Law:
Niche Lawyers Spawn Foreclosure Fracas
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If Lockstep Is Dead, How About a 'Miles Earned' Type of System?
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The Nixon Acquisition of Thelen Lawyers, 2 Years Later
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Simmons keeps US tie-up on the table as part of growth strategy
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New litigation report hints at permanent changes to legal industry
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Disciplinary rules regarding conflicts of interest on the agenda for State Bar of Texas board meeting
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Jobless: Law student asks for refund
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Avoiding ‘Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’, Disguised Hourly Fees
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Ex-Greenberg Lawyer Pleads Guilty to $500,000 Fraud
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For Legal Fees, It’s More of a Buyer’s Market
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Les Femmes Fatiguees
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SRA draws up post-Halliwells protocols for failed law firms
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UK firm announces layoff round with 40 jobs under review
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Hedge Fund Deals Mean Work for Am Law Firms
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UK Takeover Panel Seeks Additional Disclosures of Advisers' Merger Fees
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New Requirements for New York Foreclosure Lawyers
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The Price of Getting Pretty: Productivity
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Suit Says Wilson Sonsini Tried to Hide Conflict
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Process Makes Perfect: Some Guidance on Mastering Early Case Assessment
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Merkin, Och-Ziff, Fannie Mae, Lehman in Court News
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Why Aon's Law Department Needed a Director of Ops
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Support From Bar, Friends Helps Attorney Pull Through Illness
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Juror’s Revelation Stuns Courtroom, Forcing a Mistrial
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Jackson Doctor's Legal Bills Issue
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Review: Nuance PDF Converter 7
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Satirical Law School Blog Leads to Harassment Probe Against Syracuse 2L
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Suit Claims Lawyer Loudly Called Ex-Client a Deadbeat in Public Encounter
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Pro Se Litigant of the Day: Deborah Frisch, Ph.D. Practice pointer: don’t refer to judges as ‘frocked cowf**kers.’
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Project Helps Send 2 Ugandan Women to Law School
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Attorney Sentenced to 5 Years for OxyContin Possession
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A Short History of Mug Shots
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Judges:
Decision of Judge Indicted on Drug Charges Called Into Question
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Retiring Judge: Colleague Biased Against Complainants, So Don’t Reassign My Cases to Him
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Chief Justice Roberts Admits He Doesn’t Read the Computer Fine Print
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Ginni Thomas Sets Bar For the Most Bizarre Thing Ever Done By Spouse of a Sitting Supreme Court Justice
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Anita Hill Won't Back Down: 'I Testified Truthfully'
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Virginia Thomas Cancels Radio Show Amid Controversy
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Clarence Thomas's Wife Dialed the Wrong Number
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Wall Street:
Stocks, US Index Futures Advance on Earnings, Economy; Euro Strengthens
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Stocks Take Off On Airline Profits, Beige Book Bolsters Rally
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Goldman flirts with uncharacteristic mediocrity
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Bonus Pool Reduced by Credit Suisse as Investment-Banking Revenue Declines
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Layoffs:
Beige Book: Where Are the Jobs?
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Vet May Seek Punitives in Claim for Denial of Job Reinstatement
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State unemployment benefits fund billions in debt
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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State unemployment programs face insolvency
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Autos:
GM Seeks Approval of $773 Million Environmental Accord
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GM creditor committee heads to bankruptcy court
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New reality for Orion's laid-off workers
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Fraud:
Madoff Diamond Ring to Be Part of Auction
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Madoff's Piano, Slippers on Auction Block
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How Power Blinds Us to Our Flaws
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Settlement reached in US Fidelis bankruptcy case
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Prosecutor: No evidence Moodys schemed with Nadel
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Investors sue man described as 'a serial financial predator'
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Credit Cards:
Fed Aims to Tighten Credit-Card Rules
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Mass Torts:
Bumpy Start to BP Fund Puzzles Gulf
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BP Claims Process Moves Forward, But Not Without Grumbling
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Groups sue BP for harm to endangered Gulf wildlife
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BP Payout Effects: Shrimpers Stay Home, Bar Fights Break Out
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Resorts:
With Ski Season Looming, Tamarack Faces Setback
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Fashion:
Oilily Bounces Back From Bankruptcy
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Politics:
Third-party candidate allegedly planted by Democrats files for bankruptcy
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Insurance:
Antietam, Affiliate of SageCrest, Seeks Bankruptcy
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Health Care:
Clark Memorial may buy another hospital
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Cost of Health Care to Rise 14%
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Economy:
Economic Activity Is Expanding Modestly, the Federal Reserve Says
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Fed’s Plosser: Bad Incentives Drove Much of Financial Crisis
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Stimulus weatherization money buys shoddy work, widespread fraud
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Each American Owes $43,000
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How GOP Can Also Botch the Economy
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Real estate brokers' pessimism in housing market reaches new low
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Will the Federal Reserve Cause a Civil War?
