Law:

Weil boxing clever
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Weil recruits new UK restructuring chief with Jones Day London hire
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Bonus Watch: Simpson Thacher Matches Sullivan & Cromwell Spring Bonuses!
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In-House Salary Range: Want Big Bucks? You Should Work ... Where?
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Obama Gently Knocks Lawyers in State of the Union Address
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Evaluating Evaluations
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Barclays to measure client referral value of panel firms
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After Legal Services Layoffs, Ex-Staffers Form Non-Profit Firm to Offer Sliding-Scale Options
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Not the Retiring Kind: On One Partner's Jump to Dewey
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Akin Gump Partner Strays Off Reservation
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Sonnenschein posts 15% profits rise for last year before Dentons union
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Shook, Hardy Posts Gains in PPP, RPL
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Slight Uptick in Revenue, Profits for Patton Boggs
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MoFo posts rises in revenue and PEP
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ZIP IT! Issa Blocks Cummings From Making Case Against JPMorgan
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Assistant AG: Corporate Counsel 'Can and Should Do More' to Protect Companies
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Howrey Going to Get Out of This Pickle?
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Winston & Strawn, Howrey Talk (and Reject) Merging Forces
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Are Winston and Howrey Talking About a Merger After All?
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Five contenders emerge as Linklaters consults on new senior partner
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"The other gazelles flee, knowing he'll get his meal"
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"Tiger Mother" Amy Chua Defends Herself to Stephen Colbert
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Legal-IT Collaboration: An Oxymoron No Longer?
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The Silence of Women
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No New Trial Despite Lawyer's Closing Argument Gibe
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Lawyer’s Trademarked ‘Court Coach’ Name Is Part of Unbundled Approach
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'Raging' Attorney Sentenced for Airport Melee
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Lawyers and lawsuits shut down prime sledding hills
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Tiny Calif. City that Paid Its Attorney $1.65M Also Has a Big Budget for Law Firms
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Top Cop Denies Making BigLaw Partner the ‘Fall Guy’ in Auto Arson
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A Whiter Shade of Pale: Study Finds NY Firms Less Diverse
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Wait, Canada Has A Better System for Prescription Medication AND Legal Education?
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Can Document Review Work Help You Grow as a Lawyer?
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LegalTech New York Sneak Peek
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Woman Assaults Men With Fish
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Law Grad Passes Bar on 8th Try, Then Is Denied License on Character & Fitness Grounds
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Lawsuit of the Day
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Pro Se Filing of the Day
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Send Her To The Crossbar Motel
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Man arrested for stealing own car suing city
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Dennis Kucinich sues House cafeteria because of a sandwich
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Gloria Allred Will Be on TV Even More in New Courtroom Show
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Judges:

Courts Can Handle Deep Cuts, LAO Says
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Judge Posner Benchslaps the Bluebook
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Scalia’s Talk at Tea Party Event Was ‘Pretty Dry,’ Democratic Congresswoman Says
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Mo. High Court Upholds $2M Award for Prosecutor Who Claimed Reverse Bias in Judicial Appointment
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Under the Spectre of Budget Cuts, NY Courts Stop Hiring
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Wall Street:

Futures point to mixed open for Wall Street
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US Stocks Rise as Dow Tops 12000 on Fed Statement, Home Data
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IRS Believes Goldman Has Evaded Taxes
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Goldman's Mortgage Trading, Commodities Relied on Derivatives
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Layoffs:

Obama and Business May Get On Well, but When Will That Produce Jobs?
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Cautious Corporates Cling to Cash
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Lowe's Cuts 1,700 Managers for Part Timers
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Abbott to pare 1900 jobs in restructuring
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Google to Hire 6,000 New Workers
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Fraud:

Ex-Galleon Traders Plead Guilty
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Stanford Ordered to Prison Detox Until Fit for Trial
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Stanford Receiver Sues the Miami Heat
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Hecker rants, rambles, says he was the victim of liars
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Madoff Victims Sue US on Negligence
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Republicans settle with Rothstein trustee
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Mass. Philanthropist Sues Regulators Over Madoff Scam
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Apparently There’s a Food Chain for Satyam Blamestorming
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Businessman admits $52M fraud
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SEC probing short seller/ex-con Barry Minkow
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Banking:

