Law:
Supreme Court backs man whose student loans were dismissed in bankruptcy
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Bet on Hiring 100 NY Lawyers From Failing Firm Pays Off
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Lawyer Layoff Patterns: Young Go 1st, and Top 10 JD Is No Shield
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More middle-class jobless need government aid
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18-Partner Hogan & Hartson Group Will Spin Off Prior to Lovells Merger
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Fast-Paced Ignite Law Dives Into the Future of Law Practice
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Prediwave Tsunami, Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett
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Baker Hostetler Partners Eager to Get Their Names All Over Health Care Reform Lawsuits
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Crookedest Lawyer Ever Wanted GOP Senate Seat
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The Curious Case of the ex-Dreier Partner, Russian Defense Contracts, and Love Letters
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Experts Debate the Theory of BigLaw Evolution
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Law in 2010: FLAT
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New Model Evolving: Law Firms Have 18 Months Maximum To Adapt
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Warnings Toll for BigLaw Firms Resistant to Change
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On the Anniversary of Its Death, Biglaw Firm Still Looking to Get Paid
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Will MegaFirm's New Management Team Be Leaner and Meaner?
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Mega Trends for Legal Profession
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Nothin' But Blue Sky: United Airlines' New Top Lawyer Is Flying High
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WestlawNext Pricing - Simple Chart to Answer All Your Questions
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Fired Techie Aims to Take a Byte Out of NY Firm
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BAR/BRI Plaintiffs Firms Take Fee Request Back to the 9th Circuit
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Dallas PI Lawyer Indicted in Murder of Law Firm Partner’s Ex-Wife
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A Terrible Denouement
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Business Cards for Law Students: Terrific or Tool-tastic?
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Nathan Sawaya Gives Up Corporate Law for Legos
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Lawyer's Conviction Over Her Husband's Shakedowns of Her Lovers Stands
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Zombie Servers Put Law Firm in Midst of Internet 'Litigation' Blitz
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Cougars, Dancing and Attorney Fisticuffs
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Judges:
Is Obama Grooming This Berkeley Professor for Supreme Court?
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Judge's Rejection of 9/11 Settlement Raises Questions About His Asserted 'Power of Review'
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Courts:
Court Worker Charged With Making Bomb Threat
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Wall Street:
Stock Futures Down; Sovereign Debt Woes Weigh
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U.S. stocks shed bulk of gains after housing data
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Dow at New 17-Month High
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Wall Street's Fear Gauge Sinks to 2-Year Low
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Jim Rogers Starts Shorting Stocks
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Howie Hubler of New Jersey: The Return of a Subprime Villain
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Wall Street Despised in Poll Showing Majority Want Regulation
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Layoffs:
National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Retailing:
Walgreen Wishes You'd Get The Flu
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CEO says Saks may close a few stores
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Fed Moves to Curb Gift-Card Abuses
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Consumers don't get full protection from Fed's new gift-card rules
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Compensation:
Feinberg Said to Cut Cash Pay by One-Third at Five Companies
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Tough-Talking Feinberg Eases a Bit on GMAC
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The Big Wall Street Pay Days That Ken Feinberg Missed
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US cuts compensation to top GM execs, slashes GMAC stock grants
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Pay czar takes aim at all TARP takers
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Study Shows Bailed Out Executives Stayed At Firms Despite Pay Cuts
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The Banker Exodus That Wasn't
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Kenneth Feinberg having an impact?
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How much should Goldman Sachs set aside for compensation?
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Construction:
San Diego tollway builders file bankruptcy
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MidSouth Utility Group files for bankruptcy
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Telecoms:
Investor: Palm Has '90% Chance' of Bankruptcy or Merger
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Hollywood:
MGM stares down the bankruptcy barrel
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MGM to chat with creditors
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MGM Could Go It Alone if Bids Disappoint
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Accounting:
Was Bank of America In on Repo 105-style Accounting Tricks?
