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Law:
Top Partners to Work For – New York
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Law Firm Leaders Survey 2010 The New Normal
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Law Firm Leaders Survey 2010: The Client's View
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Small Class Sizes, Partner De-Equitization, and Increased Profits on the Biglaw Horizon
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Miller Canfield, Jones Day Advise on GM Unit Sale
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‘Tis the Season for Holiday Parties—and Booze-Fueled Employee Missteps
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Raising Rates Back in Vogue?
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What GC's Really Want
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Skadden Hires Leading Trial Attorney
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Clifford Chance Denies Racial or Sexual Bias in NY Layoff
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Zombie Firm Shambles After 48 Ex-Partners for Last Two Months Pay, Refugees Cry Foul
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US Senate Votes to Exempt Lawyers from ‘Red Flags Rule’
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Is Nixon Peabody Facing a Mutiny? Significant Partner Defections Could Be on the Way.
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Innovative Lawyering: Essential repairs to corporate America
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Innovative Lawyering: Restructuring 2010 Rankings
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Innovative Lawyering: Putting Detroit on the road to recovery
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Jones Day Announces Plans for New Office in Boston
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Jones Day appoints California partners to leadership positions
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Change in Leadership at Chadbourne & Parke
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Simpson Thacher's Time Sheet Policy--Barely Legal?
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Former Partner of Crookedest Lawyer Ever Moves to Disqualify Trustee's Law Firm
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Clifford Chance Denies Former Associate's Discrimination Claims
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Documents show how Rangel's legal fees grew
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Looking Young — or Acting Young?
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As 1L Ponders Cost-Benefit Ratio of Dropping Out Now, ATL Survey Says: Do It
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Does contract work make unemployed lawyers unemployable?
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Alternative Fees: 'On Different Planets': Look, We're Not Seeing Eye to Eye Here
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Law Prof Links Lawyer Regs and ‘Gaping Hole’ in Legal Services for Middle Class
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LA Dodgers Owner Frank McCourt Says Divorce Settlement Mediation Failed
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Double Down
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Chevron Claims Patton Boggs Conflict, Due to Lobbying Link, in $27B Environmental Case
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Dole Food hit with fees for suing directors of banana plantation documentary
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Ex-WolfBlock Partner Claims Top Lawyers Colluded With Competitor Firm
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DOJ Says Ex-Police Monitor, Not Her Former Firms, Should Return $10 Million
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Former Partner of Crookedest Lawyer Ever Moves to Disqualify Trustee's Law Firm
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Legal Disclaimer Hall of Fame
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BofA, Delta, Barclays, Goldman, Deutsche Telekom in Court News
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Bankruptcy lawyer named head of litigation at Stikeman Elliott's Montreal office
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Merger Mania Grips Canadian Law Firms
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Stern seeks dismissal of conviction in Smith case
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Online Law School Reportedly Looking for D.C. Brick-and-Mortar Campus
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Courts: Using another's SSN not a crime
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Lawyer Has Close Call With Alleged International Scam
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California prison overcrowding: Supreme Court hears case on California prison overcrowding
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Suspended Lawyer Who Allegedly Kept Practicing and Forged Court Docs Is Jailed for Contempt
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Judges:
Judge Waits 11 Years to Rule on Case
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Two Judges Seek Punitive Damages From Sheriff Arpaio for Defamation
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Court overturns judge's ruling in malpractice case due to ties to plaintiff's lawyer
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Judges on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
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Wall Street:
US Stock-Index Futures Rise
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European Markets Edge Higher
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Stocks Fall Amid Debt Fears
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Stocks Pare Losses On Consumer Confidence, Tax Cut Progress
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Stocks end November on a down note
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Japanese Stock Futures, Australian Shares Fall on Europe Debt
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Wall Street Can Start Panicking About WikiLeaks Now
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Layoffs:
Unemployment extension unlikely; jobless file for last checks
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Tempers Flare As Benefits Near Expiration
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Bernanke Tells Executives He's Concerned About Jobless
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Fed's Bernanke:Growth Not Fast Enough To Cut Unemp Materially
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State Street to Cut 1,400 Jobs as Low Rates Squeeze Revenue
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FedEx to cut more than 200 Ohio jobs
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Novartis Plans to Cut 1,400 Drug Sales Jobs in US
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Barclays Capital Said to Plan More Job Cuts
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Banking:
WaMu Shareholder Tactic May Bar Public From Bankruptcy Hearing
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Bank of America shares fall on WikiLeaks fear
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Why WikiLeaks Can't Take Down Bank of America
