Law:
Are Law Firms Overstating Their Profits?
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Are BigLaw Firms Inflating Partner Profits? Citigroup Unit Reportedly Finds Fudging
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Are Biglaw PPP Stats Any More Reliable Than Law School Employment Stats?
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Debevoise and Skadden 1st-Years to Spend First Month Learning B-School Skills Under New Program
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Howrey sues Warner building owners
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Dollmaker Turns On Its BigLaw Lawyers
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Meet Lloyd Blankfein’s Lawyer: Reid Weingarten
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Goldman Sachs shares plunge after chief Lloyd Blankfein hires high-profile criminal defense lawyer
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Why Did Goldman Sachs' CEO Hire Outside Counsel?
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Small and Midsized Firms Seeking Big Firm Work Must Be Aggressive
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Mean People Earn More Money
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Galleon Case Lawyer, Smith Barney, News Corp. in Court News
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Chicago-Area Lawyer Accused of Murder for Hire Pleads Not Guilty
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UK firms freeze rates for newly-qualified London lawyers
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Feeling of Resignation
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Stop Your Whining, Only 1.5% of Lawyers Unemployed
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In-House: Keeping People In The Loop
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A Q&A With the Creator of 'Inside the Law School Scam'
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Some See Signs Law Schools Are Getting Serious About Reform
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Almost All of Survey’s ‘Best Value’ Law Schools Are State Institutions
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Quinn OCI Process Irks Fordham Law Kids, But They Should Blame Fordham
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The On-Campus Interview Flowchart
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The Ropes & Gray Partner Who Helped Free the West Memphis Three
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Bankruptcy lawyer Who Moonlights as a Lifeguard Claims Speedos Requirement Is Age Bias
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DOJ’s Expanding Power to Seize Assets Sparks Concerns
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After Hollywood Stint, Mass. Prosecutor Returns to the Courtroom
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Attorney General Criticized for Comparing Welfare Recipients to Hungry Raccoons
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The most inappropriate man in the world
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New York Attorney Is a Driving Force at the Track
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Super Lawyer
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‘No Dress for You!’ A New Jersey Bridal Boutique Goes ‘Gown Nazi’ on a Bride-to-Be
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Classroom to Courtroom: In Texas schools, response to misbehavior is questioned
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Bank Robber Who Bragged On Facebook Pleads Guilty
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Man arrested -- for feeding pigeons...
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Judges:
Longtime North Dakota bankruptcy judge Hill retires
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Wall Street:
U.S Stock Futures Rise on Fed Stimulus Speculation, China
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Stocks Finish Mostly Flat in Choppy Trading
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Higher, Just Barely
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Boomers May Stall Stocks for Decades: Fed Paper
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A Sales Tax on Wall Street Transactions
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Goldman Sachs Shares Fall From Table to Lowest Since March 2009
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Goldman Sachs Throws the Potted Plants Overboard
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Goldman Sachs CEO lawyers up
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Wild swings in stock market knock out IPOs
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Why Markets Will Get Worse Before They Get Better
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Wall Street's Credibility Problem
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Crisis-weary rich held nerve in market sell-off
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The Kids On Wall Street Are Moving Into Corner Offices
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Layoffs:
Economic Crisis Gets U.S. Steel a WARN Act Pass
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UBS Plans Job Cuts of 3,500
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Smith: President Should Create Jobs for American Workers – Not Illegal Immigrants
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Mass Torts:
Jury Says Parts Makers Must Pay $32M to Navy Veteran Exposed to Asbestos Working Aboard Ships
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Banking:
Bank of America's stock takes a beating ... again
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Bank of America: Time to Get Out of the Dow?
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Will Bank of America Have to Sell Fresh Stock?
