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Law:
Linklaters Plans to Restructure Again; Up to 35 Partners Could Exit or Be De-equitized --- To axe up to ten per cent of partnership --- Other firms likely to follow suit --- A&O, Clifford Chance, Freshfields: We're not cutting our partnerships
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S&C Mostly Matches Cravath on Bonuses, But Sees More Green Come Spring
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Bonus Watch: Weil Matches Cravath (And There’s Nothing ‘Distinguished’ About It)
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'Catholic Knight Witch Hunter'? Judge Weighs Response to Epithet
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Los Angeles Bankruptcy Attorney Set to Lead Sheppard Mullin’s New Seoul Office
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What Steve Jobs can teach law firms about marketing
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Thinking About Interviews
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Tips for Selecting a Legal Recruiter
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Hawaii Seeks Money From DLA Piper
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Lawyerly Lairs: Cravath Cribs (Part 1)(A million-dollar penthouse — for a non-partner.)
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Former Nixon Peabody Partner Charged with Altering Documents to Protect Client
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Hughes Hubbard to Open Kansas City Office with Shook Hardy Lawyers
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Herbert Smith to Reopen in New York
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Simmons cuts exiting partner payouts in performance crackdown
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Freshfields faces £68m negligence claim
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Deloitte research shows leading UK firms posted robust growth in second quarter
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Banking, Finance or Restructuring Team of the Year: Ashurst
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UBS, Goldman, HSBC, Aetna, Citic Pacific, News Corp., F-1 in Court News
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JPMorgan, HSBC, Apple, Pfizer, Wells Fargo in Court News
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Cooley Law Dean Decries ‘Apocalyptic’ View of Legal Market, Cites Employment Stats
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Thoughts on Law School
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Options for law schools
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Richard Epstein and John Yoo on Law School Reform
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Hate Crime Suspected In Stabbing of Law Professor
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Mercer U Law Grad McDaniels Faces Death Penalty If Convicted in Slaying of Classmate Lauren Giddings
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Mobile Lawyering: Not Yet in Sync
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Jerry Sandusky's Wife Says Accusers Are Making Up Their Stories
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How To Survive Your Company's Holiday Party Without Making A Complete Fool Of Yourself --- How Drunk Can You Get?
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Public School Tells Students to Come to Jesus
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A Look into the Life of Tamara Tanzillo
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15 Years for Former Debevoise P---
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Man charged with stealing cash, trying to eat it
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Defendant Saved by the Tweet
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Judges:
Lawyer Faces Possible Sanction for Signing Client Memo Calling Judges 'Bigoted Catholic Beasts'
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US top court schedules Obama healthcare law briefs
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Supreme Court Spouses Publish Cookbook in Tribute to Martin Ginsburg
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Should Elena Kagan recuse herself?
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Wall Street:
Futures signal gains
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Europe Stocks Fluctuate on Anti-Crisis Measures
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Dow Closes Down 198 Points
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Europe spooks U.S. markets
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Layoffs:
First-Time Jobless Claims in U.S. Decrease to Lowest Level in Nine Months
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Why Pay Raises Have Become Rare
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Economy Mostly Creating Low Paying Jobs
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McGraw Hill to Fire 550 Workers
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The curious case of women leaving the labor force in drovers
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Worst Cities for Finding a Job
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Where are the Millionaire Job Creators?
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The Collapse of Construction Employment
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Autos:
Ford reinstates dividend after 5-year hiatus
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Reuse of closed US auto plants on the rise
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GM to Pay UAW Workers $12M in Bonuses
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Toyota Lowers Annual Profit Forecast 54%
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Banking:
Washington Mutual eyes bankruptcy exit in February
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Are the bankers to blame for our woes?
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TN Commerce: FDIC receivership 'likely'
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Wachovia agrees to $148 mln pact with SEC, states
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Jamie Dimon complains about this tax rate, doesn't know what his tax rate is
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CoCos no salvation as banks start capital hunt
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Baseball:
Dodgers, Fox Battle Over Media Rights Sale --- TV Rights Worth $100 Million a Year, Fox Expert Testifies --- Contract provision is key
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Bankruptcy judge rejects Fox Sports objection, approves sale of Dodgers media rights --- Fox, Dodgers statements
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Fox witness attacks Dodgers media rights sale --- Dodgers' TV Contract Was Designed to Bind Team to Fox Sports
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Incoming TV money explains Pujols signing
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Aviation:
American Airlines bankruptcy : Frequent flyer miles safe?
