Law:
Let the Sun Shine! Firms Cautiously Optimistic Heading Into 2010
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Wall Street May Seek to Sway Congress by Hiring Top Lawyer
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All Your Sacrifices Helped in 2009
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The Bloom Is Off the Biglaw Rose
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Who Should (And Shouldn't) Go to Law School
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Layoff Watch: Seyfarth Shaw Cuts 40 People
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No Longer Their Golden Ticket
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Mayer Brown Tells Clients to Brace for Costly Capital Reform
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Abrupt Closure of Mann Bracken's Offices Causes Chaos
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Eversheds - £20m loan and partner cash contributions
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Bankruptcy Case Leads Lawyer To Charity Work
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Bankruptcy Judge Rules Refinancing Lender's Carelessness Won't Cost It Priority
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Bankruptcy lawyers forecast busy year
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Last Week in Layoffs
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Four out of five partners are now expecting growth at their firm in 2010
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Moving away from associate lockstep?
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Plaintiffs Sanctioned for Failure to Produce Electronic Files in Hedge Fund Suit
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Plaintiff's Securities Counsel: "Pay-to-Play" Practices?
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Recruiter's Suit Over Partner Hire Fee Proceeds Against Paul Hastings
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K&L Gates Hits $1B; Chairman Kalis Beats His Chest
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Former Sidley, Skadden Lawyer Has Suspension Cut in Half
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BigLaw's Problem: Downturn Wasn't 'Down' Enough
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The "Swine" Group Pigs Deflate the Rate!
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Outsourcing: It’s Cheap and Easy to Do.
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Eversheds defends latest outsourcing
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Fee Dispute Highlights Conflicts Over How BigLaw Manages, Staffs Litigation
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Did Joe Collins Get Hit With a Lawyer Tax?
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DLA ‘Working Lawyer’ Explains Why He and 8 Others Moved to Jackson Lewis
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Planned All-Male Bar Panel on Women Lawyers’ Skills Draws Female Fire
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Debt Collection Law Firm Abruptly Closes; Thousands of Cases Dismissed
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More Law Firms Help Out Haiti
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BigLaw Stepping Up on Haiti Aid
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A Haitian Orphanage Falls: A Chat With Kirkland's Chris Greeno
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Transcript-Doctoring Former Chicago Student Cleared to Practice
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Former Sidley, Skadden Lawyer Has Suspension Cut in Half
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Ethics Complaints Dismissed in 'Total Attorneys' Case
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Temple Third-Year Law Student Suspected in Shooting
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Inside India's Legal Outsourcing Machine
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Lawyer Arranged His Own Death
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BigLaw Archetypes Thrown Into 'The Deep End'
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Judges:
A Bench More Attuned to Precedent Than Prescience
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What Do Judges Want?
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Something's Fishy at the High Court
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Judge Minces No Words
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The Ninth Circuit takes away another case from the docket of U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real:
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Justice Scalia's Musical Interlude
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Gender & U.S. Supreme Court Oral Argument
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Wall Street:
Shares Fall Ahead of Key U.S. Earnings Reports
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US Stock Futures Are Little Changed Before Citigroup Earnings
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World stocks fall amid JAL bankruptcy, US earnings
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JPMorgan Chase Earns $11.7 Billion
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JPMorgan loan losses overshadow higher Q4 profit
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Dow Plunges 100 Points on JPMorgan's News
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Wall Street's Bold Move to Save Their Bonuses
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Goldman Sachs delays bonus announcement
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Layoffs:
National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Smurfit-Stone to cut 600 workers in 2010
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JAL set to cut a third of its workforce
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George Will on Unemployment
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Job Outlook: Not So Gloomy
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Food/Drink:
Uncertain Future For Penn Traffic Stores
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Online wine seller Vinfolio takes unusual 'insolvency' route
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Aviation:
Japan Air Seeks Bankruptcy in $10 Billion Turnaround
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Billions in Debt, Japan Airlines Files for Bankruptcy
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JAL crew, passengers fret
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About $441 mln JAL fuel hedges may be exposed
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JAL Bankruptcy : Will The US Help Its Carriers, If Necessary?
