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Law:
Bonus Watch: What Did Wachtell Do?
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Bonus Watch: Gibson Dunn Finally Pays
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Howrey Hit With First Suit Over Employee Wages
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Lawsuit Accuses Dewey, Staffing Firm of Wage and Hour Violations
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Greatest Bankruptcy Decision of All Time
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Republican Pushes Alternatives to Legal Aid
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Evaluating the Counteroffer — Should You Stay or Should You Go?
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6 Partners Exit K&L Gates to Form Pacifica Law Group
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How Are Small Law Firms Like Oscars After-Parties?
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Number of UK Training Contracts Offered Last Year Saw Large Drop
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Ethics 20/20 Commission Seeks Input on Alternative Business Structures for Law Firms
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Want to Work From Tahiti?
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Get the Big Picture
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The Lawyer Personality
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Discovery Tactics Result In Suspension
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The Attributes of Winning Lawyers
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Hell, No, We Won't BigLaw!: Picketers Blast Firm for Palling Around With "Vultures"
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Lawyer Who Never Tried a Case Proud of Murder Mistrial on Facebook, Humiliated in Interview
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Galleon, Fairfield, JPMorgan, HP, HSBC, Verizon in Court News
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Hackers Penetrated at Least 4 Major Canadian Law Firms in Recent Months
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Communication With Counsel Not Always Private
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BigLaw Firm Takes Its Fee Fight With Columbia Prof on the Road
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It’s Official: Law School Exams Used to be Easier
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Law Profs' Defamation Verdict Against West Slashed
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Prof Accused of Battery for Shutting Laptop of Web-Surfing Student
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This Is Why Law Students Shouldn't Play Sports
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Suit Claims ‘Screaming Attacks’ by Nev. Bar Official Led to Grading Errors on 2010 Bar Exam
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Drunk Chicken Teacher Removed From Classroom
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Suspect left t-shirt with his picture at crime scene
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Mug Shots
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Judges:
Retiring Chief Bankruptcy Judge Gonzalez Going to NYU
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Retiring Bankruptcy Judge John C. Ninfo won't end his financial-literacy efforts
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Supreme Court Justices Interrupt One Another in Arguments Resembling a Roller Derby
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Yes, Dear, Your Legal Brief Was ‘Airgasmic’
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Judge warns of court shutdowns, layoffs if governor doesn't deliver emergency $
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30 Days for Ex-Judge
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Man Accused of Threatening to Kill Judge Is Released on $10K Bail
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Judge of the Day: A Bed Sheet Is Not a Robe
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Riding In Cars With Judges
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DRI Report Recommends New Recusal Procedures to Deal with Flood of Judicial Campaign Cash
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TV’s ‘Divorce Court’ Judge Hated Law School and Law Practice
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Granted $1K Bond, Domestic Defendant Argues with Judge, Ends Up with $150K Bond
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Wall Street:
Futures Rise as Gold Prices Soar
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World stock markets mixed as Japan makes progress in battle to contain nuclear
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Wall St up on M&A, Nasdaq 100 rebalance but volume low
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On Wall Street, Trading Wanes While Investment Banking Fees Pick Up
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Layoffs:
Forget Unemployment Extensions, Cutbacks More Likely
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Autos:
Fiat Said to Plan Increase in Chrysler Stake to 30% Within Weeks
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Chrysler Cancels Overtime at Plants
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Toyota May Be Downgraded by Moody's After Japan Earthquake
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Auto manufacturing in U.S. rocked by Japanese quake
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Toyota says most Japan plants to stay idle next week
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Bondholders of old GM to get shares in new GM shortly
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Aviation:
Lenders Get Stake in Kingfisher Airlines
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Federal Government Orders 737 Inspections in Wake of Southwest Scare
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Boeing: hundreds of older 737s at risk for cracks
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Southwest completes 737 checks; five need repair
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Boeing Didn't Expect 737 Cracks so Soon
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Lehman:
Lehman, Paulson Plans 'Strip' Value, State Street Says
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Tax:
Senate votes to kill detested small-business tax law
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HSBC Client Said to Plead Guilty to Hiding Bank Accounts
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Oil/Gas:
Judge Approves Sale Of Seahawk Drilling To Rival Hercules
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Gas City Auctions Off Stations for $135 Million to Pay Back Debts
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Food/Beverage:
Sbarro Wins Court Approval of $16.5 Million Financing While in Bankruptcy
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Video Rentals:
Blockbuster Gets $310.6 Million Bid From Icahn; Dish Second
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Icahn, Dish, debtholders still vying for Blockbuster in bankruptcy auction
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Dish Network Wins Blockbuster Auction With $320 Million Bid
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Awards:
Rutgers University Will Honor Alumna Elizabeth Warren
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Mobile Homes:
Palm Harbor to close Kyle plant, cut 129 jobs
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Boating:
Post Marine files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy
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Golf:
Plant City country club could head off foreclosure
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Hotels:
Hotel Management Company Fired in New York Ruling
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Accounting:
FASB Updates Standards for Troubled Debt Restructurings
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Economy:
Fed Minutes Show Inflation Debate
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Sharp Disagreement Among Fed Members
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Federal Reserve's minutes show worries over depressed housing sector
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Fed Members Raise Specter of Higher Interest Rates
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What Does the Fed Really Do Anyway?
