Law:
Could Law School Loans Become More Easily Dischargeable in Bankruptcy ?
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Ex-BigLaw Attorneys Profit at Smaller Firm via Flexible Fees & Eat-What-You-Kill Comp
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Lawyer Quits Covington, Makes $12K a Speech
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Law Firm Clients Cool to Support of Summer Classes
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Greenberg Traurig Hires Manski
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Mayer Brown courtship of Simmons founders
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10 Habits Every New Lawyer Should Learn
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Court Nixes Ex-Greenberg Associate's 2nd Try for Suspension re $493K Firm Scheme
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Dealmaker of the Week: Brad Eric Scheler of Fried Frank
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Who Is BP General Counsel Rupert Bondy?
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Settlement Undisturbed, Attorneys Can Be Sued
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Travel Agent’s Input Led to New Houston Office for Blank Rome
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A Lawyer's Life Turns to Cheese
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One Way to Pad Your Hours: Picking Up Dry Cleaning
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In-House Counsel v. ‘Outhouse’ Attorneys
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Working the Room
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"Computer Phobia" No Defense
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Hire Us Because Private Planes Make Us More Productive and Efficient!!
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Should a lawyer withdraw at the first indication that the client wants to lie?
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The Future of Lawyers?
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From Career Carwreck to Ready for His Closeup, Eliot Spitzer Is Hot Prospect for Cable News
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A reasonable defense strategy, no?
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Former Lawyer of the Day: Andrew Friedman
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Ponzi-Schemer Lawyer Explains Motive: ‘All in the Name of Ego and Greed’
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Chicago Lawyer on Raided Gaza Ship Was ‘Literally Slipping on Blood’
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Ex-Wife Ordered Jailed for Alienating Children From Father
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Lowering the Stakes: How Law Schools Can Help Next Gen Lawyers Take Gamble Out of Hefty Tuition
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An Interview With Northwestern’s Resident Pop Star
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Law Professor Peter Erlinder Is Denied Bail in Rwanda
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Sign of the Times: Law School as a Path to Reality TV
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Law Profs Want Schools to Stop Reporting LSAT Scores to U.S. News
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Are Canadian Law Schools 'Psychotic Kindergartens?'
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Judge Delays Woman's Prison Term due to Lack of Child Care
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Judges:
Justices Rule on Bankruptcy, Procedure, Prisons, but not Hillary Clinton
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Judge chosen to sit on jury finds himself in dissent
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Kagan tested by 1990s battles over tobacco legislation
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Under the U.S. Supreme Court: Kagan headed for OK Corral
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Time Dwindling on SCOTUS Term
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Sotomayor Making Good on a Commitment to a Scrappy College With a Family Tie
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Justice Souter’s Counsel
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Documents offer sketchy clues to pragmatic Kagan
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Jerked Around
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The Judicial-Confirmation War Moves Up to Rhode Island
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Judge Claims Fox News Defamed Him
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6th Circuit Takes Lead As Most Reversed Appeals Court
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Wall Street:
Stocks set to bounce off 7-month lows
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Stocks test price floors amid wave of selling
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Stocks Hit 7-Month Low
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Markets Aren't Worried About Greece Or Hungary, But Rather The Next US Mortgage Crisis
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Layoffs:
Morgan Stanley to shutter 300 offices, slash up to 1,200 jobs
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Bosses more bullish on hiring
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Bad Economy? Public Workers Become Targets
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Celebs:
Annie Leibovitz is a penny pincher
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'Real Housewives of New Jersey' bankruptcy not-so-shocker
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NJ Housewife Teresa Giudice: Bankruptcy Is a 'Fresh Start'
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Teresa Giudice Bankruptcy : Chump Change Compared to the King of Reality TV
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Real NJ Housewife Teresa Speaks Out on $11 Million Debt Rumors
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Bye Bye Bankruptcy -5 Ways Teresa Guidice of Real Housewives Can Cut Costs
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'Real Housewives' star Teresa Giudice blames economy, not Bloomie's bill
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What the 'Housewives of New Jersey' Really Earn
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Avoidance Actions:
A Claim by Any Other Name: Court Disallows 503(b)(9) Claims Under Section 502(d)
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Concrete:
Court Approves U.S. Concrete Disclosure Statement
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Consumer Debt:
Consumer debts increase $1 billion in April
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Autos:
GM brass pad pay packages with stock deals
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Chrysler recalls nearly 600,000 vehicles
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Big Ed Keeps Shakin' Up GM
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Report: GM will air Super Bowl ads again
