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Law:
DLA Piper to Become World’s Largest Law Firm with Australian Merger
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Bonus Watch: Cleary Gottlieb Matches S&C Spring Bonuses!
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The Lawyers Behind the FCIC Report
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NFL’s Top Lawyer Will Give Up Multimillion-Dollar Paycheck in Event of Lockout
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From Kentucky To Cravath To Chase
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Howrey Going to Make This Merger Happen? (Plus two interesting internal emails.)
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Firm Cuts Payouts to Ex-Partners as Headcount Drop Puts Credit Line in Doubt
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NY Lawyer, Called "Most Worst Attorney," "Dumb" and "Fool" in Online Rant, Can't Sue
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Rumors of the Death of Client Alerts Greatly Exaggerated
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Stationery famine at K&L Gates
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Strange But True: Fred Thompson Joining Forces With Trial Lawyers
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Law Firm Screw-Up Reveals Allegations About Gilbert Arenas
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Forced Out at Sullivan & Cromwell Over Age, Partner Lands New NY BigLaw Gig
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Lehman, Goldman, Galleon, Deutsche Bank, K1 in Court News
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Dealmaker of the Week: E. William Bates of King & Spalding
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Firm ‘Draws’ Attention To M&A Trends Through Animation
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Baker Botts Partner Sheedy Found Dead in Moscow
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If the Hatchet Comes to Justice, Here’s How it Might Hit
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What's Your Elevator Speech?
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In-House: Where Law Is Not King
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Hours After Appeal Filing, Top Ill. Court Rules Emanuel Stays on Ballot, Rebukes Appellate Panel
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Thomson Reuters Hiring Attorneys for New LPO Outfit in Michigan
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Lawyer Takes 5th re Bombing at Law Firm Partners’ Home, But Protective Order is Denied
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Judge Endorses Lawyer's Use of 'Success Bonus' to Enhance $600/Hour Fees
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Massachusetts Law Student Engages in Epic Judicial Intimidation
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Retired professor, wife, give $6 million to Oklahoma law school
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Economy, Jobs Stall Plans for Three New NY Law Schools
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Closing the Loop on the Crowdsourced Law School Rankings
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Tablet Computers: Today and Tomorrow
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New Worldox iPad App Released
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Mobile Apps for Law -- A New Searchable Database for Legal Professionals
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Harvard Law Instructor Moonlights as Secret Garden Maid
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New York City Bar Releases Diversity Report
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PPP: Poor Placental Precedent?
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Woman Runs Over Herself In Truck Amid Attempt To Flee Police
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Couple stoned to death for adultery
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Judges:
Judge does his civic duty - in the jury box
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By skipping Obama speech, justices bring politics to court
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Bias! The Case Against Lawyers and Judges
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Snowstorm Closes Some NY Courts
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Wall Street:
US Futures Slipping
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Wall St extends gains on earnings; faces resistance
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How the Major Stock Indexes Fared Thursday
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Earnings Drag on DJIA
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Wall Street Treads Softly After Latest Jobless Data
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This Goldman partner told her employees to hide junk that couldn't be sold in CDOs
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Why You Wish You Worked At Goldman Sachs (And No It's Not The Money)
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A Bear Stearns analyst was so excited about housing, employees at AIG thought he was on drugs
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Layoffs:
Long Term Unemployment Still Sky High
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Snow boosts jobless claims
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99ers More Likely to Be Older, Married, Minority
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The 10 Jobs Where Hiring Will Surge In 2011
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Outsourcing At Boeing: How The Aerospace Giant Looks Abroad For Key Suppliers
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Autos:
GM Withdraws Application for $14.4 Billion US Loan
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Corporate Reform:
Can the SEC Make Brokers Shape Up?
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Securities Lawyers Ask Lawmakers to Change SEC Funding Rules
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Treasury Department Announces the Beginnings of CFPB Team
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Municipalities:
Cities on the Brink
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Newt Gingrich, Jeb Bush say let states declare bankruptcy
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Newt Gingrich Dreams Of Launching Weapon Of Mass Destruction On State Pension Plans
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Deadbeats Bush and Gingrich Say "States Better off Bankrupt"
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Should US states be allowed to go bankrupt?
