Law:
Bonus Watch: Mayer Brown Announces Supplemental Bonuses
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How to Spend Your BigLaw Spring Bonus Money
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Ethics: Law Firms That Serve ‘Sophisticated’ Clients Need Own Regulatory System
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Is E-Discovery Becoming Certifiable?
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E-Discovery and Vanishing Text Messages
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Already Ferocious Fight Over $315 Million Attorneys Fee Fund Heats Up
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Outside Legal Investment: Drafting a BigLaw S-1
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3 Keys to Successful Alternative Fee Arrangements
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10 Truths About Innovation in Law Departments
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California law firm may be forced into bankruptcy
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Merger Creates Largest Firm in Carolinas
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Anticipating Economic Growth, BigLaw Acquires 44-Lawyer Firm With long Pedigree
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Bank of America Taps Gary Lynch as Global CLO
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Public Defenders Feeling Budget Pinch, 450-Per-Lawyer Caseloads
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Fmr BigLaw Associate Charged with Insider Trading Gets Home Confinement
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YLS Student Repeats Poker Championship
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Law Profs Fasttrack Appeal of Their Slashed Verdict Against West
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Tiger Cub Speaks
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Young and Wired
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What's the Difference Between Acrobat 8, 9, and X?
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Business Card Dies
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How Should Young Lawyers Conduct Themselves Online?
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Law Firm PR Jobs Bring in the Dough, Salaries Rise 18%
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Lawyers Locked in Lease Dispute Over Mansion Office
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Further Adventures in Attorney Website Photos
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Woman Sues Match.com, Wants Screening for Sexual Predators
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Judges:
"Talk about the branches getting together!"
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Judge of the Day: Another Dangerous D.C. Driver
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Federal judge demands state judge appear, threatens to send marshals
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10th Circuit puts fed-state judicial feud on hold
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Justice Kennedy: Blogs have caused a “Quiet Revolution” and “Sea Change” to make the Supreme Court more accessible
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Some Criticize O’Connor for Advocating Public Policy While She Hears Cases
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Whose Jobs Are on the Chopping Block as NY Courts Face Budget Crisis?
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Justices face conflict of interest questions
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Judge Copies Most of His Decision from a Party’s Briefs — Why Is That Wrong?
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Ex-federal judge reports to prison
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The Rat, The Sewer And The Suspension
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Wall Street:
US Stock-Index Futures Fall
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US stocks ready for barrage of earnings
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VIX Hits Lowest Level Since 2007
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Cash Misery Fuels Rush to Risk
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Layoffs:
Jobs are Recovering, but Pay Isn't
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Hedge Funds:
Fund Goes to Brink and Back
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Hedge Funds Bounce Back
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Tax:
45% don't owe U.S. income tax
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For Super Rich, Taxes Keep Falling
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Where the Tax Money Is
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IRS Watchdog Seeks Overhaul of Tax Code
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Who's Left to Pay Taxes?
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Tax filers take out frustration on "IRS car"
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Pensions:
Retirement Assets Back Near Peak
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Runaway Public Pensions Betrayed by Fraud, Abuse
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Celebs:
Former Mets Dykstra charged with bankruptcy fraud
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'Nails' Gets Nailed— This Time, Embezzling
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Manhattan jeweler-to-the-stars Ralph Esmerian pleads guilty to bankruptcy fraud
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Ozzy, Sharon Osbourne in $1.7 mn tax debt
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Gambling:
Founders of top Web poker sites indicted
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Autos:
For Investors, the Shine is Off the New GM
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Sweden Will Allow Saab to Sell Assets
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Chrysler Nears New Debt Offer
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Toyota, Honda Running in Low Gear
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Aviation:
No friendly skies in U.S. airlines' earnings
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Corporate Governance:
More Directors Face Yearly Votes
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Lehman:
Lehman Still Active in Downtown Condo Project
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Oil/Gas:
'Fracking' for natural gas also splits towns and families
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Economy:
Consumer Confidence Rises in April
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US Factories Boost Output
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Wall Street Presses Republicans to Reach a Deal on Debt Ceiling
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Geithner: GOP won't block debt ceiling rise
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America’s Banker May Tell Geithner to Go Away
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House approves GOP budget-cutting plan
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Rep. Paul breaks with GOP on budget-cutting vote
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IMF: New Efforts Against Economic Threats
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IMF: Growth No Longer Enough
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Major Economies Should Let Currencies Adjust
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6 states, nation's capital now at $4 a gallon gas
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Gas Price Feeds Inflation Pain
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13 items that cost more, or will soon
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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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Bailout Recipients
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Real Estate:
Meet the servicers who avoided the foreclosure settlement, for now
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Fed consent orders will hike mortgage servicing costs
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Increased mortgage servicing costs near $1 billion at BofA
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Ben-Ezra secures favorable ruling in JPMorgan Chase court fight
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Florida Judges Rushing Foreclosures
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Florida launches billion-dollar mortgage bailout amid concerns
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New Democrat Coalition unveils housing finance reform priorities
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Risk retention will produce higher quality mortgages, depress housing: S&P
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Fannie: Servicer side agreements with mortgage insurers prohibited
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Bond insurers surge on B. of A. payment
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BofA Can't Beat the House
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After Recession and Scandals, Private Residence Clubs Start to Resurface
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Developer's Estranged Wife Requests Bankruptcy Trustee
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Judge dismisses Stanbrough bankruptcy bid
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REITs underperform most stock benchmarks, still poised for growth