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Crony capitalism strikes again
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U.S. Service-Sector Growth Slows
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Fed's Plosser: Economists Still Sorting Out Causes Of Financial Crisis
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U.S. service-sector growth tapers off slightly
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IMF Reverses Position on Capital Controls
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No budget deal as shutdown clock ticks
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White House Orders Agencies to Prepare for Shutdown
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Obama to GOP: ‘We Don’t Have Time for Games’
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Geithner: Debt Default Could Topple ‘Hundreds of Thousands’ of Businesses
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Geithner: Debt Default Would Make Financial Crisis Look Tame
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Ryan Maps Another ‘Path to Prosperity’
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Democrats Decry Ryan Budget Plan
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Paul Ryan and the Politics of Debt
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CBO: GOP budget raises health costs for retirees
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GOP Tax Bill Would Slam Middle Class
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GOP Budget in Summary
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Rep. Paul Ryan's magic job creation
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GOP Tax Bill Will Prove Costly for Party
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Medicare's moment of truth
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Medicaid Reduced $1 Trillion in GOP Plan
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Oil edges lower but keeps above $108 a barrel
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Rising Oil Prices Now Hurting Economy
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Central Banks' Courses Diverge In Europe, US
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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:
Fed’s Kocherlakota: Housing’s Reliance on Government Isn't Sound Strategy
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Mortgage Servicers Said to Agree to Fix Foreclosure Procedures
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Banks Get Edge in Talks on Foreclosure Penalties as Feds Settle
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Loan probe to proceed 'unabated,' Iowa AG says
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Young Solo Helps Family Avoid Foreclosure Through Mediation
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KB Home's Wicked Bad Results Crush Homebuilders
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KBW says eight GSE reform bills barely dent mortgage market
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Republicans considering another 16 bills on GSE reform
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Lawmakers want to see how Fannie, Freddie select REO vendors
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House members look to pay Fannie, Freddie employees as gov't workers
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SEC brings charges vs. Wachovia over CDOs
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As Grubb Struggles, Its Chief Weighs Options
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Delinquency Rate Hits Record for Mortgage-Backed Commercial Loans
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CMBS Delinquency Rate Rise Slows for Second Month In A Row
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Apartment Vacancies Decline, Rents Expected to Rise
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How Many Borrowers Qualify Under New ‘Safe’ Mortgage Rules?
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Democrats' homeownership assistance bills face fiscal resistance
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32 million people struggling to pay mortgage
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Prices are low! Mortgages cheap! But you can't get one
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Geithner sees HAMP as a helpful aid in repairing housing
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Signing Up to Live in a Billboard
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California expands 'Hardest Hit' eligibility for distressed homeowners
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Will government shut-down foul Fannie/Freddie closings?