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Hotels:
W Union Square Hotel Put Into Bankruptcy by Lender
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Finance:
GMAC Said to Plan Sale of US Factoring Unit to Wells Fargo
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Small Businesses May Still Face Credit Crunch from Banks
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Education:
Fallout spreads from ComputerTraining collapse
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ARS:
Credit Suisse Ordered to Pay STMicroelectronics Award
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Gambling:
Starwood's Sternlicht Seeks Riviera Casinos Through Bankruptcy
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Casinos: Carl Icahn Bets Big on Las Vegas, Atlantic City
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Economy:
Geithner: Guarantees for housing can limit crises
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Yellen - Record Low Rates Needed to Rev Up Recovery
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All Invoke Keynes as Stimulus Advocates Assailed as Spendthrift
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Dallas, Houston metros again set US growth pace
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In Defense of Bailouts
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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:
A First Step on Fannie and Freddie
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Northeast Home Sales Post 13 Pct. Annual Increase
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Home Sales Increase in South in Feb.
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Midwest Home Sales Up Nearly 10 Pct in February
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Existing home sales rise in Midwest, fall overall for Feb.
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Existing home sales: Is the home-buyer tax credit failing?
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Home Prices Continue Decline as Economist Sees Accelerated Double Dip
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New York Fed Warehousing Junk Loans On Its Books
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US MBA Mortgage Applications Index Declined 4.2% Last Week
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Geithner promises mortgage fix
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More Sellers Put Homes on Market, but There Are Fewer Buyers
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Fannie, Freddie: Financial Winners & Losers
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Barney Frank Dances With His Fannie/Freddie Skeletons
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Frank wants details on mortgage lender overhaul
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Showtime for Fannie and Freddie
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U.S. existing-home sales down third month in a row
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Commercial Real Estate CDO Default Rate Could Hit 25%, Fitch Says
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KB Home Reports Loss on Lower Revenue; Shares Fall
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For Housing, Some Muted Expectations
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Second Chance for Loan Mods
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Second Chance for Homeowners: How Soon Is Too Soon?
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Farah Takes 5th Amendment At FRM Trustee Hearing
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What Will Happen to Housing? The Private-Label View
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Tax Credits Make It Difficult to Interpret Housing Data
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California To Home Buyers: Here's $10,000
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Taking Baby Steps on 2nd Mortgages
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Guilty plea in giant mortgage fraud case
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Some CRE Sectors May Begin Recovery Later This Year, Deloitte Say
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The Most Powerful People in U.S. Real Estate
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Lennar posts smaller fiscal 1st-quarter loss
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Mass Torts:
Judge upholds punitives award against asbestos attorneys
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Distressed Investing:
Felony Charges Filed Against Silverleaf CEO Baldwin
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Ackman’s Greatest Short Ever Told Began With Handshake Refused
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Video Rentals:
Blockbuster to Offer Warner Bros. Movie Rentals Before Netflix
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Banking:
Call for global approach to failing banks
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FDIC Opens Discussion with Private Investors on Failed Bank Assets
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BofA Hires Ex-Goldman Exec to Direct Mortgage Department
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Bankruptcy Court Rules Former Texans CUSO Exec Owed $21 Million
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Despite Court Ruling, Texans Disputes Judgment
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More Barn Door Slamming
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Non-Profits:
ACORN To Close Remaining Units, File For Bankruptcy
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Lehman:
Lehman Examiner Says CME Should Disclose Bidders
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Lehman's Nemesis Returns
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We Exposed Lehman, So Why Aren't We Investigating These 7 Huge Questions?
