Law:
Work Dissatisfaction May Be Partly Genetic
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Booz Allen Hit with Second Gender Discrimination Lawsuit
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Making First-Year Associates Less Useless, One Class At A Time
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Trendy New Perk (or Punishment?) for Law Firm Junior Lawyers: Business Education
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‘Cyberloafing’ Helps Work Productivity, Personal Emailing Doesn’t, Study Finds
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The New JD: Just Debt? Job Disabled? Justifiably Depressed?
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Local Offices Were Key to BigLaw Merger
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All Shook Up By Quake, Courts and Law Firms Evacuate; Cozen Partner Welcomes Break in Park
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The D.C. Earthquake of 2011!
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Former Solicitor General Katyal Heads to Hogan Lovells
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Cal. AG’s Raid on Golden State Lawyers re Bank ‘Mass Joinder’ Suits Doesn’t Faze Fla. Colleague
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Panel Seeks Disbarment of Harvard Law Grad and Ex-BigLaw Partner Who Lied on Child’s School Aid App
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Tough Times, Decent Profits: Yeah, Sez Who?
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Tech Company Claims Patton Boggs Cost it $500 Million with Frivolous RICO Suit
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Singer's Malpractice Suit Proceeds Over Lost Rights to 'Mickey' Performance
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Perk Watch
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Remote E-Discovery Collection Tools Gather Steam
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The New Legal Productivity LinkedIn Group
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At Brigham Young, OCI Is A Laughing Matter
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The Callback Interview – Why the Relaxed, Well Prepared Student Will Prevail
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Law School Non-Leadership
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Prof Protests Mutli-Million Dollar Gift to Law School
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Should UCLA Law School Accept Milken’s Millions?
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Klee: "Save for one dissident professor, the entire business law faculty is grateful for this gift"
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The ‘Best Value’ Law Schools of 2011
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Seller of Online Legal Forms Settles Unauthorized Practice of Law Suit
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KBR Requests That Losing Rape Claimant Pay Company’s Legal Fees
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"Last week, the office manager at our firm called a meeting for all employees to discuss a situation in the ladies room"
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A Q&A with William Ingaldson, Counsel for the ‘Hot Sauce’ Mom
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Two Men Break into Funeral Home; Found Sleeping in Caskets
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The Lauren Giddings Murder Investigation: Updates
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Judges:
Federal bankruptcy judge for North Dakota retires after nearly 3 decades behind the bench
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Prosecutor poised to fill federal bankruptcy judicial vacancy
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Southern District of Texas bankruptcy judge awards Baker Botts big fees, offers high praise
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Wyomissing lawyer to help review applicants for federal judgeship
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Will Clarence and Virginia Thomas succeed in killing Obama's health-care plan?
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Ex-Judge’s Son Gets 3-11 for Hollywood-Style Heist of $1.5M in Chips from Las Vegas Casino
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Another Attorney Charged in RICO Case, Accused of Paying Judge for Rulings
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Karaoke Singer?
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Wall Street:
Wall Street set for fall; Bernanke speech awaited
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Stocks Barely Close Higher After Trimming Early Gains
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Goldman Sachs braced for legal battles over financial crisis
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Goldman's Blankfein Has Nothing to Fear
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Want To Know Wall Street’s Dirty Little Secret?
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A Little Natural Disaster Shows Who The Real Men On Wall Street Are
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Thousands Of Layoffs To Hit Wall Street In Fall
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Layoffs:
Black Lawmakers Target High Urban Unemployment
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What can the Obama administration do to help the long-term unemployed?
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Jobless bank robber says he 'stole to survive'
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Long-term unemployment wreaks mental toll on jobless
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GE cutting more jobs
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Autos:
Auto Loan Delinquencies Fall Again
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Saab may not have funds in time for August wages
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History:
Was Indiana Bankrupt?
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Aviation:
Texas judge sides with Cape, allows Commander eviction to proceed
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Alabama Aircraft Industries Inc. seeks Bankruptcy Court OK for sale
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Telecoms:
Nortel judges approve price cut for Internet phone business
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Baseball:
Hit the McCourts Where it Hurts: the Wallet
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Corporate Reform:
Regulators At Last Step Up Retail Financial Oversight
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In Fed's Move on Capital One Deal, a Test of Dodd-Frank
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Consumer Bureau Getting Cozy With State AGs
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SEC Promises Pay for Tipsters, but How Have They Fared in the Past?
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Regulators to require minimum derivatives data
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Derivatives 'Data Gaps' May Hide Threats to Financial Stability
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Linklaters US derivatives chief exits to take new role at futures regulator
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Scrapping Regulations Will Save Businesses $10 Billion
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Celebs:
OC Housewife Alexis Bellino Threatens To Sue Magazine Over Report That She Is ‘Broke’
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Politics:
Now Here Are 9 Things GOP Frontrunner Rick Perry DOESN'T Believe In
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Rick Perry: Economic Wizard?
