Law:
WilmerHale Lawyer Helped BP Negotiate a Few Concessions in White House Talks
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Skadden Needs Interviewees to be More Prepared Than Its Hiring Partner
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Mayer Brown: Latest Firm Reportedly Considering Expansion
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Rebound seems to be under way at law firms
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5th Circuit Finds Bankruptcy Judges Can Certify Class Actions but Nixes Wells Fargo Class
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9th Circuit Lifts Attorney Sanctions
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Heavyweight Clash: Bob Diamond Vs. Jones Day's Bob Gaffey
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Arent Fox Adds 4 Partners, 5 Other Lawyers From 2 Firms
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BigLaw: Top Five Ways to Prevent Your Law Firm From Making You Fat (Hint: Put Down That Cupcake)
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Supreme Court Affirms Ban on Aiding Groups Tied to Terror
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Chaos Continues at Debt Collection Law Firm Now in Receivership
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BigLaw Still Not Supporting Working Virtually
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Dechert Trades Help Desk for Keno Kozie
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Faces of Deal Lawyers: Relationships and greenfields
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‘Powerful Sisterhood’ of Lawyer Cancer Survivors Tell Their Stories Online
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Stores’ Treatment of Shoplifters Tests Civil and Legal Rights
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Racially Skewed Juries A Persistent Problem
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The Apprentice Hits Big Law
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The 3L Desperately Seeking Perfect Boss on Craigslist Has an Interview
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How Law Schools Can Produce Happier Students and Satisfied Lawyers
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Iran issues warning to 62,000 'badly veiled' women
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Judges:
High Court Restricts Judges' Role in Deciding Arbitration Fairness
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More On Kagan’s Harvard-Military Controversy
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Kagan E-Mails Reveal a ‘Sharp-Elbowed and Sometimes Salty-Tongued Lawyer’
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Conservatives, Liberals Wary of Kagan on Abortion
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Republicans Indicate Kagan Could Still Face Filibuster
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When Ideology in Supreme Court Confirmations Goes Too Far
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More on ‘Clarence Thomas in 2012′
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9th Circuit Has a Bad Day in the Supreme Court
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Husband Kills Judge in Apparent Murder-Suicide
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Judge Settles Med Mal Cases with a Measure of Sympathy
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Wall Street:
US Stock-Index Futures Retreat on Concern About Recovery
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Brace For Dismal Earnings Season on Wall Street
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Wall Street ends lower as China yuan euphoria fades
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Goldman Sachs Exhibits Impeccable Timing in Dumping BP Stock
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Layoffs:
The Undeserving Unemployed
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Rand Paul To Unemployed: Quit Whining And Get Back To Work
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Health Care:
Survey Finds Jump in Health Insurance Cost for Individuals
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Hospital's owners paid lobbyists as tax bill rose
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Ardent, Forum Fire Back at Creditors; Strickland Sees Deal as Best Solution
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Number of uninsured adults in U.S. continues to climb
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Medicare ‘Doc Fix’ Watch: Pelosi Says Not So Fast, Senators!
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LifePoint purchase of Sumner Regional Health Systems is delayed
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Defaults:
Fitch: US High-Yield Defaults Tumble, But Concerns Remain
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Personal Finance:
New Bank Fees: How to Fight Back
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Business Loan Personal Guarantees Might Not Fade Away
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Finance:
The Credit Crunch That Won't Go Away
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Junk-Bond Market Creaks Open
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Lehman:
Lehman Trial for Barclays 'Windfall' Resumes in Manhattan Court
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Barclays accused of undervaluing Lehman assets
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Lehman Brothers 'unaware of Barclays windfall'
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Lehman's Fuld Asked Barclays Three Times to Buy Firm
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Bob Diamond - 'A Witness That Needs To Have The Leash Held Tightly'
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Lehman Left In The Dark After Barclays Sale, Exec Says
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Lehman Appeal Over Segregated Funds May Cut Payouts
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Packaging:
Smurfit Stone cleared to exit bankruptcy
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Baseball:
More Turns in Rangers Bankruptcy
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On Eve of Judge's Decision Concerning Rangers' Sale, a Debate Over the Consequences
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Rangers' sale preoccupies Pittsburgh attorney
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Rangers' bankruptcy battle impacts MLB
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Ranger Roy?
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With Bankruptcy Ruling on Horizon for Texas Rangers, Could Potential Stars Sale Still be Affected?
