Law:
Law School Applicants Up 3%, Lawyer Positions at Top Firms Down 4%
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Why the Kids Are Heading to Law School, Despite the Lousy Outlook
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So You’re a CPA Thinking About Law School
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Ex-Client Claims DLA Piper's Advice Led to Bankruptcy
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"Recent graduates do not apply"
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What One Mizzou Grad Learned in Law School
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The 2010 Midsize Hot List
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Are You Dunzo With Biglaw? Four Ways to Know When It's Time To Go
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Show Me the Money — Not Work/Life Balance
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D.C. Fights $3.1 Million Fee Request in High Court Gun Case, Says Publicity From Case Should be Bonus
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Federal Judge Tosses Class Action Against Epstein Becker, Sheppard Mullin
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Wurtzel on the Bar Exam: ‘The First Thing That Has To Go’
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Ex-Law Student Files New $1M Suit Against Lawyer in Prove-Me-Wrong Dare
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As Jury Deliberates in 45-Count Case, Ex-Attorney Takes Plea Deal
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Despite $600K Oversight Role, Law Firm Missed Dual Hats Worn By Attorney-Developer
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Lawyer Under Fire for Sending $15K/Month in Legal Support Work to Own Firm
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Judge Slashes ‘Excessive’ $675K Award in Music Download Case to $67.5K
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Are You a 'Lawyer' or an 'Attorney'?
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Biglaw Perk Watch
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'Magic' iPad proves popular with lawyers
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2nd Circuit Spares Attorney Arbitration in Suit Over Law School Loan
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What Elite Kindergarteners Can Teach You About Job Offers
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Judges:
Judges Say Litigants Are Increasingly Going Pro Se—at Their Own Peril
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Senators Probe for Kagan Weak Points, While Ex-Editor Hits Her Pronunciations
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Sonia Sotomayor to Publish Memoir with Knopf
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Off the Bench, Sotomayor Signs Autographs, Cautiously Answers Nosy Reporters
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5th Circuit's shameful disappearing act
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20% of Supreme Court Docket Involved Lawyering Cases in Legal Ethics ‘Revolution’
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The remarkable judge who struck down the Defense of Marriage Act
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Porteous ex-aide loses suit over firing
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Wall Street:
Wall Street Manages to Continue Win Streak
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Why Is Wall Street Adding Workers?
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Layoffs:
Fighting Unemployment With a Stick
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Analysis: How 2 Million Lost Jobless Benefits
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The Unemployment Rate Race
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The 8 Lowest Paying Jobs in America
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Unemployment Extension: Welfare Lines Getting Longer As Benefits End
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Credit Reporting:
More Americans' credit scores sink to new lows
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Accounting:
US investors demand communication with auditors
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The Way Things Are Going, Eventually No One Will Have to Comply with Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404
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For Starters, PwC Pays Their Attorneys a Lot of Money
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Retailing:
Texas pension system to invest $500M in General Growth
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General Growth Properties Files Plan of Reorganization and Disclosure Statement
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Corporate Reform:
Scott Brown to vote 'yes' on financial reform
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How Democrats get to 60 on Wall Street reform
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Masters of Main Street - The auto dealers
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Paulson Likes What He Sees in Overhaul
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Agency has teeth, Warren says
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Tax:
Second Circuit holds that equity owners in leveraged lease agreements are entitled to assert bankruptcy claims for tax losses
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Celebs:
Teresa Giudice is facing foreclosure
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Real Housewives of New Jersey Bankruptcy
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Mel Gibson Can Keep His Life but His Freedom is Probably Going to be Taken Away
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Usain Bolt in dash from the taxman
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Newspapers:
Scotts Valley Press Banner parent files Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition to ...
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Financial Advisors:
Former Stanford Adviser Chris Collier Files Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
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Food/Drink:
IHOPs in Buffalo, Orchard Park to shut as bankruptcy dismissed
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Pensions:
Fisher to testify about Delphi retirees' losses
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Hotels:
Gramercy Park Hotel Loan on Block?
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Economy:
IMF: Little Risk of Double Dip Recession
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Dropping a dime on Treasury-Goldman chats
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75-hour workweek the new normal?
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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:
US agency issues subpoenas on private mortgage bonds
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Goldman Sachs, Citigroup Sued Over Subprime Loans
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Lawyer convicted of mortgage-rescue fraud
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Are the Rich More Likely to Default on Their Mortgages?
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Why Mortgage Rates Vary So Much
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Getting Rid of Nonrecourse Mortgages?
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Subprime Lending is Dead; Long Live Subprime Lending?
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How To: Turn Around a Struggling Property
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Is Commercial Real Estate Bouncing Back?
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Commercial real estate prices reaching one third 2007 rates
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CMBS Delinquency Rate Slowed In June
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Office Vacancies In Greater Hartford At 19.1 Percent In Second Quarter
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15 Texas Homeowners Sue Bank of America for Abusive Practices – Don’t Mess With Texas
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80 Broad lender says he's foreclosed on Kent Swig
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18 Cities Whose Suburbs Are Rapidly Turning Into Slums
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REO Investors Sue for Losses in Alleged Scam
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HUD May Deny More Filed FHA Claims, DBRS Warns
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Los Angeles Stiffens Foreclosure Penalties
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Oil/Gas:
U.S. Issues Revised Drilling Ban
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BP's runaway well puts an industry on hold
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Rule changes could make Gulf a lonely place
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BP Starts Test on Stopping Leak From Gulf Well
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As BP gets closer to sealing leaking well, the stakes get higher
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BP Says New Cap Installed
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BP Cuts Payments on 40,000 Claims
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BP settlements are gamble for Gulf Coast victims
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Why would Exxon want to buy BP's problems?
