Law:
Reports: Scott Rothstein Was a (Pretty Good) FBI Informant
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Rothstein defense attorney got pay raise to $500,000, forgiven $190,000 in loans last October
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Confidentiality Issues Mushroom in the Tribune Bankruptcy
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The Bankruptcy Files: Casinos, REITs, and Trash Haulers
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Judge Lets Stand Nadel Receiver's Lawsuit Against Holland & Knight
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Some Associates Unprepared for Short ‘Shelf Life,’ Recruiter Says
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Milbank Revenue Dips; PPP Rises 5 Percent
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Hit Hard By Economy, Some Law Firms Borrow Big Bucks
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At Ruden McClosky, the Exodus Continues
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K&L Gates: A Boston Salary Cut Makes for an Interesting Mob Mollification Strategy
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Chapman and Cutler Brings Next Year’s Bonus News Today
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Recent Takes on the New Normal for BigLaw
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Temporary Lawyer Sues Wilmer for Defamation
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On Lawyers and Their Misdeeds: McGuireWoods’s Louis Zehil
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Is Paul Weiss in Bed With Terrorists? Leading law firm attacked in inflammatory WSJ op-ed.
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Yet Another Post Providing Advice to BigLaw Associates
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Ex-DLA Piper Partner Tells UK Tribunal She Was Fired for Being Pregnant
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"A Little Nervous," Ousted NY BigLaw Partner Admits Swindling Clients for $10 Million
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BigLaw Firm Can't Shake Suit That It Enabled $168 Million Ponzi Scheme
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Is Gideon Alive and Well? New York Case Says Absolutely Not
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New York Case Faults Public Defender Programs
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Blind Item: Biglaw Partner Likes Your Faces
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Franklin Pierce Law Center In Talks to Merge with University of New Hampshire
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11th Circuit Affirms $20,000 Sanction Against 'Birther' Lawyer
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After grueling two-month trial, lawyer lands on jury
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Interview with Rielle Hunter discusses Fred Baron, mentions Lisa Blue
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Lawyer's Disciplinary Case Examines Behavior at Depositions
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Clients Sue Deranged Lawyer's Estate
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The Constitutional amendment America needs
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Harming Business Clients with Zealous Advocacy
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Today's Sign of the App-Pocalypse: BigLaw on Your iPhone
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Lawyer's Use of Handicapped Parking Tags Leads To Suspension
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What Would Jesus Do? Oppose Iqbal and Twombly, Apparently.
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Pitfalls of Social Networking for Judges and Attorneys
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Judges:
We’ll Always Have Bankruptcy
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Democratic Freshmen Take Up Fight Over Obama’s Stalled Nominees
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Walker's Got Little Patience
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Courts:
Federal Courts Move Toward More Public Access
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Judicial Conference Quadruples Free PACER Access, Chops Cost of Digital Audio
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Virginia Thomas' Ethics Check
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Wall Street:
Stock futures trading higher ahead of open
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Layoffs:
White House: Jobless Rate Will Be Elevated for 'Extended Period'
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Washington state unemployment rate rises to 9.5 percent
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Illinois School District Cutting 1,037 Jobs
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Illinois unemployment soars to 12.2% in January
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California Sends Out 21,000 Pink Slips to Education Workers
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Delta to Cut 840 Regional Jobs at Cincinnati Airport
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L.A. Trial Courts Undergoing Mass Layoff
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Tim Geithner: &#%*@ This Jobless Rate
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Do Jobless Benefits Discourage People From Finding Jobs?
