Law:
Lehman Used Linklaters Opinion to Justify Aggressive Accounting, Report Says
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When U.S. Firms Balked at Lehman’s Moves, Lehman Took them East
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Lehman Report Shows Ex-GC's Fight to the Bitter End
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Life in the Doldrums Continues for Civil Litigators
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Davis Polk Leads the Pack in New York; Sullivan and Cleary Hang In There
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Ex-Client Cites DLA Piper Ties to AAA, Seeks Court Hearing on Alleged Associate Flub
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These Three Associates Find Trading Income for Experience Well Worth It
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Katten Salary Follow-Up: Pay Raise If You Hit Hours, Salary Cut If You Did Not
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Dissolution Watch: Darby & Darby Going Down
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Last Week in Layoffs
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Worst may be over, for some
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Nine Real Estate Lawyers Leave Pillsbury for Goulston
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When $975/hr is Value Pricing
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Paper Explores Why Pa. Lawyers Allowed to Practice After Conviction
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This Isn't Your Daddy's Law Library! - Time For a Law Library Revolution!
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Lawyers for 9-11 Responders Would Take One-Third Under Settlement
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Lawsuit of the Day: Former Model Doesn’t Want to be Lusted After
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Republicans Criticize AG Holder’s Failure to Disclose Terrorism Briefs
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Yale, Harvard, Chicago Top Prof’s Scholarly Impact Rankings
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New Law School Faculty Rankings
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USC Law Prof’s Lament: Why Can’t Wal-Mart Provide Legal Services?
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Fighting Words in the Bluegrass State
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UC to Pay Back $38M to Baited and Switched Law Grads
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That Lost Billable Hour
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Temple Law Student Wants to Party with Some Undergrads
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Lawyer filed lawsuit to get into rodeo barrel racing
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2nd Circuit Rejects Most of New York's Attorney Advertising Limits
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More Am Law 200 Firms Embrace Blogging
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Judges:
Three CA Central District Bankruptcy Judges to Retire in Next 12 Months
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Peter Carroll to be New Chief Judge in the Central District of California
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Justice Stevens is Behind the Plate on the Green Bag’s New Trading Card
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First One @ One First’s Guide to SCOTUS Seats, Part I: When to Arrive?
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Justice Stevens Keeping "Options Open" on Retirement
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Justice Clarence Thomas sends Cedar Hill student a surprise package
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Clarence Thomas, Silent but Sure
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she would forbid state judicial elections
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White House stands ground on high court criticism
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The Secret Tale Of William Lauder
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Hal Turner Wins Another Mistrial, Decides to Mix it Up For Third
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Former Judge Deemed A-O-Kaye to Lead Paterson Investigation
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Circuit Judge Tacha Encourages the Next Steps Toward Equality
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Firm That Made Job Offer to Presiding Judge Not Liable for Damages
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Justice's wife launches 'tea party' group
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Wall Street:
US Stock Futures Decline
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U.S. Stocks May Be the Best Bargains
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How Men’s Overconfidence Hurts Them as Investors
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Bankruptcy 10K Disclosures: Not Just for the Distressed Anymore
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Short-Sellers as Slump's Heroes?
