September 7, 2010

The Daily Bankruptcy News

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Law:

Legal Sector Gained 1,000 Jobs in August
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Law Firm Partners Sued Over Office Closure
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A Key Question to Ask Law Firm Interviewers
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Reality Check: In Setting Billing Rates, Location and Size Matter; Experience...Not So Much
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Associates Disgruntled Over ‘Depressing’ Technology Cuts at Firms
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The Job Seekers
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Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Do You Want to Stay in Law?
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Two Beers and an Inflatable Slide
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Top Ten Negotiation Strategies: For Associates
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Greener fields for Freshfields
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Entrepreneurs Are Attracting Major Cash to Draw Legal Services Away from Law Firms
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Who's Demanding Now?
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John Quinn on a Possible Squire Sanders / Hammonds Merger
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Are Alternative Fees Fizzling?
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Interviewing Season: The More Things Change...
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Bankruptcy lawyers in short supply
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Associate Tech Survey 2010: Less Tech Lowers Morale
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Survivor’s Curse: Those Who Survived Layoffs Witness Hard Times
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Defense Firm Says It Was Fired After Saying Client Board Must Be Informed
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David Levin, Burning Man Barrister
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Lawyer Sues for $700K After His Arrest for Failing to Show ID in Courthouse
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Lathrop Announces Merger
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Hodgson Russ Partners Sued Over Fla. Office Closure
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What Good Is Remorse?
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We're All Victims Now: Above The Law Edition
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Soares, District Attorney, Criticized in Steroid Case
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Sometime Girlfriend Arrested on Suspicion of Murdering Attorney, After Eviction Filing
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Lawyers Ain't Scared of No Bedbugs!
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Lawsuit of the Weekend: Rah Rah… Whoops.
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Law in Comics Featured in New Exhibit
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Does Religion Trump Sexual Orientation at NYU Law School?
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Law Clinic Can Recover Fees for Students' Work
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Is LegalZoom's Gain Your Loss?
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Attorney Objects to Bizarre Seminar for Guys
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Woman to be lashed over photo without a head scarf
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Judges:

Judge Apologizes for Courtroom Rant, Says He Meant Well
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Clerks Highlight Supreme Court’s Polarization
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Kagan Indicates She'll Recuse in a 12th Pending Case
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Judges Wary of the Ethics Pitfalls of Facebook, Twitter
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Suspended-With-Pay Judge Can't Be Force to Foot Bill for His Replacements
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Accused judge has financial woes
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Wall Street:

Wall St futures signal weaker start for US stocks
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Banks Drag Europe Down
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Not-so-dire jobs report gives stocks a boost
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Many Line Up to Go Public, but Market Mood Is Iffy
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Layoffs:

Growth in jobs beats estimates, easing concerns
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Jobs Data Keep Shaky Recovery Afloat
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Obama Offers a Transit Plan to Create Jobs
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Manpower: Sorry, There Won't Be A Hiring Surge In The Fourth Quarter
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Once a Dynamo, the Tech Sector Is Slow to Hire
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Rehired employees get new salary cut
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Demand, Fears Grow for Remaining Workers
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Jobs: US Now Worst Than Similar Nations
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3.5 Million Missing from Job Rolls
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Where the jobs are now, and where they'll be next
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10 professions looking for NYC employees
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Fastest growing jobs in America
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Chemicals:

Tronox Shareholders File Bankruptcy Plan Valuing Company at $1.25 Billion
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Lehman:

Lehman’s Last Hours
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Excessive risks, not regulators, doomed Lehman Brothers
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Reserve Fund Says Others 'Broke the Buck'
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Frankfurt Prosecutors Drop Probe Into KfW's $410 Million Payment to Lehman
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Lehman Case in U.K.: Legal Tangle Over Client Cash
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Retailing:

American Apparel in Talks With Restructuring Firm
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Rock & Republic Faces Denim Dispute
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Consumers shift with recession; can retailers shift with them?
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China Retail Sales May Top US in 2016
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Financial Services:

Sommet Group execs must turn over assets
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Politics:

Nation's economic woes jeopardize Dems' prospects
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Get Ready for an Anti-Incumbent Wave
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New Yorkers Strongly Back Shorter Term Limits
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Aviation:

After Bargains of Recession, Air Fares Soar
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Fees and Frenzy at the Boarding Gate
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Ratings Agencies:

BB? AAA? Disclosure Tells Us More
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Hotels:

Sunstone’s Deal for Big San Diego Hotel Scuttled
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Credit Counseling:

Sorting Out Debt-Relief Promises
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Consumer Debt:

