Law:
What’s Going On At O’Melveny & Myers?
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More Than One-Third of Lawyers Plan to Hire in Third Quarter
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Perry Mason v. The Real World
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After Firm Crashed and Burned, Lawsuits Target Those Who Crawled From the Wreckage
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Blank Rome to Combine with Houston Firm Abrams Scott & Bickley
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Freshfields wins role on Treasury's billion-pound Northern Rock sale
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Ruden McClosky Adds Two Associates to its Bankruptcy Practice Group
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Howrey LLP Involuntary Bankruptcy Converted to Chapter 11; Venue Transfer To Be Considered Later This Month
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Howrey First Day Declaration - Cash Co Budget
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Diversity Scorecard 2011: What's Behind Kelley Drye's Rapid Rise?
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Pls Hndle Thx: Finally, A Degree More Useless Than a J.D.
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Law Firm Not Liable for Purchasing Competitor’s Name as Keyword to Drive Traffic to Own Website
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Practice makes perfect for bankruptcy lawyer/champion amateur pianist
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Rude Enough to Succeed?
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Popular Legal Directories, Ranked by Traffic
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How Early Does the Duty to Preserve Arise in Litigation?
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Is It “Legal” Project Management or Just Project Management?
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Five People Who Should Never Tweet
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The Top 25 Law Marketing Clichés to Avoid
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"She was staying up from 11 pm to 2 am, lying in bed - mostly, playing Angry Birds"
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Young Ex-Associate Sues Aussie BigLaw, Says She Was Fired After Involvement With Firm Solicitor
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More About Reema Bajaj
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96-year-old woman confesses to 1946 murder
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Man with dead weasel accused of assault
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Judges:
Judge Warns Women in Skirts to Avoid New Courthouse’s Glass Staircase
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Former County Clerk With Dementia Looks to Oust Successor
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Wall Street:
US stock futures rise ahead of trade, jobs data
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World stock markets down ahead of ECB meeting
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Markets throw back Bernanke life preserver
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Investment Banker Explains How Partying In New York Has Changed Since The Crisis
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Layoffs:
High Unemployment: America's New Norm?
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How fiscal ideology trumped job creation
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Obama Says Community College Training Can Help Fill Jobs Gap
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Fraud:
Judge to Rule on Picard's $59 Billion Suit Against UniCredit
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How the SEC saved us from hipster beer fraud
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Brooklyn man faces up to 34 years for $24m Ponzi scheme
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Former TV host charged in Florida real estate Ponzi scheme
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US to seek sentence cut for Fla. Ponzi schemer Rothstein
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Did Conrad Black lord over prisoners?
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Sides argue over division of cash recovered from Cedar Funding ponzi
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Retailing:
Najafi Said to Be Considering Buying Borders Book Stores Out of Bankruptcy
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Soccer:
Zaragoza files for bankruptcy
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Banking:
WaMu still working on revised reorganization plan
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WaMu to decide next week if shareholder deal possible
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The Financial Sector Keeps Shrinking
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Bank Of America Stock Hits New 52-Week Low
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Jim Rogers Shorting One Big American Bank
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Hedge Funds:
Trustee seeks to sell GSC assets to lenders
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Furniture:
Carls to shrink in Ch. 11
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Corporate Reform:
Obama Considering Former Banker Raj Date to Head Consumer Bureau
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AFL-CIO urges recess appointment for Warren
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Obama the Timid Caves to Banks, Republicans
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Obama Still Desperately Seeking Anybody But Warren to Head New Consumer Agency
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Warren Brings Out the Base for Both Parties
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CFTC to Miss Deadline for Derivatives Regs
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Dimon Challenging Bernanke Channels Wall Street's Bid to Break Regulators
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New banking rules have not hurt Jamie Dimon
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Call Your Senators Over Sneak Attack On the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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Municipalities:
States push to convert interstate highways into toll roads
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Chapter 9 of the Bankruptcy Code: The dark side of the moon
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CME Plans To Exit Illinois Over Tax Hike
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How's The Economy In Your State?