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Women Were Better at Trading Stocks During the Financial Crisis Than Men
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Layoffs:
Vegas jobless rate hits all-time high of 13.1%
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Bad credit is blocking people getting jobs
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Corporate Reform:
Dodd seeking middle ground on new financial rules
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Dodd Bill to Toughen Stance on Banks
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Dodd Faces 'Ticklish Position' Going Alone on Financial Rules
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Strange Signals From Bair and Warren
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Fed gets new oversight powers under Dodd bill
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US, EU at Odds Over Global Financial Reform
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Tax:
IRS offers help paying taxes
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IRS Says Its Audits of Wealthy Are Rising
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IRS visits Sacramento carwash in pursuit of 4 cents
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Batteries:
Firefly Energy files for Ch. 7 bankruptcy
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Hotels:
Extended Stay Bankruptcy Examiner Mabey Files Report Under Seal
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Golf:
Bad economy prompts closure of Holmes Harbor Golf Course
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Student Debt:
Conn. Would Waive Student Loans in 'Green' Jobs
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Turnarounds:
Don't Blame the Economy, Apply the Basics
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Defaults:
CMBS Retail Loan Delinquencies Dip, All Others Rise, Moody's Says
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Sovereigns:
Moody's Warns of Risks to Triple-A Credit Ratings for Major Economies
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Moody's: UK, US closer to losing AAA rating
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Credit Derivatives Don't Kill Countries, Politicians Do
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The Sovereign Risk Wild Card
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Economy:
White House Identifies 3 as Likely Picks for Fed Posts
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Also On the Fed Short List: One Consumer Advocate, One Social Security Expert
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Fed may hint at how long rates will stay at lows
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Federal Reserve decision on interest rates is due Tuesday
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Bernanke Stimulus Exit May Be Aided by Yellen, Raskin
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Investors turn attention to Fed meeting
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Central banker says USA should not blame others
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Stop Saying the Financial System is Fixed
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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:
Even High-Score Borrowers at Risk of Mortgage Default
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Loan Modification Program Starts to Get Some Traction
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BofA, Wells gov't mortgage modifications up in Feb
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Loan Modification Plan Sheds 8 Percent of Borrowers
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Treasury Report Suggests New Mortgage Modifications Slowing
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Critics Say Banks Still Have Not Done Enough to Help Homeowners
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Underwater homeowners leave behind mortgages, but lenders can still come calling
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Commercial Mortgage Debt Rallies as TALF Ending: Credit Markets
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Miles from the Strip, visions of an upscale village dim
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Las Vegas, launched two decades ago, now more ghost town than oasis
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GMAC's mortgage arm will be tough to unload
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Home-Credit Derby Has Its Price
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Guidelines for new short-sale rules
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Retailing:
In a Surprise, U.S. Retail Sales Rose in February
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Banking:
How Eliminating Overdraft Fees Could Cost You
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Overdraft Protection: Why Bother?
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WaMu bankruptcy deal may leave shareholders with nothing
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Washington Mutual Settlement With JPMorgan Is Less than Holders Expected
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WaMu Falls on JPMorgan Settlement on Cash, Tax Refund
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WaMu gets $6 billion in dispute with JPMorgan, FDIC
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Autos:
Delphi retirees feeling frustrated
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Bankruptcy agreement could aid Kenosha plant
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Toyota, U.S. Can’t Replicate Prius Acceleration, Report Says
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Memo takes air out of James Sikes' tale of out-of-control Toyota Prius with stuck accelerator
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Runaway Prius story called into question
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Atkinsons, firms they control owe US Fidelis $65 million, bankruptcy filing shows
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Hecker won't wipe out $767 million in debt through bankruptcy
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Lehman:
Lehman Report: Were Securities Regulators Out to Lunch?
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Lehman Examiner’s Report, The Day After
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Learning From Lehman
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Lehman administrators consider damning report
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Report claims E&Y knew about Repo transactions
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In Lehman's Demise, Some Shades of Enron
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Lehman's advisers were guard dogs that didn't bark
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Lehman triggers investigation into accounting practices
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CSI Lehman-Barclays: Who Really Killed the September 2008 Deal?
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What killed Lehman
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Do Criminal Charges Await Lehman Crew?
