Law:
Corporate Scorecard 2010
Bankruptcy: Ducking for Cover
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Alternative Billing: Who’s Actually Doing It?
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At Law Firms, Reconsidering the Model for Associates’ Pay
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Linklaters Back to Full Lockstep
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Linklaters announces salary band freeze
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Kirkland restructuring partner aborts plan to join GTM
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"Clients Have Gotten Smarter."
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Williams & Connolly Shuns Laterals and Generally Keeps Its Partners
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The Real Deal? Advice on Nabbing that Dream Job
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Buchanan Ingersoll's Revenue Falls 3 Percent, RPL Goes Up by 5 Percent
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Quarles & Brady opens Tampa office
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Bakers London restructuring sees £3m redundancy costs
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Freshfields sued for racketeering
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High Court Justices Appear Skeptical of Private Contempt Prosecutions
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MGM, Skadden, Get More Time in Debt Crunch
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Layoff Watch: Lovells Makes Cuts Ahead of May Merger
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"It's not American Idol"
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Chadbourne's Recruiting No Relief for Associates Whose Job Offers Were Rescinded
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Report: GCs Have More Power in Post-Recession World
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The BigLaw Big Thaw: Second Firm Reinstates Lockstep Pay Raises After 2009 Freeze
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$100 Million Malpractice Claim Proceeds Against Greenberg Traurig
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After Layoffs and Pay Cuts, BigLaw Firm's Revenues Drop, But Boss Sees Growth Ahead
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2 Baker Hostetler Attorneys Accused of Supporting African Inheritance Scam
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Locke Lord Hit With Suit by Former Income Partner
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Welcome to the Future: The Intimacy Imperative
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Deportation Ruling Sets New Standard for Legal Advice
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Lawyer Drops Practice to Pursue Ballooning Career
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Is the University of Texas’ Admissions Policy Legal?
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Supreme Court Ruling Opens Federal Courts to More Class Actions
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New Front Opens in Dispute Between ABA, FTC
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Lawyer Faces Employee Suit Alleging 'Extreme and Outrageous Voyeur Activities'
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Michigan Law Secret Society Openly Mocked
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Keeping Up With What's In and Out in Big Law
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Lawyering and Living for Less: Building a Working Wardrobe Without Breaking the Bank
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Did You Go to Law School to Earn $12 an Hour?
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Self-Proclaimed BigLaw Vet Charged with --- Tourism
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Loyola Law School (L.A.) Retroactively Inflates Grades
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After Fainting During 4th Cir. Hearing, Law Student Goes On to Make Great Argument
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$3,400 per Hour Legal Research Has Arrived
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I Just E-Mailed a Friend, US Lawyer Charged in Dubai Corporate Info Case Tells ABA Journal
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Judges:
US Supreme Court Phases Out PDF - Embraces Apple’s iPad Format (and Money) :)
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Supreme Court Punts
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Limits Of Free Speech
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An Amusing Oral Argument: Justice Thomas Opens His Mouth, and Justice Sotomayor Struggles With Math
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Judge Faces Trial Over Her Relationship With Prosecutor During Capital Case in Her Court
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The Power of Posner: A Study of Prestige and Influence in the Federal Judiciary
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"Friending" And Ethics
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Wall Street:
Futures up on upbeat data from China, Europe
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World stocks up, buoyed by Chinese data
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We should be policing Wall Street
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CFTC Approves Bankruptcy Protections For Cleared OTC Trades
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Wall Street’s Makeover
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Layoffs:
US private sector cuts jobs in March; eyes on Fri
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Autos:
Chrysler's reinstatement offer upsets dealers
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Ford UAW Retiree Fund to Raise $1.78 Billion From Warrant Sale
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Mulally says Ford can accelerate debt repayment
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Lehman:
The collapse of Lehman Brothers
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Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy Examiners Report is Further Evidence That UBS Wronged Investors
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Weil Gotshal Bills Lehman $1000 Per Hour for Lawyers
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Lehman's Demise and Repo 105: No Accounting for Deception
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Tax:
Swiss Move Closer to Releasing UBS Names
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Corporate Reform:
Corker 'Absolutely Cannot Support' Dodd Bill
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Where On Earth Has The SEC Been?
