Law:
Fed sees signs of economic strengthening for the legal sector
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Grocers, Thrift Stores and Bankruptcy Firms Are Doing Well, Despite Struggling Economy
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After a few tough years, O'Melveny has a new chair and a revamped strategy.
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Wheels start turning on Hogan shift to merit pay for partners
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Associate Bonus Watch: Skadden Matches Cravath -- Milbank Matches
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Bankruptcy Judge Approves Ruden McClosky's Sale to Lone Suitor
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MF Global Trustee Giddens Says JPMorgan Work Was Limited
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Religious slurs in bankruptcy lawyer's memo have court up in arms
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Law Firms Struggling to Break Out of the Pack, Survey Shows
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Freshfields staff call for management's attention on work load and social issues
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Linklaters accounts show double-digit growth in US and Asia
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Shearman reveals London diversity stats - Women make up 20% of partnership
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Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Anglo Irish Bank in Court News
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Ally, Deutsche Bank, SocGen, Rajaratnam in Court News
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Women—Still a Blip on the New Partner Radar
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Woman with Brain Disorder Sues for More Time on the LSAT
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Would you go to law school today?
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Hello Congress, Want to Eliminate Wasteful Public Spending in the Legal Academy?
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"Law professors very nearly run the world"
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Students Must Take More Active Role in Job Hunt, Law Schools Say
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Is Law Blogging Just Advertising? The Virginia Bar Thinks So
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Destroy Legacy Data Before It Comes Back to Haunt Your Firm
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Preservation Wars
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Office for iPad Reportedly Coming in 2012
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Review: WestlawNext -- legal research on the iPad
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Consider Kindle For Document Review
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Somebody picked the wrong diner
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Pennsylvania Lawyer Convicted on Bankruptcy Fraud Charges
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As NYPD Searches Hit Record, Stop-and-Frisk Case Gains Speed
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Ewww
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Tennessee constables aren't salaried, but they can make money
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Pope Sued
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Walmart Offering Free Syringes With Purchase
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Judges:
Clarence Thomas Is Coming To Town
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The Supreme Court's Recusal Problem
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How the Ninth Circuit Stole Christmas
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Survey reveals widespread cuts to state court budgets
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The judge who slapped Citi
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Wall Street:
US stock futures signal lower open
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Market rally stalls on European markets
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Global Stocks Soar as Central Banks Act
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Move by central banks exhilarates Wall Street
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Wall Street jumps 3 percent after central banks' move
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Hedge Funds Dump Stocks, Hoping for Rebound in 2012
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Wanted: Holiday Girlfriend
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Layoffs:
US private sector jobs soar as payrolls rise
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The Fed Keeps Overestimating Labor Market Health
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New College Graduate? Can You Tend Bar?
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Credit/Debit Cards:
Credit-card terms still boggle consumers
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Turban Durbin's Big Bust
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Baseball:
Witness list limited in Dodgers bankruptcy case -- Selig, McCourt won't testify
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Memo to Dodger buyers: Don't give in to McCourt
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Fraud:
Judges Focus on Flight Risk of Galleon Chief
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Tom Petters' bankruptcy case trustee to recover $8.4 million
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List: 30 ex-Petters employees agree to pay back $8.5M
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Ten Years Later, Enron Pales in Comparison
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Ex-lawyer to serve 6 months for insider trading
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Goldman CEO can testify in insider case, judge says
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Olympus Whistle-Blower Woodford Quits Board After Revealing Payment Scheme
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Japan’s ‘Window Dressing’ Hid Olympus Fraud
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Woodford Seeks Shareholder Support to Take Over Olympus With New Directors
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Investment Firm Employees Said to Possibly Face U.S. Insider Trade Charges
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Health Care:
Hospital expects to emerge from bankruptcy next month
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Hawaii Medical Center Gets More Time To Find Buyer
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Banking:
S&P downgrades hit bank funding, counterparty cost
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S&P's Big Bank Downgrade 'A Drop in the Bucket'
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The 99 Percent Win One Against Citibank
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To fix bank executive compensation, tie it to CDS spreads
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Bankers, Too, Cast a Safety Net
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Financial Advisors:
Money Managers Make Their Pain Your Problem
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Politics:
Ron Paul Ad Blasts Newt Gingrich for ‘Serial Hypocrisy’
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Mitt Romney’s Latest Ad Touts His Business Background
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Herman Cain: To Run or Not to Run?
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Is Newt Gingrich’s Weight the Elephant in the Room?