At Davos, Era of Contrition for Bankers May Be Ending
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A Banker's Plaintive Wail
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Wells Fargo Revised Wachovia Bid for Tax Gain, Bair Told Crisis Commission
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Lehman:

Lehman's Marsal Pushed by Paulson Group to Get Busy or Get Out
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Lehman Seeks Approval to Pay $10 Million to Swedbank
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Lehman's $61 Billion Plan Has Carrot, Stick for Paulson-Calpers
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Media:

Summit Media files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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Tribune Co. sees 'challenging' year ahead for revenue
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Food/Drink:

Restaurant Wars Push Fuddruckers Franchisee to Buy Burgers at Costco
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Trump Says He and Union Have a Deal on Tavern on the Green
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Trump's Big Plans for Tavern on the Green
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Shipping:

Eagle Bulk Gets Upgrade After Korea Scare
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Celebs:

Current, former NHL players lose more than $13-million in resort deal
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Octomom's games exposed
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Jaime Pressly 'gets $637,000 tax lien'
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Autos:

US Could Sell Whole GM Stake This Year
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Ford `Money Machine' Poised to Close Out Most Profitable Year Since 2000
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Auditors look at whether feds prodded General Motors to provide more funding for Delphi pension plan
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Receiverships:

Creative use of receiverships to solve environmental, construction and other problems in distressed projects
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Tax:

HSBC Bankers Said to Help Client Hide India Account
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New York Will Probably Make Old People’s Lives Difficult If They Move to a Low-tax State
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Geithner: 'Level Playing Field' Key in Tax Revamp
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Economy:

Fed Cautious on Recovery, Focused on Joblessness
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CBO forecast: frightening fodder for both parties
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The New Old Age: Retirements Swallowed by Debt
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Is Obama Just Pro-Big Business?
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Taxpayers’ Profit on Citigroup: $12.3 Billion
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Treasury Notes Rise Before Fed Prepares to Buy Notes After Japan Downgrade
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Dissenters Fault Report on Crisis in Finance
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Banking `Toxic Cocktail' Is Too Big to Forget
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Crisis Report May Be Overshadowed by Infighting, Investigations
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Banker Pay Fueled Risk That Hobbled Economy, Crisis Panel Says
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How Obama's Agenda Could Affect Personal Finances
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Obama Warns Americans: World economic rules have changed
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Obama Spending Freeze Just 'Spare Change', Taxes Must Rise
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Obama's Plan Would Cost Another $20 Billion, Raise Taxes
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Obama Embraces Business Agenda
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Rand Paul proposes $500 billion in federal budget cuts
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Social Security to Run Deficits for Foreseeable Future, CBO Says
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Social Security Fund to Run Dry in 2037
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State of the Union: Fact-checking Obama's speech
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Representative Ryan Can't Tell the Difference Between Greece and the United States: Where Is the Ridicule?
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CBO: Economy likely to stay below potential for years
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Fed stays the course on interest rates, bond-buying plan
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Panel Will Name Names for Prosecution
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Cautious CEOs count on BRICs for growth
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Global Development crashes the Davos party
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Inflation, Food Prices Top Davos Agendas
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World food prices aren't too high – they’re too low
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Rising Price Pressures Spur Concerns
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A Hypothetical Bank Crisis Finds that Risks Remain
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Davos forum faces joblessness, revolutions
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Davos Report: Which Lawyers Are World Economic Forum-Bound?
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The negative-sum new reality
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Wall Street Partying in Davos as Bankers Overcome Crisis
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Beauty Rest of Rich Is Warmup for Next Bust
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Treasury would 'do over' TARP if it could
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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 Bankruptcy Trustee Takes Interest in “Ta Dah” Documents Mysteriously Appearing in Foreclosures (aka Probable Fabrications)
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A Reservist in a New War, Against Foreclosure
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New home sales down in 2010
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US Sales of New Homes Rose Five-Times Higher Than Expected in December
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Analyst on New-Home Sales Beat: 'We're Skeptical'
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New Home Inventory by Stage of Construction
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Home Sales: Distressing Gap
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Fed Faulted for Lax Mortgage Regulation Before Financial Crisis
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Fannie, Freddie seek to cut dividend on government stake
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Take Fannie and Freddie off the road
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Subprime Loans by Fannie, Freddie Performed 'Better', FCIC Says
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Foreclosure activity up across most US metro areas
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Foreclosure flood spreads beyond hardest hit markets
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New foreclosure cases in California fall sharply in fourth quarter
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Mortgage delinquencies fall in Greater Boston
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SOTU'S strange silence on foreclosures and bank failures
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Google to take down real estate listings
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Shiny Lazy People
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Tea Party on Foreclosure : "They Bought Houses They Couldn't Afford"
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Las Vegas: Still the foreclosure king
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Foreclosures Rose in 72% of US Cities as Crisis Spread in 2010
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Washington sees biggest foreclosure drop-off in nation's top markets
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Architect of Florida's Infamous 'Rocket Docket' Foreclosures
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Nevada Judge to BofA Unit: Stop Foreclosures
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Two mortgage servicers get aggressive on principal writedowns in January
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AGs, banks to begin negotiations in robo-signing settlement for homeowners
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HAMP's failure 'devastating,' permanent mods flat in December
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Treasury Tries Defending HAMP at House Oversight Hearing
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Mortgage Help Can Turn into Disaster
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A solution to the mortgage mess?
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Deloitte says the time is now for curing distressed borrowers
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Boxer introduces bill to lower barriers to refinance
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FHA terminates more than a dozen HUD mortgage originators and underwriters
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Bill would cut all funding to HUD
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Top Congressional Cop May Probe Mortgage Servicers
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Mortgage applications tumble 12.9% as refinancing activity falls 15.3%
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Colorado House approves home foreclosure measure
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Bridgewater Place sold to lender at sheriff sale for $34 million
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Developer Ziel Feldman Strikes Again
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Corporate Reform:

Elizabeth Warren Meets With Consumer-Bureau Critics
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CFTC sues 14 foreign currency firms in major sweep
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Citi Warrants Bring in $312 Million
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Groups Urge Obama To Nominate Consumer Bureau Chief
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CFPB Supervision of Non-Banks Will Not Begin after July 21, 2011, Unless and Until a Director Is Confirmed
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Bear Stearns Lowered Leverage With `Window Dressing,' FCIC Says
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Goldman Wants More Regulation - of Hedgers
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Trucking:

After bankruptcy filing, company keeps on trucking
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Health Care:

Nursing home bankruptcy a sign of times?
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Physicians at Headache & Pain Center, Doctors Hospital still treating patients
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Bankruptcy next for Allcare Dental
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Top Medicare official doubts health care law savings
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Avoidance Actions:

Ninth Circuit treats corporate insider fairly in fraudulent transfer case
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Accounting:

Accountant Helps Truth or Consequences, New Mexico Live Up to Its Name
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Is Fair Value in Retreat?
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Aviation:

Mexicana to start flying again
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Education:

Endowments Still 25% Away From Pre-Lehman High
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Pressure builds on US college funding
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Sovereigns:

Argentina agrees to pay $9 bln to Paris Club
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What Will Happen When America Loses Its AAA
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Hotels:

Base Bid of $1.14 Billion Established for Bankrupt Innkeepers USA Trust
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(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)

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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Walker Wilcox Matousek

Insurance:

Ambac Assurance Payout Approved by Wisconsin Judge
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AIG's Directors & Officers Insurers to Pay $150 Million Settlement
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Insurance Company Drops Vet Over 2-Cent Shortage
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Miscellaneous:

Que Pasa En El Mundo De Los Avisos?
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Jurisdiction:

Anna Nicole Smith and Mass Torts in Bankruptcy
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Bankruptcy Reform:

Some GOP Senators Call For Letting States Declare Bankruptcy
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Financial Distress and the Bankruptcy Code
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Senator pushes foreclosure crisis fix that includes 'cramdown'
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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Retailing:

Ultimate Electronics parent files for Chapter 11
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Municipalities:

Banks Get Tough With Municipalities
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State Defaults in US Are Unlikely, 50% of Investors Say in Global Poll
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The Majority Of Investors Still Think Washington Will Save A State From Default
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Dimon sees some U.S. municipal bankruptcies
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Moody’s Credit Ratings of States to Factor in Unfunded Pensions
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Public Employee Unions: Public Enemy No. 1?
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What Sent States' Fiscal Picture Into a Tailspin?
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IN bankruptcy bill moving forward
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Better off bankrupt
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BK could be the way for states
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Newt Gingrich pushes a bankrupt idea
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Bankruptcy seen as unlikely option for states: S&P
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Could Muni Bond Fears Whack Bankers’ Jobs?
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S&P: If US States Bankruptcy Allowed, Key To Sector Assessment
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School District could be headed for bankruptcy
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LA schools mired in health care costs
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Mayor Thompson's statement on Act 47 no-shows
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Gov. Christie sends a market-calming message on bankruptcy and New Jersey
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Dayton opposes use of bankruptcy to avoid pension payments
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State bankruptcy a 'band-aid solution,' Illinois legal experts say
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Bill strengthens, clarifies DUAB role
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George Soros is Fretting About the Muni Market
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Guess What The "Smart Money" Is Doing Now With Muni Bonds
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Nassau Loses Control of Finances to New York Board
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Symphonies:

Orchestra woes repeat nationwide refrain
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UK:

Bank of England Head: I See Trouble Ahead
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Signs of "distress" increasing for UK businesses
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Insolvency Service optimism could boost the profession
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Appointment of Administrators - 26 January 2011
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Winding Up Petitions - 26 January 2011
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EU:

Big Risks Seen for Europe's Fiscal Stability
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Eurozone Woes Dominate Economy Talks at Davos
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Soros: Euro Crisis Could Divide Europe
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As Europe Toils on Debt, US and Japan Watch Nervously
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Business leaders cautiously optimistic on euro zone
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Europe Can't Afford Another Flawed Stress Test
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Italy:

Parmalat Shares Surge as Corriere Says Investors May Seek to Replace Board
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Merle Hazard on Italy :)
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Japan:

S&P DOWNGRADES JAPAN
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Lone Star, Advantage In Talks Over Troubled Tokyo Star Bank
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Yen Weakens, Stocks Erase Gains as S&P Cuts Japan Debt Rating
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Penguins March on S&P Downgrade
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Czech Republic:

Sazka Bondholders Set Up Steering Committee, Appoint Advisers
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Greece:

Greece unlikely to restructure debt in first half
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Ireland:

McEnaney Construction Goes Into Receivership
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AIB Gains €1.4 Billion From Debt Buy-Back
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Bank Losses Could Be 'Larger' Than Expected
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Burden of bank debt 'must be shared'
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AIB may force some creditors
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Spain:

Spain to Overhaul Bank Rules Ahead of Cash Injections
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Spain's Prisa To Cut Staff By 18%, Announces 2,500 Layoffs
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Santander's Succession of Troubles
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Spanish Government, Unions Near Accord on Pensions
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Middle East:

Failure is a good thing
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Two creditor groups for $6 bln Dubai Group debt talks
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Dubai Group Sets Up Bank Restructuring Committees for $6 Billion of Loans
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Egypt:

Egypt's Protests Turn Ugly
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Will Egypt Go the Way of Tunisia?
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Egyptian Protesters Have Set Fire To The Suez Police Headquarters
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Egypt Gets Even Worse: Now Stocks Are Off Nearly 11%
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Yemen:

Now Anti-Government Protests Are Spilling Into Yemen
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China:

IMF: China Boom Threatening World Recovery
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Russia:

Medvedev Tells Investors to Follow Law or Meet Khodorkovsky Fate
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Venezuela:

Chavez tackles housing crisis by urging poor to squat wealthy parts of Caracas
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