to rise from ashes in New Year bonanza
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Survey Shows Recession's Impact on Minority Associates
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K&L Gates in Bizarre WWE Smackdown
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Depositions Set in Sex Harassment Suit Against Gordon & Rees, Managing Partner
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Jury in Astor Case Appears to Be Struggling
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Sign o' the Times" More Firms Suing Slow-Paying Clients
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Plaintiffs Firms Face Rule 11 Motion by Cravath for Work on Massey Derivative Suit
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A mission to protect consumers from their own lawyers
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Slaughters in talks over outsourcing plans
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A&O in bid to dominate US work in London
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BAE lawyer lands in top US job
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Swimming With the Sharks
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Cooley Litigator in San Diego Gets Silicon Valley's Coolest Cases
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Will Erin Andrews Sue Marriott, Ramada?
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Letterman picked up the tab for assistant/mistress's legal education
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Iqbal: The Supreme Court Slams the Door
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Judge Wants Answers After Patent Company Voluntarily Dismisses Suit Against Foley & Lardner
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'Who Can I Sue' rankles some lawyers but brings in clients for listed lawyers
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You Can Run, But You Can’t Hide: Extradition Getting Harder to Dodge
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Con Law Prof’s Wife Sues George Mason Claiming Sexual Harassment
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Lawyer Takes Justice to Streets as New TV Reality Show Eliminates Courtroom
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Lawyers Get YouTube-Style Site
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Lawyer Finds Humor in North Face's Threatened Litigation Over 'South Butt'
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Say What?!
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Judges:
The Ninth Circuit Curse Never Sleeps
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6 Supreme Court Judges Attend Catholic Mass
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Sonia Sotomayor not selling Greenwich Village pad over weak housing market
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Sotomayor Takes Active Role on Court's First Day
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Newer Justices Could Transform Supreme Court
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Do Women Make Better Judges?
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Judge apologizes for allowing TV cameras in courtroom
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‘Oh Dear’: O’Connor Disappointed to See Some Decisions ‘Dismantled’
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'Sex-for-leniency' judge goes on trial
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Embattled Lawyer Seeks Judge’s Recusal, Cites Possible ‘Whisper’ By AG Holder
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Judge Who Replaced Halverson Tells Police Her Lawyer Husband Struck Her
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Educational? You Be The Judge.
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Judge Tells Senate Federal Courts Are 'In Crisis'
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Wall Street:
US Stock-Index Futures Rise
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European shares up as recovery hopes gain ground
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Financial Stocks Lead Market Rally
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Roubini: Stocks, Commodities Have Risen 'Too Much, Too Soon, Too Fast'
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Stiglitz Says Markets Are `Irrationally Exuberant' About Economic Recovery
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Goldman's image problem
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Stock Seers Say Gross 5% May Only Be Normal in Debt
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Layoffs:
National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Many Lost Jobs Will Never Return
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American Apparel is forced to lay off 1800 workers
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Unemployment to peak in 8-12 months: IMF chief
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A Pickup in Orders, Not Hiring
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Greenspan Foresees a Rise in Unemployment
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Job Market Improved: First Time in 18 Months
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Advertising:
US online ads fell for second quarter in a row
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Telecoms:
Nortel Talking With Ciena As Workers Plan Protests
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Windstream Buying Up Fairpoint Debt? - Company may be watching possible bankruptcy closely
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Corporate Reform:
US court affirms sentences of Adelphia's Rigases
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Economy:
Services Grow for First Time in a Year
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Treasury set 'unrealistic expectations'
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Did the Government's White Lies Endanger the Bailout?
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Obama Weighs Spending, Tax Cuts to Stem Job Losses Without Second Stimulus
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IMF Deepened the Financial Crisis
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Fed Should Release Names of Banks, Bloomberg Says in Lawsuit
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BlackRock, Others Buy Into PPIP
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The demise of the dollar
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World Bank appeals for funds as aid rationing looms
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Soros Says 'Basically Bankrupt' Banks Restrain U.S.
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How We Barely Missed a Great Depression
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Assessing the Financial Crisis
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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:
Thornburg, creditors clash on need for trustee
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MGM Mirage Slashes Condo Prices
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Banking:
BofA's brings back iconic Merrill Lynch logo
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Bank of America mulls 'emergency' CEO
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The real reason Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis suddenly quit
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Why Citigroup's Pandit could get booted next
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Wells Fargo, Biggest US Banks Raised by Goldman
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Obituaries:
Irving Sulmeyer 1927-2009
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Finance:
Restructuring In a No-Credit World
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CIT plans to increase $3 billion bondholder loan
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Goldman's Profit on CIT Could Rouse Critics
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CIT Group Has Little Hope of Succeeding
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CIT bondholders should sell or prepack
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Global Finance Industry Is Still Dragging
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Big borrowers hit by falling values, skimpy lenders
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Corporate Governance:
Caremark-based Duties of Directors
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Bankruptcy Crimes:
The FBI Would Like To Give You 13 Tips To Consider Before Filing Bankruptcy
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Furniture:
An Executive Who Ruled From Afar and Walked Away Rich
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Private equity firms ravaged Simmons; could they do the same to banks?
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Golf:
Andover golf club files bankruptcy
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Health Care:
Waves of new funding cuts imperiling nursing homes
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Credit Cards:
Will the Fed enforce tough new credit card rules?
