Law:
Lawyer Introductions Led to $550K Fine for Manatt Phelps in N.Y. Pension Fund Case
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Labor Report Cites Rise in Nontraditional Jobs for Lawyers, Good Paralegal Prospects
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Associate Morale Survey Results
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Choosy law firms raise the bar for applicants
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Steptoe & Johnson Wins Great Hamburger War
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McDermott Will To Take 165,000 SF on Capitol Hill
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Fed Lawyer Heading to Wachtell
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Shifting Away from Billable Hours...Eventually
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Report predicts hiring boom for lawyers who think outside the box
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Freshfields enters the fray as Liverpool court battle kicks off
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Malpractice Suit Against Weil Gotshal Remanded to Missouri State Court
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K&L Gates, Thompson & Knight Sued Over Sunwest Roles
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Supreme Court Denies Review of Sonnenschein's Dispute With Former Partner
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Treasury Taps 13 Law Firms to Help Run TARP
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Attorney Tiffany S. Franc Joins HPK’s Bankruptcy Group
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David J. Stern, the Florida Foreclosure King, Is Under Investigation — and Doing Layoffs
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High Court Superstars Take Shots in Vaccine Case
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Firm Bars the Doors: Enforces 90-Day Notice Period on Partners Who Want Out
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Unsexy Jobs
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Grand Jury Probe of $48M ‘Taj Mahal’ Courthouse Goes Nowhere
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A Sign of Improvement in the Chicago Legal Market?
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Foreclosure Suits, Citigroup, BP, RBS, in Court News
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Conservative Commentator Ann Coulter Hated Law Firm ‘Suck-Uppery’
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Lawyer for POM Wonderful Facing Sanctions
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Court of Appeal Says Lawyer Must Repay Firm’s Costs of Defending His Conduct
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The Classmates.com class action settlement rip-off
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27-point legal checklist for "any man who dares to have sex"
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If You Hire Miami Law Students, The School Will Pick Up The Bill
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The Princeton Review Law School Rankings Are Out. Find A Category to Make Your School Look Awesome.
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U.S. News Insanity: Ranking as Faculty Hiring Litmus Test
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Don't Believe the Hype. Women Are Still a Minority of Law Students.
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"The Good Wife" - Deposition as "talking"
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Worst Lawyer Website Bio Photo EVER
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Post-Firm Party Accident Leads To Sanction
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Questions Not to Ask Police
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Judges:
Friends Wonder if Head Injury Caused Federal Judge’s Alleged Aberrant Behavior
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Embattled Judge Defends Court Audience Chant, But Apologizes for Calling Staffers ‘Vegetables’
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Justice Thomas and His Wife
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Ginni Thomas Is Right’s New Rising Star, Raising Recusal Issues for Her Husband
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Washington Post Style Writer Critiques Justices’ Black Robes
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$500K Bond Stays for Former Judge Facing 52 Felony Sex Charges
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Ginsburg, Sotomayor Dissent from Cert Denial in Bumper-Sticker Ejection Suit
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Judge Rapped, Should Have Stepped Aside Before Going to Lunch With PD, Official Argues
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Magistrate's Greatest Hits
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Wall Street:
Stock Futures Point to Higher Open on Wall Street
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Economy Stinks: Why is the Market Happy?
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US bankers set for record pay and bonuses for second year
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Hail Mary, Full of Hubris!
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Wall Street feeling some of Main Street's economic woes
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Jobs and Taxes Are Main Stresses on Wall Street
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What Wall Street Wants from New Congress
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Layoffs:
GE Gets $25M in 'Stimulus,' Cuts 18,000 Jobs
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Young, Educated, and Unemployed: A New Generation of Kids Search for Work in their 20s
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Conference Board: More Job Losses Possible
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Job Losses Will be Worse Than Thought
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Fed Easing No Fix for High Unemployment With Too Few Mechanics
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Hollywood:
MGM's Challenge in a Prepackaged Bankruptcy
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Icahn, Carl Icahn
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Icahn blesses Lions Gate's plan to combine with MGM
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Even Hollywood wouldn't buy MGM script
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Some Thoughts on the MGM Prepack
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Envelopes:
Envelope company to close
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Gambling:
HBOS loses millions on Vegas casino
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Atlantic City Casino Gambling Fell 12% in September
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Autos:
Prospective GM investors have U.S. over a barrel
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GM workers get chance to buy stock in public sale
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Locals cool toward GM IPO
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Fraud:
Petters Trustee Goes After Ritchie Capital for $21M
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Petters 'clawback' lawsuits disputed
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Where the Fraud Is
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US church financier faces Ponzi scheme trial
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Charges possible in Denver Ponzi case
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Just looks like a confession, lawyers say
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Madoff’s Palm Beach Mansion In Contract
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Hedge Fund Sees 'Egregious Fraud' At Broadcaster
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Trustee Says Hecker Is 'Stealing' Taxpayer Money
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Consultants:
Hilco Promotes Joe Malfitano to Deputy General Counsel
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Economy:
Across the U.S., Long Recovery Looks Like Recession
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Debt market strips U.S. of triple-A rating
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Fed Officials Were Prepared to Ease `Before Long,' Minutes Say
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Fed's Hoenig: Economy Needs Rate Hikes, Not Fresh Fed Support
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Where’s all that government spending we keep hearing about? It never happened.
