Law:
Weil Gotshal tops M&A advisers as market opens up
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Lawyers Vie at Toyota Hearing
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In Battle of Toyota Lawyers, It’s Mark v. Mark v. Mark
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Toyota Asks to Have More than 200 Lawsuits Heard Before One Judge
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Attorneys Argue Over Venue for Toyota Litigation
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Suit by Fired Davis Wright Secretary Says Overwork After Layoffs Caused Panic Attacks
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Top Law Firm Taps Ex-Partners to Lead Client Survey
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Duane Morris Increases Revenue 5 Percent, PPP 4 Percent
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Ashurst, Clifford Chance, Latham Leading on Latest Dubai Debt Restructuring
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GTM bulks up restructuring with hire of Kirkland London partner duo
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What Did Clifford Chance Offer to Pay to Settle a Discrimination Case?
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Ropes & Gray Moves to Dismiss Malpractice Suit
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Pls Hndle Thx: High Anxiety
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Attorney/Client Privilege Not Waived When Using Employer's Computer
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Schulte Nixes Seamless Before 8:30
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44% of female UK lawyers think flexible working harms career
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Wiley Rein Inks 335,240-SF Renewal in CBD
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Foreign Companies Fight ‘Class-Action Mills’ at Top U.S. Court
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Top State Court Fines County $371K for Delayed Response to 1997 Public Records Request
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Open Letter to "New Lexis.com" - Learn from WestlawNext Mistakes
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Legal Secretary of the Day: Not Getting Fired Leads to Getting Fired
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Lawyer Staged His Suicide to Look Like a Murder, Say Police
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Escaped Convict Captured After Telling of His Exploits on Facebook
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The Hills Have Thighs
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Law Student Who Sued School re Grade Needs to Study Up on Contract Law, Appeals Court Says
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One-Elle: Female Law Students in Pop Culture
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Law Student Gets Some Cash from Game Show
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Bar Function :)
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Judges:
Judge could be Supreme Court contender
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Judge's action in 9/11 health case raises eyebrows
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Crowded field lines up for federal judgeships
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Judge in Hot Seat After Marrying Alleged Abuser to Beating Victim
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5th Circuit Scolds Miss. Federal Judge Over Delays
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Breyer and Scalia Take Their Road Show Inside
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Unsound and Unfit
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In Possible Retirement, the Likelihood of an Election-Year Confrontation
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Wall Street:
Wall St futures point to higher open; data eyed
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China, HK shares rise on rate views, Greece debt plan
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Markets Pull Back, Giving Up the Day’s Gains
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New York Helicopter Commute for $200 a Day Signals Revival
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Layoffs:
New jobless claims less than expected
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Don’t Be Shocked by Jobs Boom Next Week
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Young Workers Squeezed Out of Job Market
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Newspapers:
New debt drama at Philadelphia paper
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Secret Taping of Meeting on Agenda at Newspaper Hearing
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Paper:
Xerium sales sink as bankruptcy looms
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Aviation:
Japan Air Creditors May Sell 191 Billion Yen of Debt to ETIC
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Japan Air to Stop Flying Freighters by End of October
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Private Equity:
PE Ties Can Lead To Defaults, And Recoveries Too
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PE Firms Backed Almost Half of Non-Financial Companies That Defaulted
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Derivatives:
Ambac restructuring may trigger CDS payments
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Lehman:
More on Lehman and Repo 105: The Auditors Attempt to Explain
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Lehman Examiner's Report Misleading, Lawyers Say
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Recent ruling by Lehman court further complicates law on derivatives
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Sen. Kaufman: We Are Going After Lehman Brothers Over Accounting Shenanigans
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Lessons from the Lehman Autopsy
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Lehman case revives dark memories of Enron times
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Behind Lehman's Faith in Real-Estate Riches
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Privacy:
Air America Auctioning Off User E-Mail Addresses – So Much For “Will Not Be Divulged To Any Third Party”
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Opera:
End of the aria as opera falls on hard times
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Chemicals:
LyondellBasell prices $2.75 billion senior notes
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Hotels:
Financing woes imperil Des Plaines hotel projects
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Religion:
Child Abuse Leaves Irish Churches Scouring for Money
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Crystal Cathedral in Calif. owes money to vendors
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Wilmington diocese, victims close to mediation
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Economy:
First-Time U.S. Unemployment Filings Decline
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Income, Population, Jobs and Home Prices by State
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Bernanke Signals Asset Sales May Have Bigger Role
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Bernanke: Record-low rates needed to aid economy
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Bernanke: Jobless Recovery Leaves No Urgency on Deficits
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Bernanke testifies deficit needs to go from 10 percent of GDP to 3 percent
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Fed's Exit Strategy is Full of Danger
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Is This the Best the Economy Will Get?
