Law:
Berger Singerman's Business Reorganization Practice Receives Highest Ranking In The World-Famous Chambers USA 2010 Guide
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Happy Days Are Here Again? No, But the Saddest Days Might Be Over
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Ohio Justices OK Firing of Vorys Sater
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Ghosts of Thacher Proffitt Get SNR Denton Off on a Sour Note
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How Did Latham Become the Poster Child for Layoffs?
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Skadden Hires Away Rival's Global Antitrust Chief
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Simpson Thacher Public Interest Fellows Not Welcomed Back?
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Three Law Firms Claim Success With New Apprenticeship Model
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Legal Career Consultant Says Up to 25% of Her Clients Want to Leave the Law
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Alternatives for Laid-Off Lawyers: Road Trip in a Porsche
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BigLaw: The Five Jerks You Meet in Law Firms
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McDermott Will & Emery Converts Three Offers to Discovery Attorneys
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McDermott Partner Was Young Chess Champion
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9th Circuit Revives Suit Against Lawyer O'Donnell
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Plain English for Lawyers: 'Exactly What You Are Supposed to Do'
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Gen Y: Will it blow up Jones Day?
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Law Professor Notes 'Casualties of Our Profession'
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The platform is changing
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Some Atlanta Law Firms See Business Uptick, and Associates Benefit
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Prominent Houston PI Lawyer Is Shocked to Learn of Alleged Plot to Kill His Wife
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Award of attorneys fees is payable to the "prevailing party," not to the prevailing party's attorney - Award can be offset against other debts owed to defendant by plaintiff
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High Court Lets Government Take Fee Awards for Clients' Debts
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Attorneys Can Give Up Chasing Chase for Fees
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Thank Skadden's Joe Flom (And His Wife) for That Public Piano Near You
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Law Firm Destroyed By Fire Has Hard Drive, Will Practice in Unknown New Location
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Economics of law often an abstract concept
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After Mass Defection, BigLaw Firm Ends Romance With Romeo's Padua - Insolvency Partner and Associates Leave
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When Associates Dress Better Than Partners
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Blank Rome Ordered to Create 'Chinese Wall' to Avoid Conflict
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Dechert’s next gen heads
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The Marrying Kind
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Lawyer of the Day: Brittney B. Horstman
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“Too Hot” Former Citibank Employee Hires Top-Notch Lawyer to Fight Case
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Law Firm Spammed Our Investors, Contends Ex-Client in Fee Dispute
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BigLaw Firm Asks to Drop Billionaire Scammer as Client
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What Might Medical Malpractice Test Projects Look Like?
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After Ruling, Firing-Squad Looms Closer for Utah Killer
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Dirty Drunk
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Judges:
Scotus Roundup: The Next Two Weeks Will be Very, Very Busy
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Newly released Kagan papers show a flair for the political
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Relevance of Kagan's work as clerk on Supreme Court debated
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Elena Kagan’s White House Years
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Kagan confirmation would affect major tobacco case
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Revolt of the Junior Justices?
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Wall Street:
The Bulls Choke, Market Down
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Downgrade of Greece Debt Slows U.S. Indexes
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Layoffs:
Structural versus cyclical unemployment
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Survey: Americans have little confidence in government's ability to fix unemployment
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Aviation:
The Price Customers Pay For Strikes
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New Numbers on Airline Job Losses and Outsourcing
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Spirit Airlines, pilots called to table
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Hotels:
Extended Stay Wants Investigation Documents Destroyed
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Starwood Opposes Extended Stay Sale to Centerbridge, Blackstone
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Look Where The Hotel Industry Has Been Devastated This Year
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Consultants:
FTI Consulting Upgraded to Neutral
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Hollywood:
Icahn takes another swing at Lions Gate management before his offer deadline
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Lionsgate, Icahn continue to trade jabs
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Icahn predicts doom for Lionsgate
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Software:
Judge Confirms That Novell Owns Unix Rights in SCO Case
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Video Rentals:
Blockbuster Tanks On Bankruptcy Fears
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Blockbuster looks at bankruptcy financing among other options
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Tax:
UBS Tax Deal at Risk in Game of Political Ping-Pong
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Swiss Parties Edge Closer to Ratifying U.S. Tax Deal
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Consumer Credit:
Consumer Credit Rises; Card Debt Drops Again
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Payday Lending:
Arizona Attorney General Warns Payday Lenders
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Debt Collection:
Early Health Care Reform Rules to Benefit Medical Debt Buyers and Collectors
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Lehman:
Firm Disqualified From $285 Million Lehman Case Over Notice of Conflict
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Biotech:
Hawaii Biotech to be sold at auction