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S.E.C. Mulls Publicizing Details, Even If You Settle
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Hotels:
Starwood plans to open 300 hotels
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Four Seasons lenders schedule auction to sell their interest
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Extended Stay: Bad Boy Stuck in Quagmire?
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Wyndham closes on new credit line, repays loan
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AIG:
New York Fed details assets bought for Bear Stearns, AIG bailouts
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AIG's big losses on CDOs dissected
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They Reportedly Drove AIG to Ruin
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How Lou Lucido Let AIG Lose $35 Billion With Goldman Sachs CDOs
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Economy:
US factory orders rise in Feb, buoy manufacturing
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ADP Says U.S. Companies Unexpectedly Cut Payrolls
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Federal agency debt issuance shrinks in 1st qtr
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Hartford repays TARP, no plan to buy back warrants
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Fed Reveals Bear Stearns Assets It Swallowed in Firm's Rescue
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A special report on America's economy
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Economist Johnson Urges Breakup of Big Banks
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Business Jets, an Economic Indicator?
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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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Bailout Tracker
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Real Estate:
Restructuring CRE
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Weakness Persists in Commercial Mortgage Market Even as Tenants Look to Buy
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CRE Firms Lay Out Modes for Operating in a Post-Recessionary Environment
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Private Sector Mortgage Modifications Outnumber HAMP 2 to 1
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Fannie Delinquencies Reach All-Time High at 5.52%
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Mortgage-Bond Market Prepared for Fed's Exit
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Sell-off after Fed's mortgage program ends? Not to worry
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Complacency seeps in as Fed stops buying MBS
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Some Regions Never Felt Housing Boom, or Bust
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Movie of the Week? The Lennar Story
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Mortgage Rates Up, Along with Applications for New Loans
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Bob Miell wants bankruptcy administrators probed
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47 payments behind with Chase and I finally got my loan modification
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It Was a Housing Boom, not a Construction Boom
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Manhattan’s office market flirting with rebound
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Washington DC Office Market Facing Age of Austerity?
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AIG Settlement Shifts More Responsibility to Wholesale Lenders: K&L Gates
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Derivatives:
Insider Trading?
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Health Care:
Medical bankruptcy can hit anyone
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Emeritus/Blackstone Joint Venture Appointed "Stalking Horse" Bidder in Sunwest Bankruptcy Auction
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Would You Give a Kidney to a Stranger for $100K?
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Ford's Mulally Not Taking Cost Over Health-Care Law
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Fraud:
R. Allen Stanford and his current criminal-defense lawyers "had some disagreements" over strategy
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State of Play in Galleon Insider Trading Case
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A Web of Insider Trading Charges
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Fraudsters Beware, Bharara's Throwing More Forces Your Way
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Ken Lewis Will Not Settle with NY Attorney General Cuomo, Report
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Denny Hecker: My new neighbor
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Judge Ray Ray Shuts Out the Public From Rothstein Depo
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Supreme Court restricts whistleblower lawsuits
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Receiver Tracks Down $78M Ponzi Scheme
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Greer tapped as Rothstein expert witness
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Dreier Co-conspirator Sentenced to 46 Months
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Food/Drink:
Wal-Mart's Grocery Sales Top 50% In US For First Time
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Video Rentals:
Stake in Blockbuster Cut Down by Carl Icahn
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Radio:
Regent Revenues Dip In Q4
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Golf:
Owner, top official of suburban Toledo firm charged
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Software:
Copyright Troll Loses High-Stakes Unix Battle
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Novell-SCO Group Legal Quarrel Over Unix, Far From Over
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Gambling:
Atlantic City Casino CEO 'Close' to China Loan
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Hooters hotel-casino narrows loss, says bankruptcy possible
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Station Casinos loses $1.13B in 4th quarter
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Banking:
Bank failure lawsuit: Heritage Community Bank investors sue former chairman
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Regional banks still owe big TARP bucks
