Law:
On Law Firms and Hiring: Is a New Paradigm On The Way?
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Law Firms Facing Fewer Positions, More Expectations
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God Awful Jobs for Lawyers Potpourri
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DLA Piper Latest Firm to 'Right-Size'
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At $60K Median Lawyer Salary, ‘It Will Be Very Difficult’ to Repay’ $100K+ in Debt
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When Cartels Unravel, Judicial Clerkship Market Edition
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Foreclosure King Defaults on Rent, $15 Million Loan
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Taking knocks in court, foreclosure lawyers facing Florida Bar investigations, too
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Legal Advice . . . on a Budget - Some Law Firms Begin Offering Small Businesses Flat-Monthly Fees
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BigLaw Practice May Be Less Attractive to Women, Expert Says
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Does Hiring Smart People Hurt Law Firms?
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Overbilling Results In 90 Day Suspension
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What's Wrong with ALF?
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Old School Ties Have Stranglehold on Lawyers
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Hughes Hubbard & Reed Takes on Multimillion-Dollar Pension Suit
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Foreclosure Suits, Bank of America, Vodafone in Court News
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ABA Battles FTC : Does Red Flags Rule Apply to Lawyers?
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D.C. Circuit Struggles With 'Red Flags Rule'
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Bar association seeks to regulate lawyers Facebook comments
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Firm Not Playing Around With Toymaker, Says It's Owed $10 Million Plus in Fees
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BigLaw Big Shot Hits the Road With Obama, Has No, Repeat No, Fun
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U of Miami Unveils New Legal Corps for Jobless Grads, Will Front $2.5K Stipend for Volunteer Gigs
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Turns Out Touro Is Even Crappier Than We Thought
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In Defense of Going to Law School: A Prudential Perspective
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Oh, Canada! Norton Rose To Take Over Ogilvy Renault
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Big changes in legal landscape as Ogilvys makes shocking move
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What's Behind Ogilvy Renault's Merger With Norton Rose?
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Am Law Tech Survey 2010 - A Cloudy Forecast
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Edit Microsoft Office Docs on Your Smartphone
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Erin Brockovich Goes Back to Work on Hinkley, Where Residents Claim New Chromium Problems
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Later, Bad Lawyer
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Four Loko, World's Deadliest Beverage, Fells Another Innocent Man
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Four Loko Stops Shipments to New York State
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Wanton Tamale Assault
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Do Not Drink From Toilet???
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'Exploding' escargot ignite saucy lawsuit
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The Scariest Man In The Pacific Northwest
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Football Widow Attacks Boyfriend With Hammer Over Man's NFL Devotion
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Judges:
NY Judge Quitting Over Low Pay
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Virginia Thomas Giving Up Tea Party Job
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Prop 8 judge to teach at UC-Berkeley
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Judge Amends Suit Against Lawyer, Deletes Extortion Claim
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Wall Street:
Stocks Drop for Seventh Day, US Futures Decline; Treasuries, Dollar Gain
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Ex-Wife of Actor Michael Douglas Loses Bid for Share of Profits from ‘Wall Street’ Sequel
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Goldman Sachs Boss Complains About 'Only' Making $9 Million
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Distrust spreads to Wall Street
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Calpers Drops `Name-and-Shame' Listing of Underperforming Stocks
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Layoffs:
Philly Fed Survey of Economists Sees Unemployment Rate Still Near 8% in 2013
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End of Jobless Benefits Is Political Plight
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Insurance:
Wisconsin Insurance Chief Seeks Approval for Ambac Plan to Repay Claims
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We're Bankrupt! (Oh, By the Way, Don't Forget Your Bonus ...)
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Newspapers:
Tribune Creditors Want to Expand Pursuit of Sam Zell, JPMorgan
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Sam Zell Really, Really Promises That He'll Go Away
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Zell doesn't criticize ex-CEO Michaels, says Tribune 'in dramatically better shape' than in '07
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Hedge Funds:
Hedge-Fund Inflows Surged In October - HedgeFund.net
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Phil Falcone Forced to Find a New Way to Pay the Bills
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Finance:
Chase Doubles SBA Loans
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M&A:
M.&A. to Hit $3 Trillion in 2011, Report Says
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M&A 101: Guide to Mergers, Part 2: Deal Protections
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Sales:
Re-opening bankruptcy auctions: is that your final answer?