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Lehman Brothers seeks approval of claims resolution procedures
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Investigator calls for all Lehman Brothers evidence to be made public
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Autos:
Assessing the Chrysler Bankruptcy
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Legal advisor reflects on first-hand role of auto bailout
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Automakers prepare to tackle dealer arbitration
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Chrysler Still Fighting to Cut Dealers
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Chrysler Makes Amends with Suppliers
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With No Buyers, Ford Takes Jets off Market
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Newspapers:
Bankrupt Newspaper Companies Cutting 75 Percent Of Debt
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Judge allows Tribune to drop bonus motions
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Insurance:
Oklahoma Seeks Receivership of Imperial Casualty and Indemnity
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Financial Privacy:
Prosecutors to seek 25 years for TJX hacker
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Private Equity:
PE Guidelines Causing ‘Outbreak of Hives’
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Fraud:
Galleon Prosecutors to File Robert Moffat Information
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Ex-IBM exec looks ready to plead guilty in Galleon
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Rajaratnam Lawyer Argues Over Wiretap Turnover
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Skeptical US court mulls Galleon wiretaps
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Stepkids Sue Lawyer’s Widow Over Alleged $1.4M Trust Investment With Bernard Madoff
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The New Financial Crime Wave
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Rothstein big spender on jewelry, slow to pay for purchases
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Rothstein Chabad Insider Speaks Out Against Rabbi, Secrecy
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Bankruptcy Crimes:
Meridian man sentenced for bankruptcy fraud
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Chemicals:
Chemtura Hit With $9B Claim Over Toxic Chemicals
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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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Sales:
Credit Bidding
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Student Debt:
Court sides with debtor in student loan case
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Celebs:
Lenny Dykstra Loses Bid For Insurance Money
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Avoidance Actions:
What happens when an avoidable transfer crosses international borders?
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Corporate Governance:
California Court of Appeal Provides Guidance For Directors Of Financially Distressed California Corporations
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Municipalities:
Villaraigosa warns of bankruptcy if L.A. City Council blocks electricity rate hike
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States Challenge Health Bill Saying Medicaid Expansion Will Bust Budgets
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Bloomberg Projects Worst NYC Job Cuts In Decades; As Many As 19,000 Could Face Ax
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California, in Financial Crisis, Opens Prison Doors
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Another hard year for California economy: report
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CA: 12 Local Schools Could Face Bankruptcy
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Municipalities and derivatives: Cities in the casino
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Pennsylvania’s state capital is on the brink of bankruptcy
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Horse Racing:
Auction for Md. horse tracks called off
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Magna Parent to Acquire Maryland Tracks
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Corporate Reform:
Wall Street Reform Flies Through Committee, Headed For Floor Fight
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Short Sellers Do Work of Cops on Doughnut Break
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Health Care:
States Sue to Block Health-Care Reform as Illegal
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Health Care Suits by States ’Unlikely to Succeed,’ Scholars Say
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Health Reform: How Much Will It Hurt?
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On Tort Reform and the Health-Care Bill: Where’d We End Up?
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What the Rich Will Pay for Health Care
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Will New Health Care Really Cut Costs?
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Health-care reform II: the sequel
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Distressed Investing:
Tennenbaum Capital Said to Raise Money for Distressed-Debt Fund
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Defaults:
Wacky Tobaccy, and the Debt Refi Cliff
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Oil/Gas:
Judge approves refinery sale order
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Golf:
Bankruptcy judge approves Reserve Club reorganization
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Movies:
Former studio CEO charged in film tax credit case
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UK:
British insolvencies fall 15% year-on-year
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Insolvency rules fail co-ops, say MPs
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Administrators' pre-appointment costs and pre-packs
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Alstom UK Board Members Arrested in Bribery Case, SFO Says
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Wales suffers lowest level of insolvencies
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Crackdown on 'phoenix' insolvency deals
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Moore Capital Worker Among Six Arrested for UK Insider Deals
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Britain Raids a Leading Hedge Fund
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EU:
Fitch downgrades Portugal on budget concerns
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Greek Rescue Spells Tragedy For The Euro
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Spain, France seek Eurogroup meeting on Greece
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Germany Sees Strong IMF Role on Greece, Official Says
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Versailles Redux
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Euro struggles at 10 month lows, Greece drags
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Greece:
Germany sets tough terms for EU help for Greece
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Germany Seems to Signal a Compromise on Greece
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Why Greece is not suffering quite enough yet
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A possible answer to Greece's debt - A new internal currency
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Canada:
Canwest Guilty of 'Gamesmanship' in Bankruptcy , Goldman Says
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CanWest broadcast sale urgent, court told
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A tough day nears for Abitibi workers
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Sahara Energy seeks protection under BIA (Sahara-Energy)
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Spain:
No Insolvent Financial Institutions In Spain
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Germany:
German Business Confidence Rises in March
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Ireland:
Investigators close in on Ireland's bankers
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Slovak Republic:
The Slovak Chapter 11
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China:
Mutually beneficial US-China economic relationship beginning to unravel
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