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Exxon BP? Chevron BP? Not so fast
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Could India's Reliance buy BP?
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BP assets worth risk of indigestion for Apache
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In BP’s Record, a History of Boldness and Costly Blunders
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A Slow Start for Obama’s Oil Spill Commission
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Kerkorian Sitting On $700 Million Loss In Delta Petroleum
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Finance:
Bernanke: $40B in small biz loans disappear
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Reasons for Drop in Small-Business Lending Elusive
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Mass Torts:
Circor Puts Asbestos-Plagued Unit Into Bankruptcy
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Leslie Controls Seeks Bankruptcy for Asbestos Claims
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Fraud:
Goldman eyes new deadline
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Fraud Suspect Faces X-Rated Accusations
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Judge: No trust for Rothstein property
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Alleged investment fraud files for bankruptcy
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Sentencings set for six Petters codefendants
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Hollywood:
Whatever Happened to Baby Miramax?
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Tutor Backtracks On Bergstein's Role in Miramax
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Gambling:
Riviera Holdings, Las Vegas Casino Owner, Files for Bankruptcy
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New York comptroller warns that NYRA could run out of money
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DiNapoli: NYRA Needs Slot Revenue
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Greektown Casino sues Papas over $1.5M in gambling debts
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Magazines:
Magazines Are Starting To Come Back To Life
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Municipalities:
Cities' Woes Will Linger, Thousands Of Jobs Will Go
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New Jersey Assembly Passes Real-Estate Tax Cap in Compromise With Christie
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Pittsburgh reports $8.5 million surplus, worsening infrastructure
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Here are 4 reasons why Texas beats California in a recession
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Banking:
FDIC Files First D&O Suit of Current Failed Bank Wave
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Documents Show Bank of America 'Dollar Rolled' $10 Billion in Debt
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F.D.I.C. Gains Power to Investigate Banks
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US Firm Sues British Banks
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Wells Fargo Stagecoach May Return a Little Lighter
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Debt Collection:
Mom, Are You a Deadbeat?
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Turnarounds:
A rare bankruptcy success
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Health Care:
Buyers for St. Vincent's home health programs
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Distressed Investing:
Mencher gets back into distressed debt business
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Trucking:
YRC Expects to Post Profitable Second Quarter
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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 Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Baseball:
New Holdup in Pending Rangers Sale
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Judge in Rangers' bankruptcy case confirms negotiator has received threats
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Texas Rangers sued by prospective buyers
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The Complaint
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CRO Filing Indicates Rangers Cooperating with Greenberg/Ryan Suit
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Envelopes:
Gores Group Offers To Buy NEC Holdings
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Lexicon:
The Phraseologist
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Miscellaneous:
Rangers, National Envelope, Spheris, US Concrete, Crucible: Bankruptcy
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Aerospace:
Sea Launch in deal with AsiaSat
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Involuntary Bankruptcy:
Second Circuit affirms district court's power to prevent involuntary bankruptcy filings
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Financial Literacy:
Attorneys and judges to teach financial literacy
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Credit Cards:
As consumers slash debt, credit cards boost incentives
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Revolving Credit Declines For 20th Consecutive Month
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Consumer Credit:
Auto Title Loans, Not So Bad After All--Who Knew?
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Awards:
Dykema Super Lawyers Named To Corporate Counsel Edition
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Private Equity:
Buyout-Backed Bankruptcies? What Buyout-Backed Bankruptcies?
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Theme Parks:
Mudslide Prevents 'Ghost Town in The Sky' From Reopening
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Autos:
The Cost of Rushing GM?
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General Motors' IPO: Why Delay the GM Stock Offering?
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Chrysler delays Toledo expansion
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Ssangyong Motors extends deadline for takeover bids
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How Toyota lost its way
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UK:
Business failure levels fall, especially in manufacturing
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Credit Managers Expect more insolvencies
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Profit warnings drop significantly
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Deloitte: Administrations at pre-credit crunch low
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Government warns of further tax on bankers’ pay
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S&P affirms U.K. AAA rating, negative outlook
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Pubs endure stale taste of failure
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Rise in lawsuits against solicitors
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U.K. consumer inflation slows less than expected
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Banks urged to offer bank accounts to bankrupts
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Louise Brittain to probe bankrupt Colin Hendry’s finances
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EU:
Euro falls broadly on Portugal downgrade
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EU Says Withholding Sovereign Risk Will Hurt Banks
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ECB Slows Controversial Bond Buying to Near Halt
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Now Merkel Wants A Country's Sovereignty In Exchange For Germany's Cash
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EU Banking System on the Brink
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Could 15% Of European Banks Actually Fail The Stress Tests?
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Germany:
German investor confidence falls again
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Greece:
Greece Sells Treasury Bills at 4.65%, Less Than Rate EU Wants for Bailout
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Canada:
Canada: Economy Already Contracting
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Middle East:
Turnaround specialist scents revival in Gulf
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China:
Investors Run Into Trouble With Chinese Deals
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China's textile firms may face bankruptcy on yuan appreciation
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Romania:
New enactment affects directors’ liability during insolvency proceedings
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Portugal:
Moody's Cuts Portugal's Debt Rating
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Australia:
Insolvency Update June 2010
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Ireland:
Little sympathy for FitzPatrick
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