Law:
Last Week in Layoffs
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BigLaw Retreats: Why You Should Run and Hide
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Ropes & Gray builds office with hire of Weil restructuring partner
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Bankruptcy on Both Coasts
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Vinson & Elkins Raises & Bonuses: New York Happy, Texas Sad
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New Orleans Lawyer Arrested For Threatening Bankruptcy Court
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WilmerHale’s Warm Welcome — for Conservatives
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White & Case's London office is facing a serious challenge in the wake of the four-partner walkout to Latham
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The 2010 Lateral Report: Buyer's Market
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Morrison & Foerster: 50 Take Early Retirement Option
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Winstead Rescinds Offer 4 Days Before Start Date
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What's Up With Kirkland's Revolving Door?
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Paul Weiss Reports "Most Profitable Year in Firm's History"
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Hughes Hubbard's Revenue, Profits Spike
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Profits, Revenue Drop at Quinn Emanuel
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Gross Revenue, Profits Down at Goodwin Procter
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Viva Vivendi! New York Plaintiffs' Firms Score Huge Verdict
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Lawyers Ask Court To Stop Toyota From Fixing Cars
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Part-time programs help firms keep female partners working
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A&O sets benchmark for part-time work
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Continuum: DIY to High-End Legal Services
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S&C Can Breathe Easier in WaMu Case...for Now
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Prosecutor Says Miller Canfield Lawyer Was Member of Biker Gang
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Suit Proceeds Against Attorneys Accused of Facilitating Mortgage 'Doomed to Failure'
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Ex-Staff Lawyer Can Proceed With Disparate Impact Claim Against Covington, Judge Says
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Associate Fired for Accessing Confidential E-Mail Gets Second Chance at Firm
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US News Joins Law Firm Rank-O-Rama
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Lawmaker to AG: Law Schools May Be Misusing Public Funds to Fight Competitor
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Judge Sides With Blind UCLA Law Grad, OKs Software to Read Bar Exam
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The sacrifices of Harvard Law graduates who took unconventional paths
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You Promised Me, You Said You Would, You Gotta Give In So I'll Be Good, Just Pay My Darned Fee!
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Repackaging for non-legal careers
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Is Vinny of ‘The Jersey Shore’ Smarter Than You Are?
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The Deep End is Shallow and in Need of a Dialogue Coach
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Attorney Did Not Violate Sex With Client Rule: Never Met Client
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What Can You Do With a J.D.?
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Say What?!
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Judges:
7th Cir. Skewers Judge Shadur Over Ex-Lawyer’s Sentence, Remands Case to Another Judge
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What happens when justices get personal
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Lady Justice Does Not Have Enough Female Friends
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Up Close and Personal with Justices Stevens and Ginsburg
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is Human
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At 97, Groundbreaking Former Federal Judge Is Upbeat and Still Practicing Law
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Accused D.C. Judge Stalker Tells Her Side
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Justice Ginsburg’s Dozing During SOTU
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On Obama v. Alito, Who’s Right? Here’s Your Answer
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FantasySCOTUS Predictions of the 10th Justice: How wise are the crowds?
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In Overturning Precedent, Roberts Court ‘Has Lost Its Virginity’
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"Citizens United" may bring Sandra O'Connor big win
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Wall Street:
Stock futures signal gains on Wall Street
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GDP Skeptics Hammer Stocks
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Nasdaq battered as techs slump
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Goldman’s Latest Perk: Offering Mortgages to ‘Cash-Strapped’ Bankers
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Layoffs:
National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Uncle Sam Wants You ... to Have a Job
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Formula Shows Why It's So Hard to Cut Jobless Rate
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Stimulus Report Fuels Jobs Pressure
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Pope calls on business, govt to save jobs
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Gibbs: Cost of Obama's Jobs Push in Range of $100B
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Allstate may shed 20% of its agents
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Laid-off executives have farther to fall
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Corporate Reform:
Cleaning Up Wall St.
