Law:
Real Estate Restructuring Work Proving a Boon to Firms
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The Bankruptcy Files: Oil Companies Go Bust as Extended Stay Seeks Solvency
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Last Week in Biglaw
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Eversheds posts 28% partner profits rise against 3% drop in revenues
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Camerons posts double-digit drop in both revenue and partner profits
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The Am Law 200 2010
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No Place to Hide - The recession's impact wasn't confined to the nation's top 100 firms--The Second Hundred felt the pain too
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Dentons chief executive: the transatlantic tide is coming
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The Tort Lawyer and the BP Oil Disaster
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Senate Bill to Exclude Small Health, Legal, CPA Firms From FTC Red Flags Rule
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Three More Nixon Peabody Partners Decamp to DLA Piper
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BP Facing Familiar Nemesis: PI Lawyer Brent Coon
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High Court 'Exxon' Puni Ruling Targeted in Wake of Gulf Oil Spill
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Attorney Unemployment Rates Cause for Cautious Optimism
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More Billable Hours? Don't Count on It, Survey Says
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The Trials of Pierce O'Donnell
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Younger Partners Ascendant at Cravath, ‘Not Your Grandfather’s’ Law Firm
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Who'll Stop the Raid? Firm Nabs Three More Partners From Rival
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Morgan Lewis Opens Del. Office
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Obermayer Terminates Partner in Wake of Family Court Flap
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Mark Tuohey Leaves Vinson & Elkins for Brown Rudnick, Cites Retirement Policy
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M&A Shake-up At “Not Your Grandfather’s” Cravath
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Judge Sorts Claims in Rothstein Ponzi Scheme
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FTC Postpones 'Red Flags' Identity Theft Rule
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Concern Over IRS Proposals That Could Threaten Attorney-Client Privilege
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Ohio Takes Action Against the “CSI Effect” on Juries
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Adviser to Stars Arrested in Alleged Ponzi Scheme Linked to Partner in Prominent Law Firm
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Client sues counsel for suing judges
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Time to Mate the Swiss: How BigLaw Firms Merge Internationally
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Long-Time Legal Secretary Reflects on Law Office Changes
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Attorney suspended for six months and one day for serving a summary judgment motion on opposing counsel of record
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Firms No Fan of Facebook Community Pages
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The Wit, Wisdom, and Worthlessness of Law Reviews
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A Mass. Lawyer You Don’t Want to Work For and a Law Student You Don’t Want to Hire
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Judges:
Senate Bill to Seat More Bankruptcy Judges, Extend Temp Positions Passes Judiciary Committee
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Judge Recounts, in Brief, How to Write Your Way to Defeat
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Report Urges Sweeping Changes for Pa. Juvenile Courts, Judicial Conduct Board
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Filmmaker, Pressured, Quits as Judge
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Judges Facebooking: Permissible But With Extreme Caution
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Courts:
Ralph Regula Federal Building opens Tuesday
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Wall Street:
Stocks set for a lower start
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World markets fall amid China, Europe jitters
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On Quiet Day, Markets in Europe End Mixed
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Stocks slide, euro falls after Spain downgrade
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Ace Greenberg: Who's to blame for Bear's collapse
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Layoffs:
Nearly 880,000 Californians are long-term unemployed
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Census Hiring Set to Go Supernova
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Economy could take a hit if federal jobless benefits are not extended
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Distressed Finance:
The Ugly World of Vulture Finance
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Tax:
House Votes to Eliminate Hedge Fund Tax Break
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Banking:
U.S. Bank Failure Total Is 77 as More Institutions Are Shut
