Law:
Pay Gap Widens at Big Law Firms
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Dewey Beefs up Bankruptcy Practice With Addition of 10 Lawyers
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The Superstar Effect
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Number of Jobs in the Law Grew Last Month
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Downsides of Upward Review?
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Defections grow at Howrey
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Will Howrey Defections Become an ‘Avalanche’? Answer Could Come in Days
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When Law Firms Are Bleeding, Rivals Show No Mercy
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Firm vows: no more drudge work for associates
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McCarter & English Raids Robinson & Cole; Of 7 New Lawyers, 3 Were Practice Chairs
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Dechert's revenue falls by $65m but profits edge up
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BigLaw Alum Tapped as New GC for SEC
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Calwalader Gross Dips for 4th Year, But PPP is $2.39M; Akin Gump PPP Soars 10.4% to $1.6M
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If Cadwalader Makes It Rain, Many More Firms Will Have to Follow
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Has Downturn Provided ‘Protective Cover’ to Top Equity Partners?
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As Fight Sheds Light on Firm's Woes, Convicted Partner Comes Out Millions Ahead
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UK: Law firms face survival battle
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Pucker Up and Kiss Your Legal Job Goodbye: How to Quit
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In-House: The Sins Of Inside Counsel
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BFF: A&O indefinitely extends relationship with India referral firm Trilegal
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Shapiro & Fishman hires law partner to lead foreclosure litigation team
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Life Without Westlaw or Lexis?
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Fear and Loathing in LegalTech
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Does Technology Create Work/Life Balance or Work/Life Merge?
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Lawyer of the Month Restores Faith in Humanity
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Villanova Scandal Watch: More Cryptic Emails From the Dean
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Washington & Lee Law School Gets Even More Transparent
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Defense Attorney Will Poke Appeals Court Over Juror’s Right to Privacy
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Attorney Censured For Hand Gestures During Depo
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Second Circuit Sanctions Attorney, Client for Filing Frivolous Appeal
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Chicago Lawyer Died in Blizzard After Apparently Falling in to Lake Michigan
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McDonald's Sued After Workers Brand Disabled Man With Swastika
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Wife & Alleged Victim of Lawyer Accused in Contract Hit Case Holds His Hand En Route to Arraignment
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Coffee Shop Owner Guilty of Indecent Exposure Due to Skimpy See-Through Shorts on 'Bikini Barista'
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Judges:
Introducing ‘The Worcester,’ the Latest in Judicial Maneuvers
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Constitutional showdown
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Judge Ignores State Supreme Court Ruling After Deciding It’s Just Plain Wrong
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Wall Street:
US Stocks Rise as Dow Gains a Sixth Straight Day
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Layoffs:
Factories Boom with Few New Workers
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US Layoffs Becoming More Rare
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More than 1,000 laid off in grocery bankruptcy
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7 Years to Get Back to Old Employment
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Banking:
FDIC Shifts Burden for Assessments to Bigger Banks
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FDIC will base insurance charges to banks on risk, not deposits
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Municipalities:
Dewey & LeBoeuf Hires Municipal Bankruptcy Specialist and His 9-Lawyer Team
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Governors Tell Gringrich: " Bankruptcy Is Not For Us"
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Why All the Noise About Muni Bankruptcies?
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The Good and Bad about Bankruptcy for States
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Breckinridge Capital Advisors Challenges State-Level Bankruptcy
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For Cities And States, More Money Trouble
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The federal government needs a 'state fiscal task force'
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Are Michigan municipal bankruptcies coming?
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Detroit Entices Officers With Homes
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'Bo's Bridge' Barrels Toward Bankruptcy
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Texas Finances Not as Rosy as Seemed
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Renewed warning about injured worker fund
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Credit Cards:
US credit card debt rises for first time since collapse of Lehman Brothers
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Regulations Will Cost Card Industry $25 Billion A Year
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Soccer:
Aston Villa's goalkeeper Brad Friedel fights bankruptcy judgement
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Movies:
$635000 recovered in La. studio bankruptcy case
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Television:
Creditors Spar Over Proposed Dish Buyout
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Non-Profits:
America's Wealthy Turn Less Charitable
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Seminars:
7th Annual Wharton Restructuring and Turnaround Conference: “Eye of The Storm? Navigating The Economic Recovery”
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Economy:
By 1 Measure: Federal Taxes Lowest Since 1950
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Food Stamp Rolls Reach Record High
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Homeless count finds more living couch-to-couch
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President Obama's on-again, off-again relationship with the Chamber
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Obama Presses Business Leaders to Hire and Invest
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The Chamber Speech: The Debates About Regulation and the Social Contract
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Chamber claps twice for Obama
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Profits 'have to be shared by American workers'? Well, yes
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Two Competing Views On America's Economic Future
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US Facing $70 Billion Inflation Hit
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Bernanke's Biggest Blunders
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Bernanke steps up outreach to GOP, media in wake of midterm elections
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The Real Effect of Reaganomics
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Inequality, the new dynamic of history
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Foreclosures raise US economic stress
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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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Bailout Recipients
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Real Estate:
US Mortgage Market Should Be `Purely Private,' Congressman Garrett Says
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Reduction in Fannie, Freddie Loan Limits Favored
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Debate Begins: Facts on Freddie and Fannie
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US should step back from mortgage business, industry leaders say
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Foreclosures: The Hits Keep Coming
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ASF panel asks why mortgage servicers risk so much, yet make so little
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BarCap reveals a new mess in mortgage servicing: Remittance reports
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Alabama begins new program to disburse $162 million to prevent foreclosure
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Researcher studies foreclosures' impact on kids
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Did Obama Break His Pledge to Force Banks to Help Homeowners?