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FDIC's Bair Says Dodd-Frank Changes Will End Too-Big-to-Fail
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The ‘Unretirement Index’
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Dollar Rises as Geithner Suggests No Need for More Weakness; Aussie Slips
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Tax: Rich professors doth protest too much
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Like France, will US soon move to boost retirement age?
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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:
Bondholders Eyeing $47B in Countrywide Mortgage-Backed Securities
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CMBS unpaid balances reach $62.19 billion, CRE CDO delinquencies up
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Commercial Real Estate Falls to 20o2 Levels
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A Legal Remedy for Buyer’s Remorse
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Next Stop in Foreclosure Fight May Be Courtroom
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White House begins probe into mortgage servicers' operations
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FBI Now Involved in Foreclosure Mess
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White House sees no 'structural' foreclosure issue
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HUD Secretary: Foreclosure problems not "systemic"
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Banks Face Two-Front War on Bad Mortgages, Flawed Foreclosures
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Banks Clueless on Foreclosure Mess Severity
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A Proposal To Ease the Foreclosure Mess
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Three options for the mortgage mess
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Law Firm ‘Scared the Wits Out of Some People’ With Mistaken Foreclosure Letters
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Fannie Mae Suspends Use of Stern Law Firm From Foreclosure Work
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HUD Chief Vows Vigilance on Foreclosures
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Blackrock's Fink: bank repurchase concerns overdone
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Mortgage Mess May Cause Bank of America Shares to Fall Hard
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Bank of America's big, bad mortgage problem
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The Letter The Fed, PIMCO And Others Sent To Bank Of America Over Putbacks
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BofA sues FDIC to recover $1.75 billion for TBW investors
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Fed's 'Weight' Joins Mortgage Investor Bid for Relief
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Wells Fargo defends its foreclosures
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Wells Fargo: Mortgage repurchase demands are 'very manageable'
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Wells Fargo dismisses foreclosure doubts
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Citigroup Claims No 'Robo-Signings'
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Intermission, at Best, in Battle Over Foreclosures
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Obama Official Says Banks Can Restart Foreclosures
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New York Courts Mandate Lawyers Certify Foreclosures to Ensure Accuracy
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Multiple Messes: Mortgages, Foreclosures And The Banks
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Ghosts Of Countrywide And $47 Billion Worth Of Bonds Haunt Bank Of America
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Canada Pension Wades Deeper into U.S.
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Title Insurer Profit Climbs Despite Mortgage Chaos
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Architectural billings positive for first time since 2008: AIA
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Bedbug Disclosure Becomes Part of NY Real Estate Deals
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Petra Offshore Fund, REIT Unit File for Bankruptcy Protection in New York
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Century 21 case to move forward as class-action lawsuit
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Aviation:
Airlines Find a Route to Profit
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Banking:
U.S. Bank Rules to Be Stricter Than Basel: FDIC's Bair
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Morgan Stanley Posts Quarterly Loss
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Morgan Stanley Still Ain’t No Goldman
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Morgan Stanley Earnings: What’s Another Word for ‘Ugly?’