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GM in Opel dilemma if German aid denied
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Student Debt:
Proposed new rules on borrowing have student advocacy groups, for-profit colleges at odds - Schools must prove students will get jobs sufficient to repay loans
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Bank pays millions to Yale to market its credit cards
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Gambling:
Gary says casino owes nearly $22 million
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Jewelry:
Michael Hill Plans to Close Eight US Stores to Reduce Losses
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Economy:
Bernanke Forecasts a Fitful Recovery
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Bernanke: Recovery continues but 'won't feel terrific'
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Changes in China Could Raise Prices Worldwide
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Interest rates fall as euro hits new 4-year low
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Chicago Fed Auto Conference Survey Predicts Continued U.S. Growth
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Buffett's Charity-Lunch Auction Draws Minimum Bid of $25,000
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Time to plan for post-Keynesian era
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50 Statistics About the US Economy That Are Almost Too Crazy to Believe
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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:
Law Firm Points Trash-Out Crew to Paid-Up ‘Foreclosure,’ Is Sued
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Foreclosed Properties Held by Banks Up 12.4% in Q110
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FHA Serious Delinquency Rate At 8.5% In April
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Underwater Mortgages in the U.S. by City
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Office Defaults Fuel CMBS Delinquency Spike, Fitch Says
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New York City Real Estate - How Six Successful Developers Clawed Their Way Back Into Business
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Distressed Commercial Properties to Rise Fastest in US and Ireland, Finds RICS
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Subprime Delinquencies Drop Again as CDS Prices Return to 2008 Levels
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Bank of America to pay $108 million to settle Countrywide case
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Proposed California Mediated Mortgage Workout Law Defeated
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Calif. Senate Passes Foreclosure Prevention Bill
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Tradition's Core Communities defaulting on $139 million of debt
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Many March, April Pending Home Sales May Never Close
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Tax-Credit Hangover: Here Come the Builder Price Cuts
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Fed Study Finds ‘Real’ Homeownership Rate
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Why the FHA Isn't Out of the Woods Yet
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Dallas-Fort Worth home sales jump 18 percent
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Corporate Governance:
Chancery Imposes Liability for Dilution of Minority Shareholders by Majority Shareholder who Converted Debt into Equity, Despite Self-Funding Company and Averting Likely Bankruptcy via Merger
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Cross-Border:
US Recognition of Individual Foreign Bankruptcies: What It (Doesn’t) Take
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Cross-Border Bankruptcy Battleground: The Importance of Comity
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Credit Cards:
Are U.S. Bank and other North Dakota-Based Credit Card Banks Collecting Illegal Interest Rates?
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Baseball:
Everything the Texas Rangers Want You To Know About The Team's Bankruptcy In One Spot
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Consultants:
Marsh sells sleuthing firm Kroll
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Gaskets:
Garlock Sealing Technologies Files For Chapter 11 Protection
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Furniture:
Furniture Factory Warehouse Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
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Retailing:
General Growth Properties IDs malls it may have to forfeit
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Aviation:
Airline stocks decline on fears over euro zone
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A 23% Revenue Surge...Airlines Celebrate
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Qantas, Virgin Open to Bids as Airline Industry Consolidates
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Hollywood:
Motion filed for Tutor to submit to examination
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Private Equity:
The Contractual Structure of Private Equity in a Distressed World
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Distressed Investing:
Disenfranchising Strategic Investors in Chapter 11: "Loan to Own" Acquisition Strategy May Result in Vote Designation
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Municipalities:
Black Flight is the New Worry for Detroit
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Health, retiree costs strangling Baltimore
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Grand Jury: Retirement could bankrupt Mendocino County
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US states hardest hit by bankruptcies, unemployment and foreclosures
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Defaults:
Moody's :Global Speculatve-Grade Default Rate 7.5% In May
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Banking:
Workers File Massive $100M Wage Suit Against Bank of America
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Debrahlee Lorenzana, banking beauty suing Citigroup, says JPMorgan Chase wants her to shut up
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Debrahlee Lorenzana Spells Out Her Too Hot For Citi Story On Video
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Banks in 'Downward Spiral' Buying Capital in Discredited CDOs
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Debt Collection:
Debt Buyer's Lenders Agree To Higher Borrowing Limits
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Religion:
SEC seeks church assets in FRM probe
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Tax:
Swiss lawmakers reject deal with US in UBS tax row
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Soccer:
Storms Predicted for European Soccer Leagues