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Foreclosures quicken in 2011 following record year
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Mortgage modifications drop 57% from 2009 peak: Fitch
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Few rush for federal aid
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Outlook looks weak for home building
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S&P: Loan mods fail to keep distressed borrowers afloat
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Do Strategic Defaults Increase Consumer Spending?
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Ranches Go From $38 million, to eBay, to Auction
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Cash Buyers Lift Housing
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Mastro bankruptcy trustee gets $3M judgment
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Trevor Davis, surrounded by lenders, digs in
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FDIC sues developer Jim Rhodes over real estate loan
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CalSTRS set to lose nearly $73 million
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Colleyville developer files for bankruptcy
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Judge Sides With Lenders On South Edge Chapter 11
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West Seattle 'hole' foreclosure auction opposed
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Equifax introduces "default distance" to measure likelihood of mortgage default
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Fannie Mae multifamily funding drops 14% in 2010
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Investors Waiting to Buy Foreclosed Properties
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Ex-HomeGold executive loses appeal of sentence
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Finance:
Banks Reach Out to Small Firms
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Is Lending to Small Business Really Up?
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Compensation:
FDIC seeks delay in bonuses for top bank execs
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Hotels:
US Bankruptcy Court Orders Sale of JFK Plaza Hotel
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Litigation:
Prior Years' Filing Trends Carry Over as 2011's First Credit Crisis Securities Suit Arrives
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Retailing:
Retail Executives Out After Holidays
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Ultimate Plans to Close All Stores
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Weak Consumer Sales Climate
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Religion:
Milwaukee archdiocese files financial statements in bankruptcy case
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St. Paul School first casualty of settlement
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Personal Finance:
Economic Woes Can Strengthen a Marriage
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Celebs:
Apprentice Winner Embroiled in Bankruptcy Issue
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Gary Coleman's ex wife says she's homeless
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Celebrity Tax-Dodgers Keep the IRS Busy
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Golf:
Ford's Colony Country Club Bankruptcy Update
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Posh Reynolds Plantation may sell off golf courses
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Bankruptcy Crimes:
Amana couple are sentenced
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Autos:
The Real Power Behind the GM Throne
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Ford to Cut Another 100 Lincoln Dealers
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Toyota Raises Full-Year Forecast Despite Drop in Quarterly Profit
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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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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:
The Year In Bankruptcy: 2010
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Bankruptcy Filings Hit 2-Year Low in January
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Bankruptcy filings hit record on North Coast
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Statutory Interpretation:
In Doubtful Cases, Rule For The Creditor
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Bankruptcy Poetry:
Borders
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Mass Torts:
Asbestos exposure stories contradict in civil and bankruptcy courts, Garlock says
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Lawyer Says Feinberg's Payment Plan for Oil Spill Victims 'Borders on Delusional'
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Corporate Reform:
Are Whistleblower Payouts Just Too High?
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Opie Taylor helps launch Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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Consumer Finance Protection Bureau Taking It To the Street
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Wall St. Joins S.E.C. in Plea for Bigger Budget
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Fraud:
Mets Owners Face Novel Claim in Madoff Clawback
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For Mets' Owners, Court Fight Could Be Costly
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David Wright offers assistance to New York Mets' ownership
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Who's behind bogus “Bernie Madoff” auction?
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SEC missed Bernie Madoff's fraud: Now former lawyers earn millions at top firms
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Madoff trustee sues Daibes
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Ex-Lehman Executives, Underwriters Accused by Calpers of Hiding Bond Risks
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Citigroup Settles Fraud Cases Tied to Texas Mortgage Assigner
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M&A:
Mergers are Back
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Bracing for Pain
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Trucking:
Arrow Trucking trustee seeks to adjust fee for bank litigation
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UK:
U.K. Banks Join Transparency Push
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Insolvency - A Review of 2010 and Trends to look for in 2011
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Property company voluntary arrangements jump by a third as businesses seek to compromise with creditors
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Retail sector shows signs of optimism as business failures fall in Q4 2010, but the worst is yet to come
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Appointment of Administrators - 7 February 2011
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Winding Up Petitions - 7 February 2011
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Bankrupt Katona rents £5500-a-month mansion
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Get tough approach to deferring tax could spark raft of business failures
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Administration-struck Dundee to offer deal to creditors
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Taggart Brothers Say Bank's Behaviour Prevented Possible Recapitalisation Of Business
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IFR-EMI’s Pre-Pack Bombshell Makes Waves
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EU:
After the Great Recession, the Great Regression
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Canada:
Davies Partner Mark Schrager appointed a Québec Superior Court judge
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Equity Claims Under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act
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China:
China raises interest rates
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PIGS:
Bruegel: Greece Has Become Insolvent
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Ireland's Fine Gael Seeks Bank-Debt Plan
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Denmark:
Bank's three-year struggle ends in bankruptcy
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Denmark Seizes Amagerbanken
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Danish Taxpayers Could Pay Billions for Amagerbank's Breakdown
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Danish Banks Face Consolidation Amid Bondholder Losses
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A senior haircut precedent in … Denmark
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Middle East:
Gulf leaders hear rumblings of dissent
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Japanese Bank Sells $100 Million In Dubai World Debt
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Egypt:
Warning Against Hasty Exit for Mubarak
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Cairo: Some Semblance of Normality Returns
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India:
India needs strong insolvency
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