June 4, 2010

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Law:

Lawyering Up: The Names Behind the Oil-Spill Defense Strategy
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Law Firm Poised to Bank Millions on Peer-to-Peer Prosecution
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ABA & Others Object to Sweeping Law Practice Regulation in Financial Reform Bill
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More Attorneys Exploring Third-Party Litigation Funding
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Check the small print...
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Firm to pay senior associates on performance
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Winston & Strawn Lawyer at Center of Financial Advisor Case
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Is the Final 'Qualcomm' Ruling a One-Time Pass?
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Dorsey, McDermott Lawyers Acquitted, But What About Their Jobs?
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Can Jamie Gorelick Clean Up BP’s Mess?
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DLA Piper delays partnership restructuring
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Profits rise across the London
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Dechert's Chairman to Step Down in 2011
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Meet Eduardo Leite: Brazil-Based Energy Lawyer Set to Lead Baker & McKenzie
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Study finds New Jersey a tough place for defendants
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Lawyers Lower Fees After Judge Rejects 9/11 Settlement
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Olswang posts strong profits recovery as PEP rises by 38%
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Three-year decline in equity ranks boosts partner profits
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Partner in graceless, ill-mannered email
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A&O partner conference highlights emerging markets as key priority
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Law Firm Apologizes For Racist Ad
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Tales From the Front Lines of Small Firm Practice
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iPad: Toy or Tool for Lawyers?
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Social Media Ethics Concerns for Lawyers
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N.Y. Times: Akin Gump Warned Wal-Mart of Risky Gender-Related Pay & Promotion Practices
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U.S. Jail Population Declines For First Time in Decades, Per Department of Justice Study
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Sheep Score a Court Win in Wisconsin
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Law Student of the Day: Star Wars Kid
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Florida Police Officer Arrested After Allegedly Offering “Roadside Fees”
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Seeming Case-Related Slayings This Week: 3 Judges, 2 Clerks, 1 Lawyer, 11 Others
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Public Defender Choked Prosecutor in Court Hallway, Police Say
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Legal Antics: Answering machine hell
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Another Scam Targets Lawyers: Pay My Cab Fare and I’ll Return Your Package
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Cops Don't Need Radar Gun to Ticket Drivers - "Eyeballing" OK
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Legal notice can be sent via Facebook
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Judges:

New Orleans Judge Sells Investments to Avoid Oil Spill Conflict
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David Souter vs. the Antonin Scalias
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Elena Who? Why the Summer’s Blockbuster is Looking Like a Dud
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In Old Article, Kagan Invites Tough Questioning
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Documents Show Kagan's Liberal Opinion on Social Issues
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Obama may use executive privilege to withhold Kagan documents
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ABA in Midst of Kagan Evaluation
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Unacceptable Computer Use
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Did a Minnesota judge and his law clerk attempt to collude to put a clerk on the bench?
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"I know what waiters, busboys and bartenders do when they go to work"
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Please Have a Seat, Your Hearing Will Be Delayed Until the Judge and Your Lawyer Finish Wrestling
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Wall Street:

Wall St Futures Higher Ahead Of Non - Farm Payrolls
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Wall Street ends another trading day on a high note
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Layoffs:

Long-Term Unemployment Hits All-Time High
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Private sector adds 55,000 jobs in May
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Job Hopes Rise on Flurry of Economic Reports
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Flood Forces Opryland to Cut 1,743 Jobs
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Autos:

Chrysler momentum builds
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The Auto Bailout Starts to Pay Off.
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Heckuva Job On The Auto Bailout, Rattie
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Big pension fund opposes Magna restructuring plan
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Small Business:

Fed Chief Urges More Lending to Small Business
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Retailing:

General Growth May Turn Over 13 Properties to Lenders
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General Growth Sticks With Bid From Brookfield
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Business and Financial News - The New York Times
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Celeb:

Ex-Celtic hits rock bottom in Vegas
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"Bad Boy of Silicon Valley" must give up goods
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Mass Torts:

Asbestos-Related Health Claims Leads to Bankruptcy Filing
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Companies File Bankruptcy to Resolve Asbestos Claims
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Turnarounds:

To Survive, a Manufacturer Reinvents Itself
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Religion:

The economy’s effect on the business of religion
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Economy:

US jobless claims fell 10,000 last week
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A Jobless Rate Still Unaffected by New Hiring
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Bernanke Says US Unemployment Imposes 'Heavy Costs'
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Payrolls Probably Rose for Fifth Month, Led By US Census Jobs
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Service sector grows in May
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ADP: Modest Job Gains in May
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The Economy Is Improving (Ish.)
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G-20 Split on Increasing Bank Capital
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Will the United States suffer a "double-dip" recession?
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Obama gets boost in battle against jobless recovery
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Debt under Obama increases $5 billion per day -- 3 times the Bush rate
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First-quarter productivity revised lower to 2.8%
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May sales suggest still uneven consumer spending
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US to net $2.97 mln on First Financial warrants
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Buffett Warns Crisis Panel on Looming Distress, Bailouts
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Fed's Lockhart Says Rates May Rise With Unemployment Still High
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Fed's Hoenig: Fed should raise rates to 1 percent
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Drumbeat for Fed rate hike gets louder
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Most Primary Dealers Agree Fed Rate Increase Won't Come Soon
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Corporate Liquidity Improvement Slows in May, Moody's Says
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Which indicators are out of favor and which are lauded?
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Geithner stress test sermons lack moral force
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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:

YOY Home Price Gains Are Largest Since July '06
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Hovnanian shares tumble as revenue slides
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Memo to Bank of America: Eat More Fish
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Freddie Mac: 30-year fixed-rate averages 4.79%
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S&P sees long haul for Fannie, Freddie
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Sales of distressed NYC real estate assets soar
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Where Is It Cheaper to Rent? New York City (Really)
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Which is Better Now, to Rent or Buy?
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CRE Strategy of Last Resort: To Default or Not To Default?
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REIT Activity Picks Up Steam in 2010 After Five-Year Doldrum
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CMBS Loans In Special Servicing Hit All-Time High
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CMBS Loss Severities to Rise, Fitch Says
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CRE Revisited, or Learning To Love the Collapse
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CMBS Delinquency Rate Spikes by 40 Basis Points, Trepp Says
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Should We Dump The Home Mortgage Interest Deduction?
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McMansion welfare: Why does government subsidize home ownership?
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Cisneros: Profiteers, Not Government, To Blame for Housing Crisis
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Oil/Gas:

Big oil groups break ranks with BP
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BP Caps Oil Pipe in Bid to Contain Spill
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Moody's reports insurance liability limits of $1.61B in oil spill
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Insurance Up 50 Percent After BP Gulf Of Mexico Disaster
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50-50 Split Seen on Motions to Stay Oil Spill Lawsuits
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Obama Cancels Asia Trip as Concern on Spill Mounts
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BP to go ahead with $10bn shareholder payout
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Lifting the Cap
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Spillonomics - Underestimating Risk
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Your most creative, incisive, and sadistic ideas for how to punish BP
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Plan for Relief Wells Spurs Hope Amid Caution
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'79 Gulf oil spill leaves sobering lessons for BP
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BP begins apology campaign for oil spill
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Text of Hayward's Update to BP Staff
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BP CEO: We will meet our obligations after oil spill
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Credit Suisse Puts A Price Tag On BP's Spill Bill
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Obama Administration sends $69 million bill to BP
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US wary of nuclear blast to stop Gulf oil leak
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Obama to Return to Gulf to Assess Efforts on Spill
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Gulf Oil Spill a No-Win Situation for Obama
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Deepwater Companies Pull Up Stakes, and Some May Never Return
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Offshore Now Needs an $80+ Oil Price
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Sen Reid: Senate To Pass Bill Reacting To Gulf Oil Spill This Summer
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BP live feed 'spillcam' now offers 12 views of oil spill
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BP oil spill: Next step is to attach a giant garden-hose seal
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BP CEO says wellhead riser cleared
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Further setback in bid to contain leak
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BP CEO Says Cap's Success To Be Clear in 12-24 Hours
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Another Torrent BP Works to Stem: Its CEO
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No More Fish, No Fishermen
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BP hydrogeologist: The Gulf can take it
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Gulf oil spill doesn't stop government from allowing some offshore oil drilling to resume near La.
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Feds halt new drilling in Gulf
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Interior Dept. denies it has extended drilling freeze to shallow gulf waters
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New estimates on offshore drilling ban costs
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When Did Gov’t Exempt Gulf Drilling from Detailed Enviro Reviews?
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The Most Frightening Oil Projection Yet
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BP Oil Spill Will Raise Oil Prices—in 2015
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Oil Spill Criminal Case Difficult Against Execs
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50 Awesome Logos For The New BP
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BP credit rating downgraded over oil disaster
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Still Not Touching BP With A 5,000-Foot Riser
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BP needs to learn from the Exxon Valdez spill
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TNK-BP Unit Slips Into Bankruptcy
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(4 new opinions 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 Jobs:

(1)- (2)- (3)- (4)- (5)- (6)- (7)- (8)- (9)- (10)
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)

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Bankruptcy Statistics:

US bankruptcy filing rate near 5-year high
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The Year In Bankruptcy
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Discharge:

Court reverses own stance on timing of asbestos claim
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Corporate Reform:

A Primer on the Consumer Financial Protection Agency
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A record fine for JPMorgan Chase: An unfortunate mix-up
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SEC: Diebold Financial Execs Would Step Over Their Own Mothers to Meet Earnings Forecasts
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Daniel K. Tarullo, a Star Regulator at the Fed
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Litigation:

Judge Scheindlin Amends Opinion in Pension Committee Case; Clarifies Scope of Obligation to Collect ESI
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Banking:

Six Giant Banks Made $51 Billion Last Year; The Other 980 Lost Money
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Interbank Lending Market ‘Died With Lehman’
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WaMu Has Setback on Road out of Chapter 11
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Wells Fargo Jury Decides Against Punitive Damages
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Hedge Funds:

Hedge Fund Investors Pull $3.5 Billion in April
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Tax:

Attorney convicted in tax shelter scheme
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Swiss Upper House Backs UBS Deal With U.S.
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Business Development:

American Capital bankruptcy likely - Stifel
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Health Care:

Judge extends agreement on Forum spending
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Doctors' Group Turns up Heat on Medicare Payments
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Consultant: Patient care unaffected by bankruptcy
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Aviation:

Union 'Suspends' Tentative Contract With American
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Debt Collection:

Cuomo sues over debt-collection practices
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Guess Who Said It?
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Protecting Public Benefits from Garnishment
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Rating Agencies:

Tunnel vision at Moody's and S&P
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Hotels:

Miami Beach Hotel Developers Enter Not Guilty Pleas
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Fraud:

Inside the bizarre legal case of Allen Stanford
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Judge Staying Out of Allen Stanford Legal Fees Dispute
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Yet another lawyer wants to enter Stanford case
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Betting on Madoff Recovery Claims
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The Madoff Circle: Who Knew What?
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Goldman Sachs disclosure to CalPERS erroneous?
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Rothstein's toys set for auction
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Brentwood broker and Predators sponsor accused of fraud
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Hecker co-defendant seeks separate trial from auto mogul
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Petters trial judge won't hear restitution pleas
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$70 Million Ponzi Man Ran to Asia, Feds Say
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Municipalities:

Cash-Strapped NY Drops Hammer On Drivers, Announces Sweeping Fees
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The Revenue Picture, State by State
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Art:

Thomas Kinkade Company Finds Itself Painted Into a Corner
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Lehman May Raise $10 Million at Sotheby's Art Sale in New York
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UK:

Eight top clubs in financial crisis
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IPs support HMRC action against football creditors rule
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Portsmouth CVA shakes up FC insolvency rules
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HMRC tackles Premier League football creditor rule
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Bankruptcy hovers English Counties
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HMRC lending skews insolvency figures
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UK governance code fails at BP and Prudential
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SMEs face double whammy in tax avoidance clampdown
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Marsh launches new Practice to serve UK insolvency sector
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EU:

Schaeuble Says UK, 'Many Others' Back European Financial Tax
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Euro-zone first-quarter GDP up unrevised 0.2%
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Spain:

Failure Highlights Woes Facing Spanish Banking
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Hungary:

Hungarian Forint Drops Most in World as Fidesz ‘Spooks’ Markets
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Pakistan:

Punjab Province On Brink Of Bankruptcy
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