Delinquent Consumer Debt Leading Cause for Security Clearance Denials
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Education:

The Student Loan Racket: Now in One Easy-to-Understand Graphic
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Students get older peers to co-sign for credit cards
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Changing the Rules at For-Profit Schools
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Economy:

Unemployment inched up in August
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IMF's Lipsky Says Moderate World Recovery Underway
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What Will Prod the Fed into Action?
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CNN Poll: 81% Rate Economy as Poor
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Tax and spending policies floating in Washington
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Obama to Propose Tax Write-Off for Capital Investments
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Obama Launches Big Week on Economy
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Economic Reports This Week
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1938 in 2010
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Woes of 1914 Seem the Same as Today
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Four unexpected economic bright spots
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The Obama Economy
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Friction on Financial Crisis Panel Is Downplayed
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Economic Pain Failed to Ease in July
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UN calls special meeting to address food shortages amid predictions of riots
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Obama to Call for $50 Billion Spending on Public Works
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Dems wary of WH's huge new spending plan
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Private sector debt piled up to due to inadequate regulations: BIS
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BIS Study Suggests Households, Companies Set to Reduce Debt
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Michael Burry, Predictor of Mortgage Collapse, Bets on Farmland and Gold
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Weaker US Outlook Prompts Warnings by Central Banks in Japan, Australia
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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:

Housing Woes Bring New Cry: Let Market Fall
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IRS paid $23.5 billion in homebuyer tax credits and related loans
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As Pay Falls, Borrowers Lose Ground
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Most GSE capital reductions due to single-family credit guarantee
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FHA delinquencies continue to grow, refinance apps outnumber purchase apps
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New mortgage-relief plan set for Tuesday launch
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U.S. Plans to Deploy Broader Mortgage Aid
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No Money Down Mortgages, Small Programs, Creep Back
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Ocwen closes HomEq buy, more than 1,000 job cuts possible
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Florida’s High-Speed Answer to a Foreclosure Mess
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Loan modification program in Phoenix helps fewer than expected
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Pitcairn family firm fights takeover with bankruptcy
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RED Development edges out Van Tuyl team for West Edge in bankruptcy auction
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Senior Lenders Moving to Foreclose on NYC's Stuyvesant Town
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The FHA's 'Short Refinance' Program: Frequently Asked Questions
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Meridian founder Darren Berg to get paid to unravel finances
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How Ruthless Banks Gutted the Black Middle Class and Got Away With It
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Distressed Investing:

Bankruptcy Court Is Latest Battleground for Traders
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Celebs:

Stranded actor Paul Hogan in Australia tax deal
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New Jersey Housewives' Teresa Giudice: 'Slowly Rebuilding' After Bankruptcy
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Real Housewife Teresa Giudice hid assets before filing bankruptcy ?
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The Real Housewife of New Jersey's Undisclosed Assets
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Trustees:

Federal probe of trustee's office quiet
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Corporate Reform:

FDIC's New Power to Dissolve Companies Raises Concerns
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Goldman shutting prop trading desk: report
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Fraud:

SEC settles suit against ex-Qwest CEO Nacchio
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Judge Denies Bail to Ex-Enron Chief Skilling
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Ex-bank manager, recruiter charged in Boston loan case
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Florida GOP lawyers want Scott Rothstein testimony
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Rothstein investment groups hit with $23 million in clawback suits
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SEC Sees Surge in Fraud Tip-Offs
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Newspapers:

Uncertainty shrouds Brown Publishing bankruptcy
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Autos:

Source: GM road show promoting IPO to start Nov. 3
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Taxpayers likely to face initial loss on GM IPO
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Kicking the Tires at GM
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New GM boss woos autoworkers in first memo
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Chrysler told to pay $4.2M to harassed pipefitter
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Rattner’s book says Obama administration wanted Ghosn to run GM
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F-Bombs, Vanishing Billions Spice Rattner Tale
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Banking:

Roubini: More than 400 US Banks Will Fail
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Retiring Fed Official Considers More Bank Action
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Market Bids Farewell To Barclays, HSBC Bosses
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Diamond Will Lead Britain's Barclays
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HSBC's vacant chair creates a dilemma
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Big Banks Ground Corporate Jets
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Euro bank shares fall on stress tests report
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Sovereigns:

Banks increase exposure to indebted nations
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Should United States debt be rated as junk bonds?
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Non-Profits:

Audit finds Sharpton's nonprofit on brink
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Gambling:

Was Siena's downward spiral inevitable?
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Debt Collection:

A Debtor's Offense
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"Celebrity" FDCPA Litigant Slapped by Texas Judge
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State Fines Debt Buyer Over Collection Lawsuits
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Corporate Governance:

Former Chief Justice Advises Directors on State and Federal Governance Standards
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Accounting:

PwC boss Ian Powell's salary up to £3.6m despite partner profits slump
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PwC revenues rise 4% to £2.3bn
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Oil/Gas:

BP Seen Revving Up Asset Sales
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(2 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:

Innkeepers, Tronox, Brown Publishing, Taylor Bean, Colonial: Bankruptcy
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Litigation:

7th Circuit Shows How "An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure"
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Magistrate Judge Brown Schedules "Footsie" Evidentiary Hearing
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Lawyer/Witness Disconnect Represented Graphically
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Judge should have let lawyer Google potential jurors during jury selection
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Agreement to Defend Former Executive Contained a Loophole
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Municipalities:

Councilwoman wants Pa. city bankruptcy explored
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A Crash. A Call for Help. Then, a Bill.
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Broke—and Building the Most Expensive School in U.S. History
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A Tale of Three States
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Is Harrisburg closer to considering bankruptcy ?
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Harrisburg blundering closer to bankruptcy
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Fort Worth pension bubble will blow up
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Building Materials:

American Shingle files for bankruptcy
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BBB: American Shingle Bankruptcy Bad News for Customers
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Pensions:

General Growth Reaches $5.75 Million Settlement Over 401(k) Plan Losses
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More workers target retirement accounts
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Tax:

Put the millionaires' tax money to good use
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Obama reviews billions in possible business tax cuts
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Baiting the Tax Trap
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Small-Business Tax Cuts Fuel Debate
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Health Care:

South Jersey doc seeks to buy Lower Bucks Hospital
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Nursing home operator ordered to pay $43.5 million
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Financial Literacy:

A Course Load for the Game of Life
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Compensation:

Regulatory gaps let banks off the bonus hook
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UK:

Social housing firm Connaught 'close to collapse'
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UK Car Sales Suffer Sharp Decline
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Begbies Traynor Group sets up global fraud and risk division
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Fraud Probe At UK Money Printing Factory
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EU:

Trichet says a Greece exit from euro worst option
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Fears rise as EU nations aim to raise borrowing
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In Europe’s Debt Crisis, Lending Was Still Strong
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EU considers new bank levy to shield taxpayers
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Sweden's Borg Sees 'A Lot of Opposition' to Transactions Tax
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Hungary, Romania, Serbia Struggle to Sell Debt After Receiving IMF Funds
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ECB's Bini Smaghi Says Global Financial Regulators Must Coordinate Efforts
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Canada:

Canadian Companies Plan to Increase Jobs in Fourth Quarter, Manpower Says
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Deal with private clinic turns into public dispute
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Germany:

German Bunds Rise as Bank Health Concern Spurs Haven Demand
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German Banks May Need to Raise $135 Billion on Rule Changes, Group Says
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German Factory Orders Unexpectedly Decline
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Growth to Slow Next Year as Debt Crisis Persists, BGA Business Group Says
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German Court Approves Sale of Karstadt to Billionaire Berggruen
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Karstadt deal may be too late to save iconic chain
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Brazil:

Brazil's economy expands
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China:

Debt-for-Equity Swap and Reorganization Law in the People’s Republic of China
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Afghanistan:

Bailout in the Works for Afghan Bank Hit by Panic
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US Refuses to Bail Out Kabul Bank
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Afghan Central Bank: Kabul Bank Has 'Stabilized'
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Karzai's Brother Excluded in Crackdown
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Inside Corrupt-istan: Afghans Lose Faith in Leaders
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Vietnam:

Vietnam shipbuilder fights to stay afloat
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Vietnam Suspends Vinashin Board Members Amid Probe Into Financial Problems
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New Zealand:

NZ quake damage to cost billions
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Greece:

Greece Default Risk Is `Substantial,' Pimco's Bosomworth Says
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Papandreou Changes Greek Cabinet Amid Growth Slump
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Ireland:

Anglo's takeover plea to BoI revealed
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Anglo-Irish Bank Can’t Get No Satisfaction
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Calyx enters administration
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Middle East:

Saudi Arabia's Legal Paradox Deters Investors as Disputes Stay Unresolved
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Dubai Holding Delays Repayment of Part of $1.8 Billion Debt Due This Month
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Japan:

Young Japanese Seek Second, and Third, Jobs
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Brazil:

Liquidations in Brazil up 18.9 percent in August
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