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Bankers try to fight off wave of controls
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How a crusade to protect consumers lost its steam
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Davos leaves questions over global bank rules push
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Federal Agency Proposes Reduced Criminal Penalties for Corporations
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Lehman:
Barclays defends Lehman deal
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Paulson Blames U.K. for Lehman's Demise
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Deep into the Lehman-Barclays Dispute
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Fitch warns of downgrades following Lehman ruling
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Theater:
Pasadena Playhouse on verge of another bankruptcy
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Credit Cards:
Card Delinquencies Fall To Three-Month Low
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New credit card statements to feature more information
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Telecoms:
FairPoint bankruptcy plan expected today
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Packaging:
Smurfit clears bankruptcy hurdle, showdown looming
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Open and shut: Smurfit-Stone ordered to reveal its finances to potential buyers
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Economy:
White House to paint grim fiscal picture
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$100 Billion Increase in Deficit Is Forecast
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US Budget Sees Deficits for a Decade
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Growth Jumps 5.7%, Fastest Pace in Six Years
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Roubini Calls Growth 'Dismal and Poor', Predicts Second-Half Slowdown
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Bailout cop: TARP's not working
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US economy grows at fastest rate in 6 years
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Davos 2010 ends with bankers on the defensive
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Recession Was Tipping Point in World Power
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Volcker to spell out future of banks
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Paulson says he feared run on dollar at start of crisis
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Commodity funds 'could be next bubble to burst'
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Summers: GDP 'Favorable,' but More Effort Needed
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So, How Do You Think This Movie Will End?
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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:
House Prices Fall In Jan - Report
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Fannie Mae offers help with closing costs to foreclosure buyers
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Treasury Modifies Mortgage Modification Program Paper Trail
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No Walk of Shame: Stiffing mortgage company
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Fed preparing to end its mortgage-rate initiative
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Quicker "Non-Judicial" Foreclosures and Evictions Coming to Florida
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TARP Overseers Have Commercial Real Estate in Their Sights
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Real Estate Restructuring: Handing Lenders the Room Keys
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Law Prof Says Underwater Borrowers Suffer from ‘Norm Asymmetry’
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Payback time for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
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Deadbeat Jerk Or Practical Realist? This Woman Walked Away From Her Mortgage
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When Forensic Loan Audits Are Used Against Lenders
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The best story you'll ever read on loan modification hell
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Dismissal Motions in Thornburgh Mortgage Subprime Securities Suit Denied in Part, Granted in Part
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All Those Little Stuyvesant Towns
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Is New York Ready for ‘Trump Town’?
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Opus West wins confirmation
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Bankruptcy Judge Invalidates Securitization Payment Structure
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Bankruptcy Court Strikes Waterfall Subordination Provisions Conditioned on Bankruptcy
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Tougher Times Coming for Commercial Real Estate
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Crescent Resources sees Chapter 11 exit in Q2
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Banking:
FDIC announces bank failures in Florida, Georgia
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Citigroup Plans Huge Liquidation Sale Of Private Equity, Hedge Fund Units
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Obama's Bank Job
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Overseer: Bank bailout program has mixed results
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Volcker: Stop big bank risk-taking
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Smaller Banks Don’t Need $30 Billion From U.S.