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A Sign of Hiring Hope for Small Biz
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Autos:
Visteon plan would save pensions
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Visteon judge won't halt benefits termination
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Visteon will keep pension plans
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Visteon's new plan offers recovery to bondholders
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CRO: Atkinsons cooperating in US Fidelis review
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Former CFO accuses Fidelis owners of fleecing
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Toyota sends engineers to check crashed NY Prius
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Toyota Finally Gets Around to Blaming the Victim
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Toyota drivers experience more runaway acceleration than owners of other vehicles
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Aston Martin’s Kuwait Investor Buckles Under Debt
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Finance:
Corporate Debt Coming Due May Squeeze Credit
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CIT Reports Post-Bankruptcy Net Worth Rose to $41.99 a Share
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Pimco Chief Sees Credit Tightening in Fed Move
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Retailing:
New Bid for General Growth Coming
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Health Care:
Massachusetts Treasurer: Dems healthcare plan will 'bankrupt the country in four years'
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Keeping track of Jackson Health System's financial woes
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Jackson Health System retreats on cuts, closings
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Refused Liver Transplant Coverage, Man Pays for It Himself, Sues & Wins Legal Fees
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Economy:
Fed to Keep Rates Low for 'Extended Period'
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Parsing the Fed: How the Statement Changed
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Federal Reserve ends supports as US economy mends
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Outlook for US economy upgraded
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The Lone Dissenter: Kansas City’s Hoenig Stands Firm
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Euthanizing The Volcker Rule
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The Volcker Rule Is No More.
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Volcker to Tell Congress Fed Should Retain Supervision Powers
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Obama's Economic Team - Tim Geithner, Christina Romer, Peter Orszag - Face Criticism On Capitol Hill
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Mancessions, Around the World
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14 Fun Facts on the US Deficit
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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:
Home construction declines
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An Odd Way to Measure the Success of Mortgage Mods
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Permanent HAMP Mods See 45% Bump In Feb.
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Citi Mortgage Workouts Outnumber Foreclosures 15 to 1 in Q409
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BlackRock Proposes a Different Way to Extinguish Debt and Avoid Re-Defaults
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Citi Demands You Pay $0 Or They Will Foreclose On Your House
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Mortgage rates could spike as Federal Reserve program expires
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PIMCO: End of mortgage buys form of tightening
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What’s Next for the Fed and Mortgages?
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Southern California Home Prices Rise for Third Month
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Defaults Soar as Foreclosures Slide in Sunny California
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BofA Breaks Into Another House but Finds No Parrot
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Bank of America's Post-Foreclosure Brain Freeze Immune To Global Warming
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Resolved CMBS Dwarfed By Special Servicing Pipeline
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BofA Wants $535M From Title Insurers
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Fed Affirms Plan to End Mortgage Intervention
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Shiller: Rethinking the government's role in housing finance
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Corporate Reform:
Comparing Financial Stability Oversight Councils
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Financial reform experts need to start lobbying Congress--just like the banks
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The Fed’s Spectacular Comeback
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Getting the bankers out of the Fed
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Dodd's Bill Holds No One Accountable
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A War Without a General
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Chamber Stands Against Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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Senate panel seen approving financial reform
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Here's an Idea: Make Megabanks Tell the Truth
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Chamber, Wall Street lobby seek to alter Dodd bill
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Stumbling block for Senate bank reform: Investors
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It's Going to Take Guts to Win Real Wall Street Reform
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Prosecutors want Nacchio in court for sentencing
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Aviation:
AAR Corp's third-quarter profit falls 42%
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Flight's Grueling Delay Compounded by Surly Staff
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Virgin America's Nightmare Flight Now Under Federal Investigation
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Food/Drink:
Uno Restaurant Files Bankruptcy Plan, Plans Offering
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Municipalities:
New Jersey Governor Proposes Steep Spending Cuts
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Is your state the next Greece?
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Bobb: Close 45 Detroit schools
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Vallejo struggles to keep city safe during bankruptcy
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Promised pensions benefits for public-sector employees represent a massive overhang that threatens the financial future of many cities and states
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Celebs:
Smothers Brothers calling it quits after 52 years - Bankrupt!