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Secured party transactions under UCC Article 9: A strategic method of acquiring distressed assets
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Pensions:
Deficit widens for US pension insurer
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PBGC Helped Preserve Pensions For 360,000 In FY 2010
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As Payouts Rise, New Tactics by the US Pension Insurer
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Symphonies:
Orchestra Musicians Say Staff Cuts Have Been Requested
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Same Old Song: Louisville Orchestra Facing Money Woes
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Louisville Orchestra musicians fear threat of bankruptcy
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Lehman:
Lehman's structured notes clearly flawed, law firms allege
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Lehman's Archstone May Go Public Again Three Years After Buyout, CEO Says
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Health Care:
Hospital owes $20M for violating Stark Act
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Tangled litigation follows ex-bankrupt hospital sale
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Financial Literacy:
How to Teach Kids About Money
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Aviation:
JAL to dismiss up to 250 pilots, cabin attendants
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Pilots among those dismayed at scanners , pat-downs
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Soccer:
`Accidental' Portsmouth Owners Say They Need Luck to Get Back Investments
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Food/Drink:
Charlie Brown's Steakhouse closes restaurants
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Sovereigns:
Argentina to Start Talks Over Paris Club Debt Without IMF
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Aquaculture:
Factory fish farming: A track record of costly, messy failure
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Compensation:
SEC's pay rules may mimic TARP's - Compensation for brokers and firm executives would be subject to claw-backs if deemed excessive
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Economy:
Autos Drive Retail Sales ; Factory Report Worrisome
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New York Factory Activity Tumbles
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US Business Inventories Hit a Two Year High
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Fed’s Lacker Sees Inflation Risk as Jobless Rate Remains High
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Dudley Says Fed Critics Don't `Understand' Additional Stimulus, Exit Plan
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Weaker Dollar Seen as Unlikely to Cure Joblessness
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Backlash to bond-buying plan hampers Fed
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Bond Sell-Off in Spite of Intervention by Fed Puzzles Traders and Analysts
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One in 7 US households hit by hunger issues
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The Hijacked Commission
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Debt Reduction Plan Full Adoption Unlikely
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Deficit Panel Ignores $153 Trillion Hole
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Soaking the Rich, Cutting the Deficit
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Krugman: The Problem
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Liquidationists of the World, Unite!
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Fresh Attack on Fed Move
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The Next Lost Decade for Millionaires
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AIG Set to Repay $37 Billion in Bailout Money
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Economic Stress Map
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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:
S&P predicts more home price declines through 2011
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Sacred cow of mortgage tax relief needs slaughter
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Suits Over Foreclosure 'Robo-Signing' Are Piling Up
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Can homeowners reopen cases?
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Bank of America Foreclosure Reversed
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Do the Enemies of MERS Know What They Are Asking For?
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Gov't Prevents Fewer Foreclosures Than Planned
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Voices of Foreclosure Speak Daily About Desperation and Misery
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'Rocket docket' foreclosure access probed
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ACLU wants foreclosure hearings to remain public
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Re-Foreclosure, Counterfeit Notaries, and Petrified Lawyers: Tales of Foreclosure Fraud
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Lawyer Stern's public company defaults
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Florida foreclosure king's law firm can't pay bills
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Wells Fargo Dumps Foreclosure King
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Am I Paying for My House or the Brooklyn Bridge?