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Setting the Table? Judge in Texas Rangers Case Approves Disclosure Statement
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Debt Collection:
Closed debt-collection law firm still collecting money
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Law Firm Collection Letterhead Can be an FDCPA Violation, Judge Rules
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State Amendments on Court Fees Would Hurt Large Debt Collection Law Firms
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No Turnaround in Sight: Credit Card Debt Falls 12 percent in April
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Horse Racing:
Magna Entertainment Corp. files twenty-seventh default status report
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Retailing:
Loehmann's Finally Notices It Needs a Turnaround Plan
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Tech:
The Odds Are Increasing That Microsoft's Business Will Collapse
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Derivatives:
Should Derivative Reform Include End Users?
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Shipping:
Trans-Pacific Container Market Surging
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Economy:
Fed to Keep Rates at Record Lows on Risks
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CBO: Middle Class -- Not Rich or Poor -- Pay Majority of Fed Taxes
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A nation of risk-takers reverses course, hoards cash
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The "Lesser People" and the Stealth Baby Boom
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Those Phoney Government Forecasts
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Zombies Have Already Killed The Deficit Commission
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Inflation for Dummies
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White House Budget Chief is Leaving
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The Problem With Paul Krugman's Plan To Fix Our Massive Debt And Deficit Disaster
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Changing Goals as Recession Takes Toll
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The Rebound In Consumer Spending Is Just The Result Of People Not Paying Their Mortgages?
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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:
Government Still Struggling With Mortgage Modifications
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Troubled borrowers get help outside Obama mortgage plan
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Investors Worry About CRE Debt Coming Due, Survey Says
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Regulators to Turn Critical Eye on Mortgage Originator Compensation
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The Ultimate Taboo: The Overhaul of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
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California Coastal Gets OK To Proceed With Bankruptcy Loan
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Does the Housing Market Need a Pep Rally?
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'Strategic defaults' pose new threat to residential market
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Foreclosures Disproportionately Affecting Minority Borrowers
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Home Sales Traffic Plunged in May
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Bill won't help strategic defaults
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Landmark developer accused of misusing improvement funds
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Bankruptcy Court Could Clear Way for Quebecor Demolition to Resume
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College City Homes liquidation sign of times for banks
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A Housing Price Collapse In Queens NY Is Almost Certain
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Mastro properties up for sale; unsecured investors to benefit
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Beardsley to sell real estate as part of reorganization
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Real Estate Fraud: Why Is It Becoming More Common?
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Dancing Bear bankruptcy dismissed
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Municipalities:
Budget Crisis Leaves Los Angeles' $74 Million Jail Empty
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CA State Budget Comes Up $19B Short
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State considering digital license plates - could display ads at red lights
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You've seen the stimulus. Now, meet the anti-stimulus.
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NJ's poison pensions
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Oil/Gas:
Feinberg Talks of Criteria for Gulf Oil Claims, Says Lawyers Not Needed
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BP Falls as Cost of Oil Spill Reaches $2 Billion
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BP shares fall as Oppenheimer cuts price target
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BP's Bankruptcy Would Impair 117 (18% Of Total) Collateralized Synthetic Obligations, Lead To Pervasive Losses
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Death by (collateralized) BP association
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BP Managed to Blunt U.S. Demands
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BP's Oil Recovery Rate in Gulf Increased 11 Percent
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Our Magical Thinking on Energy
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By the numbers: Oil leak wouldn't fill Superdome
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Obama oil spill commission picked for their politics, not engineering skill
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Tarballs found on beach at Panama City
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Leak found on rig 'weeks before blast'
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Regulators Failed to Address Risks in Oil Rig Fail-Safe Device
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Markey Will Demand Oil Companies Rewrite Spill-Response Plans
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Tony Hayward Gets His Life Back
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Tony Hayward will get £10.8m pension if he steps down
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BP CEO Cancels Appearance at Major Oil Conference
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Here's What Oil Industry Insiders Are Gossiping About The Oil Spill
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Coast Guard Seizes 30,000 Pounds Of Oil-Tarnished Shrimp
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The BP Spill and the Bermuda Triangle
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Oil Spill Taking a Toll on Fla. Tourism
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Donald Trump the next Red Adair?
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Gulf rig owner criticizes Obama's drilling halt
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Top 10 Ridiculous Oil-Spill Quotes From Congress
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Should BP still be allowed to drill?