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Bank of America may need to raise up $50 billion: Analyst
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Why is Bank of America’s Stock Cratering Yet Again? It’s the Extend and Pretend Endgame
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Visualizing How Bank Of America's Reserve Accounting Errors Are One Giant "Subprime CDO "
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Morgan Stanley at Brink of Collapse Got $107B From Fed
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Bank Competition Spurs Asset-Based Loan Boom
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A Pat On The Back And A Slap In The Face
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UBS axes 3,500 jobs in cost-cutting push
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Trustee Sues Temple-Inland
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FDIC Sues Ex-Silverton Board, Officers for $71 Million in Bank’s Collapse
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"It is no defense that the head did not put it in writing"
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Obama administration takes tough stance on banks
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Lehman:
RBS sued by Lehman brokerage trustee for $346 mln
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2011 Is Not 2008: Why Lehman Was the Last 'Lehman'
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Canary Wharf Agrees Not to Vote Against Lehman Liquidation Plan
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Radio:
Creditors seek black radio company's bankruptcy
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More On The ICBC Involuntary Bankruptcy
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Telecoms:
Setback for Sprint in motion against TerreStar
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Health Care:
Filing bankruptcy the newest hospital business strategy
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Peninsula Hospital in Queens on Brink of Bankruptcy
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Peninsula Hospital Suspends ER Services as Workers Rally
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Peninsula Hospital Board Meets As Residents Rally
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Far Rockaway Peninsula Hospital faces bankruptcy and closure
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Why HUMC filed for bankruptcy
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Manhattan District Attorney Investigating St. Vincent Bankruptcy
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Price List Could Be A Radical Medical Tool
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Mail:
Cash crisis drives USPS towards insolvency
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Postal Service seeking help from Congress
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Baseball:
McCourt's bankruptcy lawyers bill $1.7 million, for 5 weeks
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Frank McCourt’s Last Rabbit
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Personal Finance:
In such hard times, pets sometimes abandoned
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Tax:
Ex-UBS Client Must Give Tax Records to Grand Jury, U.S. Court Rules
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Switzerland criticizes US tactics on tax evasion
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The stupid complexities of the tax code
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Economy:
Bernanke Speech Is Looking Like a Lose-Lose Situation
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Markets Are Asking Too Much From Jackson Hole
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Get ready for a Jackson Hole surprise
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A Look Inside The Fed's Limited Tool Box
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US Consumer Confidence Continues Decline
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Fed's Cheap Money Was Working but Oil Spoilt Party
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The World's New Economy
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Gold Advances to Record as Economy, Debt Concerns Spur Demand for a Haven
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Gold retreats from record high above $1900/oz
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How to move $12 billion of gold
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US: Unsustainable Food Stamp Nation
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'No' Vote: Consumer Confidence A Drag On Markets
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On Wall St., a Big Split on Outlook
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Dow Transports Collapse = Recession Priced In
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Low Rates Till 2013? Good News…And Bad
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The Fed's 'Secret' $1.2 Trillion Bailout of Wall Street
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The List: Which Bank Got the Most Money
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US Downgrade: Is S&P to Blame — or Congress?
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Fed Data From 29,000 Pages Show Banks' Bailout: Methodology
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Why Capitalism is Choosing Plan B
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Financial Markets Should Focus on Gas Prices and Mortgage Rates
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Economists: Recession isn't likely soon, but neither is a recovery
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64% of Americans Don’t Have $1,000 in Savings
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Soros: The Market Has All But Guaranteed A U.S. Double Dip
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Stephen Roach: Consumers need debt jubilee
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The Rich Can Afford to Pay More Taxes
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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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Real Estate:
Attorney General of N.Y. Is Said to Face Pressure on Bank Foreclosure Deal
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Feds to AGs: Can't Touch This
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Lender Processing Services Law Firm Targeting April Charney, Foreclosure Defense Pioneer
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Why the bank-foreclosure settlement talks are likely to drag on indefinitely
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Deutsche Bank knew mortgage co it bought lied
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US Foreclosures Risks Start Rising Again
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Delinquencies Showing 'Signs Of Worsening'
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Delinquency Survey: Comments and State Data
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Mortgage Delinquencies by State: Range and Current
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Dallas foreclosures drop to lowest level in almost three years
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In Baltimore, homes for $10,000 -- and less
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Foreclosure cases stack up in NJ
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Are We Now a Nation of Squatters?