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Rift between Republicans on 'bailout' for states
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State bankruptcy protection eyed
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Allowing states to enter bankruptcy conceals real problem
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The latest on states declaring bankruptcy
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Allowing bankruptcy for states would bail out irresponsible pols
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Congressional Bankruptcy Rumblings Worry California
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Governors plead for cooperation in addressing state, federal deficits
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Muni Bonds Aren't All Bad
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Cash-strapped Bell to consider disbanding police department, cutting salaries
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Bell mayor no-show at city meeting to discuss cuts
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Bell police angry at a possible elimination of department; residents say proposal is premature
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Orange County Considers $320 Million Pension-Note Sale to Itself
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Walters: States don't go bankrupt
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Harrisburg, Pa, Incinerator Seen Worthless To Private Buyers
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Jefferson County, Ala., Looks To Hire Financial Turnaround Firm
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Where the Union Members Still Are
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Non-Profits:
YMCA seeks bankruptcy protection
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Fifth Circuit confirms that Save Our Springs' bankruptcy plan is inadequate
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Aviation:
Court blames Swissair for bankruptcy of Belgium's Sabena
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Texas objects to SJ30 sale to mystery buyer
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Heavy Equipment:
Caterpillar's Profits More Than Quadruple
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Avoidance Actions:
Bruno's bankruptcy trustee wants payments to creditors returned
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Sovereigns:
US, Japan told time running out to deal with debt
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Moody's Basically Just Threatened To Downgrade The US
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Economy:
Initial Jobless Claims in US Rose Last Week to 454,000
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Durable Goods Orders Fell in December
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Geithner Optimistic, Despite High Unemployment
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Geithner: Global Inflation 'Not High on List of Concerns'
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Rand and Ron Paul Introduce Twin Fed-Audit Bills
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US Treasury starts maneuvering on debt limit
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The Union's Troubled State
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Barack Obama sounds a lot like Herbert Hoover
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The President Ignored the Elephant in the Room
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Palin Takes a Swing at Obama's State of the Union Address
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Three Years After the Great Recession's Start
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Americans Lose Faith in Pretty Much All Big Organizations, Especially Banks and Corporations
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Few Signs of United Approach to Financial Regulation
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The FCIC Report
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FCIC report: 10 causes of the financial crisis
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In Panel’s Report, Stern Warning on Repeating Financial Crisis
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FCIC Insider: “I Can’t Believe They Suborned Brooksley Born”
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WH Applauds Financial Commission's Work
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Crisis Panel Slams Greenspan
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Who Doesn't FCIC Report Blame? You.
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Bernanke: Only One Firm Not at Risk in '08
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Wall Street's Collapse to Be Mystery Forever
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Crisis Panel's Report Parsed Far and Wide
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The financial inquiry commission lets a crisis go to waste
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Harsh Words for Regulators in Crisis Commission Report
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Infighting, Investigations Overshadow FCIC Report
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Fed takes a flogging in FCIC report
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Financial Crisis Report's Glaring Omission
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Wine list of the day, Davos edition
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Davos: What Happens When You Don't Get Invited To Any Parties
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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:
Attorney who worked for developer faces $24 million lawsuit
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Clash of the Titans: RMBS Edition
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Venue battles erupt in cases stemming from the housing meltdown
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For Housing, a Quick Fix 0r Less Risk
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Commission outlines Goldman Sachs subprime dilemma in financial crisis
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Housing Recovery May Take Five Years-Plus
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Pending home sales rise in December
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NAR pending home sales rise 2%; TrimTabs expects slow recovery
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2010 Foreclosures by City
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A Frightening Satellite Tour Of America's Foreclosure Wastelands
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The Foreclosure Fallacy
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Nevada court blocks Bank of America trust foreclosure
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Major banks not buying into Arizona foreclosure
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Mortgage Shenanigans in Virginia
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Govt's Loan Mod Program Crippled by Lax Oversight and Deference to Banks
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Q&A With a Defender of Florida's 'Rocket Docket' Foreclosures
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Commercial mortgage-backed securities to rebound in 2011
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Want To Make Money In Home Building? Avoid Land
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The "Arrogant And Unethical" Corporate Culture At Fannie Mae From 1998-2004
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Wallison singles out US housing policy for causing financial crisis
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Mortgage refinances may drop 77% by 2012
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Judge Stops Sale of Downtown Fresno Landmark
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John's Pass developer files for bankruptcy protection
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Lenders Step Up Reviews of Military Foreclosure Practices
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The U.S. Real Estate Market on Life Support: Unplugging the RESPA-Rator
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Group convened by Center for American Progress unveils housing finance fix
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Movies:
Daryl Hannah Movie Becomes Currency in RHI Bankruptcy
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Demi Moore Is Playing A Chief Risk Officer In Her Next Movie
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Retailing:
Ultimate Electronics Files for Bankruptcy as Suppliers Curtail Shipments
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Wattles' Chapter 11 ploy risky
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New Credit Deal Gives Borders a Lifeline
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Borders must close some stores as part of $550M boost
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Borders gets conditional lifeline; shares soar
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Borders Eyes Bankruptcy Financing
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Loehmann's closing State Street store
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Corporate Governance:
SEC Approves Non-binding Say on Pay Rule
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Hotels:
LNR seeks new standing in Innkeepers bankruptcy
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Hotels: RevPAR up 9.3% compared to same week in 2010
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Telecoms:
TerreStar Seeks More Time To Control Its Bankruptcy
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Profit Falls 21% at Nokia
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Creditors sue past executives from HawTel for $2.5 million
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Fraud:
Adler settles Rothstein case
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Bankruptcy Trustee: Rothstein Partner Adler Is Broke and Owes IRS
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Potential Scams Top 7,000 in BP Spill Compensation
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Who is Allen Stanford?