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AMR's Bankruptcy Turns The Cost Spotlight On Southwest
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3 Simple Lessons To Learn From AMR's Bankruptcy Filing
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Stock plummets as shareholders ditch hopes of getting anything --- AMR stock: It goes up and up and up, and down --- Shareholders May Get Nothing but Air --- The foolhardy speculate in bankruptcies despite dubious history
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By the end of his tenure at American Airlines, Arpey simply didn't have the support to continue
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Why Can't Airlines Make Money?
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Service tax dept freezes Air India, Kingfisher accounts for default
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Alex Baldwin Apologizes to Fellow Passengers --- American Airlines snips back at Alec Baldwin
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When Airlines Depart Cities, Businesses May Follow
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Media:
Fees Climb in Tribune Company Case
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Protests:
Elected Officials Run and Lock Doors as Jobless Storm Capitol
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The Occupy Wall Street Movement Plots a Comeback
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Protesters vow to reoccupy on movement's anniversary
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Ex-Occupier now holds Wall Street job
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Foreclosed in Brooklyn: House Repairs as Protest
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Occupy Wall Street Turns to Foreclosure, Eviction Defense
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Boston -- Maine -- DC -- New Orleans -- SF -- Eugene -- Calgary -- Santa Cruz -- Des Moines -- Charlottesville -- Missoula -- Toronto
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Port shutdown pledged despite union rejection
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FSA boss hails "fruitful" meeting with Occupy London
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The Most Iconic Photos From OWS So Far
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Retailing:
Pacific Sunwear to close 175 to 200 underperforming stores
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Midtown Manhattan Filene's Basement/Syms Store Is DOA
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Amazon picks fight with retailers; New price check app
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Economy:
US Household Wealth Takes Biggest Hit Since 2008 --- Typical US piggy bank is $21K lighter
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Hiring outlook brightens as jobless claims fall
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US Economic Recovery Tests Patience
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One Possible Reason for the Slow Economic Recovery
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Global Slowdown Will be of Biblical Proportion
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Americans Set "Rich" Threshold at $150,000 in Annual Income --- Sometimes it’s a jungle out there living on $50K
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Poll: US Economy Bouncing Back
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Democratic, Republican payroll tax cut extension plans both blocked by Senate
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How Payroll Tax Cuts Will Affect Social Security's Future
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Congress Edges Away From Brink on Budget
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Jamie Dimon tells a joke about Ben Bernanke
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Big companies paying less tax than before the recession, even as profits rebound
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Household Debt Shrinks for 13th Quarter
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What Could Go Right (and Wrong)for the Economy in 2012
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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:
Laboratories of Democracy and the Commissioners of Uniformity
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Holdings May Give Buffett Role in ResCap Plan
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Barney Frank Seeks Congressional Probe Of Ally Financial
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How Speculators Poured Fuel on the Housing Fire
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Bank of America All In – Calling Moynihan’s Bluff to Bankrupt Countrywide
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Treasury Slams JPMorgan Chase On Servicing Performance
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Long Island’s Frenkel Lambert Looks to Expand in Upstate NY After Baum Firm Collapse
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HUD Calls Housing Recovery “Mixed” With Foreclosures Up, REO Sales Down
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Going Bankrupt in 2012, but Keeping Your Home
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This New Jersey Neighborhood Was Decimated By Foreclosures
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In Foreclosure Capital, Meltdown And Poverty Feel Permanent
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Las Vegas lenders unlikely to face jail for unkempt properties
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What Are Buyers Really Putting Down for a Mortgage?