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Regulators shut down 3 banks in Florida, 1 each in Nevada, California, for 78 failures in 2010
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Bank of Florida's Lenders Closed as Bank Failures Climb to 78
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City National buys another failed bank
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Bill would aid depositors at failed IndyMac Bank
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When Banks Don't Trust Banks
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Corporate Reform:
Shorting Reform
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3,000 Pages of Financial Reform, but Still Not Enough
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Warren Buffett Forced to Testify Before Financial Crisis Commission
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Warren Buffett Is Not Your Grandpa
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FCIC still refuses to release staff information, publishes ethics policy
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Celebs:
Ex-NBA Star Walker Lists Casino Debt, Foreclosures In Bankruptcy Filing
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Signposts of Sarah Ferguson's road to ruin
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Tech:
GSI Group Receives U.S. Bankruptcy Court Confirmation on Plan of Reorganization
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Politics:
In Ohio, Gauge for Midterms, Economy Rules
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Tea Party candidate's company seeks bankruptcy protection
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Religion:
Pope appoints panel to investigate abuse
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Horse Racing:
New York racing’s frazzled financial status takes even more luster off buzzless Belmont
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Aviation:
Government to hit airlines harder for bumping passengers
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Nigerian airlines, facing troubled balance sheets, offered government bailout
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Ryanair to Pay First Dividend After Restoring Profit
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British Airways Crews Resume Walkout
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Highland Airways should be dissolved, suggest PwC administrators
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Accounting:
FASB's Big Bad Idea
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Environmental:
State seeks pieces of bankrupt firms for cleanup
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Hockey:
$25 mil moved from Glendale fund to cover Phoenix Coyotes pledge
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Subordination:
The enforceability of structured finance subordination provisions: where to next?
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Hedge Funds:
Funds Post Biggest Drop Since Dark Days of Lehman
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Economy:
U.S. Consumer Spending Was Stagnant in April
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Fed Officials Upbeat On U.S. Recovery
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Fed chief sees delicate dance ahead
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Evans: Fed could delay ending low rates
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Hillary: 'The rich are not paying their fair share'
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Brazil, India, China May Be Overheating, Roubini Says
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Blacks Lose Decades of Economic Gains
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TARP's tiniest failures add up
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Roubini: Global recovery anemic, outlook fragile
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Krugman: Governments Are About To Make The Dumbest Mistake Ever--Cutting Back On Spending And Killing The Recovery
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Hank Paulson tells his side of the story on the great recession
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Global Economy to Grow 3.7%
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The Case for the 'Teacher Bailout'
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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:
Home Sales Set to Plummet in Phoenix, Las Vegas as Tax Credit Expires
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Huge profits result from foreclosure procedure
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Hamp-ered loans - Investor denials squash many mortgage mods
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Soldier in Iraq Loses Home Over $800 Debt
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CRE Vacancies To Peak Near Early 2011
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Owners Bet on Raising the Rent, and Lost
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More Bank-Owned Homes Likely to Hit the Market
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No Penalties for Mortgage Company with Worst Loan Mod Backlog
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Barry Sternlicht, the Real Estate Bargain Hunter
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Mary Jane Augustine
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Little-known Bellevue firm linked to $850M in loans; spans four states
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Union to Banks: Fix Up L.A.’s Foreclosures or Else!