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Rail:
2,855 More Rail Cars Idled in US
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Consumer Finance:
Consumer Credit Expands, Not Credit Cards
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Telecoms:
CAW Proposes Consolidation of Nortel's Global Debts and Assets
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Nortel Awaits Outcome of Warm-Up Bout in Cash Clash
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Bankrupt TerreStar delays bid deadline to June 15
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Aerospace:
Problems ahead for aerospace industries
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Credit/Debit Cards:
Visa, Mastercard fall as debit card rule rolls on
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Pro-bank swipe-fee measure fails in Senate
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Citi says hackers access bank card data
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Mass Torts:
Feinberg Says He Hasn't Seen Illness Claims
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Orchestras:
Orchestra CEO is being paid $597,000
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Economy:
US debt to exceed size of economy this year
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Lack of buyers may force Treasury to boost rates
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Fitch: US Treasuries could be rated junk in August
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U.S. debt talks to resume after new rating warning
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White House Prepares For One Last Fiscal Stimulus
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Hoening: Market Tantrum Over Tightening
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Fannie, Freddie may never pay back the government
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"Fanniegate" Is Really Bad News For Democrats
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The Banking Emperor Has No Clothes
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Fed on hold until Sept., Bullard says
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Sizing up the Fed's few options
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Why Bill Gross insists interest rates are going up
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The Top 10 Companies To Blame For America's Gigantic Trade Deficit
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Here's What Jamie Dimon Is Really Worried About
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Oil Rises the Most in Three Weeks as OPEC Fails to Reach Accord
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OPEC Acts Like Dallas Cowboys
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Pawlenty’s Tax Plan Would Cost $7.8 Trillion Over Ten Years, Triple The Size Of Bush Tax Cuts
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GOP: Slightly Optimistic on Debt Talks
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20 Ways the Economy is Worse Under Obama
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In 2007, the top 1% owned 50% of all investment assets; the bottom 90% owned 73% of all debt
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One Economist's Even Bleaker View
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US Recovery: RIP
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Will Geithner prioritize debt repayment?
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Fed's Plosser not worried about growth downshift
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Payroll Tax Break Said to Be Discussed by Obama Aides Amid Slowing Economy
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Stats Of The Union-App Released For IPad
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What Your Taxes Do (and Don’t) Buy for You
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Fixing America's Economy: Nine Ideas from Around the World
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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:
Fixed-rate mortgages fall to 6-month lows
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New Rules Could Shut Out New Homeowners
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Homeowners Who Will Consider Strategic Default Doubles In One Year
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FHLB of San Francisco gives out $28 million in affordable housing funds
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Foreclosures fall steeply in NYC
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NYC foreclosures Spike in May; Co-op Foreclosures at Two Year High
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Michigan county approves funding to help homeowners fight MERS, DocX cases
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Mortgage foreclosure as a voidable preference
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Bank Of America Threatens To Foreclose On Homeowner If He Doesn't Pay $0.00 ASAP
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The 13 States Where Homeowners Are Drowning Under Mortgage Debt
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Facing Arrest, Man Cleans Up Home He Says Isn't His.
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Real Estate Attorney Gets 5 Years in $23M Mortgage Fraud Case
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GSE Loan Modifications Dropping, But More Payment Reductions Succeed
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Federal proposal would toughen debt restrictions on mortgages
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Why We Need to Re-Think Real Estate
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NeighborWorks provides $68 million to fund foreclosure counseling
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Group That Owns $37 Million Newport Coast Mansion Files For Bankruptcy
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CMBS certificate holders lack standing in Chapter 11
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Confidential Witness Statements Lead to Dismissal Motion Denial in Regions Financial Subprime Securities Lawsuit
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1055 Park Avenue Apartments Close, Revealing Major Discounts
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Mastro's creditors may get a penny on the dollar this year
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What's next for those big, empty retail spaces?
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GA Keen Realty Advisors Finds Retailers for 41 Former Metropark Property Leases
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Delinquency rate on CMBS loans reaches 12-year high
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Commercial property debt woes slowly getting resolved
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Commercial/Multifamily Delinquency Rates Mixed, MBA Reports
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Health Care:
Bankruptcy Risk Nearly Doubles in Year After Cancer Diagnosis
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Judges sharply challenge Obama healthcare law
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Religion:
Big bucks, even in bankruptcy
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Magazines:
944 Magazine Folds
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Hockey:
Sale of team is a process where we will eventually know everything
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Autos:
Ford ramps up Russia production, sees market doubling
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Obama's Dodgy Remarks on Auto Industry Bailout
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Bankruptcy would have served GM, Chrysler
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China Starts Cash for Clunkers Program
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GM creditors sue U.S.over $1.5 billion dispute
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Romney Could Face Mich. Trouble Over Auto Bailout
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GM's Bob Lutz tells all
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Opel CEO: reports of possible sale are speculation
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Video Rentals:
NCR Adds Blockbuster Kiosks Despite Legal Dispute
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Lehman:
Court may shed light on Lehman winners and losers
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Lehman investors paid a little, and a lot
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Barclays says it doesn't owe ex- Lehman workers bonuses
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Corporate Governance:
Strine nominated to lead Delaware's Chancery Court
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Tubing:
Tubo de Pasteje Files Recovery Plan Giving Noteholders New Debt for Claims
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Celebs:
Kristie Alley faces foreclosure on home
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Gambling:
Station Casinos Says It Won Last Court Approval Needed to End Bankruptcy
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Oil/Gas:
Judges OKs settlement in SemGroup lawsuit
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Hotels:
Lender takes back troubled hotel
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Food/Beverage:
Union Cries 'Foul' Over Superfresh Sale
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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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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:
A Guide To The Bankruptcy Law of The United States
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Section 1503. International Obligations of the United States
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Derivatives:
Deceptive by Design: Derivatives as Secret Liens
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Plan Confirmation:
In re Lett: preserving APR plan confirmation objections on appeal
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A Lesson In Vocabulary: “Indubitable Equivalence”
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Bankruptcy Rules:
Supreme Court OKs BK Document Changes
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Automatic Stay:
Junior lien holder bankruptcy can stay the foreclosure of a senior lien
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Insurance:
Monoline muddle: Where should Ambac's JPMorgan case be tried?