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Nations step up drilling oversight after BP oil disaster
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Here Is What Is Really To Blame For The BP Mess
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Panel Is Unlikely to End Deepwater Drilling Ban Early
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Judge to rule on challenge to Obama drilling ban
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Deep Water Oil Drilling Likely to Continue
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Anadarko Asks Court to Cancel Rig Contract Over Ban
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Anadarko Would Take Huge Hit If Forced To Pay Into BP's $20 Billion Oil Spill Fund
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Anadarko Debt Costs Rise on Liability Concerns
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Don't Take Anadarko Lightly
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Banking:
A Little Kryptonite Thrown At The FDIC
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Zombie Banks Continue to Suck Taxpayer Cash
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Beware of cheap banks for sale
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BNP Paribas shares down after Fitch cuts rating
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Compensation:
Regulators Push Tougher Pay Policies
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Newspapers:
Community Newspaper Owner Balks at Tribune License Transfer
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Student Debt:
New Tools Find Cheap Private Student Loans
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Celebs:
A Bankruptcy Case Made for TV
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Elon Musk, of PayPal and Tesla Fame, Is Broke
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Video Rentals:
Blockbuster up for a fight
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Hotels:
Owners of Sawgrass Marriott win first round
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Aviation:
Air Canada, WestJet enjoy resurgence
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Chemicals:
RIL may woo us again, think Lyondell execs
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(2 new opinion today)
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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Bankruptcy Jobs:
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Credit Cards:
Supreme Court to Hear Chase Credit - Card Rate Case
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Visa, Mastercard Shares Rally On Interchange Rule Agreement
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Avoidance Actions:
Bankruptcy trustees seek to recoup $9.6M paid by William J. “Boots” Del Biaggio III
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Trade Claims:
Sellers of Goods and Services to Bankrupt Debtor Beware
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Class Actions:
Do Bankruptcy Judges Have Class (Certification Ability)?
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IP:
Courts are Signaling, but is Congress Listening?
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Litigation:
Supreme Court Says Arbitrator Must Resolve Claim that Employment Agreement Is Unconscionable
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Gambling:
Station Casinos Judge Refuses to Block Bankruptcy Auction
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Bass Brothers Targeted in Las Vegas Resort's Reorganization
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$1.2 billion in Fontainebleau construction permits pulled
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Ethanol:
Hawkeye ethanol unit exits from bankruptcy protection
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Fraud:
Madoff May Have Stashed $9 Billion, Says Chatty Fellow Inmate
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Goldman has until mid-July for SEC response
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S.E.C. Accuses Firm of Fraud in Mortgage Deals
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Kim Rothstein wants her jewelry back
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Rothstein case attorneys battle over assets for victims
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Judge: Slaughterhouse manager will get 27 years
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Kerviel Could Have Forced SocGen Into Bankruptcy, Trader Says
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Hecker debacle embroils pals' bank
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Corporate Reform:
Democrats Agree to Putting Consumer Watchdog at Fed
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Financial Overhaul Bill: What’s on the Agenda?
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Financial Overhaul: The Tough Questions
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The academic solution to financial reform
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Hollywood Tacks Fix to Banking Bill
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Seven Big Bank Reforms Yet be Resolved
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Autos:
Automakers Credit Quality at Risk
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2 Colorado Chrysler dealers win at arbitration
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How One GM Dealer Refused to Be Wound Down
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Automakers pare paychecks
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Miscellaneous:
Smurfit, Rubicon, Philly Papers, Morton, Abitibi, Brookstone: Bankruptcy
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Education:
Bankruptcy Judge to Determine Value of Trinity Christian School
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Photography:
Polaroids by Warhol, Adams being auctioned
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Ansel Adams star of Polaroid auction
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Pensions:
Nortel Seeks to Terminate US Retirees' Benefits in August
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Theme Parks:
Six Flags cuts workforce, 3 top executives
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Six Flags stock returns to NYSE
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Consultants:
The Garden City Group, Inc., Launches Rebranding Initiative
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Awards:
Chambers Ranks Bankruptcy Practice Area at Arnall Golden
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UK:
Departing R3 head warns HMRC's Time to Pay is abused
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Jon Moulton makes u-turn on pre-packs
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Insolvency forum challenges pre-pack transparency
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EU:
EU Moves Toward Broad Stress Test Disclosure
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Canada:
Canada's economy suddenly the envy of world
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Gatineau investment firm owners declare bankruptcy
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Asper willing to bid on Canwest TV assets
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Germany:
Germany Rejects Obama's Call on Growth, Stoking G-20 Conflict
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China:
China close to catching US in manufacturing
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How China Manages its Currency: An Explanation for Humans
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Yuan News Flicks Risk Switch On
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Asset-by-Asset: What Does Yuan News Mean?
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Treasury’s Not Enjoying Yuan Ride
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Credit Markets Welcome Yuan Move
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Yuan Impact: General Manufacturing
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China buys Greek when no one else will
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Capsule apartments
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Chinese Real Estate Bubble Creating New Crisis For Single Males
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Russia:
Russia Cuts Gas Supplies to Belarus Over Debt
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France:
Le Monde on The Brink
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Germany:
Germany's Ifo business climate index rises in June
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