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Photography:
Polaroids reach era's end being auctioned
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Economy:
Bullard: U.S. Economic Recovery Insufficient For Rate Increase
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Fed's Bullard: strong global recovery under way
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Treasuries Fall as Signs of Global Recovery Damp Safety Demand
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Debt Default: It Can Happen Here
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Altos House Price Index Up for First Time in 9 Months
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A Challenge for New MBAs
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Deflation is Still the Real Threat
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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:
U.S. Income Losses Could Hurt Housing Demand
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Radical Ideas From a Federal Housing Bureaucrat
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Squatters Add to Mortgage Lenders’ Woes; Eviction from $3.3M Listing a Civil Matter
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Subprime lender Fremont emerges from bankruptcy
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Arizona homebuilders buying up land once again
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Top Execs Leave Bankrupt Subprime Mortgage Lender Fremont
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S&P: HFA Delinquencies Increased Significantly In 2009
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New Homes Getting Smaller...Smaller
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Subprime Mortgage Performance Improving as Delinquencies Drop
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Banking:
CD rates: Rates on deposit products at lowest levels in years
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Stop Obsessing Over Bank Failures
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Municipalities:
Obama's State Aid Proposal Faces Hurdles
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RI gov signs bill barring receivership for cities
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Dems Assure NY Gov't Shutdown Will be Avoided
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Privatizing America’s Roads
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If You Thought New York Was Bad, Check Out The Ridiculous Public Sector Pensions In Illinois
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California's economy to see sluggish recovery this year, UCLA economists say
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Health Care:
Tyrone Hospital Emerging From Bankruptcy
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LifePoint Hospitals remains sole bidder for Sumner Regional
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Lenders Seek Fixes to Forum Sale Deal
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Health-Care Costs to Rise 9% in 2011; Higher Deductibles Ahead
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Medical liability reform, the White House version
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State, city far behind schedule on hospital-bed closings
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Oil/Gas:
Lawmakers Cite 'Shortcuts' at BP
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Maryland Senators Fear BP Bankruptcy Will Lead to Taxpayer Funded Cleanup
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Betting Odds: BP, Oil Leaks, & Bankruptcy
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Magnitude of Gulf of Mexico oil spill fuels concerns that BP may be bankrupted
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Protecting shareholders takes back seat in BP mess
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BP Bankruptcy Would Offer No Protection From Costs
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BP credit rating slashed six notches by Fitch
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Businesses Collapse Still Waiting on Their BP Check
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BP is not alone in Gulf exposure
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The `name that BP disaster’ contest
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Governor Bobby Jindal told to Prepare for BP Bankruptcy
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Congress members join call for BP escrow fund
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Lawmakers to BP: Put up $20 billion
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Oil spill takes big toll on some sectors
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Key Dem says payouts to spill victims come before BP's stockholders
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BP split would trap global assets in US
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For BP, Breaking Up Would Be Hard to Do.
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BP may face charges, but execs likely won’t
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Pensioners In Horror, As BP Plunges Another 9%
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Visiting Gulf, Obama Vows to Press BP on Spill Claims
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Obama begins three-state tour of Gulf Coast
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The High-Stakes Negotiating Game Between Obama and BP
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Liberal DC think tank running White House response to BP?
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BP Hires Goldman, Others for Spill Advice
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BP's 5 Screw-Ups? Investigators Want to Know.
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Alabama governor blasts response leadership
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Catch and release only off Pensacola beaches
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Cash Flows for BP, but Investors Worry
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Investors desert oil giant
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A Word To BP Shareholders
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BP's growing isolation
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BP's wrongs undercut what it's doing right
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A Disaster, Privately Managed
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BP engineer called doomed rig a 'nightmare well'
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Will the Cruise Ship Industry Do BP's Dirty Work?
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Louisiana Business Challenges Moratorium on Offshore Drilling
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BP seen as the scourge of southern Louisiana
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BP workers exposed to illness, injury from cleanup
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Exxon, Chevron Seek Reprieve From Oil 'Crucifixion'
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AGE expects to emerge from bankruptcy in September
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Awards:
Legal 500 Ranks Eight Bracewell Practices, Including Restructuring, as Leaders in the U.S.