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Wells Fargo Reports Higher Earnings
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Bank Balance Sheets 'Full of Rotten Stuff'
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No More Free Checking
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Domain Names:
Los Angeles Firm Sells Sex.com For $13M
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Religion:
Live Camels And Recession To Blame for Megachurch Debt
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Schuller's Crystal Cathedral teeters on the edge; once an innovator, he failed to keep up
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Ex-priest's attorney withdraws from cases
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Spokane Diocese agrees to mediation over pending abuse cases
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Litigation:
10 Tips for Effective Litigation Case Management
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Derivatives:
Derivative Trader's Tea Party Gets a Crasher
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Tax:
Google 2.4% Rate Shows How $60 Billion US Revenue Lost to Tax Loopholes
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Gambling:
New York City OTB and its creditors reach deal
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OTB deal would cut 500 jobs, nix Internet bets and subsidies
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Newspapers:
Zell on the hot seat
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Sources: Tribune CEO to resign this week
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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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Sales:
US bankruptcy law under scrutiny
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Miscellaneous:
General Motors, EarthRenew, Cello Energy, Lehman, H&R Block: Bankruptcy
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The Bankruptcy Files: Lehman Lawyers Break $1 Billion Billable Barrier
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Bankruptcy Reform:
Now Guns Are Protected Items Under New Law
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Telecoms:
A sat firm’s bankruptcy could mean a wireless broadband feast for Dish Network
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Fairpoint returns to Vt. board on bankruptcy plan
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Municipalities:
SEC probing Bell, California for securities fraud
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The cost of corruption
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Fort Worth confronts potential pension insolvency in 2023
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Cash-strapped governments ramping up tax-collection efforts... ...Tactics including placing wheel locks on cars
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Bankruptcy support heats city hearing
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State officials hold public hearing on Harrisburg's Act 47 application
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These 16 cities are leaving the recovery in the dust
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Tech:
Spansion Japan Dispute Over Rejection Damages Claims Settled
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Software:
Bankruptcy petition halts sale of Utah's DigitalBridge
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Retailing:
General Growth to reach end of bankruptcy
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UK:
Insolvency trade body warns corporate failures to peak in 2011
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UK Slashes 500,000 Gov't Jobs
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UK Budget Cuts More Aggressive Than US
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Britain Details Radical Spending Cuts, Citing Debt
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Spending review will mean more small to medium sized companies in administration
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Throwing out all bar the kitchen sink
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In Britain, Keynesians Fall Out of Favor
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UK spending cuts to rely on will and luck
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Spending Review: Reaction on education
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Banks cheer George Osborne's bid to keep firms from moving abroad
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Is It Fair?
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Osborne insists Britain sober up
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George Osborne on spending review: there is no plan B
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Councils are told: 'Departments can be merged in bid to reduce costs'
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Fear stalks City over scale of measures
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500 insolvency cases investigated by one firm
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UK: Consumer Credit And Insolvency – A Fairer Deal
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IPA responds to call for evidence
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Retail sales fall unexpectedly in September
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Scottish insolvencies fall in second quarter
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Karl Oyston is free to become chairman of Blackpool FC again.
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Wave of new rules creates demand for specialists
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Scottish personal insolvencies 'decreased in 2010's second quarter'
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UK Supreme Court Backs Enforceability of Prenups for the First Time
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EU:
Failing Banks Could Be Seized Under European Plans
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IMF: Tepid Recovery in Europe
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France:
Rioters rampage, protesters block French airports
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Tourists warned to stay away as violence spirals
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French Police Begin Breaking Up Fuel Depot Blockades
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Canada:
A corporate divorce alternative when the butterfly won't fly
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Oilers owner fronted $1M bail for Pocklington
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New book sheds light on Sather-Pocklington
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AbitibiBowater restructuring decision approaching in US bankruptcy court
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Vancouver lawyer's stock clients soar, then collapse
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Australia:
Director's duties: how to fail properly
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Winding up corporate trustees: liquidator’s entitlement to remuneration and expenses from multiple trusts
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China:
Asian Currencies Gain as China's Economic Growth Beats Estimates
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China growth slows
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China's Wealth Gap Strains Social Fabric
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Germany:
Germany Doubles Growth Forecast
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Ireland:
The sheer unadulterated avarice of the Drumms
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Drumm could be extradited if DPP takes case, Dail told
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Gardai facing uphill battle to bring charges against Drumm
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Investors find Irish market shut
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