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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:
Prepare to Pay 15% Less for New U.S. Homes
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Is Obama’s Mortgage Modification Program Actually Helping Anyone?
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US Treasury defends homeowner assistance plan
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Gov't to unveil plan to shrink some home loans
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Declining Mortgage Performance in Q409 Means More Foreclosures Ahead: Feds
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Obama administration to order lenders to cut mortgage payments for jobless
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Treasury Adds New Consumer Protections to HAMP
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Radar Logic Predicts Low Mortgage Rates after Fed Exits MBS
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Is the U.S. Housing Sector Regressing?
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Half of US Home Loan Modifications Default Again
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Households Facing Foreclosure Rose in 4th Quarter
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New HAMP Rules Help Those Already in Foreclosure, Bankruptcy
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Citigroup Wins $85.7 Million Ruling in Solow Lawsuit
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Bernanke: Fed Likely to Sell Some of Its Mortgages Eventually
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Cash Dwindling For No-Money Down Home Loan Program
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Federal jury delivers guilty verdict in Johnson mortgage fraud case
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Bushnell Regency files Chapter 11
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The Commercial Real Estate Pretend and Extend Strategy Continues
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Brother eyed in title case
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Texas Leads Nation in Foreclosure Gains
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What Can Happen If You Walk Away from Your Mortgage
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Health Care:
NYC's St. Vincent's Hospital fights for life
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St. Mary's Hospital emerges from Chapter 11
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Cerberus to Buy Caritas Christi in $830 Million Deal
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Hope, hesitation over Caritas deal
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Obamacare: Are Charity Hospitals Now a Hot Commodity?
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Medical Staffing Network warns of Chapter 11
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Medical Developers, Hospitals Early Winners as Health Care Overhaul Becomes Law
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Vendors try to stop Spheris bankruptcy sale
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White House Defends Constitutionality of Health-Care Bill
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Suits Challenging Health Care Law Explore Uncharted Legal Territory
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Senate Passes Set of Changes to Health Care Overhaul
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Health Law Surprise Is Page 1,617 Demanding Which Drugs Work
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Banking:
John Mack’s Short Story Was Too Dumb to Fail
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Wells Fargo Loses Bid to Dismiss Muni Bond Suit
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Distressed Investing:
Investment Funds Mining Bankruptcy Courts for Distressed Opportunities
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Retailing:
What if Zale filed for bankruptcy?
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General Growth plan filing a trigger for rival bids
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Best Buy Busts A Move
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Borders’ Pershing Square Loan Coming Due
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Autos:
Chrysler's March sales fall on lower incentives
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Chrysler sends reinstatement letters to some dealers
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Stockman pays $4.4M to settle investor suits
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GM to make 2nd government loan payment by March 31
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General Motors Lowers Sponsorship Spending by Sixty Percent
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Rising auto sales could rescue Michigan, Big Three
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Student Debt:
Revamping of Student Loans Approved by Senate
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5 Myths About Student Loan Reform
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Corporate Reform:
Who Wall Street Hates the Most: Warren, Barofsky or Angelides?