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America's Most Wanted Tax Scofflaws
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Fraud:
Madoff brother and sons attack trustee's claims
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There's Deep Fraud on Wall Street
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Chicago Title Assisted San Diego Fraud, Mastermind Tells Jury
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Non-Profits:
Iowa Association of School Boards faces serious financial problems
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Corporate Governance:
Chancery Changes Co-Lead Counsel in Revlon Class Action
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Batteries:
Firefly CEO: Bankruptcy was only option
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Tax:
Swiss financial secrecy threatened
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Hotels:
Trump International Hotel in Fort Lauderdale faces foreclosure
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Insurance:
Hartford announces plan to repay TARP funds
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Sovereigns:
Albert Edwards Predicts Deflation Followed By Double-Digit Inflation As "Governments Opt To Default, And Monetization Is Policy Lever of First Resort"
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Video Rentals:
Blockbuster Admits Bankruptcy Is A Possibility
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
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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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Seminars
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In Defense of Failure
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Bankruptcy Reform:
Senate Bankruptcy Hearing
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Data show surge in consumer cases
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OC Feb. bankruptcies highest for the decade
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Lehman:
Lehman May Be Revived as For-Profit Asset Manager
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What's left of Lehman: A plan
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Lehman Brothers, Greece and Enron
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How Does Repo 105 Work?
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Firm estimates $115 billion allowance for claims guaranteed by parent company
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Lehman whistle-blower 'vindicated,' lawyer says
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Lehman's Stepford wives
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Will Lehman Fallout Rekindle Bank Asset Worries?
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Lehman Hid Money With Help of Global Rules
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A Breakdown Of The Lehman Docs Provides A Painful Road Map Of Discovery
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Lehman GC Thought He Heard the Cavalry (the Fed)Coming Over the Hill, Turns Out It Was a Stampede of Creditors
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Hope in the Fuld
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Lehman Brothers Autopsy: Repo 105, and Why Auditors Have Some Explaining to Do
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Lehman's collapse was all its own fault
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Time For A Full Congressional Investigation To Nail Lehman's Directors To The Wall
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Lehman: where were the watchdogs?
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Awards:
Wolff & Samson’s Karen Gilman Named One of New Jersey’s Best 50 Women in Business
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Trucking:
YRC auditors raises going concern doubts
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Arrow trucks to be auctioned Thursday
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Hockey:
Financial scrutiny continues to follow Phoenix Coyotes
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Newspapers:
NY Times CEO paid $4.9 million
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NY Times cuts 150 jobs; 8% of newsroom
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Banking:
Lewis Says Wall St. Is Headed for a Reckoning
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Citigroup Aids Unit as Volcker Rule Spurs Defectors
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Goldman could be a bank, for better or worse
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Major Dutch fund ABP sues BofA over Merrill
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Deal Or No Deal, WaMu Edition
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60 plaintiffs to drop New Frontier Bank lawsuit
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Don't praise BofA for deciding to stop mistreating customers
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Sports:
Having Bought High, Owners of Sports Teams Find They Must Now Sell Low
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Student Debt:
Collections & Credit Risk - Student Lending in Limbo After Senate's About-Face
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Soccer:
Cash-strapped Portsmouth docked 9 points by league
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Insurance:
Ambac Financial delays financial release
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Compensation:
Ken Chenault Collects A Big Bonus, Quietly
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Ex-Circuit City CEO Gets Bonus, Fees
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Accounting:
Deloitte Appoints Langford to Lead Distressed Practice
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Big 4 Client Restatements Lower but Damage Is Done
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Four Things Campus Recruits Need to Keep in Mind Regarding Ernst & Young
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KPMG Gets Kicked Out of the Sleep Number Bed for Deloitte
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UK:
The Affluence Trap
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Universities face going to the wall
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U.K. Will Push Countries for Similar Bonus Rules, Turner Says
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EU:
EU fudges Greek rescue yet again
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Canada:
Mega Brands get OK for recapitalization plan
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“Perfect storm” drives Auto Journal Group to bankruptcy
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Greece:
Greece to Seek Details on Loans From Europe
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Greece avoids S&P downgrade but risks remain
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Greece Gets Boost From S&P, but Awaits Word From E.U.
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Chile:
Chile Braces for Severe Economic Slowdown
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Middle East:
Dubai World to Offer Full Repayment, Report Says
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