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Vaughan's mansion could soon be sold
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US Court Freezes Assets in Online Scam Probed by FTC
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Celebs:
Miami Heat Buys $2M Mansion To Rescue Tim Hardaway From Tax Debt
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Credit Cards:
Credit card rates at record highs near 15%
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Health Care:
Sunwest bankruptcy case ends
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House GOP Debates Privatizing Medicare
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Corporate Governance:
Delaware for Small Fry: Jurisdictional Competition for Limited Liability Companies
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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
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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:
AbitibiBowater, Contessa, Constar, Charlie Brown's: Bankruptcy
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Most memorable companies no longer with us
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Personal Bankruptcy in Connecticut Filings Rise 12-Percent in 2010
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Mass. personal bankruptcy filings rose in 2010
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Professional Fees:
"Overhead:" Undead, Undead, Undead
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Lehman:
Lehman Sued Over $450 Million Bermuda Repo `Abuse'
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When Lehman Was Collapsing The Fed Was Taking Advice From Pretty Much Anyone In Finance
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Lehman Brothers' Startling Emails: Repo 105 "Accounting Gimmick" Are "Another Drug We're On"
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Dick Fuld Used To Call Ken Lewis At Home So Much, Ken Lewis' Wife Had To Get Involved
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How Jamie Dimon Played Mind Games With Lehman Execs During Their Downfall
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Fed Mulled Emergency Loan to Save Lehman
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Ousting Lehman's Fuld, Picking Successor Was Weighed by Fed, E-Mail Shows
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Banking:
Secret to Bank's Comeback: A Rich Uncle Named Sam
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Pensions:
Crisis Forces Look at Pension Reforms
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Gambling:
Moody's says Herbst Gaming debt rating outlook stable, despite challenges
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Video Rentals:
Icahn Seeks Dismissal of Blockbuster Creditor Lawsuit
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Tax:
Corporate Tax Code Proves Hard to Change
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Tax Code Overhaul Could Raise Taxes on Some
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Geithner : Tax reform debate in 'first inning'
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Finance:
Banks Get $30B for SBA Loans
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Religion:
Sex-Abuse Fallout
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Trucking:
Bankruptcy trustee files lawsuit against execs at Arrow Trucking
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Mass Torts:
Court revives N. Calif. town's pollution lawsuit
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UK:
UK: Consumer Confidence Falls Most in 17 Yrs
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Austerity 'could cause recession'
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Appointment of Administrators - 27 January 2011
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Winding Up Petitions - 27 January 2011
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Banks still resist small firm lending
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EU:
George Soros Says EU May Disintegrate, Again
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Defending the Euro at Davos
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EU Retail Rises Most Since 2006
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Merle Hazard on Germany :)
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Canada:
NHLers burned by bankrupt Bear Mountain development on Vancouver Island
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France:
Number Of Failing French Companies Falls 4.2% In 2010
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Japan:
"Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job"
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Japanese Prime Minister on Defensive Over Debt Comments
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Ireland:
Nama To Get 20,000 New Loans Under Revised Bill
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Drumm's wife may be questioned in Boston court on bankruptcy claim
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Disgraced Drumm forced to put €4m Cape Cod hideout on market
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Irish Give 51 Billion More Reasons to Avoid Bonds
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Spain:
Spain to Raise Retirement Age to 67
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Australia:
'Almost All Pub Sales Distressed': Debt Repayments Extended In Absence Of Buyers
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Poland:
Poland Moves Closer to Pension Rollback
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Egypt:
Nobel laureate joins deadly Egypt protests
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Protesters Clash With Police in Egypt
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North Africa in flames: Why Egypt is no Tunisia
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Today Is The Big Show For Egypt's Protest Movement
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Egypt's Day of Reckoning is Here
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US Delicate Dealings with Egyptian Leaders
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All Eyes on Egypt
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WikiLeaks Spurs On Protests By Releasing New Egypt Corruption Cables
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Middle East:
Arab Governments Bracing for New Protests
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What Behind the Unrest in the Arab World?
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Yemen:
Yemenis take to the streets calling for President Saleh to step down
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Russia:
Russia opens criminal case against International Industrial Bank
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Czech Republic:
Sazka Is Trying to Postpone Debt Payments
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