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Delinquencies Expected To Increase
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Discovery:
Hearing Held on Freedom Bankruptcy Documents
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Tech:
Spansion sees end to Chapter 11 in Q4 or early 2010
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Examiners:
Lyondell unsecured creditors request examiner
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Fraud:
Mets' owner strikes out with Madoff trustee
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Madoff trustee wants investor to return $7.2B
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Stanford's Pendergest-Holt Permitted to Sell Property, Keep Some Proceeds
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Postgaming Marc Dreier’s Performance on ‘60 Minutes’
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Gambling:
Judge seeks quick sale of Fontainebleau Las Vegas
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Station seeking to hold off case
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Strategies for Distressed Gaming Entities
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Casinos spend millions on 'comps'
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Accounting:
Alleged 'Fall Guy' Sues KPMG for $30 Million
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KPMG Comp Discussions: Mid-Atlantic Says 'No topic is off-limits' and Possible Cuts in the Midwest
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Software:
Trustee Backs SCO's Litigation Against Novell
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Turnarounds:
Service Providers Corporate Restructuring: Pitfalls And Opportunities
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Municipalities:
Report Says Vallejo an Example of Problems with Unions
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Chemicals:
Workers say bankrupt Lyondell owes millions in pay
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Celebs:
Nicolas Cage Owes $2 Million, Bank Claims
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Fergie creditors' haircut
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Politics:
Debt: The Legacy of Reagan?
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Debt Collection:
Collectors Charged In $8 Million Fraud Scheme
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Derivatives:
Don't worry about the U.S.-China trade war over chicken feet. Worry about the coming conflict over T-bills and derivatives.
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Private Equity:
Profits for Buyout Firms as Company Debt Soared
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Five More Bankrupt Companies That Earned Their Private Equity Backers a Return
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PE-Backed Busts: What's in Store for Q4 and Beyond?
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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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Breaking the Chapter 11 'Tsunameter'
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No more $19 doughnuts; More businesses to fail
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Sales:
Pornography and Section 363
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Nationwide personal bankruptcies crossed the 1 million threshold ...
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Bankruptcy Prediction:
Notable Bankruptcies of 2009: Q3
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Compensation:
Pay Czar Said to Plan Salary Cuts at Bailed-Out Firms
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Student Debt:
Options for Managing Law School Student Loan Debt
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Compensation:
General Growth proposes $11.6 million bonus pool
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Exemptions:
Amici Bankruptcy Professors Pottow & White "Win" on BAPCPA 11 U.S.C. 522(p)
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Autos:
As Delphi Emerges From Bankruptcy, Executive Regrets the Bumpy Ride
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Chrysler to pay Visteon as it exits businesses
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Marchionne names new bosses for Chrysler, Dodge
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US, Swedish investors eyeing Volvo bid
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At Volvo, We're Private Equity, and We're Here to Help
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Accounting:
PwC, KPMG Iceland offices raided over banking collapse
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Oil/Gas:
Peak Oil: The End Of the Oil Age is Near, Deutsche Bank Says
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Edge Petroleum to sell most assets, files for Chapter 11
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Yukos International Seeks $100 Billion in Damages in Strasbourg
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Retailing:
Parent of Olympics Retail Manager Enters Chapter 11
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Holiday sales: Tough sledding ahead
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Popular Treasure Coast outlet mall files for bankruptcy
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Hilo Hattie Emerges From Bankruptcy
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InkStop Abruptly Closes All 152 Stores
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The 'Vacancy' Blight: Finding New Uses for Empty Stores
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Boating:
Fountain's motion to stop sale is denied
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Newspapers:
Big Day for Sun Times
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Sun-Times deadline passes with no second bidder in sight
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Lehman:
Lehman Europe creditors offered payout
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Living with the Lehman legacy
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Education:
Colleges offer no slack on late fees
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Food/Drink:
Food Lion company agrees to buy Bi-Lo assets
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Hockey:
City of Glendale Trying to Muster Support For Bankrupt Coyotes
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How it all went wrong
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Personal Finance:
How to Rebuild Credit After Bankruptcy
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Saving hurts credit
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Magazines:
Trade publisher Questex Media files for bankruptcy
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Condé Nast to Close Gourmet, Cookie and Modern Bride
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Reader's Digest can borrow $150 million in bankruptcy
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Tax:
Seattle-Area Man Pleads Guilty in Swiss Bank Case
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IRS Can't Claim the $5M Debtor Never Inherited
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The IRS Will Pay You for Snitching but You Better Have a Big Fish and Don't Mind Waiting
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Disclosure:
Bank slips in a veiled threat: Exchanging a big house for The Big House?
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Religion:
Scotus Ruling Paves Way for Disclosures on Sex-Abuse Cases
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Problems With Tithing
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UK:
E&Y's £11m gem may be worth just £100
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U.K. Manufacturing Output Unexpectedly Slumps to Lowest Level in 17 Years
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Britons Will Work Longer, Earn Less in Austerity Drive to Reduce Deficit
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Does TUPE apply when buying an insolvent business?
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British Banks to Face Tougher Liquidity Rules
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Ernst & Young begins Equitable appeal
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UK sees M&A activity fall
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Financial Services Industry Could Lose 60K
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EU:
Europe's banks back from brink for now
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Germany:
Angry shareholders berate Hypo bosses
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New Zealand:
New Zealand Business Confidence Jumps to 10-Year High
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Italy:
Challenges in Italian debt restructuring
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