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Inflation to Fall Short of Fed's Goal Through 2012, Survey Says
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Buffett: Recession to be Felt Long Time
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Minutes Show Fed Leaning Toward New Stimulus
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Japan set to pass China as largest US creditor
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How to Fall Out of the Middle Class
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The Age of Austerity
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85% Angry With Economy
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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:
Foreclosures in 30 Seconds Get Time Out as Florida Courts Hit a Fraud Wall
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New York's Cuomo expands foreclosure probe
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Florida Attorney General Seeks Meetings With Mortgage Lenders
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California to join multistate inquiry of foreclosures by banks
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Indiana takes aim at sloppy foreclosures
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Maryland Governor requests 60-day foreclosure moratorium
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Banks Pressed by Attorneys General to Halt, Fix Foreclosures
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Geithner Says Foreclosure Moratorium Would Be 'Very Damaging'
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GMAC Mortgage Expands Review of Its Foreclosures
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Despite foreclosure halt, mortgage crisis not over
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Do we need a foreclosure moratorium? And other dilemmas
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Obama administration would reject foreclosure freeze
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Little-Known MERS Faces Big Challenges in Foreclosure Battle
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Robo-Signers: Mortgage Experience Not Necessary
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Banks should hire to solve foreclosure crisis
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States Aim to Force Changes in Foreclosure Process
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Chase, BofA, Wells have most loans in foreclosure
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Wells Fargo: No plans for foreclosure moratorium
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Will JPMorgan face facts on foreclosures?
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Document Questions Cloud Recovery
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Foreclosure Fraud 101: Why Are Servicers So Bad at This Job?
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Despite freezes, foreclosures pile up
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A foreclosure mess of their own design
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Foreclosure logjam threatens Fannie, Freddie
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Pain in banks' Fannie
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HUD’s Donovan: National Foreclosure Moratorium Risks ‘Going Too Far’
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Ex-Taylor Bean Chairman Wants to Remove Ankle Monitor
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Are We Headed for Housing Armageddon?
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Short sales: let the agent beware
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Why Home Buyers Aren't Buying
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Homeowner makes lawn-wide sign in foreclosure fight
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Property Experts See More Sales In 2011: Survey
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Mortgage Flaws May Lead Investors to Challenge $1.3 Trillion of Securities
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Lenders Beware: Environmental Conditions at Distressed Property Pose Risks for Foreclosing Lenders
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30-year FRM rates hit record low for fourth consecutive week
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CW Capital delays StuyTown auction
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63% of Americans do not want to buy a home
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Corporate Reform:
Dodd Backs Warren for Consumer Bureau, but...