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Bachmann Won't Back Off $2 Gas Pledge
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Guide to the Best Coverage on Gov. Rick Perry and His Record
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Guide to the Best Coverage of Ron Paul and His Record
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Warren's Wall Street Problem? Says Who?
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Elizabeth Warren's uphill battle
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Directories:
Caribe Media Files Bankruptcy Restructuring Plan Giving Lenders Equity
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Retailing:
Irvine Internet retailer files for bankruptcy
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Religion:
It's a sham... abuse victims react to bishop's apology
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Clergy devalues language in response to child sex abuse
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Vatican Denies Responsibility for Sexually Abusive Priests
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Economy:
Business Economists: Raise Taxes to Fix Deficit
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PIMCO CEO argues for more government bailout spending
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Companies Probably Ordered Fewer U.S. Durable Goods on Recovery Concern
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Ben S. Bernanke: “Unlikely revolutionary”
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Markets Will Look for Hints in Bernanke’s Words
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Don't Hold Breath For New Fed Action in Jackson Hole
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QE3 is stimulus not a solution, says Deutsche Bank
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Fed Could Anger Creditors, Tea Party With 'QE3'
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Once Again World Economy Threatened by Financial Industry
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Conflicts on the New York Fed Board
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Foreign Banks Received Half Of Fed's 2008 Emergency Loans
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Oil rises on anticipation Fed may signal stimulus
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Spending, not entitlements, created huge deficit
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Balanced Budget Amendment to Get Votes
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$500,000 stimulus = 1.72 new jobs
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Crime Spikes Throughout New York City, Could Lead To First Overall Increase In Decades
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New national debt data: It's growing about $3 million a minute
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How Rich Is Rich? Where America Draws the Wealth Line
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Private Companies See Record Profits
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Looking Ahead To Washington's Next Failure And America's Next Downgrade
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Forget the Market: We Can't Retire Anyhow
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Where Buffett Was Wrong: All Of Rich Don't Pay Lower Tax Rate Than Middle-Income Co-Workers
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'Very Muted Growth' Coming for Next 10 Years: Faber
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Economic Myths: Separating Fact From Fiction
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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:
New York Attorney General Kicked Off Government Group Leading Foreclosure Probe
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Mass. Bankruptcy Judge Voids Foreclosure Of MERS Mortgage
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Sales of new homes down in July
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Analysts: Home sales going nowhere fast
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A Deep Dive Into The New Home Sales Miss
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Inventory of new homes reaches record low
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Behind the Numbers: 'Perilous Time' in Home Building
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Judge allows intervention in BofA $8.5 billion pact
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FHA mortgage delinquencies resurge in second quarter
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Phoenix home sales fall 13.2% in July
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Pending home sales dip in California
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Home Sales Down in North Texas
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Banks dragging feet on valley foreclosures
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America's Recession-Resistant Cities For Real Estate
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Squatting becomes common in Detroit
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Homeowner Associations in Need of Cash Sue to Force Foreclosures
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Hundreds of Brooklyn residents rally to prevent 82-year-old's eviction
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Continued global rise in distressed properties
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AHMSI sues LPS and DocX over 'surrogate' signing scandal
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Goldman Sachs sued by CIFG over RMBS
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Oil/Gas:
Oil Rigs Revisit Lehman Crisis as Credit Squeezed for Orders, Acquisitions
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After the Revolution, Hurdles in Reviving the Oil Sector
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Banking:
Banks report profits; number on problem list falls
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A Heap of Good News (Phew) from the FDIC
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FDIC: Fewer banks are troubled, but revenue is shrinking
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First Drop in Number of Problem U.S. Banks Since 2006
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FDIC: Bank closures slow and loan portfolios grow
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Investment bankers suffer as UBS sheds 3,500 staff
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Bank of America’s Crisis of Confidence
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After A Crazy Day For Bank Of America, JPMorgan Upgrades It, Citing "Irrationality"
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Rumor Of The Day: Will JPMorgan Buy BofA?
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Bank Stocks Getting Worst of Fears Recession Is Back
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Bank Of America's Bizarre Personal Attack On Henry Blodget Suggests "Something Is Seriously Amiss"
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Here’s a Fun Stat on Bank of America
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FDIC has to face $10 billion WaMu-related lawsuit
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Bank stocks get hammered
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Is yield curve signaling a recession?
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Temple-Inland sued over Guaranty; shares plunge
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European Bank Job 'Bloodbath' Surpasses 40,000 as UBS Cuts Workforce by 5%
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Perks Annihilated As Banks Go On A Cost Cutting Rampage
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Where are the world's safest banks?