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Newt Gringrich: Big Baby
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How to be a lobbyist without running afoul of those pesky anti-lobbying rules
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Newt: I helped defeat communism -- Evangelical leader urges him to explain 'turbulent marital history'
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Support for Tea Parties Falling
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Democrats Pin Their Senate Hopes on Women
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The myth of Barney Frank
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Gambling:
Here's Your Chance To Buy Your Very Own Hooters
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Economy:
Federal Reserve Reports 'Slow to Moderate' Expansion in 11 of 12 Districts
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The One Region Of America Where The Economy Is Slowing Down
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Economy taking baby steps forward: Beige Book
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Q3 Productivity Revised Down To 2.3%
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The Central Banks Are Doing What?
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Central bankers' action won't be enough
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Majority of Economists Still See Deflation Gloom
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Americans get less vacation, still don't use it all, study says
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Little Sign of Compromise on Payroll Tax Cut Extension
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Payroll Cut Tax Problem: Paying for It
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Senate Republicans: Freeze Federal Pay, Shrink Workforce to Extend Payroll Tax Cut
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Has the Economic Well-Being of the Elderly Really Improved?
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Welcome to the Great Global Easing
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Hundreds Line Up For Free Holiday Food Vouchers
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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:
"The Wikipedia of Land Registration Systems"
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Watchdog: Freddie, Fannie Abuses Unchecked
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Appeal sped up over BofA $8.5 bln MBS accord
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N.Y. attorney general probes foreclosures on military
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Ally sued by FGIC over mortgage debt
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Fannie and Freddie Send Employees To Lavish Conference At Cost of $640,000
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Are Remotely-Processed Mortgage Assignments Another Smoking Gun?
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A year of cuts at the GSEs
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Servicers Subject to New Rules on Bankrupt Accounts
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Behind the Numbers: Pending Home Sales Rise
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Contrarian Advice: Buy Home Builders
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Tips for Selling Homes in a Cool Market
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Home refinancing and multifamily demand on the rise: Beige Book
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Stuy Town tenants move to buy back bankrupt apartments
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Developer Garnaas lists liabilities of $458 million in bankruptcy
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GA Keen Wins H&H Bagels Bankruptcy Assignment
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Retailing:
Amazon Tells Lawmakers It Supports Sales Tax
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Amazon, eBay at Odds Over Web Sales Tax
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Tis the Season, for . . . Shoplifting
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Aviation:
AMR bankruptcy raises talk of airline merger -- Why US Airways Wants a Deal With American
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Bankruptcy court issues first-day orders
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Chapter 11 filing crushed CEO's core strategy -- No Golden Parachute
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`Major' Mistakes and Minor Attacks With American's Bankruptcy
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Bankruptcy filing lists AMR stock holdings of AMR board, top AMR executives
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Costs key for AMR; fleet, routes need work: experts --- AMR needs to make bold moves
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American Pilots Look to Hire Own Advisers
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American Won't Be the Last Airline Bankruptcy
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AMR's CFO explains why the company had to file for bankruptcy -- Last-Mover Disadvantage
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US could pay pension bill for AMR as it restructures: report-- PBGC: Yes, American Airlines employees have reason to worry about their pensions
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APA: No lump sums for retiring American Airlines pilots now
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FAQ: Bankruptcy filing's effects on passengers, employees, prices -- Other tidbits
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If American Airlines had plenty of cash, why did it file for bankruptcy?
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AMR's pay packages reward executives for workers' sacrifices
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American Airlines seeks to shed planes, engines --4 Fokker F-100s and 20 MD-80s -- Learning From Its Rivals' Mistakes
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They Just Don't Get American Airlines!
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American Airlines Bankruptcy Pains Texas Airport Bondholders
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Speculators Gobble Up Bankruptcy Play
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AMR shareholders Are Stuck In Coach -- Stock likely to soon be worthless
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AMR Bankruptcy Filing Hammers Its 'Conduit' Debt
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We're not an AMR creditor, Wilmington Trust says
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Will AMR's Bankruptcy Hurt Boeing? -- Airbus, Boeing Confident -- AMR Bankruptcy, Eurozone Crisis Causing Turbulence for Aircraft Lease Sector
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What fliers should know as American reorganizes -- What The Bankruptcy Will Mean For Loyal Customers
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American Airline flights could be cut after holidays
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Employees expect tough time -- Union Warning -- Retired Delta Pilot Has Advise For Tulsa Area American Airline Workers-- Pilots Union in Talks With Lazard -- Union Leaders: BK Not Our Fault
Qantas to share American pain
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That naughty, naughty Spirit Airlines takes a jab at American Airlines
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Animators Take On The American Airlines Bankruptcy
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Having name on Miami Heat's arena benefits American Airlines even in bankruptcy, but court must agree
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American Airlines vs. Your Neighbors
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How to turn Kingfisher Airlines crisis into an opportunity
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Midwest flight attendants win appeal in seniority case
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Why Do Airlines Keep Going Bankrupt?