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WaMu Judge Lets Shareholders Retain Bankruptcy Role
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WaMu Equity Makes Case Via YouTube
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Bankers Put Focus on ‘Real Economy’
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Tiny Chicago thrift to 'go dark'
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Bankers in favor of paying global fee
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Swiss warn UBS bank could collapse
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Fraud:
Some sympathy for Allen Stanford
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Stanford causes Vantis going concern threat
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E-mails reveal desperate final days of Rothstein's Ponzi scheme
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Hard Times Can Bring Out Con Artists
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FBI Informant Dwek Began Bribing In His Teens
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When the muck flies, FBI corruption witness Solomon Dwek and feds vulnerable
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Combating Financial Fraud
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Finance:
In the Packaging of Loans, a Bust With Precedent
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The Places They Go When Banks Say No
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Credit Crisis, The Sequel? Corporate Debt May Flood
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Health Care:
How to kill a hospital
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St. Vincent's hit with contempt motion
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Bankruptcy filing caps string of clinic losses
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Patients stand by troubled clinic
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Medical center bankruptcy draws 3 plans
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Retailing:
Zale Next Retail Bankruptcy : Poll Predicts
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Compensation:
Goldman's Blankfein Expecting $100M Bonus
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Accounting:
KPMG aims to treble consulting revenues
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Deloitte: Worst Behind Us. Hiring and Retaining Talent Are Top Priorities
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Debt Collection:
U.S. Government to Pay $7.4 million in Debt Collection Class Action Settlement
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FTC Hails Victory Over Abusive Debt Collection Practices
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Demise of Axiant, Mann Bracken means chaos, lost jobs
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Tourism:
Amelia Island: A tourist town with little tourism
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Swimming Pools:
Judge clears Latham International plan to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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Golf:
New financing could save bankrupt Bend golf resort
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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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Health Care:
Bankruptcy filing caps string of clinic losses
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Municipalities:
Debunking the bankruptcy myth
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Alabama becomes ghost of its corporate past
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Jefferson County runs up millions of dollars in legal fees wrestling with debt
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Slumping sales tax revenue squeezes state
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Insurance:
More About D&O Insurance Coverage for Special Litigation Committee Expenses
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Autos:
Chrysler plans quirky turnaround
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Chrysler will proceed with arbitration in the cases of 789 dealerships
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Hecker of a deal: $6.6M house sells for $3.5M
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Former Ford, Chrysler auto plants await rebirth
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GM to sell Saab to Dutch carmaker Spyker
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Saab's Savior
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Hummer deadline extended to end of February
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Book Reviews:
Two Days That Shook Wall Street
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Bankruptcy Vendors:
Careful selection of markets stars in Epiq's growth story
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Celebs:
A Sometimes Homeless Sly Stone Sues Ex-Manager, Claims IP Theft
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Stories of bankrupt athletes common
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A Housewife With Real Problems
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Dykstra Mansion On The Market For $14.9 Million
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Rip Torn Arrested for Breaking into Bank
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Tax:
Germany Weighs Purchase of Swiss Bank Data by Informant
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Obama Tax Credits Aimed at Small-Business Hiring
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AIG:
Risky Trading Wasn’t Just on the Fringe at A.I.G.
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AIG filing casts doubt on 'limited exposure' claim
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Aviation:
JAL Says Still Neutral on Delta or American Tie-Up
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JAL talks with rivals
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JAL president says carrier will decide on alliance partner "as soon as possible"
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Japan Airlines bellyflops in a sea of patronage and kickbacks
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EU Reviews New Oneworld Plan on Antitrust Concerns
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Bonds:
2010 could be a scary year for bond investors
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Non-Profits:
Mergers, Closings Plague Charities
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Hotels:
Bank's claim to bankrupt hotel challenges Alexandria's downtown plan
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Food/Drink:
Long-term plan critical to Bashas' Chapter 11 reorganization
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M&A:
How Times Have Changed (or Not)for Deals
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UK:
UK: Manufacturing Jumps Most in 15 Years
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Accountants could be next amnesty target
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Deloitte unveils insolvency at lingerie makers
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PwC urges pension trustee prudence despite drop in number of corporate insolvencies
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PwC reaction to judgment on Scottish Lion scheme of arrangement
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Greece:
EU reluctantly plans Athens bail-out
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Greece's economic problems and euro threats are exaggerated
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Are Greek Bonds the New Subprime?
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The Great Greek Unraveling of the EU
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Protesting Greek farmers produce their 'list of demands'
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China:
China tells banks to check loans being used properly
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Many of China's 2000 motor-makers are under threat
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Guam:
Bankruptcy filings up 68%: Medical bills, job losses contribute to debt burden
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Ireland:
Court backlash on personal guarantees
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S. Korea:
Shareholders extend deadline for Hynix stake bids
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Russia:
2009: Russia in Record Economic Contraction
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Japan:
Sluggish economy leaves many Japanese in the cold
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