Law:
Former Clients Sue Mintz Levin, Former Partner for Fraud
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Skadden, Paul Weiss Lead Unusual FDIC Deal for Bad Corus Loans
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The Bankruptcy Files: Media, Energy, and Electric Scooters
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UK & Australia Firms Mull Megamergers to Amp Up in Asia
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Major UK law firms suffer drop-off in 2009 Global 100 results
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Bank of America Bonus Suit Should Be Decided by Jury, US Says
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It's the End of the World As We Know It, Or Maybe Not
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Law Pub Ponders the ‘Associate Apocalypse’
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Your Guilt-Edged Career
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Incoming Associates at Fenwick Take the Money and Run
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What’s Going on at Akin Gump? (Some staff cuts, plus news on offer rates.)
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Firm asks partners to plow in millions in fresh capital
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Delaware Law Firm Hit With Sexual Harassment Suit
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In Wake of Messy Parting and Mutual Loathing, Ex-NY Partner and Firm Both See Suits Tossed
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Why Law Firm Interviewers Are Asking ‘Tell Me About a Time’ Questions
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Blog Response to Law Firm’s Demand for Photo Takedown: We’ll Mock You
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Ex-NBA Playing Lawyer Is ‘Gun Shy’ of Big Firms After Short Dreier Stint
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Lawyer Who Quit UBS to Co-chair Linklaters’ US Practice Changes His Mind
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Playing the Middle Game: Is Now the Time to Expand? Check
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The Economy Is Still Soft For IP Lawyers
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Firms Line Up For Another IPO Avalanche
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Judge Tosses Suits by Kasowitz Benson and Ex-IP Chair
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Notes from the Breadline: Every Picture Tells a Story
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Authorities Struggle to Cope With ‘Tsunami of Digital Evidence’
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Microsoft Has Cut Legal Budget By 15%, Asked Outside Counsel to Trim Fees 10%
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Belmont (TN)To Open New Law School — Just Because They Can
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Lawyer of the Day Stephanie Birkitt: An Update on the Ex-Letterman Lover
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Court Deals Setback to Attorney Convicted in Sex Scam
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The Cornerback v. The Counselor
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Turned In by Toddler, Lawyer Sanctioned
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Say What?!
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Judges:
At High Court, Cross Words Over Mojave Memorial
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Wall Street:
Stocks poised to climb
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US Stocks Fall as Homebuilders Decline on Tax Credit Concern
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$3 million government handout to aid Goldman Sachs' firm
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Layoffs:
National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Recession in U.S. May Erase Previous Expansion's Jobs, Goldman Sachs Says
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Senator wants to extend jobless benefits for all states
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The hardest part is competing with people with 20 years experience, because they lost their jobs
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Mental-health troubles rise in jobless
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House Republicans Press Obama on Jobs Creation
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Finance Layoffs: Mutual of Omaha and Capital Bank
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Credit Cards:
The End of 0%? Reigning in 'Credit Card Roulette'
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Wells Fargo Will Raise Credit-Card Rates Ahead of Law
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Celebs:
Anna Nicole Smith Investigated in Murder Plot
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Oil/Gas:
Oil Near $71 on Optimism Over Economic Recovery
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Consumer Credit:
Wells Fargo Continues Cuts to Personal Credit Lines
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Telecoms:
Ciena bids $521M for Nortel business units
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Aviation:
U.S. carriers' cuts may give them edge, consultancy says
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Tax:
U.S. claims Colo. tax preparer sought $55 million in fraudulent returns
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Gambling:
Bondholders hike offer for Trump casinos to $225 million
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Hearing set on fate of Trump casinos in AC
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Trump, Noteholders Narrow Disagreements Over Control of Casino Operator
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Hotels:
Hotel defaults, foreclosures rise in California
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Litigation:
Ronald Perelman Loses Court Bid to Revive $1.6 Billion Morgan Stanley Case
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WaMu Employees' Lawsuit Against JPMorgan Dismissed
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Is the Death of the Securities Class Action Greatly Exaggerated?
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Subprime Lawsuit Against Mortgage Securitizer Dismissed
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Municipalities:
California Broke, Thanks Mexico
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Bing's turnaround plan squarely confronts Detroit's dire straits
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Highland Park's state overseer charged with theft
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Tax:
Forgiveness, for Some
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Economy:
Next Global Crisis Won't Look Like the Last
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Reid, Pelosi Meet Obama on Aiding Economy
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Inside the Crisis
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Obama under fire over falling dollar
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Budget deficit hits $1.4 trillion for '09
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For seventh month, consumers cut debt
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He foresaw the mortgage mess; now, he sees an inflation wreck
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The economy: One step forward, two steps back?
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Mr. Geithner, Wall Street is on Line 1
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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:
Reverse mortgages could become the next subprime crisis, says a report
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Commercial real estate: the coming storm
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U.S. office vacancies reach five-year high of 16.5%
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Effective Manhattan office rents off 45%
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Houston office market falters amid sluggish demand
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IRS Guidelines Clears the Way for CMBS Modifications: K&L Gates
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Mortgage Applications Surge to 4-Month High
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New Order: No Money, No Problem
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Fannie And Freddie Scheme To Help Independent Mortgage Lenders Grow
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Fannie And Freddie To Prop Up Warehouse Lending
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Frank To Propose Loan Plan For Unemployed Borrowers
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Henry S. Miller Brokerage, auction firm to market distressed commercial properties
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Kirk Corp. converted to chapter 7 liquidation
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Kelly Gearhart bankruptcy debts now put at $65 million
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South Tahoe convention center project files for Chapter 11
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Fed becomes reluctant landlord
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Banking:
The obscenely high new bank fees for ATM usage and overdrawn checks
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80% of Debit Card Holders Don't Want "Protection"
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Americans Spend More On Overdraft Fees Than They Spend On Fresh Vegetables
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Sheila Bair on secured creditors
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Fed Says Banks Slow to Take Commercial Losses
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The rise of the East and Demise of the West
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John Thain Admits He Didn't Understand Merrill's Risks
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FDIC sells $4.5B in Corus assets to Starwood group
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Capmark Financial Pours $600 Million into its Ailing Bank
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Guess who bankers want to work for most?