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Banks Working On Sequel To Leveraged Loan Odyssey: 2001
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Banks See Margins Widen by Deposits Surging to Most Since 1990s
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Gambling:
OTB down to the wire: State Assembly passes critical legislation
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Albany's dysfunction has city's OTB facing a Friday finish-ed line
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Utilities:
MatlinPatterson Appeals Sale of Boston Generating
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Symphonies:
Louisville Orchestra still afloat after anonymous donation
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Lehman:
Lehman Suing Bank of America, Barclays Unit Over 2007 CDOs
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Barclays Urges Court to Throw Out SEC Claim on Lehman Transfer
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SEC Avoiding Criticism on Lehman Deal, Barclays Says
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Hotels:
Pittsburgh Hilton Now a Wyndham
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Magazines:
‘We paid 95 percent less than they paid’
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Economy:
Consumer Confidence in US Rises More Than Estimated to a Five-Month High
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Fed Official: US Growth Slowdown Troubling
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Fed to Name Recipients of $3.3 Trillion in Aid During Crisis
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Fed’s Kocherlakota Wants Inflation Expectations Increase
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Fed Discount-Rate Minutes Show 2 Banks Want Higher Rate
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AP-CNBC Poll: Cut services to balance the budget
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Cantor: No time to increase taxes on anybody
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Fed Nominee: Tax Cuts for Rich Bad Policy
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Obama Halts Increase of Locality Pay as Part of Salary Freeze
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`Zombie' Economic Theories Stalk Planet, Threaten More Meltdowns
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Cut-off of jobless aid would lower economic growth
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Debt Panel Unlikely to Reach Agreement, Ryan Says
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TARP assistance for AIG will cost Treasury $14 billion: CBO
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Economic Stress Map
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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:
Home Prices in US Will `Bounce Along the Bottom,' Case Says
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Home prices falling faster in most metro areas
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A Look at Case-Shiller, by Metro Area (November Update)
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Freddie Mac: Home values down 3.1% in 3Q
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Private mortgage insurance application volume decreased in October
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30-year mortgage rates trend upward to 4.3%
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Bank of America Case Hurtles Toward the Great MBS Unwind
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BofA’s ‘Sloppy’ Prime Mortgages Add to Pressure for Buybacks
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Regulators to be pressed on foreclosure lapses
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Court reverses foreclosure, says owner not properly notified
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What Your Landlord Isn't Telling You
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Lawsuit alleges America's Servicing Company induced distressed borrowers into default
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Servicer-Driven Foreclosures: The Perfect Crime?
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Will The Fed Withdraw Its Foreclosure Predator Bailout?
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LV: Entertainment exec's company seeks bankruptcy as development plans stall
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Medallion Homes files Chapter 11
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Banks seeking to foreclose face more questions about legal standing
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One-third of Fannie, Freddie mortgage repurchase requests 120 days or older
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Limitless variety of real estate scams in the CA Central Valley
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Defaults on U.S. Commercial Mortgages Held by Banks Rose in Third Quarter
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Corporate Reform:
Massachusetts regulator subpoenas Guidepoint Global
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The SEC Doesn't Like Andrew Cuomo's Methods
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SEC Pushed For Quick End to BofA, Merrill Probe
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WikiLeaks Has Trove of US Bank Documents
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Bogus Attacks On the CFPB
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consumer agency too independent for its own good?
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Is Consumer Panel Arbitrarily Funded?
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Faced With Big Investigation, Wall St. Says 'Meh'
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Religion:
Archdiocese Delays Motion Upon Hearing Alleged Victim Filed Bankruptcy
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Church won't seek legal costs from priest accuser
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Municipalities:
Bankrupt Vallejo, California, Approves Five-Year Plan for Restructuring
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California city approves plan to exit bankruptcy
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Report: States Face More Financial Stress
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County, Insurer To Cover Harrisburg Incinerator Debt Payments
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Cash-Strapped Newark Forced To Lay Off 14% Of Police Force
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Compensation:
Bank Pay Practices Worsened Since Crisis, Study Says
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Mass Torts:
Florida Doctor Accused by U.S. of Fraud in Fen-Phen Drug Scheme
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Toll Roads:
Toll may have doomed Southern Connector, some say
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Resorts:
Tamarack owner: Credit Suisse motives 'senseless'
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Celebs:
Devil Breaks Deal With Thomas Kinkade
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he Quaid Conspiracy
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Museums:
Museum Mess Cleaned at Last?