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Las Vegas: Rhodes leaves trail of disappointed business partners
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Misrated Mortgages
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Stewart Lender Services Sees Loss Mitigation Business Jump Ten-Fold
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Unemployment Drives Most Mortgage Defaults
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Municipalities:
American cities at risk of default and bankruptcy
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Municipal bankruptcy bill heading to Schwarzenegger
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Bankruptcy talk spreads among Calif. muni officials
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Bankruptcy idea spreads from Vallejo to other California cities
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Distressed status wouldn't be easy for Dunmore
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America's 7 junkiest cities
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Houston: Model City
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Unions fear cities going bankrupt
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Avoidance Actions:
Leveraged Buyout Transactions Under Heightened Scrutiny in Bankruptcy: Withstanding Creditor Challenges to Fraudulent Transfer Claims
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Celebs:
11 Athletes Who Threw Away Their Million-Dollar Fortunes
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Pamela Anderson Accused of Stiffing Web Developer
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Oil/Gas:
Waiting out the spill: Anger, frustration and uncertainty
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BP Plunges After Attempt to Plug Gulf Oil Leak Fails
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Risky 7th Attempt to Stop Gulf Leak
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BP's Next Effort Could Increase Oil Flow
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BP Needs 'Lottery Win' in August to Seal Oil Leak at First Try
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Why The Next Step Of The Deepwater Fix Is Incredibly Dicey
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BP says spill costs hit $990 million
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Some experts predict spill's tab will reach $10 billion
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Oil Could Spew Until August
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6 Reasons We Can't Fix The Oil Spill
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Disastrous effects of spill may be hidden in Gulf depths
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BP Spill Tests Its Survival
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For all its blunders, BP didn't cut and run
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A changed BP? It was only an illusion
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BP’s Gulf fiasco makes it vulnerable to a takeover
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BP spill costs soar as leak could continue into August
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BP, Obama face clamor to halt oil spill 'crime'
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BP CEO disputes claims of underwater oil
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BP disaster: worst oil spill in US history turns seas into a dead zone
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BP Seeks to Catch Most Oil as U.S. Exerts Spill Role
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U.S. Plans ‘for Worst’ in Gulf, Seeing Risk in Leak Strategy
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Sen. Schumer Calls for Repeal of Liability Limits
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BP: 'No Certainty' New Plan Will Work
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Admiral Mullen: Oil Industry Better Equipped to Counter Spill
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BP defends efforts to control rig costs
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Our Fix-It Faith and the Oil Spill
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Fishermen Fear Disruption of Their Way of Life
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Gulf oil spill: 'Everybody's lost hope'
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Alabama coast could see oil Wednesday
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At the scene of the BP oil spill cleanup: booms, busts, and confusion
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Documents Show Early Worries About Safety of Rig
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BP Engineers Making Little Headway on Leaking Well
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Effort to Kill Well Hangs in Balance
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There Was 'Nobody in Charge'
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Energy industry somber about new offshore limits
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A crude summer on the Gulf Coast?
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Oil spill gutting confidence - and staining reputations
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Town's way of life ‘under assault' by spill
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Hurricane Season Is Only Going to Cause More Problems for BP
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Famous Bookmaker Gives Odds on BP CEO
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A disaster with many fathers
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Drilling for Certainty
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TriDimension Energy Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
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Petroflow Energy Subsidiaries File Chapter 11
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Oil Falls on Concern China's Growth Is Slowing, Stronger Dollar
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Baseball:
Rangers creditors seek to expand bankruptcy case
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Lenders move against Rangers as club scrambles to meet payroll
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Which Side is "Negotiating in Bad Faith" in the Battle Over the Texas Rangers?
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Rangers fans find humor in bankruptcy
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Newspapers:
Tribune Delays Sending Bankruptcy Plan to Creditors
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Tribune fails again to get Bankruptcy Court OK to begin plan vote
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Television:
‘B’ Is for Bankruptcy
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Consumer Debt:
Increase in borrowing shows more optimism
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Moody's: Defaults, delinquencies on credit cards drop in April
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Corporate Governance:
Financial reform legislation likely to give shareholders more say in corporate governance
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Chemicals:
Chemtura to file reorganization plan by June 17
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Rail:
Amtrak 'misled' Congress on finances
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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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Disclosure:
Houlihan Lokey Challenged Over Disclosure In Aventine Case
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Committees:
How Can We Sleep When Rule 2019 Is Burning?
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Hotels:
Mortgage Holders Prevail in Auction of Former Maui Prince Hotel
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European group buys foreclosed Watergate hotel
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Centerbridge Group Is Said to Buy Extended Stay
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Hotel industry hit hard by defaults
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Student Debt:
Placing the Blame as Students Are Buried in Debt
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Who's To Blame For Students' Subprime Loans?
