October 11, 2010

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Law:

Big Law Firms Step In on Foreclosure Cases
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Louisiana, Texas and Florida Lawyers to Lead BP Oil-Spill Cases
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Spill fund legal fees so far: $2.5 million
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Ex-Rothstein COO Gets Maximum 10-Year Prison Sentence
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Boies Will Be Boies: Litigator's Full Dance Card Provokes Ex-Client to Sue Firm
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Freshfields and Hogan act on milestone German ‘bad bank’ deal
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Pls Hndle Thx
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Do law firms care about staff morale?
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Last Week in Biglaw
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Franchised Law Firm Launches Aggressive Expansion Drive
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Legal Jobs on the Rise as Overall Jobs Numbers Decline
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Lawyer Transitions: Giving Notice Without Burning Bridges
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Jobless Law Grad Is Glad He Went to Law School
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Life Perfect After Law? Only if You Buy the Pitch
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Houston legal firm offers attorneys a la carte
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Eversheds restructures to avoid brand confusion
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Optimism as Addleshaws unfreezes salaries
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12 IP Partners, 14 Associates Leaving Howrey
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Judge Tosses Chevron's Malicious Prosecution Case Against Lawyer
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Judge Overseeing Oil Spill Suits Picks 15 Lawyers for Lead Roles
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Court Rules Attorney Fees Are Admissible in Tyco Battle
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Meet Michelle Paver, Ex-Partner Whose Solo Treks Led to Best-Selling Children’s Series
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Specialists’ Help at Court Can Come With a Catch
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Coping With Socially Networked Jurors
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Lawyers Gone Rogue
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Are Your Conference Calls Like This?
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Jamaican Lawyer's Suit Against Prime Minister Raises More Manatt Questions
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You Think I'm Being Sarcastic? You Think?
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A stinker of a legal case: Law firm sues burger joint over cooking smells
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Small Man, Big Suit
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No Home At UPS
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Snakes In A Court
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Best Law Firm Website Photo Ever
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Ten Lawyer Commercials You Have to Watch . . . Right Now
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Botched sting leads to dismissal of case against law librarian
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Sidley Austin Team Helps Free Innocent Man Convicted of Quadruple Homicide
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Judges:

Attorneys seek bankruptcy judge’s recusal in in Miami
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Federal Judge, In Stunning Development, Slaps Securities Lawyers With Sanctions
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Lawyers React With Shock and Disbelief to Federal Judge's Drug Arrest
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Seamy allegations don't fit Jack Camp's courtly life
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Judges gone wild all over the South
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FBI: Stripper, drugs, guns and judge don't mix
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Prominent judge tapped to oversee Camp case
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Judge Who Pleaded Guilty in Pa. Corruption Scandal Reaches New Plea Deal
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"Jersey Shore" Ends Up Being Ugly Reality for Judge Who Fixed Case
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Is That Like the 1000th Amendment?: Judge Pleads the Fifth More That 200 Times in Corruption Probe
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Clarence Thomas' Wife a Tea Party Activist
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Wall Street:

Stock index futures signal higher opening
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Stocks gain on prospect of Fed purchases
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Dow Closes Above 11,000
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Stock Market Keeps Rolling No Matter What the News
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Signing Bonuses Haunt Wall Street
(WSJ: separate paid subscription required)

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Layoffs:

Government needs to step it up on jobs
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Nearly 5 Jobless Workers Per Opening in August
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Why the jobless gender gap persists
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Unfilled Openings Frustrate the Jobless
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What’s Holding Employers Back?
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Jobs Report Sparks War of Words Between White House, GOP
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Both Parties Spinning the Jobless Numbers
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World Job Crisis Threat to Democracy
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Treasury: 8.1M Hires Qualify for Tax Break
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Discharge:

The Future of Third-Party Releases and Exculpations
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Resorts:

Bankrupt founder of Montana resort for the ultrarich faces criminal probe
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Historic Arizona golf resort may be in danger of foreclosure
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Bankrupt Sea Island goes on auction block
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AnchorBank prepares to take over foreclosed resort
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Academia:

Competing Narratives in Corporate Bankruptcy: Debtor in Control vs. No Time to Spare
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Economy:

September Jobs Data Raises Odds of Fed Asset Buying
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Credit boom’s biggest casualty: U.S. lifestyles
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Is The Middle Class Really Disappearing?
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Household net worth climbing
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Manufacturing's Brief Rebound
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I Can Afford Higher Taxes. But They'll Make Me Work Less.
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Global clash over economy
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Central bankers are huddling in search of a magic elixir to ward off deflation
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Can IMF teach emerging market lessons to rich world?
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Fed Easing No Fix for High Unemployment as Mechanics Not Made in Textiles
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Midnight Grocery Runs Sign of the Times
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How Paulson's Inaction Helped Goldman Sachs
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Geithner: 5 Myths on TARP
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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:

Momentum builds for full moratorium on foreclosures
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Foreclosure alarms rang months ago
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The Finality of Foreclosure Sales
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The Foreclosure Mess Goes National
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Florida Officials Told by Ex-Worker of Foreclosure Firm Lapses
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Foreclosure problems hitting home in Wis.
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Pressure on nation's mortgage lenders intensifies
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Robo-signer effect on housing market reaching critical mass
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Officials in 40 States Said to Consider Joint Foreclosure Probe
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Bank of America halts foreclosures in all states
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Wells Fargo will not join BofA in foreclosure suspension
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Cantor Opposes Foreclosure Moratorium: ‘People Have To Take Responsibility For Themselves’
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The Real Scandal of the Foreclosure Mess
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White House doubts need to halt all foreclosures
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Obama administration had been warned of foreclosure signing problems
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The Politics of Foreclosure
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Buyer anxiety mounts
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Foreclosure mistakes more than technicalities
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Foreclosure freeze could put banks at home in DC
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Foreclosure freeze may actually hinder recovery
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Lawmakers Struggle to Address Foreclosure Fiasco
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Latest foreclosure crisis: Is that bank takeover legal?
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Fanning The Flames Of Moral Hazard With Foreclosure Moratorium
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The Foreclosure Mess: We All Need to Calm Down
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The Forgery Is O.K. When the Bank Does It Act
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Owners of First National Center in Oklahoma City declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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Underwater and still paying your mortgage? Why? asks the Wall Street Journal.
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Beverly Hills Buildings Set For Foreclosure
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Regions Bank challenges EpiCentre claims on finances
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Creditors, Kuhn again at odds
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Condo developer Patch files for bankruptcy
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Homebuyers, Lenders Return to Mortgage Market
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'Phantom of the Fox' Fights to Save Home
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Bankruptcy trustee cancels Berg's $70K fee
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Lawsuits piling up over Mastro Jr. apartments
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Moody's withdraws servicer quality rating from Barclays' HomEq
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Nearly half of homes for sale now discounted
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Home Prices Must Drop or Incomes Rise
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Pensions:

Wal-Mart to End Worker Profit-Sharing Contributions in February
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No Social Security COLA expected for 2011
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Corporate Reform:

Bankers hit the Go-Slow alarm on regulatory crackdown
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New bank rules would protect firms whose collapse would damage larger economy
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Central Bankers Say Basel Is a ‘Minimum,’ More Needed
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The next hot ticket in financial reform
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Retailing:

U.S. Management In Cross-Hairs At Wal-Mart Meeting
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American Apparel's New President Has Bankruptcy Experience
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Ackman is shopping for JC Penney profits
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Small Business:

Small Business Held Back
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Politics:

Deal's federal taxes baffling
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Judge revokes Deal's daughter bankruptcy discharge
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Barnes takes money from lawyers, while Deal collects from PACs
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Barnes' law firm appeared before Barnes-appointed judges 37 times
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If You Like the Recession, You'd Love "Speaker Boehner"
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Utilities:

Boston Generating Sale to Constellation Energy May Proceed After Ruling
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M&A:

First American Payment Auction Busted Due To Unrealistic Sale Expectations
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(No new opinions today)

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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Bankruptcy Jobs:

(1)- (2)- (3)- (4)- (5)- (6)- (7)- (8)- (9)- (10)
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)

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Miscellaneous:

The Bankruptcy Files: MGM and Four More
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General Growth, American Safety, Schutt, Inquirer: Bankruptcy
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Executives Quicker to Call Restructuring Advisers
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Bankruptcy Reform:

Remember Cramdown?
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Prepacks:

A Novel Approach To Vote Solicitation On Prepackaged Plans
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Confirmation:

The Bankruptcy Court Refuses to Compel Debtors to Pay Backstop Fees Incurred by Alternative Plan Proponents
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Autos:

GM using Volt to promote shares during IPO
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GM Orion assembly workers to picket UAW over two-tier wage structure
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Two-tier wage systems no stranger in recessions
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Banking:

FDIC May Seek More Than $1 Billion From Failed-Bank Executives
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Ex-Park Avenue Bank Chief Antonucci Pleads Guilty
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Banks Voice Resistance as Regulators Say Basel Is Just a Start
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Fraud:

10 years for Scott Rothstein's right-hand woman at law firm
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Whistle. Then Worry and Wait.
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Petters Bankruptcy Trustee Sues Florida Financier
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Litigation:

ConocoPhillips reduced document-related discovery costs by 60 percent
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Oil/Gas:

Feinberg Firm Gets a Reasonable $850K a Month to Oversee $20B Oil Spill Fund, Report Says
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Insurance:

Ambac May Delay Payments 9 Years Under Wisconsin Plan
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Gambling:

Penn National Gaming Buys M Resort Spa Casino's Debt
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Hotels:

Extended Stay Exits Chp. 11 After $3.9 Billion Buyout
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Blackstone May Gain 14 Columbia Sussex Hotels After Acquiring Junior Debt
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Fashion:

Steve Madden To Acquire Betsey Johnson Equity, Assets in Restructuring
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Consumer Credit:

The Great American Credit Catastrophe Is Our Generation's 911
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Newspapers:

Philadelphia Newspapers and Philly.com Successfully Emerge From Bankruptcy
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Behind Tribune's demise, hubris and profanity
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Celebs:

Citigroup Finds Out That It’s Not Nice to Mess With J.R.
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Toni Braxton goes for broke, again
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Financial radio talk-show host charged with real estate fraud
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Accounting:

Deloitte returns to pre-crisis hiring levels
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Video Rentals:

Blockbuster may cut more locations as part of bankruptcy
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Empty storefronts likely as Blockbuster reorganizes
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Personal Finance:

When Kids Ask for Cash
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Health Care:

Quest for low prices in Medicare alarms suppliers
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The Honolulu Medical Group will dissolve after 107 years
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Municipalities:

Going broke has high price tag, Vallejo learns
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The End of the Tunnel
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Avoidance Actions:

Decision in Archway Cookies grants summary judgment based on ordinary course of business defense
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UK:

The Siege on the Middle Class
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Spain:

Spain’s Socialists and Unions Struggle to Adapt
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China:

Consumers in China Discover Debt
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