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Underwriting on CMBS loans loosens as cautious optimism hits
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Mass Torts:
Spillionaires -- Profiting off the BP Oil Spill
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One Year After Spill, Some Signs of Life Emerge in the Gulf
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A Year on, BP Oil Still Mars Gulf Communities as Public Scrutiny Dries up
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Business as usual in Florida a year on from BP spill
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The oil spill that changed the industry
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The Gulf of Mexico is not as clean as they say
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Oil Firms to Deploy New Containment Device for Deepwater Spills
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Spill changes little in the Gulf oil industry
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BP must sell off half its assets, say top investors
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Oil spill claims czar Kenneth Feinberg is 'bloodied, but unbowed'
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Dispute heats up over BP's $20B oil spill fund
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IP:
RIM may top Google's Nortel patents bid: report
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Tavern on the Green Trustee, New York Settle Over Trademark
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Banking:
Two Georgia bank failures bring year's tally to 30
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Largest Failure This Year Is Among Six Banks Shut
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Bank Titan In Turmoil as Revival Is Elusive
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BofA's Struggles Go on as Profit, Revenue Fall
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BofA's income falls 39 pct as mortgage woes linger
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Deutsche Bank Staff Among Those Arrested by Hong Kong Antigraft Agency
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Free checking is not so free anymore
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Bair puts foot down on bail-outs
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Fraud:
The Confessions of an Inside Trader
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Prosecutors Didn't Want Ex-Galleon President Prepped by Defense
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Goldman’s Cohn Focus of Lawyer Wrangle at Rajaratnam Trial
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JP Morgan Chase Had No “Actual Knowledge” Madoff Was A Crook
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Judge freezes assets of Fishers money manager
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SEC Sues Subprime Auto Finance Company
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Eleven Charged in Manhattan for Fraud in Online-Gambling Money Laundering
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Ex-Taylor Bean’s Farkas Testifies He Didn't Commit Crimes
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Ex-New York Official Hevesi Gets Up to 4 Years in Prison for Pay-to-Play
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Orchestras:
Philadelphia Orchestra board OKs Chapter 11 filing
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Philadelphia Orchestra Makes Bankruptcy Move
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Museums:
The Museum of American Finance Needs More Money
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Corporate Reform:
Bair: Dodd-Frank can restore market discipline
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Jamie Dimon: Consumer Bureau Could Benefit Financial System
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Hotels:
Innkeepers Added $2 Million Bonus for Restructuring Officer, Creditor Says
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Accounting:
E&Y Fails to Gain Dismissal in Broadcom Case
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Ernst & Young Must Face Trial for Ignoring Fraud
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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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UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Bankruptcy Jobs:
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Setoffs:
Death and Taxes are Certain, Except When it Comes to Post-Confirmation Setoffs
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Credit Reporting:
California one of many US states considering banning credit checks during hiring
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Municipalities:
UUSD facing possible bankruptcy by end of 2013-14 school year
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California Cuts 11,600 Jobs in March
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Texas Added 32,700 Jobs in April
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US county can sue JP Morgan over bond deals
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Lawyer Calls for Cash-Strapped Detroit to Be a "Fun City'
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Bankruptcy Crimes:
Jeweler Esmerian Pleads Guilty to Bankruptcy Fraud Scheme
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Lenny Dykstra charged with bankruptcy fraud
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Utilities:
TXU's Parent Firm Gets Debt Extension
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Sovereigns:
The Biggest Entitlement Spenders In The World
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UK:
Appointment of Administrators - 15 April 2011
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Winding Up Petitions - 15 April 2011
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Southern Cross Asks for Rent Cut to Avoid Bankruptcy
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EU:
Don't Bet on an Imminent Euro-Zone Debt Default
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Debt Concerns Pressure Euro
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What Europe's coming debt default will look like
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Euro vs. Invasion of the Zombie Banks
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Canada:
Bankruptcy lawyer condemns proposed casino expansion
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Germany:
WestLB to Restructure, Cut Staff
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PIIGS:
Greece promises more austerity, bonds fall
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Greece Proposes Debt-Repayment Extension
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Greece Denies Restructuring Plan as Traders Raise Default Bet
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IMF Believes Greece Should Consider Debt Restructuring By 2012
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For Greece, the Path to Restructuring Holds Pitfalls
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Restructuring speculation dogs Greece
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Germany welcomes Greek debt deal talk
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Ireland's 'richest man' could now face bankruptcy
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EU, IMF: Ireland Passed 1st Bailout Test
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MENA:
Saudi Arabia cut output in March
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Crude Oil Declines as Saudi Arabia Says Market Is 'Oversupplied'
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Oil and Unrest
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In Oil Market, Confusion Has Traders Looking For Options
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World Bank, IMF call for support for Mideast
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Mass Protests Mount in Syria
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Egypt, Tunisia stumble through Swiss legal hoops
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Bringing it all back home: why tracing Mubarak's money may not be easy
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Japan:
New cooling may be installed at Fukushima reactors
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Possible new leak at nuclear plant in Japan
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Japan nuclear-plant fix may take 9 months: Tepco
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Tepco Aims for 'Cold Shutdown'
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Utility to Soon Pay Those Near Plant
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China:
Beijing inflation medicine not working
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Is the People's Bank of China Insolvent?
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More Rate Increases Seen for China
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New Zealand:
Henderson wins bankruptcy fight
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Bulgaria:
50 Bulgarian Municipalities Face Bankruptcy
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Serbia:
50,000 Protest Serbian Government
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Australia:
$2.4m home, a BMW and Mercedes in the drive but fallen tycoon Craig Gore says he's doing it tough
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