Law:
Lehman Trustee Law Firm Got $84 Million in 19 Months
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Kirkland & Ellis Is to Represent BP in Big-Ticket Oil Spill Litigation
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Dreier's Ex Opposes Trustee's Fees
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Proskauer Rose finalizes 11 Times Square move
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Law Firm Inks $852 Million Outsourcing Deal
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Time, Time, Time, See What's Become of Me
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‘Trust But Verify,’ Court Tells 2 Lawyers Suspended Over Partner’s $17M Fraud
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Rethinking the Law Firm Workplace
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Mintz Levin 2012 Deferral Follow Up
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Terrible Tales From Desperate Job Seekers: Immigration law applicants get the Ellis Island treatment
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Test Drive! Law School Paying Firms to Hire Graduates
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Deposition Company Ended Overseas Outsourcing Over Quality Problems
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Forget Work/Life Balance: All Work Is Great Fun for Some, Says Consultant
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Law Prof Blasts Schools as ‘Feminist Seminaries and Psychotic Kindergartens’
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Faced with Mandatory Retirement, Two Partners Form Boutique with 22 Others
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Old People Will Not Go Quietly
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McDermott Hit With Layoff-Related Age Bias Suit
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Jamaica's Prime Minister Expresses 'Profound Regret' for Extradition Fight, Manatt Hiring
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Illinois Auditor Slams Blagojevich Over Legal Fees, Outside Counsel
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Laid-Off Associate Wins Reverse Bias Judgment
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Attorney Draws Ethics, Criminal Charges for Cursing at Another Lawyer
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Ex-Law Partner Secreted Assets from Tennis Star Jimmy Connors, Suit Contends
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Defense Lawyer Holds Possible Record for Most Clients Sentenced to Death
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Jurors May Be Swayed by a Pretty Face, Study Finds
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Lawyer of the Day: The Burka Brawler
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Lawyer Catches ID Mixup Missed By ‘Incredibly Bored’ Screener at LaGuardia
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Woman Sues Cellular Provider for Revealing Affair in Bill
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As the world stops: Good Wife
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Judges:
Elena Kagan's Senior Thesis: 'Socialism' and Beyond
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The effort to ‘out’ Kagan
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Kagan Discloses She Met With Skadden Lawyers Before Nomination
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New Book Says Obama Offered Skadden's Craig Judgeship
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Elena Kagan’s Celebrity Doppelgänger Is…
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9/11 families blast Kagan
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Judge projects fair image on Goldman destiny
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Grassley vote will signal his approach to court picks r
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Supreme Court nomination of Kagan: WASP tradition triumphs
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"Why does Justice Antonin Scalia have nine children?"
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Wall Street:
Futures point to weak Wall St on regulation worries
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Stocks Turn Lower After Euro Falls to 4-Yr Low
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Hong Kong's Stock Index Falls to 14-Week Low
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German market plunges after short selling ban
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Six-month test period for US trading curbs
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A patch for Wall Street's bad habits
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SEC Proposes Circuit Breakers for 10% Swings in Stock Prices
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Layoffs:
Unemployment by the Numbers
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Pfizer Cutting 6,000 Jobs and Closing Eight Plants
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Pfizer axes hundreds of jobs in Britain and Ireland
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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:
Could Financial Reform Pass This Week?