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JAL on the brink
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Loss of ‘Government Umbrella’ May Revive Zombie JAL
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JAL agrees tie-up deal with Delta
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American Airlines: No reason to believe JAL, Delta deal is close
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For AMR, lost JAL link could force open other doors
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As JAL Bankruptcy Nears, Investors Rethink 'Too Big to Fail'
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Buddhist priest to head Japan Airlines - and without salary
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JAL woes set to reshape alliances
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JAL creditors 'to be obliged to waive 358.5 bil. yen in loans'
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Compensation:
AIG pay flap - again
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A.I.G. Said to Look at Other Ways to Repay Bonuses
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Economy:
Mixed economic signals hint at slow expansion
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January Consumer Sentiment Little Changed
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Obama confident proposed bank fee will become law
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US investment banks divided over levy
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Paulson Asked to Testify at AIG Bailout Hearing With Geithner
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Did Foreigners Cause US Financial Crisis?
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IMF's Strauss-Kahn Warns Against Early Stimulus Exit
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Economist: Texas Will Recover First
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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:
HAMP By The Numbers: One in Eight Trial Mods Go Permanent
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Is Slashing Mortgage Principal the Answer?
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Mortgage Plans Helped 7% Who Signed Up
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Paperwork Woes Plague Mortgage Plan
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Capmark Investments Files for Bankruptcy
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Atlanta Apartments Go Into Chapter 11
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Developer prepares bid to buy Statler
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As Miami Condos Prices Fall, It's Lender vs. Lender
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Detroit to Sue Owners for Demolitions
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UBS’s 10 Predictions for Housing in 2010
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Nonprime Borrowers With Negative Equity: Not a Pretty Picture
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HB Equities defaults on $100M note
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Top apartment owner Miles files Chapter 11
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Developer Stern under pressure over bankruptcy
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Bank of America's Galveston Fish Story
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Americans Who Pay the Most in Property Tax
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CMBS Delinquencies Rose Five-Fold, Moody's Says
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GMAC's infighting stalls ResCap sale
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Banking:
Three Banks Fail
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Why Banks Aren't In Bankruptcy
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Former bankers circle failed institutions
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Bank Profits: Not High Enough?
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Obama Promises All-Out Battle to Impose New Tax on Major Banks
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The 'Responsibility' Tax
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Proposed bank fee riles as industry assesses cost
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Obama chides banks' "audacity" for fighting fee
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Obama accuses nation's largest banks of selfishness
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Investors sue New Frontier Bank board members, officers
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Why Citigroup's Going to Take the Fall
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How Bankers Think
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Trust No Bankers: Always Wrong on Regulation
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World's Worst Banker Returns to Work
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Lehman:
Lehman's Bankruptcy Fee Tab Climbs
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Agriculture:
Subsidies prop up cotton country through downturn
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Health Care:
Sales set to pay Monsour hospital debt
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Hollywood:
MGM claims to have bidders
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Insurance:
Swiss Re gets $1.27B in Warren Buffett deal
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Market for directors' and officers' insurance on the rise in Europe as lawsuit risks mount
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Oil/Gas:
‘Prepackaged’ deal helps Express Energy Services expedite court process
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Video Rentals:
Movie Gallery Inc. weighs second bankruptcy
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Gambling:
United Auburn take over casino management: Thunder Valley owners decide not to renew contract with bankrupt Station
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Developer eyes Fontainebleau
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Corporate Reform:
Backers fight for US consumer agency's survival
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Will The Banks Win Again? Bailout Watchdog Rallies Support For Consumer Protection Agency
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Sen. Dodd may drop push for consumer financial protection agency
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Who To Blame If The Consumer Financial Protection Agency Fails
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Some lawmakers worry CFTC not going far enough
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Some Quick Notes on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Hearings
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The Financial Hearings are a Joke
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SEC, FDIC: Our Failings Added to Crisis
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Municipalities:
Illinois Careens Toward Bankruptcy
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Advertising:
Advertising firm files for bankruptcy - The firm that caters to the financial industry saw revenues plummet 64%.