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Autos:
US may choose lead bank on GM IPO next week
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Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary of GM's bankruptcy filing
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The Lessons of the GM Bankruptcy
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After bankruptcy , GM, Chrysler turn the corner
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Making cars is cheaper now for General Motors and Chrysler
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Lansing auto plants survive 'nerve-wracking' year
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Tesla's Elon Musk "ran out of cash"
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Judge Orders Toyota to Perform Document Dump
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Health Care:
PwC loses ruling on big Pa. healthcare bankruptcy
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Oahu hospitals see their way out of bankruptcy
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2 hospitals ink short-term leases with St. Vinnie
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Is it a done deal? - Assessing the chances of LifePoint getting company in its bid for the bankrupt Sumner Regional
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Personal Finance:
Debt-induced stress continues for many Americans
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Military Families Struggle with Mounting Debts
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Telecoms:
FairPoint may pay state's bankruptcy legal fees
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Bankruptcy Crimes:
Texas Businessman Pleads Guilty to Defrauding U.S. Bankruptcy Court
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Litigation:
Smoker's $8 Million Award Could Open Door to More Suits
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When Is an E-Discovery Burden an Undue Burden?
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Agriculture:
Subsidies pay farmers rain or shine
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AIG:
AIG and Pru locked in talks on rescue price
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The AIG/Prudential Deal: Still Going
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AIG Rejects Prudential's Bid to Lower Price for Asian Unit
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Fraud:
Kenneth Starr – the rise and fall of a Ponzi star
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Judge Sorts Claims in Rothstein Ponzi Scheme
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Man's Global Ponzi Scheme 'Massive,' Mocking
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Judge refuses to unfreeze Alfred Villalobos' assets
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BDO Seidman fights claims brought by fraudster Lew Freeman
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Still no Goldman Sachs, SEC settlement
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Justice Department focusing on Goldman Sachs' Timberwolf deal?
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Ponzi Man Was Persistent, SEC Says
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Attorneys on both sides of the counsel table strike it rich with qui tam litigation
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Gambling:
What Lead to the New York Racing Association's Near-Bankruptcy
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Steve Wynn Takes on Washington, Vegas & EBITDA
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Financial Privacy:
U.S. requiring creditor companies to defend against identity theft
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UK:
Restructuring and Insolvency - England & Wales - Q&A
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British manufacturing maintains fast pace in May
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EU:
Euro Falls, Heads For Monthly Loss, on European Debt Concern
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Euro Hits 4-year Low
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Europe's Banks at Risk From Slower Growth, Central Bank Says
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ECB Warns Banks That Rely Heavily On State Support Packages
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Eurozone banks face 195 bln euro writedowns to end 2011-ECB
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Europe Banks Face Bond Sales Risk, Higher Loan Losses
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Czech President: Euro Zone has failed
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Country-by-country look at Europe's debt crisis
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Spain:
Credit rating cut deals blow to Spain
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Fitch Downgrades Spain’s Credit Rating
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Spain's cajas rush to strike deals
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Spain vows labour reform by June with deal or not
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Spanish Voters Will Force The Government To Dissolve Before Major Austerity Measures Can Be Passed
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China:
Unrest May Signal New Phase in China Economy
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China warns debt woes threaten global recovery
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And Now Chinese Real Estate Debt Is Blowing Up
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Financial Crisis Has Left China Stronger
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China's Shift From Cheap Labor Hard on All
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Greece:
Roses to tomatoes: Greeks are going back to the basics
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E&Y probed over Greek insolvency
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Greece urged to give up euro
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Fin Min: Greece Short On Revenue Targets, Vows Tax-Evasion Crackdown
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Germany:
German Unemployment Falls Twice as Much as Forecast
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Russia:
Russia Goes Online to Hire Lawyers for Strasbourg
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Switzerland:
Highest rise in bankruptcy proceedings in ten years in 2009
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Argentina:
Argentina Wins Appeal of 'Inflated' $2.24B Award
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Argentina Extends Bond Swap to June 22 to Lure More Creditors
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Middle East:
Dubai Holding Reports $6.2 Billion 2009 Loss
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