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Senate Republicans Call Reform Bill a ‘Takeover’ of the Banking Industry
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Warren on Looming Pre-Emption Compromise: “States Ought to Be Able to Enforce Their Own Laws”
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Senators load financial overhaul with irrelevancies
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Wall Street Overhaul Not So Bad For Wall Street
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Dodd seeks to delay swap reg
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Probes in all corners of Wall Street heat up
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Bank-state senators try to weaken reform bill
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Senators load financial overhaul with irrelevancies
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Banking:
Hundreds Protest Outside Bankers' Houses In DC
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BofA: The D.C. Protests Didn't Happen That Way
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FDIC Groans Under Weight of Toxic CDOs
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The "Inflatable" Charter
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FDIC scores big with TD Bank purchase of South Financial
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JPMorgan eyes sustained recovery, dividend raise
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George Soros no longer betting on Citigroup
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Goldman whodunit
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Small banks made bad decisions, too, as Georgia illustrates
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Washington Mutual, FDIC reach reorganization deal
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ShoreBank gets infusion of capital to avoid FDIC takeover
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Health Care:
Massachusetts Insurers Post Big Losses
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Doctors fleeing Medicare in droves
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Insurance:
Ambac shares slump after quarterly loss
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Radio:
Citadel Broadcasting Wins Bankruptcy Plan Approval
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Gambling:
Trump Resort Casinos' Bankruptcy Ruling Appealed By Bank
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Sun Cruz casino boat up and running
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Economy:
Housing Starts Jump, Wholesale Prices Decrease
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Recovery Will be a Tug of War
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Volcker Says Time Is Running Out for U.S. to Tackle Fiscal Woes
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Wake up, America
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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:
New home construction surges 41%
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Home Building Up, but New Permits Fall
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Mortgage Default Rates Lower as Consumers Choose Property Over Plastic
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The Maddening World of Mortgage Modifications
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Ocwen, HomeEq Hold Highest HAMP Conversion Percentage in April
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Canceled HAMP Trials Jump 80% in April
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Foreclosures spark a new business: Specializing in short sales
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Nearly 40 percent of California foreclosures were rentals
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Justice Department Investigating Hamptons NY Property Market
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Real Estate Bankruptcies: Next Wave Features Underwater Assets, Complex Structures
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Stall in Applications for Federal Mortgage Program
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Grading Bob Toll, the Father of McMansions
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Derivatives:
Bankruptcy and Derivatives: What’s All the Fuss, Anyway?
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Awards:
Elizabeth Warren named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2010
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DC Bar Names Zuckerman Spaeder LLP 2010 Pro Bono Law Firm of the Year
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The Lawyer Recognizes Weil Among the Transatlantic Elite
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Retailing:
Wal-Mart Profit Rises 10% on International Growth
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Distressed consumer no longer boon for Wal-Mart
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Oil/Gas:
BP Doubles the Estimated Bill for Oil Clean Up
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Salazar: BP will pay all costs
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BP insists oil spill impact 'very modest'
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Ken Salazar: Gov't failed to assure drilling safety
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Interior Department Hit With Lawsuit Over BP Oil Spill
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Fight Begins Over Venue for Deepwater Horizon Litigation
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Transocean punished for legal tactics in old spill - Company used bankruptcy, "gamesmanship" of courts
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Interior Secretary says offshore oil still needed
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Obama plans independent commission on BP spill
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Tighter regulations to follow Gulf oil spill
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The Bumbler From BP - How CEO Tony Hayward is making the Gulf oil-spill disaster even worse
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Independent oil producers fight proposal to hike liability cap
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Scientists Look for Signs That Spill Is Spreading
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Coming Hurricane Season Could Complicate Gulf Oil Spill Disaster
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U.S. expands no-fishing zone around oil spill
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Oil spill to shut down 19 percent of Gulf fishing
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The Oil and the Loop Current
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Florida, Gulf States May Suffer From BP Oil Spill, Moody's Says
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Ted Turner: Is God speaking in Gulf Coast spill?