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Foreclosure mess impact could be severe: panel
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Robo-signers may jeopardize 33 million mortgages, securitization
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Questions could slow foreclosures in Florida
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Bankers Brace for Foreclosure Tongue-Lashing
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The Nine Most "Inconvenient" RoboSigning Admissions BofA Would Love To Disappear
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Foreclosure company finds itself in default
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8 loan servicing gripes
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Hard money: For a loan, he’ll take your home
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A Simple Solution to the Foreclosure Paperwork Mess
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BBVA: Strategic Default Concerns Are 'Overblown'
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Phoenix home prices falling
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Foreclosures mounting in Phoenix
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Detroit home sales and home prices drop in October from year ago
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Dallas home prices will drop through next summer
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Homebuilder stocks down across the board
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Historic Housing Decline Reaches 17th Consecutive Quarter Of Falling Home Values
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Statler deal gets two-week extension
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Erpenbeck bankers ordered to pay $13 million
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Cefalu LLC files for bankruptcy
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Bankruptcy trips up Brooklyn developer
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Berkshire Sells Home Depot Stake
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Pimco Cut Government-Related Holdings Last Month, Purchased More Mortgages
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Reserves Up at Home-Loan Agency
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Litigation:
Sanctions For E-Discovery Violations: By The Numbers
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Banking:
Insider Litigation: Round Two of a Fight That Will Last for Years
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Bailout Panel Warns of US Bank Mortgage Losses, Urges New Stress Tests
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Buffett's Berkshire Takes Stake in BNY Mellon, Adds to Wells Fargo Holding
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Paulson Trims Bank of America, Sells Entire Goldman Sachs Stake
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Battle With Bondholders Looms After G-20 Agrees on Basel Rules
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Autos:
GM Raises Sights for IPO
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Should GM Retirees Buy Company Stock?
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Why We're Sitting Out This GM IPO
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Ford Rises to Highest in More Than 6 Years in New York
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Rattner Says GM IPO May Price Higher Than Company's $26-$29 a Share Plan
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GM to raise IPO price to $33 a share
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Access to General Motors stock offering won't include many of its rescuers
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General Motors Said to Boost IPO Price By 14% as Demand Grows
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G.M. Rising: Who Gets the Credit?
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As General Motors readies IPO, long-term supporters wait for payout
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'Shiny GM': Revamped automaker goes public, but turnaround is far from done
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Lotus Adds Bob Lutz to its Extreme Makeover Team
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Credit or blame for Rick Wagoner?
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Retailing:
October Sales Bode Well For Retail's Holiday Season
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Consultants:
Alvarez & Marsal Names Jones, Stratton Asia Co-Heads
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Credit Cards:
Credit-Card Delinquencies Lower; Write-Offs Remain High
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Celebs:
Teresa Giudice's Attorney Says Denying Their Bankruptcy 'Would Destroy This Family'
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West Wing and Thirtysomething star Timothy Busfield may lose his house
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Law firm dismisses fee lawsuit against Rod Stewart
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Wesley Snipes to argue for new trial in Fla.
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Lohan Gets A Police Escort Back To Hollywood
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Furniture:
Lack's Furniture Store Chain Seeks Bankruptcy Protection
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Lack's to close its 36 stores
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Sports:
Beach Volleyball Tour Operator to Sell Assets
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Utilities:
Constellation Is Successful Bidder For Boston Generating Assets
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Special Committee Completes Review Process for Boston Generating Sale
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Boston Generating Supports Constellation Sale After Bid Review
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IP:
Piracy hotspot Bangladesh bootlegged to bankruptcy
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Corporate Governance:
Good Faith and the Lyondell Decision
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Debt Collection:
Class Blasts 'Robo-Signing' Default Judgments
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Private Equity:
Private-equity firms speed date for cash
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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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Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Miscellaneous:
P.J. Solomon's New Restructuring Head Counsels Bankruptcy Avoidance
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Cynergy, PPI, Capmark, Wind Hellas, Ambac, Trico: Bankruptcy
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A-Tec Unit, Japan Air, Exista, Honsel, Irish Banks: Bankruptcy
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Bankruptcies Up in Minnesota
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Bankruptcy Poetry:
Haiku: G20 Meeting
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Avoidance Actions:
Adversary actions filed in MPC bankruptcy
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Cross-Border:
Chapter 15 recognition: Fairfield Sentry Limited (in liquidation)
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Awards:
Mintz Levin Attorney Paul Ricotta to Be Named Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy
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Corporate Reform:
Squeezing Barney Frank Into Elizabeth Warren's Chair?
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Arent Fox’s Radke on Cashing in at the SEC
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Interview: White House Consumer Czar Elizabeth Warren
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Politics:
Seniors, entitlements, and the midterms
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Municipalities:
Are Municipal Bond Markets Collapsing?
