Law:
2009, Dreadful For So Many, Not So Bad For Some Plaintiffs’ Firms
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High Court Rules on Attorney Fees and Lawyer Errors
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The lodestar as gold standard - Lawyer bonus fee less likely
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Investors to Goldman Sachs: Anything You'd Like to Tell Us?
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It's Quinn v. Skadden in Merrill Suit That May or May Not Resemble the Goldman Case
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Waiting Game Continues in Stanford Legal Fee Dispute
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Was Mr. Chuck Right About Mayer Brown?
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Lawyer found liable in business failure
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Strategy - The Space Between AFAs and LPM
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The Ol' Bob and Weave: Is There Anything Goldman GC Gregory Palm Isn't Telling Us?
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Lawsuit: Scott Rothstein had plenty of help in scam
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Deep-Pocket Investors Added as Defendants in Rothstein Investors' Lawsuit
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Could Goldman Sachs Charges Result in Arbitration Filings?
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After 25 Years, A Government Lawyer Changes His Stripes
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Under the Volcano
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Pls Hndle Thx: Dream On
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Tips for Getting a Small Law Job
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Update on the Georgetown Law Grad Who Sold his J.D. on Craigslist
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Lawyering and Living for Less: Start a Firm Without Spending a Fortune
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AG’s Deputy Leaves Office Abruptly Over Claimed Evidence-Gathering Role
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Externship Fight Takes Center Stage at Georgetown University Law Center
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Lawyer Finds Long-Lost LBJ Letter During ABA Section Tour
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3 Lawyers Beat Rap re $6.5M Ransom Allegedly Sought for Stolen Leonardo da Vinci Masterpiece
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Motorized Recliner Seized in Drunken-Driving Case Is Auctioned for $3,700
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Transcript of OK Corral Gunfight Inquest is Found in Ariz. Jail
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Athwart History
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Lousy news for Connecticut drunk attorneys working in Manhattan
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A man with beauty and brains. Pinch me. I must be dreaming.
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Not The Best Call For The Bomb Squad
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Your future -- lawyer infomercials & lawyer robo calls
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Judges:
Want Another Warren Court? Try Justice Warren
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Justice Breyer: My Wife Is Infallible
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Judge Warns Defendant that Satan Awaits, Bemoans Lack of Death Penalty Option
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Obama Considering Another 7th Circuit Judge for Supreme Court
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Wall Street:
Stock futures mixed ahead of opening
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Stocks, Euro Drop as European Deficits Widen; Greek Bonds Slump
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Brokers:
GunnAllen set to declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy : Sources
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Coverage precluded by insolvency exclusion where claims arose out of bankruptcy of securities broker
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Layoffs:
Sallie Mae cuts jobs, Q1 profit trumps estimates
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Deep School Layoffs Coming
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Unemployment: Too Little Supply, or Too Little Demand?
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Corporate Governance:
The corporate governance tug of war between company boards and shareholders is far from over
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Delaware Supreme Court Addresses Vote Buying and Effort to Reduce the Size of a Board To Remove Sitting Directors
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Newspapers:
Tribune: buyout to bankruptcy
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Philly newspapers go on auction block next week
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Original bid withdrawn for Phila. Newspapers
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Second largest US press publisher is a bank
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Lehman:
Does Dick Fuld Know How to Answer Questions?
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Lehman Whistleblower on Ernst & Young’s Reaction to His Letter
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Richard Fuld: Lehman Brothers Was ‘Risk Averse’
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Few heroes in Lehman bankruptcy
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Lehman Seeks Approval of $99 Million Millennium Deal
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Politics:
Should Pres. Obama return $1 million from Goldman Sachs?
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Corporate Reform:
Wall Street mortgage dealings under Senate probe
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Report: Goldman's Fabrice Tourre to Testify before Senate
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AP source: Goldman CEO to testify before Senate
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Goldman and Finance Reform
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Obama to call on Wall Street to get behind reform
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Dodd reform bill would reduce US deficit
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GOP: We're Closer than Ever to Financial Reform Bill
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Grassley's Support of Derivatives Bill Doesn't Extend to Broader Reform
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Why Community Banks Hate Dodd's Financial Reform Bill
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Insurance Provisions in Senate Financial Regulatory Bill
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Feds firm on auto dealer oversight
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Payday lenders lobby for regulation exemption
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NY attorney general sues state Senate leader
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Derivatives:
Senate committee approves controversial derivatives bill
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Untangling the bets that snagged Wall Street
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Senate committee OKs bill that bans movie futures
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SEC's Schapiro: Senate Agriculture Derivatives Bill Needs to Be Stronger
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Banks Fear Senate's Swap Desk Rules
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Some industries cheer derivatives vote
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Student Debt:
Sallie Mae Posts $240 Million Net as Loan Loss Falls
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Proposed legislation allows some student loans in bankruptcy
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Retailing:
Are Defaults Really Driving Retail Spending?