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FDIC Approves Interim Rule to Prevent Repeat of Lehman
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FDIC proposes rule on creditor claims under Dodd-Frank
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How Dodd-Frank and other new US laws may affect non-US financial institutions
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Newspapers:
Tribune Co. reports progress in resolving bankruptcy
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Tribune Says Creditors, Banks Settle Dispute With $420 Million Pledge
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When it rains it pours: More bad press for Tribune
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Tribune Co. executive concedes 'poor judgment' for sending racy videos to workers
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Elder Debt:
Credit Card Debt Blamed For Surge In Elder Bankruptcy
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More seniors spending golden years in bankruptcy
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Accounting:
FASB Proposes Debt Restructuring Reporting Change
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Insurance:
CLICO liquidator targeting some 118 companies
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Hotels:
Omni Detroit Hotel Closing
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NY real-estate moguls hit exit on bitter terms
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Investor in ex-Hilton plans full debt payoff
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Blackstone Buys Debt From Hotels it Sold
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Municipalities:
Cities Face Half a Trillion Dollars of Pension Deficits
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Cities Understate Pension Liabilities
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Philly city pension funded only through 2015
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California to Sell 24 Government Buildings
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Report shows Mich.'s concern over Detroit finances
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N.Y. Faces $200 Billion in Retiree Health Costs
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Fast-growing US areas show big income drop
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Video Rentals:
Blockbuster shareholders lawyer up
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Blockbuster's year-to-date loss tops $150 million
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Health Care:
U.S. Ranks 49th in Life Expectancy, First in Health Care Costs
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Sale of hospitals expected to close today
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Financially sick hospital syndrome
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UMass Memorial to Cut 350 Jobs
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Diagnosing Medical Malpractice Coverage and Treatment in Health Care Chapter 11s
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Why “House” is the True American Health Care Hero, And What To Do About It
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Bold leap in care for the aged and disabled
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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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Bankruptcy Jobs:
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Miscellaneous:
Tribune, Blockbuster, Mesa, Thompson, Point Blank: Bankruptcy
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Wind-Downs are Down But Not Out
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Litigation:
Fulbright's 7th Annual Litigation Trends Survey Report
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Advisen Releases 3Q10 Corporate and Securities Litigation Report
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Panel Urges Caution on Sanctions for Failure to Preserve Data
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Banking:
Warren: No More Tricks on Bank Profits
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How Would US Liquidate Banks? FDIC Proposes Rule
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Proposed rules mean losses for creditors
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FDIC: All Creditors Must Expect Haircuts In Any Liquidation
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Trial Begins in DataTreasury's $900 Million Case Against Bank of America
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BankAtlantic Misled Investors, Lawyer Tells Jurors
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JPMorgan 3rd-Quarter Earnings Rise to $4.4 Billion
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Pandit Recruits Citigroup Army as Costs Erode U.S. Bank Margins
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Politics:
Rep. Chet Edwards attacks GOP challenger Bill Flores over company's 1992 bankruptcy
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O'Donnell video: The tax man cometh
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'Old Crony' New York GOP Senate Candidate Has Ponzi Scheme Links
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Retailing:
Discount Stores Crop Up in Manhattan’s Elite Neighborhoods
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Dressing up: niche retail looks cheap as PE prowls
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Resorts:
Tamarack lawyer to judge: $2M loan is last chance
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Auction date set for Daufuskie Island Resort & Breathe Spa
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Accounting:
Making Sense of Robert Half’s 2011 Salary Guide
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Companies May Lose Right to Pick Auditing Firms Under EU Plans
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Religion:
Milwaukee Archdiocese seeks to settle abuse lawsuits
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Music:
Pennsylvania Academy of Music gets extension on bankruptcy plan
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Oil/Gas:
Clash of the titans
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Lifting of Deep-Water Drilling Ban Fails to Win Praise for Obama
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Hedge Funds:
Hedge Funds Have a Strong September
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IP:
Perry donor's start-up firm got $4.5M without regional board's OK
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Horticulture:
Hines Nurseries LLC Files for Chapter 11 Protection
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Satellities:
Second Circuit stays DBSD North America plan
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Education:
Students help in bankruptcies
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UK:
Liverpool hostilities come to a head
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U.K. Judge Backs Liverpool Sale Over Owners' Protest
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Lim makes Liverpool bid
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Karl Oyston's bankruptcy order has been annulled, say Blackpool
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More charities 'likely to fold' following spending review
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UK Jobless Benefit Claims Rose by the Most in Eight Months in September
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Winding up Petitions 12th October 2010
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Depression Avoided, but Nothing Fixed
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Canada:
Bankruptcies drop dramatically from last year
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Bankruptcies falling, but Canadians not yet 'out of the woods': expert
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Fasken Martineau DuMoulin mounts Calgary coup, including insolvency hire
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Australia:
Recommendations to reform Australia's insolvency framework
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Legal aid for banned liquidator
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Ireland:
Irish Swap Finance for Food as Economy Returns to Rural Roots
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Italy:
Milan Court Orders Tanzi To Serve Prison Time
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France:
Sarkozy faces showdown over retirement reform
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Pension protests escalate in France
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Ireland:
Aer Arann's examinership extended by Irish High Court
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Greece:
In Greece, Repayment Talk Drives Bonds
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China:
How Rising Wages Are Changing The Game In China
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Chinese Exports Continue Surge in September
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Chairman Mao Never Left Board as Communists Dominate China Inc.
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