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Derivatives:
Derivatives Market May Be Reshaped Even Without Swap-Desk Rule
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Rating Agencies:
Another Court Rejects Rating Agencies' First Amendment Defense
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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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Chapter 13:
Debtor Gets Chapter 13 Break in Supreme Court
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
The Falling Failure Rate
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Litigation:
Supreme Court Allows Do-Over for Lawyer Who Sued Wrong Party
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NERA Updates Subprime Litigation Status Report
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Mass Torts:s
EnPro unit files for bankruptcy over asbestos claims
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Health Care:
Medicare soon to go after liability settlements
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Counting on Medicaid Money, States Face Shortfalls
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Jackson Health System's international mystery
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Food/Drink:
Fuddruckers wins disputed Minn. restaurants, court rules
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Oil/Gas:
Of BP, Caps, and Chapter 11
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BP's oil well blowout bill: $1.25 billion and growing
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BP ramps up oil recovery effort
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BP's next move
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Imagining the Worst in BP's Future
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Rate of Oil Leak, Still Not Clear, Puts Doubt on BP
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Well Cap Captures More Oil, but Outlook's Gloomy
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BP Oil Spill Response Rated Worse than Katrina
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"The rig's on fire! I told you this was gonna happen!"
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Dispersal of Oil Means Cleanup to Take Years, Official Says
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BP Pays Out Claims, but Satisfaction Is Not Included
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Gulf Oil Spill and Potential Health Effects: People in Louisiana Fear Oil's Link to Illness
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BP Spill Shows a Profit Buying 2018 Oil, Selling Spot
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Democrats push to give spill commission subpoena power for BP, Transocean documents
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Ripples from deep-water ban worry energy firms
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Offshore accidents bring few penalties from the feds
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Crist Announces Loans for Oil-Affected Businesses
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Oil Washing Up in Beach Towns Riles Officials
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Fraud:
Bernie Behind Bars: Madoff's Prison Life
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Bernie Madoff in prison: happily unrepentant
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FCIC Subpoenas Goldman Sachs, Seeking Documents
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Why Did the Financial Crisis Commission Subpoena Goldman?
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Goldman joins FCIC's dirty dozen
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Goldman Sachs stonewalling, federal panel says
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Goldman Deserves Regulatory Probe - Poll
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The Over/Under on Rothstein's Sentence: 35 Years
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US Wants 40 Years in Prison for Fla. Ponzi Lawyer - Fla. lawyer who ran Ponzi scheme deserves more lenient sentence because of undercover work
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How Many Lawyers Does it Take to Defend Allen Stanford?
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New details on limo driver in hedge fund fraud
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Kenneth Starr and the Ties That Bind
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Politics:
Election spooks lawmakers, curbs Congress spending
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Sales:
Credit Bidding in a Sale Under a Plan Is Not a Right: The Third Circuit's Philadelphia Newspapers Decision
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Close Scrutiny of Breakup Fees in Bankruptcy Asset Sales Continues
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Hotels:
W Hotel-related bankruptcy expands
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UK:
Fitch Says UK Fiscal Challenge 'Formidable;' Pound Declines
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Europe's outlook darkens as Germany, UK make cuts
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Cameron Warns Britons of Austerity
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EU:
Euro-Zone Finance Ministers Strike Deal to Create a Safety Net
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Euro Zone Must Change or Die
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EU Rescue Fund to Sell Bonds Only After Aid Request
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Are Foreign Currency Loans Endangering Eastern Europe?
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Gold Futures Jump Most in Month on Demand for Euro Alternative
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Euro slides, hits multiyear low below $1.19
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Hungary:
IMF, euro finance ministers play down Hungary fears
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Hungary Tries to Assuage Investor Fears
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Hungary’s dance on the cliff-edge
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Greece:
Cash-strapped Greece wrestling to set a figure to its state employees, create single payroll
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Greece's economic crisis delays MLK Memorial in DC
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Germany:
Billionaire wins bid for Germany's Karstadt stores
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German govt slashes budget to tame deficit, to impose new taxes
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China:
The wage genie is edging out of the bottle
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Foxconn wants clients to share wages burden
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Japan:
Japan Corporate Bankruptcies Fall 15.1% In May
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