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Rivers Of Oil And The Limits Of Control
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Oil's true cost
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Oil rising again after a 2-week selloff
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Aviation:
Mesa Air may lay off 500 after Delta wins ruling
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Ash may push European airlines into bankruptcy, mergers
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Food/Drink:
Fuddruckers Franchisees Oppose Sale to Tavistock
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Got a Sam Seltzer's gift card? Good luck with that
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Lehman:
Billionaire in $12.4m Lehman claim row
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Dismissal Motion Denied in Case Alleging Lehman-Related Exposure
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Credit Cards:
New Credit Card Law to Save Consumers $5B
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Credit Card Industry Blindsided by Senate
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Credit-Card Industry Faces ‘Volcanic’ Senate Eruption
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Parking:
Aurora Buys Parking Company America Airports out of Bankruptcy
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Hockey:
Third ownership group talking to NHL, Glendale about Coyotes
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Trucking:
What trucking statistics—yes, trucking—can tell us about the economy
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IdleAire ready to make a comeback
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Workouts:
Junk Debt Maturities Likely to Spark Wave of Distressed Swaps
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Municipalities:
Leaders acknowledge Antioch could face bankruptcy
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Candidates won't rule out bankruptcy for sewer debt
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Conspiracy of Banks Rigging States Came With Crash
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Taxpayer Bailout Prohibition for States, Localities Fails
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Short-run tax hikes being used to fill gaps
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Derivative Disaster Spreads to Local Governments
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Equipment Rentals:
Wayzata, Apollo to Recapitalize Bankrupt Neff Rental
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Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory
Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Bankruptcy Audits:
USTP Audits of Consumer Bankruptcies Finds Stable Rate of Misstatements
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Bankruptcy Filings Last Year Largest Rise Since 2006, increasing 27%
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Turnarounds:
Uncertainty Reigns in Commercial Real Estate Market
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The World on Sale: Sourcing, Executing Distressed Commercial Real Estate Deals
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Triage Required to Address Ills in Real Estate Holdings
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Attacks Continue on Lenders’ Right to Credit Bid in 363 sales
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Litigation:
Toro, Toro! Why You May Want Your Lawyers to See Red
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Mechanisms That Help Reduce the Cost of E-Discovery
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Rating Agencies:
KPMG considered entering credit-rating market
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Accounting:
Transparency’s New Advocate
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Arabian Nights Saga Features Big Four Firms
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BDO Not Thrilled with the Legal Advice It Got Re: Tax Shelters
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Imprisoned Russian Billionaire Shows Americans How To Protest Tax Injustices
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Tax:
Are You Saying That An IRS Collection Agent Might Not Be Completely Honest with a Taxpayer?
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Compensation:
The Fat Cat Hypothesis
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Hedge Funds:
Rise and Fall of a Hedge Fund
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Lobbyist Is Said to Supply Fund Names to Congress
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Bobbing as the Taxman Weaves
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Politics:
Specter Defeat Signals a Wave Against Incumbents
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Tea Party puts Rand Paul over the top in KY
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Fraud:
Rajaratnam Can’t See Khan’s SEC Records, Judge Rules
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Clients Worried About Goldman's Dueling Goals
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Goldman to Face SEC Deputy Director in Subprime Securities Suit
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Ruth was no babe in Madoff's scam
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Informant Urges Australia to Investigate Goldman
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Stanford, in Dershowitz Filing, Says Rights Violated
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The Allen Stanford Case Continues to Be a Total Fiasco
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Another Week, Another Lawyer Change for Allen Stanford
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Santander Cited Madoff Risk in 2006, Investors Say
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Amount of Fair Finance return still in limbo
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Bank employee claims Rothstein ignorance
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Autos:
GM And Ford Take Different Paths To Profit
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It's too early for GM to party
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Taxpayer profit on GM bailout becoming more likely
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Washington turns its attention away from GM, big profits or no
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Old GM sites would receive funding for clean up
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UAW chief expects 12 mln US vehicle sales in 2010
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Michigan lawmakers discuss protections for auto dealerships in wake of closings
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Bensusan Asks That Prebul Not Be Allowed To Discharge Debt Through Bankruptcy
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Academia:
Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts and Breakups (Second Edition)
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Alternative Fuels:
Bankruptcy court OKs sale of Dixie Pellets property
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UK:
Channel braces for insolvency surge
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Equifax adds prompt payment code to business reports
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EU:
Germany Goes Rogue
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European Businesses Hit in Credit Squeeze From Greek Crisis
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Merkel Pushes Europe to Curb 'Destructive' Markets
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Sovereign Crisis Spurs 'Lehman II' Concern in Europe
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5 Reasons Europe Won't Run the 21st Century
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E.U. Farm Subsidies: Agriculture Benefits Raise Eyebrows
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Merkel Seeks EU Rules After German Short-Selling Ban
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Greece:
Did U.S. Banks Hasten Greek Demise?
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Go Ahead and Default, Greece!
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Canada:
Beware the coming credit card hit on Canadian families
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Canada campaigns against global bank tax
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China:
Chinese Stocks Retreat Abruptly From 2009 Gains
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Thailand:
Thailand's biggest dept store destroyed in riots
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