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Building Materials:
Sun Capital affiliate to purchase Arch Aluminum
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Personal Finance:
In today's economics of marriage, it's a man's world
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Tax:
Swiss Banker Blows Whistle on Tax Evasion
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
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Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory
Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings
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Bankruptcy Jobs:
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Bankruptcy Reform:
US Senators Want Bankruptcy Court for Failing Financial Firms
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Bankruptcy filings shoot up in La.
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Bankruptcy court filings jump in Nevada
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Bankruptcy Events:
Turnaround Underground
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Litigation:
Who's Winning and Who's Losing the Dismissal Motions in Subprime Securities Suits?
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Newspapers:
Morris Publishing Group Files Plan of Reorganization with Bankruptcy Court
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Owner of Denver Post, Salt Lake Tribune plans prepackaged Chapter 11
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Mercury News parent swaps debt for equity
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Media News Group Set for Bankruptcy, Says Operations will be Unaffected
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MediaNews Enters Bankruptcy , Big Newspaper Chains Remain There
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Good reading on Pioneer Press parent's bankruptcy
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Affiliated, Morris set packaged reorgs
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Group Readies Bid for Three Canwest Newspapers
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Trucking:
After 10 months in Chapter 11, Summitt Trucking moves into the black
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Credit Cards:
Credit Cards and Reluctant Regulators
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Finance:
Hold the Line (of Credit)
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Usury and Securitization
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Retailing:
350 to lose their jobs in Bernie's bankruptcy
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Hilco Merchant Resources LLC to Manage Bernies Going out
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Corporate Governance:
Taking Away Directors' Rubber Stamps
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New Rules Allow for "Lightening Fast" Adjudication of New Cases Filed in Delaware Court of Chancery
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Accounting:
Global audit industry is unsustainable
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Grant Thornton: Declining Revenues, Raises in 2010, and Stephen Chipman Will Be Blogging
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UK Code Requires 'Independent Non-Executives' for Big 4
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Layoff Watch '10: More Details on Ernst & Young
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Celebs:
Nicolas Cage Owes IRS $14 Million
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Nicolas Cage's Catastrophic Financial Situation May be Coming to End
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Fight ensues over irreplaceable Princess Diana gowns
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Autos:
Shares in Old GM Still Being Traded
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Spyker Said to Be Lone Remaining Bidder for GM Unit
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Spyker Denies Joint Genii Bid For Saab
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Who is Really Running Detroit?
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GM's Girsky Gets $1.1M in Salary, Cash
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GM Gives Opel a $930M Boost
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Hotels:
Hotel Foreclosure Watch: The Four Seasons Turns Cold in Dallas
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Shipping:
More Ships Than Containers to Fill Them
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UK:
U.K. inflation accelerates at record pace
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140,000 companies "in severe financial distress"-Begbies Traynor
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Drop in administrations won't continue, says Deloitte
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UK Economy: Decades of Painful Readjustment
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UK: Brokers to Protest Bank Bonus Tax
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UK Recession Map Shows Unequal Pain
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EU:
European Banks Take Another Small Step Toward More Normal Lending
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Canada:
Grafstein Group Plans Bid for Three Canwest Papers in Canada
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Greece:
European Ministers Say Greece Must Tackle Deficit Itself
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EU ''not Worried'' About a Greek Default
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Iceland:
Iceland Credit Risks Rise ‘Considerably,’ S&P Says
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Dutch FinMin - No Icesave Renegotiations With Iceland
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Australia:
Australia Plans Insolvency Law Overhaul, More Director Protection
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Middle East:
Some Dubai World Creditors Said to Seek Loan Sale
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