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LV: Landowner tied to stalled residential project files for bankruptcy
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Vacation-Home Market Is Stuffed With Projects As Prices Schuss Downhill
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Recent Rulings in Key Subprime-Related Securities Cases
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Farkas trial, Day 2: Former president testifies
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WCI development under fire
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Brokers versus consumers in LO compensation trenches
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Media:
Tribune Judge Delays Court Fight for Further Mediation Over Rival Plans
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M&A:
More than 100 hedge-fund M&A deals expected
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Wall Street is dealing again
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Deal Frenzy Infects Asset Management Firms
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Fraud:
FBI Agent Paints Portrait of Alleged Tips to Galleon Founder
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Talking On Tape, Former Beauty Queen Has Big Presence At Trial
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Rajaratnam Investigator Testifies About Phone Calls, Stock Trades, Profits
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Indian American tipsters helped Rajaratnam make millions: FBI
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Feds drama in Raj's wrap-up
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The Buffett bashing begins
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S&P Concerned About Berkshire’s ‘Corporate Infrastructure’
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Munger Says He Told Buffett of BYD Stake, Stayed Out of Talks
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Why Private Equity Is Irked Over Sokol
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There oughta be a law, Sokol edition
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In Buffett Heir's Past: More Shadiness
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Buffett's Ruthlessness Is Oddly Absent on Sokol
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Wells Fargo Settles SEC Charges
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SEC charges Satyam with $1 billion fraud
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SEC settles billion-dollar fraud for $16 million
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Satyam, PwC settle SEC accounting fraud probes
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Madoff Feeder Fund Fairfield Sues Abu Dhabi for $300 Million
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Rothstein restitution notice filed
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Two plead guilty in huge Ponzi fraud case
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Petters 'clawback' targets seek dismissal
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Fashion:
Banks threaten to call in American Apparel loans
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The Village Voice Interviews Dov Charney
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American Apparel's Dov Charney: "We're Not Going Bankrupt"
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American Apparel searches for a buyer
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Consumer Finance:
Predatory Payday Lenders Put Military Families in the Crosshairs
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(3 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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UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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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:
Nortel, WaMu, Lehman, Blockbuster, Borders, A&P: Bankruptcy
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Lehman, Windstar, Capmark, New Stream, Black Crow: Bankruptcy
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Corporate Reform:
Elizabeth Warren (TM)
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Raskin, Granholm eyed for agency
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J.P. Morgan's Dimon lashes out at Dodd-Frank
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Frank Seeks to Amend Dodd-Frank
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House Committee Seeks To 'Improve' CFPB Structure
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Congress Still Demonizing Elizabeth Warren, Meanwhile, Chase Rolls Out the $5 ATM Fee
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Wall Street Lobbies Treasury on Dodd-Frank
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How to lose friends in Washington: Be TARP cop
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Derivatives:
The Problems With Derivatives Clearing
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Swaps Industry Failing to Meet Clearinghouse Promises, Fed's Dudley Says
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Trustees:
Former Bankruptcy Trustee Under Fire
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Retailing:
Boardwalk Comes Up Short
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Retailers' weekly sales rise 2.8%
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Borders Plans To Relocate Headquarters Out Of Ann Arbor
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Borders to Detail Business Plan
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Religion:
Archdiocese, creditors postpone arguments over payments to 22 victims
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Bishop's memo says cuts in services, layoffs on way
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Celebs:
Bankrupt Brunell hatches plan for cash
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Health Care:
Company Sees Bankruptcy as Boon to Cancer Vaccine
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Randolph Med Center declares bankruptcy
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Municipalities:
City needs state's help to issue bonds, avoid huge tax increase
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Harrisburg incinerator report to keep Chapter 9 threat on table
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Fed's Biggest Foreign-Bank Bailout Saved US Muni Bonds
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Banking:
Number of Bank Failures Finally Starting to Decline?
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Symphonies:
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra will file for bankruptcy , board announces
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Trucking:
Lender acquires ex-Arrow offices
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Shipping:
Global Container Traffic Hits Record High
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Soccer:
Premier League Boss Scudamore Defends Insolvency Rule That Benefits Soccer
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UK:
England football legend faces financial ruin
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Appointment of Administrators - 5 April 2011
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Winding Up Petitions - 5 April 2011
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UK Industrial Production Slumps
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UK: Now the Real Economic Pain Starts
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Insolvency's mixed fortune on pre-packs
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Budget high street retailer Alworths enters administration
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EU:
Retail Sales Slump Shows ECB Dilemma
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Canada:
Liquidation, closings for Tabi stores
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Germany:
German Manufacturing Orders Rise
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Commerzbank to repay over $20 bln of state aid
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PIIGS:
Portugal's Options to Avoid Bailout Dwindle
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Portugal Raises $1.4B at High Cost as Rescue Looms
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Portugal In Talks Over EU Aid
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Pimco's Balls Says ECB Rate Increases 'Last Thing' Portugal, Greece Need
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Euro Zone Risks Exodus of Weaklings
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Spanish Banks Face 'One of the Worst' Years
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Cut In Bailout Debt Rate Fair And Vital For Sustainability, Says Barroso
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MENA:
For Oil Firms, Arab Unrest Means a Gusher
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Gaddafi Family Vows Never to Leave
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Saudi Unrest and Oil at $200-300
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Japan:
Japan: Radioactive Leak Now Plugged
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Japan's Ocean Radiation? 7.5M Times Legal
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Radiation Concerns Rise in Japan
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In Japan, grand coalition talk belies rifts
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Australia:
Collapsed Builder Points Finger At State
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Australia's Colorado Group Put Up For Sale
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