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Two circuit courts hold insurers have standing in Chapter 11 cases of their insureds
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Finance:
What Bank Of America Learned From It's Loan To Frank McCourt
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Bank Said No? Hedge Funds Fill a Void in Lending
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Pensions:
PBGC to take over Schwab Industries pension plan
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Student Debt:
Failure to pay back student loans can now lead to SWAT arrests by Dept. of Education
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Department Of Education: Raid Of California Man's Home Was Not Related To Defaulted Student Loans
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Sovereigns:
Getting Out of Debtor's Prison
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UK:
Bank of England keeps rates on hold at 0.5%
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Begbies Traynor bemoans lack of corporate failures
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Change on the way for insolvency practitioners
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Chart of the Day: UK Take Home Pay
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Dramatic duchess trying to change
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'Total upfront cost' of bankruptcy 'rises to £700'
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Soaring Gas, Food Bills Slam Households
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RBS's Hester Says Bank Firebreaks Will Increase Systemic Risk
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One in eight Britons struggle to pay bills on time
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Construction law v insolvency law - a clash of cultures?
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Championship football club has £2.7m debt wiped out
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Senior Bankers Face UK's Treasury Select Committee
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Winding Up Petitions - 8 June 2011
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Appointment of Administrators - 8 June 2011
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EU:
ECB holds interest rates steady
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Time for those European Central Bank secret decoder rings
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Montenegro Steel-Mill Creditors Seek Rights Protection From EU
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Europe Wrestles With Greece Solutions
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Canada:
Students crushed by high interest rates
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RCMP probe alleged Ponzi
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Germany:
How Germany Dealt with Recession and Jobs
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Japan:
Tepco's Accidental Bankruptcy?
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IMF: Japan's Economy Will Shrink This Year
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Power Cuts Spread to West Japan as Nuclear Restarts Delayed
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PIIGS:
Eurozone starts talks on breakdown of cash aid for Greece
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Troika Report Leaked: Bleak Prognosis For Greece
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ECB nominee Draghi warns of Greek restructuring danger
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EU's Rehn: Must avoid triggering Greek "credit event"
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Greece debt deal must not trigger credit event-Fekter
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Greece Funding Must Be Resolved for Rescue Payout, EU-IMF Says
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Too Radical a Debt Plan From Greece
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Greek banks under siege
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Cost to insure Greek debt soars on Schauble letter
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Europe eyes private sector role in Greek debt deal
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Puncturing Greece's Dream for Sharing Its Pain
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The vanishing sovereignty of Greece
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New strikes in Greece as creditor
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Greek joblessness at record as new austerity looms
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Greece warns dissenters against rejecting austerity
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Greece can make it if follows agreed plan-euro zone finmins
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Obama: Greek Default Would be Disastrous
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Obama Pledges Monetary Aid To Greece
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U.S. Hedge Funds to Fight Bank of Ireland Restructuring
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B Of I Warns State Stake May Rise To 87% If Investors Hold Off
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Australia:
AMI 'lied to patients' about insolvency
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Watchdog aims to shut down AMI
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MENA:
EU freezes assets
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U.S. probes Libya ties with Goldman, others
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Russia:
Russian Banks - Tread carefully
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China:
The Great Property Bubble of China May Be Popping
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Korea:
Deutsche Bank Says Korea Court Orders Freeze on Some Assets
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