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Maine Court Refuses To Find GMAC In Contempt On Robo-Signing
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Auditors Sued Over Financial Fraud at Failed Firm
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Judge expands power of trustee overseeing Epicentre --- EpiCentre operators “blackmailed” by owners
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Dramatic Increase In Balance Of CMBS Conduit Loans Liquidated
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The 15 Best Housing Markets For The Next Five Years
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NYC Named Priciest Commercial Real Estate Market Of 2011
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One in Three Builders Lose Sale Due to Faulty Appraisal
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New Senate bill would privatize Fannie, Freddie within 10 years
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MF Global:
Not just Corzine who can't find the money
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Corzine blames predecessors for MF Global's fall --- Doesn't Know Location of Missing Funds --- 'Sorry, puzzled' --- 'Stunned' --- Client's Counsel Blasts Corzine: 'Cowardly' --- Corzine's culpability --- Part of 'Goldman Sachs fraternity' --- Little better than Fuld's defiance --- Didn't 'Intend' to Break Rules --- 'Devastated' ---Victims jeer at 'explanation' --- Full Text --- Corzine: Tax Changes Caused MF Global Demise, Not EU Debt Bets
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The fruitless inquisition of Jon Corzine
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Regulator says missing MF funds are top priority --- Will Pursue All ‘Legally Available’ Assets
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Hearing Witnesses:The Honorable Jill Sommers, James Kobak, Jon Corzine, John Fletcher, Terrence Duffy, William J. Brodsky, Dan Roth, Stephen Luparello, Gerry Corcoran
Duffy defends CME in MF Global's collapse
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RJ O'Brien CEO Corcoran Testifies at Hearing on MF Global Bankruptcy
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CFTC Commissioner Sommers testifies
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Highlights: House panel's hearing on MF Global bankruptcy
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On the hotseat Corzine stakes his legal ground --- Corzine's Intent Was to Head Off Possible Claims, Lawyers Say --- Speculation On Corzine's Strategy
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MF Global Parent Creditors Won’t Soon Receive Distributions, Trustee Says
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Lawyer ups estimate on MF Global customer accounts
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Can funding-squeezed federal watchdogs prevent future MF Globals?
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Lucas Calls for Information on MF Global Bankruptcy
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Corzine's loss may be Soros's gain --- Soros Bought $2 Billion Ex-MF Global Europe Debt
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Five Reasons Why Wall Street Enjoyed The Corzine Hearing
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CME's Duffy says MFGI moved customer funds
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Newedge's McDonald on MF Global Bankruptcy
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MF Global U.K Administrators to Hold January Creditor Meeting
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Municipalities:
Detroit nears bankruptcy
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Judge gives more appeal time to sewer receiver, will continue with ruling
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Harrisburg Mayor Faces Foreclosure On Commercial Property --- Mayor's financial problems spark concern
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MI retooling emergency manager law --- What's really driving state takeovers: It ain't race
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Is the Housing Bust About to Slam City Budgets?
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US State Tax Revenues Return to Pre-Recession Levels
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10 Highest State Income Tax Rates for 2011
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Transport:
Judge to Set Creditors' Claims Deadline In Trailer Bridge
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Politics:
Not Beating Elizabeth Warren , Republican Admakers Try to Join Her
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Elizabeth Warren coming under attack
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Rove group releases new ad tying Warren to Wall Street --- Elizabeth Warren : Wall Street's best Marxist friend
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Jon Huntsman: 'The People Are Getting Screwed In This Country'
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The GOP's sudden enthusiasm problem
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Lies and Denial: the 2012 GOP Strategy
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Gringrich's Half Sister Goes for Obama
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Abramoff: Corruption Remains Legal and Prevalent
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Student Debt:
Are Student Loans The Next Shoe To Fall? --- America's next financial crisis
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Unbelievable Loan Horror Stories
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Credit Reporting:
Study Says Being Impatient Is Trashing Your Credit Score
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Health and Beauty:
Private equity firm to acquire American Laser Centers after ...
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Corporate Governance:
Forecasting Governance and Compliance Trends for 2012
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Mail:
11 Services That Don't Exist Anymore At The US Post Office
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Accounting:
Olympus inquiry blames auditors --- Auditors trashed
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E&Y sets up external panel to probe Olympus audit
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Lehman:
Confirmed!
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(No new opinions today)
Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory
Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings
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Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
(large downloads)
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:
Rochelle on Dodgers, Madoff, Senior Residences, Posner
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Distressed Investing:
Investors Ready for 2012 Bankruptcy Bonanza
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Celebs:
“This is my life!” Martino rants. Educates on bankruptcy
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Corporate Reform:
Senate Rejects Another Top Candidate for Consumer Panel
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Lousy Filibusters: Richard Cordray Edition --- 99 Percenters, Meet the Fearsome 40
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Obama Should Pull a Teddy Roosevelt and Appoint Cordray ---Obama not giving up on Cordray for CFPB --- Hints at recess appointment
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Richard Cordray is no Elizabeth Warren
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Spinning Cordray
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Here's Why We're Totally Obsessed With Richard Cordray
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How Do You Neuter the Consumer Finance Protection Finance Bureau and Get Away With It?