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Homebuyers Hunker Down Amid Slumping Stocks
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Florida has highest inventory of homes in foreclosure
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Judge McConnell orders banks, struggling borrowers to talk it out
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Early Mortgage Delinquencies Rise to Highest in Year
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Freddie Mac alerts real estate agents to rising short sale fraud
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Fannie Mae: Odds of another recession are a 'coin toss'
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Homeowners Need Help
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Time for More Housing Stimulus?
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Foreclosures, mortgage delinquencies slowing in Arizona
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FHA multifamily origination breaks record
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Former Ginnie Mae execs submit GSE reform plans
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Investors turning more properties into rentals
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Fitch Ratings downgrades PulteGroup on shaky housing market
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PMI Group losing market share from regulatory oversight
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Fannie Mae suspends PMI Group
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Commercial property prices inch higher in June
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Secured Creditor First Manhattan Developments REIT Seeks Dismissal of 785 Partners LLC Bankruptcy Case
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CMBS 2.0 update: The expanded "non-interference" carve-out
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Corporate Reform:
Finger-Pointing in the Fog
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What Sarbanes-Oxley Teaches Us About Dodd-Frank
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Municipalities:
Alabama’s Jefferson County Won’t Take Debt Deal That Rules Out Bankruptcy
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Jefferson County: We Need Bankruptcy Option
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Ala. county, creditors to resume sewer debt talks
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Alabama Local Borrowers Punished as Jefferson Faces Bankruptcy
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Jeffco Commission President to meet with creditors in NY
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Man With Bong Will Bring Bankrupt California Town Back From The Brink
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CA teachers pension system labeled 'high risk'
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States that are most bullish on the economy
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Health of Municipal Bonds
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Aviation:
City manager calls Commander plea for public support 'sad, last-ditch' effort
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Former Commander president writes open letter, hopes to sway pressure on city officials, save aircraft company
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New Rules Tighten Passenger Protections on Bumping, Long Delays and Baggage Fees
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Hotels:
Cerberus Kills Innkeepers Deal in Sign of Strain for Buyouts
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Innkeeper's Deal the Victim of a Bad Economy
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Bankrupt Maui Oceanfront Days Inn may be sold
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M&A:
M&A Financing Markets Squeeze Tighter
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Cerberus Walks, the MAC Is Back!
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Retailing:
Ritz Interactive Clicks Into Chapter 11
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Horse Racing:
Bankruptcy meeting planned Wednesday for Downs horse track
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Rating Agencies:
Standard & Poor's Needs Adult Supervision, Investor Says
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Standard & Poor's President to Step Down
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S&P Board Fires CEO For Telling The Truth, To Be Replaced With COO Of Citibank
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Fraud:
Jury Could Decide Madoff Trustee Suit Against Mets Owners
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A Win For The Wilpon/Katz Group In Federal District Court
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15 Miami athletes being investigated
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Questionable ethics within a flawed system
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Plea hearing postponed for former Paybooks president
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Judge Upholds $60M Restitution Order In Bayou Case
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5 Ways Madoff Was Right
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Down Economy and Increased Regulation Impact Corporate Fraud
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Agriculture:
Judge sets bidding procedures for assets of three bankrupt tobacco companies
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Derivatives:
Eurex ringfences clients from defaults
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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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Miscellaneous:
Sazka, Lehman, ShengdaTech, Pinnacle Point Units
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
One More Time, With Feeling
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Maine reports drop in bankruptcy filings
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Venue:
Tennessee Lawmaker Sponsors Bankruptcy Venue Reform Act
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Litigation:
Semcrude decision delineates the process for analyzing motions for continuance vs. motions for summary judgment
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Recharacterization:
Fifth Circuit: Recharacterization, It’s Not Just for Insiders Anymore
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Finance:
Business Borrowing Slammed in July
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Insolvency:
Will in Insolvency
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IP:
'Conan the Barbarian' Lawsuit Seeks Character Rights
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Celebs:
Teresa Giudice: 'You Gotta Lie!'