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Brookfield Said to Want Flatt, Clark for General Growth Board
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Simon Property Group Announces $1.1 Billion in New Capital Commitments for General Growth Recapitalization
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Theme Parks:
Bankruptcy deal may leave Ghost Town's creditors in the cold
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Municipalities:
Chapter 9 bankruptcy is no easy option
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Economic Recovery through Baseball?
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Telecoms:
Nokia cuts phone margin outlook, shares dive
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Economy:
IMF: Global recovery stronger than anticipated
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IMF says global economy to grow 4.2 pct this year
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Senate Plan Wants Faster Deficit Reduction
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Wall Street banks and the big lie
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The Wall Street 'bailout' that isn't
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Global 2000 Drop-Offs
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Millions face tax increases under Dems budget plan
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Why Texas is doing so much better economically than the rest of the nation
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Handing Out Money to Stave Off Homelessness
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Believe in Economic Recovery? It Will Come
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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:
FX Real Estate Unit Seeks Bankruptcy Court Protection
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Bruce Karatz found guilty on stock option backdating charges
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Calif. Sees Decline in Mortgage Defaults
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Trulia Sees 26% Decline in Number of Listings with Price Reductions
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Poker-Playing Sole Practitioner Is Charged in Alleged Mortgage Scam
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How to Find the Owner of Your Mortgage
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Fannie Mae's "Deed for Lease": Right For You?
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Managing of AHF up to bankruptcy judge
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CMBS Loan Defaults to Surpass 11% by Year-End, Fitch Says
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Private-Label Securitization Market Starts to Thaw with Jumbo Prime RMBS
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Hedge fund made money betting Americans would default on loans
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Commercial Real Estate Recovery Uneven Across US
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Commercial-property-backed debt has ‘violent rally’
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Inland's Auction Puts Big Discounts on CRE Opening Bids
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Owner of Las Vegas Strip property files bankruptcy
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Price keeps getting lower for Cincinnati's Bartlett building
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FDIC Sells $2bn of Structured Notes from Mixed Bag of Assets
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Fraud:
Goldman's Caveat Emptor Defense Mirrors UBS, Merrill
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Obama Denies Link to Timing of SEC Case
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Goldman CEO attacks SEC fraud charges
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Shareholders weighing legal action
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UBS, Goldman Boards Face Activist Grilling
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Analogies in SEC v. Goldman Case
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School for Scandal
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SEC runs the risk of blowing its credibility with the Goldman case
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Paulson reaches out amid redemption concern
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John Paulson: Remember, I Used to Be Kind of a Loser
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Paulson Said to Have Told ACA of Short Plans
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Paulson: From Operator to Guru? We Knew Him When
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Paolo Pellegrini: Duh, of Course ACA Knew We Were Planning to Short Abacus
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Not Clear ACA Understood Paulson Role After All
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Does Pellegrini Undercut SEC Case Against Goldman?
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Goldman Sachs Fraud: A Flaw in the SEC's Case?
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Should John Paulson Be Worried?
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Goldman Sachs Dips as SEC Stands by Its Case
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Is it time to buy Goldman Sachs?
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Why Goldman Sachs May End in a Lehman Style Collapse
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Read John Paulson's Take on the Goldman CDO Case
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Goldman Sachs in Troubled Waters
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Goldman Shifting Spotlight on Fabrice Tourre?
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On Goldman, is it "should have" or "had to"?
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Goldman's rendezvous with reality
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Goldman Sachs Winners & Losers
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Goldman Case Is Water Pistol, Not Smoking Gun: Gartman
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Any Sympathy for the Investors Goldman Allegedly Misled?
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Goldman's troubles to worsen as pension fund class actions loom
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Are SEC Charges Against Goldman More Serious Than Market Understands?
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Does Goldman case tarnish Cassandras of the crash?
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German bank severs Goldman ties
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Goldman: The Mystique of Indispensability
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Commentary on the Goldman Case Turns to Contract Theory
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55% of surveyed business leaders believe Goldman Sachs guilty
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Waldman on Abacus
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Did Goldman Abacus Payouts Come From AIG Bailout?
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Capitol Investments' Chief Charged in Ponzi Scheme
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Miami Businessman Charged In $900 Million Ponzi Scheme
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Hecker gets to keep contents of Medina house
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Hecker's Ex-Wife, Girlfriend At Odds
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SEC Says It's Nailed $90M NY Ponzi Scheme
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CA: Ponzi Scheme Alleged in Waiting Room TVs
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Scott Rothstein: I was `stealing from the rich and giving to the richer'
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SEC Enforcement Lawyer Who Quashed Stanford Probes Later Did Legal Work For Stanford
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Casting a Wider Net in the Galleon Insider Case
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Judge Tosses Investors' Madoff-Related Claims Against SEC
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Panel Leaves in Place Ban on ACORN Funding
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Antiguan assets give Vantis a lifeline
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Banking:
Morgan Stanley Climbs Most Since July After Beating Estimates
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Wells Fargo earns $2.4B, says credit is improving
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A conversation on banking with Simpson Thacher's Lee Meyerson
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WaMu Shareholders Win Right to Try to Force Meeting
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JP Morgan Bumps GE As Most Powerful Global Firm - Forbes
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Is JPMorgan the New Lehman?