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Still No Wall Street Accountability
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Sheila Bair Slams Volcker Rule
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Insurance:
3 Small Insurers Placed into Receivership in Missouri
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Billion Dollar Disasters Smash US Record
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Insolvency exclusion bars coverage for claims due to underfunded employee benefit plans
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Defaults:
US Corporate Default Rate Holds Steady --- May Rise in 2012, Moody's Says
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Fraud:
Congress Isn’t Supposed to Be Above the Law
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Madoff Trustee Sues Julius Baer, Falcon to Recover Funds
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Garrett Bauer Pleads Guilty to Trading on Stolen Merger Tips
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Deep Roots of Fraud at Olympus
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Health Care:
White knight emerges for bankrupt Peninsula Hospital
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Judge to name hospital overseer
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Kentuckiana Medical Center clears one step
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Mass Torts:
Asbestos Litigation: Peaked in U.S., emerging abroad
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SF Superior Judges Challenge Special Rules for Asbestos Cases
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UK:
UK shoe retailer Barratts enters administration
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Appointment of Administrators - 7 December 2011
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Yell Set To Extend Debt Restructuring Talks
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Queen Elizabeth Is Only Earning $50 Million This Year
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EU:
EU Is Headed for 'Chapter 11': Economist
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Europe Friday: Over promise, Under Deliver Again?
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EU Drafts Rescue-Fund Plan --- You're Either At The Table Or You're On The Menu
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EU Leaders Drop Demands for Investor Write-Offs in Bailouts
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'Multi-speed' Europe emerges after EU summit clash
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Cameron Wishes Euro Bloc Well as UK Negotiates Isolation --- UK Will Never Join Euro --- Vetoes EU-wide treaty change --- Most other EU nations agree to closer fiscal ties --- Fail: EU Official Says All 27 Countries Won't Back A Treaty Change
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Europe’s disastrous summit --- Latest EU Deal Still More Can-Kicking
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Euro Zone Splits and 20% Unemployment
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ECB willing to help banks, not governments --- Cuts rates 25 bps
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ECB cool on more bond buying, lending to IMF
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Lack of bond buying plan sends stocks lower
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The Entire European Summit In One Genius Venn Diagram
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Germany Rejects Proposals For Bailout Fund, Eurobonds
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Citi: Europe is headed for a recession that will last 6 consecutive quarters
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Student With 0.0 Grade Average Has EU Insight
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Distressed debt investors eye Europe
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Speculators Trapped by Euro Zone Resilience
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Why the Euro crisis is really about growth, not debt
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All This Extra Liquidity Won't Solve Anything
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10 Big Issues At The Heart Of The Euro Crisis
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Scariest Prediction Yet if Euro Collapses
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EU Banks Must Raise $153B of Extra Capital: EBA
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Why European Banks Deserve A Massive Bailout At 100 Cents On The Euro
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Liquidity twist on bank liability management
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Corporate Bond Risk Rises in Europe, Credit-Default Swaps Show
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PIIGS:
Italy, Spain Lead Debt Slump on Bets ECB Won't Buy More Bonds
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SG warns on potential Spanish burden-sharing
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Sabadell To Buy Seized Spanish Bank CAM In Assisted Deal
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Greece: Targets become unattainable
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Greek output plunges, jobless rate near record highs
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To Fight Deficit Greek Retirement Age Must Rise To 82
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Lazy Greeks? Think Again!
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Greece's Papandreou Calls Crisis Response 'Too Little Too Late'
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France:
Moody's downgrades 3 leading French banks amid worsening eurozone debt troubles
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Germany:
German Exports Fall Sharply
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New Zealand:
D&O: The Bridgecorp Case
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MENA:
Nakheel pays Dh7.3 billion to its trade creditors
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Dubai may 'muddle' through debt financing strategy in 2012, says BofA
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Japan:
Olympus' management reform in doubt
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