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Health Care:
Hospital aiming to restructure or sell
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Hollywood:
Icahn board selections surprise
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Icahn Extends Lions Gate Tender Offer, Adds Legal Victory as a Condition
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M&A:
M&A 101: Reverse Termination Fees and ‘Social Issues’
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Retailing:
Thanksgiving Retail Sales up 9.2%
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Food/Drink:
400 Claim Jumper Restaurant Workers Get Pink Slips
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Judah receiver takes Zoo-kini parent into bankruptcy, closes Lubbock, San Angelo locations
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Aviation:
(Complete Photos) The Mexicana Flight Attendants' Hot 2011 Calendar
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Investment Management:
UBS, RBS Object to GSC Group Sale to Black Diamond
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Distressed Investing:
Steven Posner, 67, Former Corporate Raider, Dies
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Personal Finance:
It’s a Deal: 25% Off Everything at Macy’s
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Autos:
Magna clients threatened to pull business over Opel sale
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Credit Cards:
Facing public outrage, the Kardashians cancel their especially sleazy prepaid debit card
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Education:
More debts than diplomas from for-profit colleges
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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 Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Miscellaneous:
Vitro, Claim Jumper, Connector 2000, Barzel, WaMu: Bankruptcy
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
OC small-business bankruptcies rise in Q3
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Small-Business Bankruptcies Decline in Several Ailing US Areas
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Small Business Bankruptcies Fall in Top Metro Areas, Equifax Says
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Fraud:
Guidepoint Subpoenaed by Massachusetts Officials Over Hedge Fund Relation
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SEC Sues Ex-Deloitte Tax Partner, Wife for Insider Trading Tied to Mergers
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Madoff Trustee Seeking Aston Martin, Yacht, More London Assets
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Ex-JPMorgan Banker Pleads Guilty to Rigging US Municipal Bond Contracts
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IVest Managing Partner Defrauded Investors, U.S. Says
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Rothstein case a family affair
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Motion filed to disqualify Berger Singerman in RRA case
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Rattner’s DC Departure Related to Pension Fund Probe
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Goldman Fails to Vacate $20.1 Million Bayou Award
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Consumer Finance:
The KFC of Payday Loans
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Credit Reporting:
Economy Hurting Consumer Credit Scores
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Accounting:
Your Future Accounting Jobs Belong to Sri Lanka
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Tax:
Vastly Unpopular 1099 Requirement Survives Thanks to the Reliable Dysfunction of the U.S. Senate
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Avoidance Actions:
Bankruptcy Court Reinforces New Value Defense to Preference Claims
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Fraud, Not So Ordinary: A Look into the Ordinary Course of Business Defense to Preference Actions
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Trustees Beware! Securitization Trustees May Be Liable for Fraudulent Transfers
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Litigation:
What to Look For in an Expert Witness
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Ubiquitous Databases
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Arbitration:
Goldman's $20 Million Consequence
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Consultants:
A father-and-son detective duo
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Horse Racing:
Horse out of barn on New Castle racetrack?
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UK:
British Housing Market Faces a `Tough Year,' Country's Largest Broker Says
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UK's Loan to Ireland Isn't `Blank Check' for Other Nations, Osborne Says
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UK Manufacturing Index Jumps to 16-Year High as Weak Pound Fuels Exports
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Is the Duchess of York set to clear her £5m debt?
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Bank of England Chief Criticized UK Leaders to US
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Winding Up Petitions - 30th November 2010
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EU:
Europe's Crisis Widens
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The Truth About Europe’s Bailouts
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Europe Debt Fears Hit More Secure Countries
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Europe Manufacturing Grows at Fastest Pace in Four Months, Led by Germany
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Euro Falls to Near 10-Week Low on View ECB Won't Raise Rates Amid Crisis
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Euro Zone Members as U.S. States
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Contagion May Force EU to Expand Arsenal to Fight Debt Crisis
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The European rescue plan that dare not speak its name
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Brace For Speculator-Bashing as Euro Sinks
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Eurozone tempest heads towards Italy
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Europe’s debt yields show investors are unconvinced
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The tale of two economic Europes
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PIGS:
Irish Contagion Spreads to Less Risky Bond Markets: Euro Credit
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Ireland Loan From London Pains Belfast Republicans Ruing `Days of Empire'
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Ireland's young face familiar choice: Stay or go?
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German pain, Ireland's gain
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Costs awarded to Anglo in Drumm home-transfer action
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Anglo Irish Bank goes to Boston court to question David Drumm
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Bailout fails to calm markets as costs rise in Spain and Portugal
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The perilous condition of Portugal's banks
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Portugal May Be Cut by S&P on Austerity Plan Concern
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Why Rato Smiles After Spanish Banks Proved No Amusing Failure
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Greek Companies Declaring Bankruptcy Increase by 44%
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Italian, Spanish, Irish 10-Year Treasury Bonds Rise; Yield Spreads Narrow
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Canada:
Canada Economy Slows to 1% Pace in Third Quarter
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Mexico:
Vitro says U.S. court rejects freezing assets
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New Zealand:
Henderson: The rise and fall
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Russia:
Leading Russian bank declared bankrupt
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Bolivia:
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