December 6, 2011

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Law:

Dodgers Owner Gears up to Battle with Bingham
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Dodgers hope to hire Covington for fight over media rights
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Skadden Tapped as Official Creditors' Counsel in AMR Bankruptcy
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Kodak Switches to Restructuring firm Sullivan & Crowmell, Jones Day Used for Other Matters
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Three Firms Take Lead on Zell's $1.3 Billion Bid for Lehman-Backed Apartment Owner
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ABA Panel Says No to Outside Law Firm Ownership
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Bonus Watch: Proskauer Matches
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Santa or Scrooge: How Do BigLaw Firms Determine Associate Bonuses?
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Arrogant Bosses Derail Their Own Careers
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Depositions Gone Wild!
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Levenfeld Scores Coleman Bankruptcy Lawyer
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Ballard Spahr creates mortgage banking group
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Things Will Not Return To Normal After The Recession!
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"Clients are increasingly moving to ways of paying for legal services that provide some more direct, accountable measure of what is being done at what price, when and by whom"
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Ally, Apple, Madoff, AT&T, Altria, JPMorgan in Court News
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Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, ANZ, HSBC, Rajaratnam in Court News
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Ex-Bookkeeper Gets 2 Years in $567K Theft from Law Firm
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"Find a competent trial lawyer and make him your boyfriend" --- Client In Love Relationship with Lawyer Gets Better Representation, Lawyer Argues
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Challenge to Health-Care Law Faces Hurdle - Shop's Closing, Owner's Bankruptcy Complicate Argument Against Overhaul
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NY lawyer gets paid $1.50 in fees for civil rights victory
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Production Company Sues Claiming Lawyers Made $32 Million Misstep on Dance Movie
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Ex-Mishcon de Reya Partner Convicted in $28M Loan Scheme
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Ex Hogan Lovells partner Grierson faces four charges of false accounting
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Yes, they're real lawyers: Booth at Boynton mall peddles foreclosure advice
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New From Florida: Mall Lawyers
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JPMorgan, BofA, Citigroup, Barclays, Madoff in Court News
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Can Somebody Break a Hundred for John Quinn?
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This Cell Phone Software Company Might Know Everything About You
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Lexis, Westlaw Update Research Services
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Will Tablets Replace Laptops?
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The Best Way to Help Students Study for Finals
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Law School Transparency: Crisis and denial
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ABA gives ground on law schools' graduate jobs data reporting
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Data Show Feds Will Lend $54.3 Billion to U.S. Law Schools by 2020
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Landslide Choice For Worst Law School In New York
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Home Schooling Esq.
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"The Good Wife" - Will questions chasing success
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Amanda Knox hires attorney for possible book deal
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Former Miss USA arrested in Michigan
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Mugger Gets 2 Black Eyes, Shoots Self In Ankle After Trying To Rob Ultimate Fighter
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BOLO
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Thieves Target Toilet Paper
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Police Employees Fired Over Santeria Curse On City Manager
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Cops: Woman Kills Friend, Hides Body Under Pile of Christmas Gifts
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Monster-in-law
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Judges:

Law Groupies Flock to Justice Stewart Estate Sale
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Mukasey: Full Supreme Court Should Hear Health-Care Case
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Scalia Recuses Self From Capital Murder Case, Citing Double Homicide He Committed in '80s :))
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The White House needs to come clean on Elena Kagan and the Affordable Care Act
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Skeptical Judge Hears DA's Motions to Disqualify Top Jurist, Cites 'Magic 8 Ball'
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Amended Ruling Reprimands Bankruptcy Judge for Membership in Country Club
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Judge Resigns After Paying Fine in Alleged Road Rage Incident
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Defendants Get New Trial Because of Judge’s Pill Addiction
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Wall Street:

US Stock Futures Fluctuate After S&P Puts 15 Nations on Review
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Dow ends up 78: Stocks off of earlier highs after euro deal
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Layoffs:

28,000 Post Office jobs to go
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Why More Retail Jobs Won’t Fix Unemployment
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Cost of federal unemployment benefits so far: $434 billion
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Behold the incredible shrinking work force
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Job Creation Slow, but Gains are Piling Up
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Will Jobs and Income Crisis End Well?
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Amid bankruptcy , Leander construction firm to lay off 300
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Corporate Reform:

Hear Out the SEC Guy, Too
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Is the SEC Trying to Avoid Dealing With Tough Judges?
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Feds Can't Quit 'No Admit'
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White House launches media blitz to push consumer bureau nominee
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Sr. White House Official: GOP Consumer Bureau Demands 'Unacceptable'
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Regulators Face Grilling by Congress on Volcker Rule, Dodd-Frank
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Autos:

Aptera Failure Reflects Broad Electric-Car Obstacles
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Saab rejigs China takeover deal in bid for GM approval
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One More Chance for Saab?
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GM: Our Opel Strategy is a Failure
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Retailing:

Retailers, Too, Are Shopping for Bargains
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Cyber Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Shatter Records
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MF Global:

CFTC Completes Client-Funds Rule After MF Global Collapse --- Corzine-style deals banned
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MF Global Customer Group Files Objection To Cash Collateral Motion
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Dimon eyes clawback
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MF Global Workers Sue Jon Corzine
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MF Global Parent Creditors Clash With Brokerage Customers
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The MF Global money chase
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Corzine Tries to Delay Congressional Hearings on Firm's Collapse
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Corzine Rebuffed Warnings on Bonds --- Threatened To Quit If MF Global Didn't Let Him Bet Aggressively On European Bonds
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The fall of 'key man' Corzine
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Jon-Bubba twist
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Baseball:

Fox Sports attorneys seek to depose McCourt, Selig
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Gas Stations:

Getty Petroleum Marketing Files for Bankruptcy
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Economy:

Factory orders slip, service sector growing more slowly
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US Factory Orders Fall for Second Month
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US Service Sector Growth Slows
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10 Big Risks To The Economy In 2012
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First Half of 2012 'Will Be Difficult': Goldman's Cohen
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Wage Inequality Getting Worse in Leading Economies --- Does Inequality Matter?
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OECD Suggests Raising Taxes to Combat Inequality
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Bloomberg Signals Discomfort With Higher Taxes on Rich
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Deutsche Bank: The Renminbi Will Be The World's Next Major Reserve Currency
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Retirement Becomes a Fleeting Dream
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Uncle Sam Could Get Company: S&P May Strip AAA From France, Germany
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The Most Endangered US Tax Deductions
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Tremors from a euro collapse would be global, with US recession likely --- US Just Might Be Able to Survive a Recession in Europe
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OECD: "The social contract is starting to unravel in many countries"
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Couple on welfare live in $1.2m waterfront home
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Living on $50,000 a year
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The worldwide decline of "safe" assets
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Men Continue to Fare Badly in This Economy
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It’s A Wonderful Lie: Bank Fraud, Bailouts And Ponzi Schemes In Bedford Falls
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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:

Another Nero
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New Jersey foreclosures wait in the wings as court deliberates key case
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September home prices dip 1.2% in LPS home price index
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Three more notaries charged in Nevada robo-signing scandal
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Flip This House: Investor Speculation and the Housing Bubble - Investors Much More Important To Bubble Than Previously Thought
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Goldman Sachs Has Some Bad News For New York Homeowners
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CRE firms battle for future of Stuy Town
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Fitch downgrades JPMorgan Chase commercial mortgage securities
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Fraud:

Ernst & Young sued for $900 million over Madoff audits
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Will 2012 be the Year of the SEC Whistleblower?
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Rajaratnam begins 11-year insider trading sentence --- Reports to Medical Prison in Massachusetts
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Rajaratnam's Trades May Run From Stamps to Mackerel Packets
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Khan, Rajaratnam Witness, May Nail Others In Insider Case
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SEC touts its crackdown on insider trading
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No more insider trading on Capital Hill? --- Bachus proposes blind trusts --- Walz bill to get hearing
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Paulson Hedge-Fund Chat Not a Crime
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Courts more willing to second-guess Wall Street
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Out of Galleon Scandal and Wall St . Excess Comes a Book
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Neuberger Berman Analyst On Leave In Hedge Fund Insider Trading Case
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MN banks get legal win in boy-band Ponzi case
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Panel urges legal action in damning Olympus report --- Olympus Faces Tokyo Delisting After Management Hid $1.7 Billion of Losses
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Aviation:

Court blocks large AMR investors from selling
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American Airlines Creditors Committee Includes Unions, Bondholders’ Banks --- Official list of creditors' committee --- Three big unions get seats on creditors' committee --- Panel Risks Split --- Lining up to get on the creditors committee--- Pension busting at American Airlines
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PBGC talks about its seat on AMR/American Airlines creditors committee
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AMR Bankruptcy Brutal For Shareholders, Beneficial For Company
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Analysis: American, Chapter 11 and the passenger
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American Bankruptcy to Ripple Across DFW
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Running airline is risky business
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American-US Airways merger speculation --- $4.1 billion in cash may thwart any takeover
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Failure of American Airlines a lesson for Japanese carriers
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American Airlines must find own Chapter 11 path
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Why Credit-Default Swaps Work On AMR's Debt, But Not Greece's
(WSJ: separate paid subscription required)

Forget the Airline's Name ; It's All About Alliances
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'Everything must change,' Air Canada CEO tells staff
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Mail:

Post Office Aims to Save Billions With Reductions in Workforce, Delivery Time
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Paper:

Creditors Seek to Probe Cerberus's Dealings With NewPage
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Banking:

More than one-third of small Illinois banks consider sale, merger
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November bank failures tied to CRE exposure, more closures to come
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Surprised? Wells Fargo Thinks 4Q Bank Earnings Will Be Ugly
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Big Banks Finance Payday Lenders: You Knew that but did you Know some also Make payday loans?
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Personal Finance:

12 Fascinating Facts About People Who Go To Pawnshops
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Religion:

Was it Immoral for American Airlines to File for Bankruptcy ?
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Pensions:

Bailout This: PBGC Pension Takeovers
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Electricity:

Northampton Generating Files Bankruptcy in North Carolina
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Mass Torts:

Nev. judge: Asbestos firm Brayton Purcell, failed client
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Sixth Circuit upholds dismissal of $125 million insurance claim
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Garlock Submits Chapter 11 Exit Plan to Repay 100,000 Asbestos Claims
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BP says Halliburton destroyed Gulf spill evidence
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Chesley asks Ky. Supreme Court to put hold on his disciplinary case
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Politics:

Barney Frank On Elizabeth Warren : 'She's The Ultimate Outsider ...
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Cain left with millions after withdrawing from presidential race
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No Housing Plan From Newt
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Pardon Applicants Benefit From Friends in High Places
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Newspapers:

Nicklaus: Bankruptcies may offer hope for newspaper industry
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Bankruptcy Crimes:

Roseville, Modesto men charged with bankruptcy fraud.
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Bankruptcy Judge refers two bankruptcy cases to federal prosecutors
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Freight:

Big Rig Truck Orders Fall 27%
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(1 new opinion 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
(large downloads)

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:

Syms, Beacon Power, NewPage, Cabi, Central Falls
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Rochelle on Madoff Making Constitutional Law, Real Mex
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Meltdown December 2011 Insolvency International
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Bankruptcy Statistics:

 

Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Plan Confirmation:

Code Changes Could Clear Up Rap on Gifting
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Sales:

Section 363 and Plan Sales
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Litigation:

Greenberg's bailout suits 'audacious'
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Delaware Court Allows Service by Email on Former CEO in China of Delaware Entity
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Rethinking EDD Preservation Protocol
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Photography:

Kodak changes restructuring advisers as it tries to avoid bankruptcy
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Hotels:

Secured Lenders Beware! Your Security Interests on All Real Property Assets and Rents of a Hotel May Not Extend to Room Revenues
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Chapter 13:

Trustee asks Supreme Court to resolve payment-plan dispute
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Municipalities:

Using Chapter 9 as an Out-of-Court Restructuring Tool
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Jefferson County to Bankruptcy Judge Bennett: Wall Street knew the risks
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Detroit Is In Utter Shambles And The State Should Take It Over
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Many Workers in Public Sector Retiring Sooner
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Turnarounds:

Are the Dog Days Ending or Just Beginning?
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Lehman:

Lehman Judge to Assess $65 Billion Payout Backed by Creditors
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Preview: Lehman hearing may herald end of 3-yr bankruptcy
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Lehman Picks New Board as It Seeks Liquidation Plan Approval
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Events:

Wall Street Offered Virginia State Fair a Slick Deal
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Enron:

Cleaning up after the smartest guys have left the room
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Food/Beverage:

Carolina Wings files for bankruptcy protection
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Asset Protection:

New court rulings jeopardize asset protection benefits of single-member LLCs
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Distressed Investing:

Stockpiled Cash, Buyer Interest Bode Well for Distressed M&A
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Protests:

Occupy Wall Street takes on the housing crisis
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UNC director says data supports Occupy Our Homes dismay
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UK:

The BOE’s Role In The Long U.K. Slowdown
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OECD: England Worst for Growing Inequality
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Council which 'showed no compassion' runs up bill of £200,000 chasing schizophrenic dementia patient, 80, for £2,000 in unpaid council tax
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‘Cautious optimism’ for business in UK as business confidence slumps elsewhere
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A British Guide to Cutting Public Spending
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Pay Freeze for Queen in UK Austerity Measures
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Winding up petitions for 5 December 2011
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EU:

France and Germany outline fiscal pact
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Paris, Berlin push for EU treaty change by March
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Germany, France Would Have You Abide by Treaty Terms They Couldn't Follow Eight Years Ago
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Conflicting visions at core of euro zone crisis
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Europe Faces Their Week from Hell
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Europe's Leaders Drive Investors Down Bumpy Road
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Spanish, Italian Bonds Surge on Europe Optimism; Bunds Decline
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If the ECB won't save the eurozone, the Fed must step in
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Euro Crisis Live: 'Make or Break' Week
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Europe's Rich Moving Assets Amid Crisis
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Europe Is Treating The Addict, Not The Dealer Of Sovereign Debt
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S&P Will Put 6 AAA-Rated EU Countries On "Creditwatch Negative" --- Examining All 17 Euro Zone Countries' Credit Ratings
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Stocks, euro lose steam on downgrade
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S&P downgrade threat a clarion call for euro reform --- Move piles pressure on euro zone assets --- Major Summit Prompted Timing --- Markets Scoffing --- Why nobody is too worried about S&P --- Downgrades Are Long Overdue --- S&P 'Picked Wrong Day'
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PIIGS:

Italian minister bursts into tears while announcing reforms
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IMF releases 2.2 billion euro in aid for Greece
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Greece: Bleak picture in state revenues
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Greeks downbeat but want to stay in euro -- Economic mood near record low
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Biden: US Willing to Help Greece
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Canada:

Canada's Wage Gap at Record High
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Germany:

German Factory Orders Demolish Expectations
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India:

India's Economic Decline Is One Of The Most Under-Reported Stories This Year
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China:

S&P affirms China's sovereign credit rating on 'exceptional growth prospects'
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Home Prices Are Crashing In China's Most Famous Ghost City
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Korea:

Large firms' delinquency ratio hits four-year high
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