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Building Materials:
Grant Forest Places Units in Bankruptcy in Delaware
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Electrical Supply:
Electrical Components files for bankruptcy
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Elder Debt:
More Seniors to be Homeless by 2020
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Private Equity:
PE-Backed Firms Defaulted Less in Recession, PE Council Study
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Distressed Investing:
Distressed Investor Lynn Tilton ‘Wears Tight Leather'
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Compensation:
Hedge Fund Managers’ Pay Roars Back
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Humor:
Financial Laugh Lines
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Finance:
Staring Down the Banks
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Newspapers:
Tribune Co. buys more time for reorganization plan
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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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Seminars
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Bankruptcy Reform:
Banks' fate could land in Delaware's lap - Bill would give high-profile cases to state's bankruptcy judges
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Etymology:
“Bankruptcy”
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Litigation:
Creditors Fight Back
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Retailing:
Rite Aid predicts its loss may grow in fiscal 2011
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43-store card and gift store chain Swoozie's closing down
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General Growth files exit proposal, auction rules
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General Growth plan leaves door open to Simon
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Religion:
Vatican Official Defends Pope’s Handling of Case
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Will the Pope Be Deposed? Not If the Vatican Can Help It
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Alleged Victim's Lawyers: Vatican Protected Priest
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Hollywood:
MGM gets fourth debt extension as acquisition, restructuring or bankruptcy draws near
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MGM's suitors vanish
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Student Debt:
Student Loans: The Government Is Now Officially in the Banking Business
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For students, a healthy dose of loan reform
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Fact Check: Student Loans Won't Cost More
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Chemicals:
Lyondell to Pay $162 Million to End US Claims
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Accounting:
SEC to Banks: Who Else Used Repo 105?
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Aviation:
Skyservice airline shuts down
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Court Action Keeps Epic Auction in Play
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Non-Profits:
Seed America CEO Talks About Bankruptcy Filings
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Municipalities:
Vallejo Goes for Broke
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Lawmakers Push States to Speed Taxpayer Refunds
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Three Reasons Public Sector Workers Are Killing The Economy
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Recession Deflates Speeding Ticket "Cushion"
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Report Blasts States for Abusing Civil Forfeiture Laws
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California Debt Beats Greece's in Bond Sales
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Nevada's Taxable Sales Down 8.1%
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M&A:
The Pace of Deal-Making Picks Up
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Theme Parks:
Freestyle Music Park debt unpaid as Thursday deadline approaches
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Six Flags and Incremental Recoveries to Junior Bondholders
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Six Flags Bought Out By Federal Government :)
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Music:
Music group EMI in dire straits
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UK:
R3 slams "misleading" pre-pack figures
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Insolvency practitioners prompt more than 600 complaints
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Equitable Life boss hits out at solvency change
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FSA charges follow US prosecutions
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Jarvis axes 1,100 jobs after rescue hopes fade
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U.K. manufacturing survey strongest since 1994
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Scientist proves Kerry Katona doesn't actually exist :)
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Britain Questions ‘Too Big to Fail’
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EU:
Unemployment and Inflation Inch Up in Europe
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Canada:
Canadian judge OKs revised $57M deal between Nortel, ex-employees
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Australia:
Insolvency blues: the rogues make injustices seem routine
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Greece:
Five Greek Banks Downgraded by Moody’s
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Pimco Sees Greece Action as Ineffective
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Optimism and Doubt in a Duel Over Greece
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Ireland:
Insolvency cases up 25% in first quarter
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China:
Remember SIVs? China Has 'Em And They're Hiding A Massive Credit Bubble
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China’s Growing Wealth Gap
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Russia:
Yukos still fighting from beyond the grave
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Japan:
Japan Manufacturers Least Pessimistic Since 2008
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