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Municipal Funds Fall Most in Two Years as Bonds Drop, Borrowing Costs Rise
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Gambling:
Have casinos contributed to rising bankruptcy rates?
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Station Casinos Announces Third Quarter Results
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Ethanol:
Pacific Ethanol reports loss as it restructures
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The U.S. Is Spending Billions Just To Subsidize A Massive Glut Of Ethanol Production
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Fraud:
Rothstein victims fight settlement
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Was energy trader a one-woman Enron?
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Man convicted in $80M Ponzi scheme
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Ponzi swindler sentenced to 41 months in prison, $15 million restitution
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Anonymous Salt-and-Pepper Lothario Buys Bernie Madoff Diamond
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Woman Buys Ruth Madoff a Present at Auction of Her Stuff
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Lawyer Seeks Class-Action Against SEC Over Madoff
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The 1% Club: the story behind Weizhen Tang—Toronto's Bernie Madoff
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Abramoff associate convicted of 5 counts in corruption case, not guilty of 3 in retrial
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Hecker Case Attorneys: Show me the Money!
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More Charges in Giant Hedge Fund Case
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UK:
Sharing Ireland's pain
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English Court of Appeal Gives Thumbs Up to Senior Lenders’ Enforcement Strategy and Throws Out Junior Creditors’ Challenge on Intercreditor Release Provisions
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Percentage of petitions submitted by HMRC to wind-up companies jumps by a third in just one year
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Winding Up Petitions - 15th November 2010
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Taylor Wimpey sees profit at top end of views
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Finance chief quits Taylor Wimpey
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Big rise in families facing debts
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UK Retail Rents Starting To Rise In Prime Locations
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UK Inflation Rate Increases to 3.2%, Forcing King Letter
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EU:
Europe Fears That Debt Crisis Is Ready to Spread
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Deutsche Bank CEO:Too Early To Discuss Another Round In Crisis
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Portugal Fin Min: No request for financial aid
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Ireland , Portugal and Greece worry eurozone ahead of talks
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EU Could Swap Sovereign Debts, Ireland Needs Restructuring, Roubini Writes
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Eurozone members pressed on debt plans
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Irish woes should speed Europe’s default plan
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German bond proposal sparks unrest in EU's big debtors
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Sarkozy Under Pressure as France Feels Irish Heat
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The Austerity Zone: Life in the New Europe
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Euro-Zone Inflation Hits Two-Year High
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Greece:
Amid Strains, Greece Lashes Out at Germany
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German stance may push nations to bankruptcy -Greek PM
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Greece admits breach of bailout as audit begins
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Ireland:
Pressure building on Ireland to seek EU help
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Ministers are expected to put pressure on Ireland to accept a bailout
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Irish in crisis talks with EU nations, refuse aid
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Irish reluctant to take EU handout
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Irish Bond Yield Spread Will Widen Again Without Aid, Deutsche Bank Says
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Ireland Refuses EU Financial Aid - Will Hire U.S.A.'s Ben Bernanke To Print More Money :)
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Ireland's Cowen to Weigh EU Steps to Shore Up Banking System
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Ireland's Cowen Says High Funding Cost Not an 'Immediate' Issue
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Ireland signals banks, not state, may need help
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Irish PM: Engaged With Partners To Underpin Financial Stability
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Austerity fails to save Ireland
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US asks for High Court help in Drumm case
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Judge to consider US trustee's application
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Drumm to come face-to-face with Anglo Irish in Boston today
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He's 'broke', but Drumm hires decorators for his $2m mansion
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China:
Bankruptcy law comes to China
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China Limits Foreign Property Investment
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China's Banks Stop Real Estate Loans
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'State Capitalism' in China Sparks Backlash
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What's the Good of a House?
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Portugal:
Portugal admits 'it could need EU bail-out'
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Portuguese Foreign Minister Says Country May Need To Leave Euro
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Germany:
Even re-insured companies must pay insolvency levy, German court rules
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German Business Confidence Gains More Than Forecast
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Hypo Real Estate Loss Narrows After Reducing Provisions for Bad Loans
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E.U. Gives WestLB More Time To Craft Restructuring Plan
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Canada:
Restructuring costs drive AbitibiBowater Q3 loss
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