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Municipalities:
Alabama county set for crucial talks with creditors
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Rhode Island Offers 'Aggressive' Yields After City Bankruptcy
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Illinois Loses Most Jobs in Nation
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Credit Counseling:
FTC Permanently Halts Operation that Allegedly Made Bogus Claims about Eliminating Consumers' Debt
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Mass Torts:
BP fund has paid out $5 billion to Gulf spill victims
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Rising Asbestos Claims Could Put a Dent in Insurers' Profits
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Accounting:
Does Being a Good Golfer Give You a Better Chance at Partner or CFO?
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New Deloitte Partners and Directors
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Orchestras:
Classical orchestras struggle to find funding
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Radio:
Inner City creditors say it made "reckless threats" about going into Chapter 7
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Distressed Investing:
SilverLeaf Financial Purchases a $16 Million Portfolio of Non Performing Loans Secured by Apartment Complexes in Georgia
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Resorts:
Viceroy Anguilla Owner Barnes Bay Files New Chapter 11 Plan
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Trucking:
ATA Trucking index decreased 1.3% in July
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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:
(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, Capmark, Vallejo, Inner City Media
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Claims Trading:
Bankruptcy claims-trading reaches 12-month high
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
California Among Top 5 in Per-Capita Bankruptcies
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Jurisdiction:
The Stern Files
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Sales:
W.R. Grace Lost Secret Auction
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Avoidance Actions:
Bankruptcy trustees go after TBW vendors
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Insurance:
Dodd Frank, Corporate Investigations and D&O Insurance
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Fraud:
Madoff Trustee Defends 'Clawbacks' in US District Court
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Wilpons may have to pay $300M+
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In conversation with Harry Markopolos, the guy who went after Bernie Madoff
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Ex-Fry's exec to be sentenced in December for kick-back scheme
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Primary Global CEO tied to insider case-filing
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Investors attend Walter Ng bankruptcy court hearing
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Hurricanes Scandal Casts Cloud Over College Football
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Who Commits Fraud?
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M&A:
The Big MAC Is Back, but Does It Kill a Deal?
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Innkeepers Objects to Cerberus and Chatham Demand for $20 Million Deposit
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Innkeepers joins failed LBO list
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Health Care:
Bankruptcy gaining traction as business option for hospitals
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Hospital, insurer seek relief in court
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Eisenhower Medical Center finances under scrutiny
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Warren Hospital, hobbled by debt, rejects offer from owner of Easton Hospital in one day
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Lehman:
Lehman defends $65 billion payout plan
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Bank Leumi Settles Lawsuit Against Lehman Brothers
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Debt Collection:
Debt Collector Could Be Liable for Autodialing
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IMF:
Maid in Dominique Strauss-Khan case could face perjury charges, experts say
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So, Are Prosecutors Going To Apologize To Dominique Strauss-Kahn For Destroying His Life?
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UK:
Northern Ireland: high demand for new debt relief
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Insolvency and Landlords' Rights
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Recovery and Resolution Plans
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Taxman gets tough over Time to Pay
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Retired judge to rule over DEMSA panel
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Appointment of Administrators - 23 August 2011
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Winding Up Petitions - 23 August 2011
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EU:
Merkel Rejects Seeking Collateral in Bailouts as Splits Emerge
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Merkel calls Eurobond demands 'grossly negligent'
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Merkel, still hesitant, shows wiggle room around eurobonds
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Cost of Insuring EU Bank Debt Has Doubled
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European banks still depend on aid
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European bank job 'bloodbath' hits 67,000
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Greenspan: Euro is Breaking Down
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Does Merkel Need a 'Lehman Crisis' to Save Euro?
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Germany:
German Business Confidence Falls on Damped Outlook
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France:
France’s Wealthy Call For Tax On Rich
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PIIGS:
Greek Crisis Now Worse, not Better
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A Bailout Like No Other
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Greek Cuts Erode Livelihoods
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Greece to speed up efforts to trim deficit: minister
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Collateral demands may complicate Greek rescue -IIF
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The War Against The Young: Italian Edition
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China:
China Factory Output Cools in August
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Japan:
Moody Cuts Japan's Rating
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Moody's: don't see contagion from Europe spreading to Japan
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Japanese Banks Feel Downgrade
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MENA:
Nakheel to issue $1 bln sukuk to trade creditors
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Rebels Raise Flag On Gaddafi's Compound
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400 dead, 2,000 wounded in battle for Tripoli
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Threat of Chaos Hangs Over City
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Gaddafi Defiant
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Qaddafi Eludes Rebels Who Seize Compound
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Hunt for Qaddafi Takes Rebels Underground
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Australia:
Australian Property, Long an Outlier, Joins Decline
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South Korea:
Investor Suicides Offer Clue in a Bellwether
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