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Remember middle-class families? Elizabeth Warren does
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The Folksy Wisdom of Elizabeth Warren
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Heading Off the Next Financial Crisis
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Consumer activists keep fighting for independent CFPA
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Shelby Says Finance Bill Won't Cure 'Too Big to Fail'
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Satellites:
WorldSpace’s plan to de-orbit satellites approved
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Pensions:
D.O.J. Said to Examine Calpers Transactions
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AIG:
A.I.G.’s Near Collapse Yields Gold for Wall Street
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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 Jobs:
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Seminars
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Bankruptcy Reform:
US labor seeks bankruptcy reform, exec pay curbs
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Top Five Reasons Why People Go Bankrupt
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Insurance:
Ambac Is Pushed Closer to Bankruptcy
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Ambac & the Safe Harbors
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Insurance commissioner takes control of $35 billion in mortgage securities
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Wisconsin Quarantines $64 Billion in Ambac Assets
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Ambac Clients May Receive 25 Cents on Dollar in Cash
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Bankruptcy For Ambac?
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An AIG Lesson From Wisconsin
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Fraud:
Madoff and Affinity Fraud
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Reputed Mafioso allegedly connected to Scott Rothstein pleads not guilty
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Jeweler Claims No Knowledge Of Rothstein Scheme
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Judge Denies Creditors’ Bid To Snag Dreier’s Art
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It Couldn't Be Worse for Igor (The UBS Investment Banker)
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Hecker pleads not guilty to 18 newest fraud charges
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Denny Hecker: Criminal trial set for October
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Bankrupt trust seizes Treasurer Street's wages
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Celebs:
Jodi Kantor's Beloved Liberal Heroine, Bankruptcy Expert Elizabeth Warren
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Accounting:
Can the SEC’s New Chief Accountant of Enforcement Division Stay Focused?
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Closing the Repo 105 Loophole
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Mass Torts:
The asbestos-causation hall pass
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Debt Collection:
Preparing for an Administrative Tidal Wave in the ARM Industry
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Hollywood:
Lions Gate will not raise bid for MGM
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Credit Cards:
Hacker Gets 20 Years in Largest Card Theft in U.S. History
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Agriculture:
Killing Strawberries Because of Low Prices
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Defaults:
Apocalypse Not
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Payroll Services:
Former clients of Hoboken company say they're feeling the IRS heat over unpaid payroll taxes
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Compensation:
Credit Suisse CEO is World's 2nd Highest Paid Banker (Seriously)
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CEO Pay Drops, but…Cash Is King
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Finance:
Are 'Covenant-Lite' Loans Back on the Menu?
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Gambling:
Station proposes selling 14 casinos through court
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A Double Flop for the Fontainebleau
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Municipalities:
JPMorgan, Lehman, UBS Named as Conspirators in Muni Bid-Rigging
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Toll Roads:
SoCal Toll Road Goes Belly Up
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UK:
Keep your insolvency event clauses up to date
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Jarvis on track to call in administrators
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FSA Probe Said to Focus on Block Trade Front-Running
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EU:
Euro falls to 10-mth low vs dollar on Greece proposal
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'Greece Is a Crucial Test' for Euro
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EU Holds Off on Tightening to Help Greece
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Canada:
Charges of Bankruptcy Fraud for Peter Puck
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Ontario sets aside $500 million for Nortel pensioners
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Ireland:
Will bankruptcy law be changed . . . to save lawyers?
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Middle East:
New Funding Proposed to Restructure Dubai World
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Will creditors buy an eight-year payment option?
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Long road to Dubai World solution
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Dubai May See Dawn
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Greece:
Greece's Bottom Line: Too Many Tax Cheats
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Greece Should Have Been Left To Die
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Stock futures rise after Greece gets bailout
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Russia:
Yukos haunts Rosneft A specter of litigation
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Japan:
‘Worthless’ Homes Targeted as Japan Pushes Renovation
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