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Five Cole Schotz bankruptcy attorneys receive top marks
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Weil Gotshal Raises the Bar in Chambers USA 2010
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Trucking:
YRC freight improves, cash burn continues
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Marine:
Trico Marine may file for bankruptcy protection
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Gambling:
Greektown scrambling after firm drops bid to manage bankruptcy exit
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Casino manager exits case
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Gambling debts send beleaguered former CalPERS board member back to Bankruptcy
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Agriculture:
Ag Lenders Face Heightened Regulatory Scrutiny
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Jewelry:
David Webb bought for $11M, exits Chapter 11
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Non-Profits:
FAIM files for bankruptcy
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Museum leaders' pay: What they make and why
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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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Corporate Reform:
Sen. Lincoln Offers Clarifications on Plan to Spin Off Derivatives
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US Banks Set to Lose Swaps Fight
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Evidence:
‘Unauthenticated’ Photo From Website Held Inadmissible
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Fraud:
Judge rebuffs RRA bankruptcy attorneys
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Rothstein Partner Fails to Show Up for Deposition
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Jeff Skilling's 3 Big Tips For Accused White-Collar Criminals
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Wrestling With His Conscience, Madoff Took Antidepressants in Prison
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Madoff Feeder Fund Claims Should Be Denied, SIPC Tells Court
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Stanford's Co-Defendants Try to Flee the 'Circus'
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Nacchio Learns the Hard Way the Miseries of ‘Con Air’
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$300 Million Ponzi in Gold, SEC Says
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Feds Say Ken Starr Ran $59 Million Ponzi
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Goldman Hires Bush v. Gore Law Firm
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What is it about good-looking French traders and the global financial crisis?
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Claim Allowance:
Third Circuit Overrules Long-Criticized Frenville Decision; Redefines When "Claim" Accrues for Future Claimants
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Baseball:
In Advance of Big Hearing in Rangers Bankruptcy, Some Key Revelations
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Greenberg-Ryan could get $10M breakup fee
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Report: HSG connived with creditors to sabotage sale of Rangers to Greenberg
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Rangers Blocked From Making Better Deal by League, Lawyer Says
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Rangers, creditors head back to bankruptcy court
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Updates on Texas Rangers Bankruptcy
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MLB rips lenders' assertions in Rangers bankruptcy hearing
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Autos:
Judge weighs Visteon bankruptcy disclosure
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Visteon files new reorganization plan
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UAW Chief Urges Union to Keep Fighting
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Retiring UAW chief says worst of auto crisis past
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Auto recovery czar stepping down
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Cadillac preparing to welcome back hundreds of franchisees
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Ontario to hold off on sale of GM stake
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New Strike Threats at Honda Parts Plant in China
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In China’s Honda Factories, Two Unlikely Labor Leaders
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Ford Sales Decline Again in Europe
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Insurance:
Ambac Has Alternatives to Bankruptcy, Chairman Says
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Ambac Soars as Chairman Says Routes Around Bankruptcy
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AIG to Be Final Insurer on TARP as Lincoln Plans Exit
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Telecoms:
Las Vegas telecommunications companies seek bankruptcy
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Fairpoint Thinks It's A Good Time To Ask For Less Regulation
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Tech:
ID Interactive files Chapter 11
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Celebs:
Andre Chreky Strikes Deal To Keep Control Of D.C. Salon
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NV Supreme Court hears arguments in O.J. Simpson appeal
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Ex-NBA star due in Vegas court in casino debt case
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Bank wins $1.2M against ‘Top Chef’ Dean
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Artist Thomas Kinkade faces DUI arrest, bankruptcy
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Brunell, Former Jags Face Several Loan Defaults
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UK:
Vantis shares suspended amid survival fears
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OBR slashes economic growth forecasts
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British inflation pace slows in May
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EU:
Debt Burden Falls Heavily on Germany and France
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After Euro Zone Crisis, What Next?
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Here's Everything You Need To Know About Who's Exposed In Europe
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Canada:
The new face of debt
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Canwest creditors back newspaper restructuring
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Greece:
European Debt Crisis: Moody's Cuts Greece Government Ratings to Junk
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Greece rejects Moody's 'junk' status rating
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Wind Hellas Talks to Creditors as Greek Austerity Hurts Sales
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Spain:
Spain sees credit squeeze, denies EU rescue bid
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China:
China bank watchdog warns of bad-loan risk, other dangers
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France:
France Ready to Make Cuts Despite Pain
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Sarkozy Criticized for Trying to Influence Sale of Le Monde
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Germany:
Primacom files for insolvency protection
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Angela Merkel's government threatened with collapse
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German Investor Sentiment Plunges on Debt Crisis
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Australia:
Duff misses debt payments deadline
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