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UBS, Credit Suisse Must Hold 30 Days of ’First Class’ Assets
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Credit Suisse Among Banks to Settle Refco Lawsuit
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Credit Suisse Posts Increase in Profit
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Gambling:
Creditors attack Station Casinos bankruptcy plan
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Resorts:
Yellowstone Club bankruptcy : Blixseth belongings on the auction block
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Sale of Daufuskie Island Resort still languishing; an auction may be next
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Food/Drink:
Fuddruckers parent is bankrupt, to be sold
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Radio:
Michigan tax authority objects to Citadel's Chapter 11 Plan
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Hotels:
Blackstone Joins Extended Stay Bid Team
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From Day One, Hotel Syracuse has had more than its share of financial problems
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Horse Racing:
Ocean Downs horse racing season in limbo
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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 Statistics:
ND bankruptcy cases up 20 percent in 2009
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Why Seattle Made the 2009 National Bankruptcy Top 20
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Disclosure:
Judges Back New Bankruptcy Disclosure Rules
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Bankruptcy Reform:
Cantor throws wrench at Wall St. bill
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Mass Torts:
WR Grace posts first-quarter profit on cost cuts
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AIG leads Goldman Sachs directors and officers insurance
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N.Y. case against Greenberg 'devastating': Judge
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Religion:
Abuse victims rally for bill to do with priests
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Father Gilbert Gauthe--How It All Began
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Suit against L.A., Mexican cardinals alleges priest abuse coverup
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Autos:
Detroit Automakers Signal Revival as Two Bankruptcies Recede
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U.S. says results show auto strategies helped
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Is Detroit Turning The Corner?
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GM pays back government loans from US, Canada
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Um, What about the Other Billions?
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Are they serious? GM is paid up?
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Why GM Remains Far From Finish Line
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GM: U.S. may recoup all costs
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The Taxpayer Could Make Money On GM
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GM offers 5 more dealers reinstatement
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Toyota Credit Rating Cut by Moody's on Weak Profit Outlook
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Hyundai Profit Jumps Fivefold to Record on New Models
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Debt Collection:
Supreme Court Tells Debt-Collection Law Firm that Ignorance of Law Is No Excuse
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Aviation:
American Airlines parent misses estimates
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Continental Air posts loss, hurt by snowstorms
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Handicapping United-US Airways' advisers
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Boeing income, revenue down in Q1
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JAL Swaps Holders May Recover 83% After Auction
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Japan Air Debt Valued at 18% in Initial Swaps Auction
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JAL chief refuses to impose further cuts
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Iceland volcano crisis will hit European airlines worse than US, experts say
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Accounting:
Ernst & Young Needs You to Beg Your Friends to Work at Ernst & Young
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Elvis Fails to Make Ernst & Young Singalong Less Awkward
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Ernst & Young Pulls Its “We Are Las Vegas” Sing-a-Long
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Celebs:
J-Lo's "Racy" Vids Up For Public Auction!
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How to go from $10 million as a first-round pick in NFL draft to bankrupt
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Detroit Pistons 'Bad Boy' Mahorn says he's broke
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Politics:
Goldman in the Eye of the Beholder
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Lincoln cancels Goldman fundraiser as firm turns toxic
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Shelby won't return Goldman money
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Being a Populist Is Tough
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Democrats Ask for Criminal Investigation
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Critics Talk Up Obama's Goldman Sachs Connections
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Obama: WH learned about Goldman Sachs suit on cable TV
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Democrats press advantage on financial reform
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Both Sides Decry Wall Street's Influence
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Why The GOP Suddenly Let Up On Financial Reform
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Baseball:
Tom Hicks: "I'm concerned about the sale"
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Brown: Time for MLB to Play Hardball on the Texas Rangers Sale
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Finance:
Angel Investors Continue to Shy Away from Startups
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Smurfit enters ABL financing for bankruptcy exit
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Hollywood:
MGM bankruptcy: lion's roar has long been a whimper
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Cross-Border:
“Comity Is Not Just A One-Way Street”
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UK:
Regulator risks its reputation, insolvency profession warns
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390 People per Day Become Insolvent
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UK Businesses Fight For Recovery
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‘Corporate Undertakers’ saved nearly 2 million jobs in 2009
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Portsmouth reveals debts as it tries to emerge from bankruptcy protection
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Brown: Recovery More Fragile Than Expected
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EU:
Banks Punished in Swaps as Industrial Gap Soars
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Why we need a resolution authority for Europe's banks
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Greece:
France Readies Cash as Greek Talks Begin
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Greece's Borrowing Costs Hit New High
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Greek Workers to Strike Today as Papandreou Faces Bond Rout
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Greek Math Adds Up to Delusion, Disaster, Default
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Meltdown Greek Style
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Greek pensions and salaries go into IMF's jaws
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Canada:
Flaherty calls bank tax excessive, arbitrary, punitive
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Australia:
Australia Will Continue Leading Global Rate Cycle, IMF Says
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Netherlands:
DSB bankruptcy research 'not according to the rules'
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Estonia:
Estonia proposes debt protection laws
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