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Friends, fans support Burt Reynolds during Hobe Sound home foreclosure
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Food/Beverage:
Andronico's Markets files for bankruptcy , talks sale
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Andronico’s Markets Negotiating with Investor Group
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Renovo Capital may take over bankrupt Andronico's
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Solar:
Massachusetts Responds To High-Profile Bankruptcy
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Solar firm SpectraWatt files for bankruptcy
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Solar Manufacturers Slowly Closing Up Shop In US
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Johnson Sees End of Solar Subsidies, More Bankruptcies
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Autos:
How Old Is Chevy? Depends Who’s Asking…
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“New” GM vs “Old” GM. Separate Entities when it Comes to Accountability for Negligence
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Chinese Investors Are Among Bankruptcy Shadow of Saab
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Politics:
Rick Perry: Trial Lawyer Enemy No. 1?
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Trial lawyers prep for war on Perry
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Obama's New Message Takes Shape
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Rick Perry Doesn't Think Social Security Is Unconstitutional (Anymore)
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Does Rick Perry still favor repeal of 16th Amendment?
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Why is Rick Perry distancing himself from his controversial book?
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What Happened To Rick Perry, "No Apologies Candidate?"
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Perry says no to "Obamacare," but what's his plan?
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Low Wages in Texas
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As A Lawyer, Bachmann Worked For The Tax Collectors
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Galluo: Obama in Close Race Against Romney, Perry, Bachmann -- Ron Paul
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Warren's criticism of Wall Street poses fundraising dilemma in Mass.
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Tech:
ShengdaTech Board Files Suit Against CEO
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Orchestras:
National musicians union puts Louisville Orchestra on 'Unfair List'
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IMF:
L’Affaire DSK: The (Criminal) End is Nigh
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Prosecutors tell NY judge to drop Strauss-Kahn case
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Lawyers for maid in DSK case seek special prosecutor
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UK:
Anger as MoD Alix consultants get £5000 a day each
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Winding Up Petitions - 22 August 2011
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Appointment of Administrators - 22 August 2011
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EU:
Europe is epicenter of coming economic earthquake
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Europe Failure to Solve Bank Crisis Haunts Markets
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European Banks Must Pay Up to Borrow $100 Billion
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Scary Signs Of A Liquidity Crunch In Europe
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Canada:
Remitting is not Optional: Personal Liability of Directors for Source Deductions and Sales Taxes – The Best Intentions are Not Always a Defence
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Germany:
German Confidence Falls More Than Forecast as Debt Crisis Threatens Growth
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German finance minister to present tax reform proposals
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Members of Merkel's Party Emphasize Opposition to Euro Bonds
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Germany's Central Bank Criticizes Rescue Plan
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Germany's highest court to announce ruling on Greek, eurozone rescues Sept 7
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PIIGS:
Spain to put debt ceiling in constitution
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Many oppose Finnish-Greek collateral deal
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Finland-Greece Debt Deal Needs Eurozone OK: Germany
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Prof: Ireland needs better personal bankruptcy system
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ie: No Clarity Yet On Exactly How Mortgage Forgiveness Would Work
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ie: If workout specialists are hot, manager level hires are hottest
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Italy Seeks to Tackle Youth Jobless Problem
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MENA:
Nakheel to issue $1.3 billion Islamic bond this week
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The Scramble for Access to Libya’s Oil Wealth Begins
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Calls Rise to Send Lockerbie Bomber Back to Prison
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The Battle for Tripoli
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Fighting Flares in Tense Tripoli
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US Military Intervention in Libya Cost Near $1 Billion
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Czech Republic:
Sazka's International Bondholders Oppose Terms in Tender
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Israel:
A Rallying Cry in Israel: ‘Lower the Rent!’
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Haiti:
Where Haiti’s money has gone
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