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Lehman Bankruptcy Report Points Way to Plaintiffs, Not Prison, Lawyers Say
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Examining Lehman's Creative Accounting
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Dubai fund considered last-minute bid for Lehman
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Fragile riches
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The familiar themes in Lehman's latest drama
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The Lehman Bankruptcy Report Is a Road Map for Criminal Charges
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Ernst & Young Was ‘Comfortable’ with Lehman’s Shady Accounting
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Lehman's hidden leverage shenanigans may haunt Fuld
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Lehman assets funneled through UK-based arm
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PwC: Lehman's report mainly concerns US - Administrator says Europe may be unaffected
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Osborne blasts FSA over Lehman Brothers
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Linklaters implicated in bank debt shuffle
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Lehman and OTC Derivatives: A Dog That Didn't Bark
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Lehman's $50 billion conjuring trick
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Lehman CFOs were warned of "reputational risk" of transactions
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Finance:
Finance Chiefs Look Warily Ahead
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Private Equity:
Private Equity’s Trojan Horse of Debt
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Litigation:
Why Witnesses Turn Evasive and How to Make Them Stop
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Recoveries from Commercial Verdicts Plummet
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A Half Century of Automotive Litigation
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Jurisdiction:
Breach of Pre-petition Contract Claims Not Immune From “Core” Jurisdiction
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7th Cir-BK standing narrower than Art. III. "Person aggrieved" in BK must appear, object, & have pecuniary interest
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Derivatives:
De-Detour: CDS Nudity on the Exotic Fringe
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Goldman Sachs Demands Derivatives Collateral It Won’t Dish Out
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Fashion:
Michelle Obama’s designer goes bankrupt
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Celebs:
Friend steps forward to help pay for Haim's funeral
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Distressed Investing:
Neuberger to List Distressed Debt Fund
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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 Statistics:
Waiting for the Next Big Wave
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Bankruptcy Music:
Judge Alan S. Trust Wins Bankruptcy Song Contest
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Municipalities:
States may hold onto tax refunds for months
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LA: Cutting to the core
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Muni Middleman’s Financing in Dark Leaves Homeless on Outside
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Fraud:
Lawyers, accountants seek big fees in Rothstein bankruptcy
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Madoff-Related Derivative Suit Survives Dismissal Motion in New York Court
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How I Got the Goods on Madoff, and Why No One Listened
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Why Coffee Trashed Harry
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Vertical victims challenge bankruptcy status
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Three Plead Guilty in Illinois in $213 Million Fraud Conspiracy
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Schrenker - ''Data'' Show He Tried to Fake Own Death
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Internet Fraud Doubles to $560M
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Software:
The SCO Group Announces $2 Million in Financing
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Debt Collection:
Violence Spurs Calls To Rein In The Repo Man
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Of Cyborgs and Repo Men
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Health Care:
CCS Medical bankruptcy hits milestone
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ObamaCare–The Worst Deal of All Time
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Sick, uninsured and in debt: One man's health care crisis
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Managed Care: Get Used to It
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Health care: Going from broken to broke
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Are most emergency room visits really unnecessary?
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We all end up paying as hospitals absorb costs of uninsured
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Chemicals:
Lyondell to pursue $3.25 billion debt financing to exit
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Lyondell Chemical to Raise $6.05 Billion to Pay Debt
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Horse Racing:
Centaur bankruptcy painful, necessary
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Collapse Of Aqueduct Deal Threatens NYRA's Future
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Religion:
Diocese reclaims HQ in $1.2M post- bankruptcy deal
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Vatican officials defend pope on abuse
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Roman Catholic Child Abuse Scandal Spread throughout Europe
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Gambling:
Sales of AC's Tropicana Casino to Icahn completed
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CityCenter contractor seeks $492m
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Retailing:
Gottschalks creditors OK liquidation plan
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Men's Wearhouse Identifies 145 Stores for Probable Closure
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Retail LBOs Return With Recovery
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Accounting:
PwC suffers Satyam setback
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Could Lehman be Ernst & Young's Enron?
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Compensation:
AIG Nears Retention-Payment Deadline
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AIG Said to Cut Bonuses by $21 Million to Meet Feinberg Mandate
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UBS Hands Out $52 Million to Board
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Corporate Governance:
Who Should Be in the Boardroom?
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Chapter 13:
Computing “disposable income” for debt payments
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Further Thoughts on Hamilton v. Lanning
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Telecoms:
FairPoint's bankruptcy filing moving forward
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Education:
In Hard Times, Lured Into Trade School and Debt
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UK:
Gordon Ramsay: 'I was a crazy psycho'
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Pre-packs and insolvency tourism: the Government view
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Debt laden borrowers struggle to meet basic living costs
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EU:
German minister defends European IMF idea
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Trichet Sides With Advocates of Crackdown
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Greece:
Greek bailout tops EU finance ministers' agenda
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Eurozone to agree Greek safety net
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EU finmins to discuss Greek aid, no firm figures seen
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Greek PM hails EU, US support against speculators
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Squeezing a sound company dry
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The mythology of Greece's financial crisis
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Australia:
Insolvency industry must change
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China:
China Takes Aim at U.S. on Currency
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China Uses Rules on Global Trade to Its Advantage
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