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Should Delta's Debt Worry You?
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MF Global:
MF Global Brokerage Trustee to Sell 330 Securities Accounts
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CME defends handling of MF Global collapse
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MF Global Parent Trustee Freeh Says Work Is 'Under Way'
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MF Global to Lay Off, May Rehire
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MF Global Trustee James Giddens Says JPMorgan Work by Law Firm Was Limited
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Eliot Spitzer Has A Hard Time Believing His Friend Jon Corzine Used Segregated Client Money
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Understanding Corzine's bet on Europe
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Protests:
First Year Analyst To The 99%: 'The Finance Industry Is A Complete Scam'
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Protesters shift tactics
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A Banker Speaks, With Regret
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Management:
The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value
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Shipping:
L.A. Pilots Steer for $374,000 a Year While Long Beach Profits
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Student Debt:
Who's making a killing off student loans?
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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:
MF Global, Lehman, AMR, Solyndra, LA Dodgers
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Madoff, MF Global Broker, Real Mex, Tousa, Borders:
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The Bankruptcy Files: AMR, Lehman, MF Global, PMI, and Power Balance Bracelets
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Rochelle on American Airlines, Syms-Filene's Basement
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Bankruptcy Rules:
It’s Here! The New Rule 2019 Arrives
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Bankruptcy Reform:
Bill aims to help soldiers in bankruptcy
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Jurisdiction:
Judicial Restraint in the Early Days Following Stern v. Marshall
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Avoidance Actions:
Genmar bankruptcy trustee moves to recover funds
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Litigation:
Greenberg's 'Audacious' AIG Bailout Suits Pursue Unique Theories
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Bankruptcy Crimes:
Prosecutors investigating complaints about unlicensed bankruptcy preparers
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Lancaster attorney convicted of all charges in bankruptcy fraud
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Corporate Reform:
Consumer Agency Aims to Publish Credit-Card Complaint Data
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MF Global and the new era of crony capitalist regulation.
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Judge Rakoff is just doing his job
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Why the SEC Will Soon Be Prosecuting More Cases Against Big Banks
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Rakoff's rules: What if other judges did it?
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Citigroup and a Mortgage-Bond Scam
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Regulatory failure datapoint of the day, Citigroup edition
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Hollywood:
Intertainment Subsidiary Files for Bankruptcy After Losing Comercia Case
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IP:
How Does Your Privacy Policy Impact the Value of Your Company’s Assets?
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Food/Beverage:
Perkins & Marie Callender's emerges from Chap 11
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Dippin' Dots Makes Bounce Toward Grocery Stores
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Employees at Pathmark, Superfresh Vote to Accept Wage Cuts
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Restaurant Performance Index "essentially unchanged" in October
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Municipalities:
Abracadabra! Bankrupt Cities are Suddenly Un-Bankrupt! (Or Not)
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Bloomberg: The NYPD Is ‘My Own Army’
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States Struggle to Recover Revenues
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Lottery Sales Rise to Records as States Wager for More Revenue
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Enron:
Ex-Enron workers look back with a mix of feelings
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Orchestras:
Other Orchestras Fear Paying Price for Philadelphia Pension Crisis
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Media:
Top Editors Knew of Phone Hacking, Reporter Testifies
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UK:
As bank funding problems bite, lasting cure elusive
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EU:
Euro-zone Nov. manufacturing PMI falls to 46.4
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Central banks offer aid as Europe crisis intensifies
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Deal building to pump up IMF to handle Europe fallout
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Europe's Financial Crisis, in Plain English
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European Stocks Snap Four-Day Rally as Spain, France Sell Debt
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The High Price of Abandoning the Euro
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The Central Banks Did This Because A European Bank Was Going To Fail
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Euro Gains After Central Banks Cut Emergency Funding Cost; Dollar Tumbles
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Now is the time to panic about the EU crisis
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Goldman Urges Bet Against Euro Junk Debt
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Germany open to boosting IMF funds to fight crisis
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Now is not the time for obsessions
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Schwarzman Says European-Debt Answer Hinges on Fiscal Union
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PIIGS:
Greeks strike against new government's "starvation" budget
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You'll Never Believe What Happened To The Greek Presenter At An Atlanta Federal Reserve Conference
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Spain: The reform of the Bankruptcy Act in the real-estate sector
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Canada:
Airline's bankruptcy protection won't affect Bombardier: analysts
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Korea:
South Korea Consumer Prices Rise 4.2% in November From Year Ago
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Latin America:
The Latin American Dream
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China:
Slowdown sparks scramble to shore up China growth
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Australia:
Centro Properties Proposal to Erase $3 Billion of Debt Approved by Judge
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