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Winters Shows JPMorgan Bankers a Path to Safety, Dimon Shows Him the Door
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Autos:
GM Says on Target With Change, but Risks Remain
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More jobs to be cut at GM
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Chrysler to unveil 5-year plan
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GM shifts focus from restructuring to vehicles
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GM Expects Car Sales to Stay Slow
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GM's top sales executive leaving
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GM names Buick exec Docherty as new US sales chief
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More legal wrangling in Hecker case
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Trustee need not give Hecker his records, judge rules
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Auto suppliers face 'tenuous' future
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Doubts grow over Opel deal
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Baseball:
Baseball Attendance Falls Amid Recession
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Newspapers:
Investor Wants Sun-Times Bidding Process Reopened
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Sun-Times Media Group, Jim Tyree on same page
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Sun-Times Media, union reach tentative deal
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Newspaper auction overseers appointed
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Freedom Fights Bankruptcy Disclosure
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Mysteries of Philadelphia
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Auto Racing:
Motorsports Authentics faces bankruptcy
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Horse Racing:
Hoosier Park to File for Bankruptcy ?
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Finance:
PIMCO has left CIT steering committee - source
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Hockey:
Sabres, Coyotes share rare bond of bankruptcy
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Enron:
Checks could go out soon in one Enron case
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Corporate Reform:
A test case for Wall Street justice
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Accounting:
Could Accounting Rule Changes Magnify Real Estate Woes?
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E&Y fined over audit failures
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Ernst & Young Paid $400 Million to Settle Akai
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IPO "Crisis" Crushes Small-Caps, Grant Thornton Contends
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Religion:
Judge tells diocese to do more
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
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Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory
Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings
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Bankruptcy Jobs:
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Bankruptcy Prediction:
Firm seeks SEC probe of Hertz over bankruptcy suit
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Bankruptcy-spotting toolkit
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Compensation:
Visteon judge rejects bonuses for top officers
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Fed aims to rein in bank pay abuses way below top execs
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Bailed-out banks pre-empt pay czar
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In Merrill’s Failed Plan, Lessons for Pay Czar
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Digging Deeper Into Merrill’s Failed Pay Plan
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Citigroup tries to shed $100 million-man Andrew Hall
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Wall Street Pros Expect Big Cash Money Bonuses This Year
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Apparel:
American Apparel Running Out Of Room On Credit Lines
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Lehman:
Lehman Judge Says It Can Move Ahead With Suncal Plan
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Retailing:
Judge OKs involuntary Ch. 7 for Ellen Tracy
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Retail Vacancies Hit Multiyear Highs
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Retailers nervous as consumers beef up credit scores
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Golf:
Golf firm True Temper files for Chapter 11
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Pensions:
401(k)savers took beating during meltdown of '08
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Health Care:
Opposition to insurance tax grows in House
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Health Costs: Steeper Still
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Private Equity:
The Reason Stanford Is Selling Private Equity
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How private equity dealmakers can win while their companies lose
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Corporate Governance:
Who Gets Sued in Veil Piercing Cases?
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Personal Finance:
Why the recession won't teach us frugality.
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Derivatives:
Firms and U.S. regulators clash on derivatives rules
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Metals:
PTC Alliance Wins Approval of 'First Day' Motions
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Media:
Blodget: A CBS bankruptcy? Not yet
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Fraud:
Madoff's `very ordinary' mansion up for sale
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Should Madoff's Winners Give Back to Losers?
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Record ‘Phish Phry’ Bank Cybercrime Bust Nets 100 in US & Egypt
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UK:
Begbies Traynor joint venture extends reach into US insolvency market
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RBS Faced Risk of Full Seizure by Brown at 2008 Crisis Climax, Gieve Says
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Britain Risked `Bank Runs, Riots' as RBS, HBOS Neared Collapse Last Year
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BoE Leaves Rates At 0.5 Percent
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U.K. Consumer Confidence Rises to Highest in 1 1/2 Years as Recession Ebbs
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Property chiefs slam CVAs
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Lloyds looking to scale back government aid, EU seen key
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Care home operator debt restructure hands roles to Macfarlanes and A&O
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Equitable Life under investigation again
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EU:
European Economy Contracts More Than Estimated
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Global Economic Crisis Rescues European Bank
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ECB expected to keep interest rates at record low
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Canada:
Inside Goldman's deal with CanWest
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The Asper dream ends, the sell-off begins
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CanWest directors demand protection
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CanWest Didn't Properly Finance Buyout of Papers, Black Claims
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Scotiabank, creditors to control CanWest dailies
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Canadians favor tax aid to help country's ailing newspaper industry
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Allen-Vanguard 'regrets' deal means shareholders get nothing
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Japan:
Japan Sept corporate bankruptcies drop 18 pct yr/yr
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Ireland:
Children told to bring own toilet paper to school
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