Law:

Kasowitz Benson Reaps Borders' Bankruptcy Cash; More Firms on the Case
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Howreying for the Exits: More Partner Departures, and Bootcamp Gets the Boot
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Who Will Milk Fees From Howrey's Mammoth Antitrust Case?
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Bonus Watch: WilmerHale Jumps Into Merit-Based Spring Bonuses
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Record High Partner Profits for Baker Botts in 2010
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Foley & Lardner Partner Sues Firm, Attaches Partnership Agreement to His Complaint
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Foley & Lardner Sued for Bias, Breach of Contract by Founding Detroit Partner
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Supreme Court Rules First Amendment Protects Westboro’s Funeral Protesters from Tort Suits
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5 New Partners Discuss What It Took to Reach Career Milestone
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Administrator for Law Firm Portrayed in ‘Erin Brockovich’ Has 50K Twitter Followers
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The power game
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Attention Shoppers
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Web Of Apparent Lies Brings Down Attorney
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Dodgers Owner McCourt's Ex-Wife Seeks Documents on Baseball Team Finances
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Will Other Global Firms Follow Clifford Chance to Oz?
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Trainee Retention Rate at UK Top 30 Firms Rises Over Last Year
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Small Firms, Big Lawyers: Don’t Be an Extension D-----
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Time to Purchase the iPad 2?
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The Future of Legal Education: Stop Resisting and Get Creative
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Law Schools That Will Get You Into Biglaw On The Cheap
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Jokes / Torts 101: A Woman, A Banana Peel, And…?
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Defense Lawyer’s Effort to Discredit Informant By Arranging Drug Buy Gets Attorney Convicted
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The Top 5 Steps for Delousing Your Law Firm :))
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Sheen: "I'm More Famous Than Obama!"
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Couple In Cuffs After Facebook Defriending
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Police Dog Alerted To Crack
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Mug Shots
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Teen Burglar Kills Goldfish Because He Didn't Want To Leave Any Witnesses, Cops Say
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Judges:

Fees Could Keep Courts Open for a Few Weeks in a Government Shutdown
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Kansas Appeals Court Tells Lawyer His Oft-Repeated Argument Is ‘Legally Vacuous’
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Judiciary Scales Back Budget Proposal, Raises Possibility of Layoffs
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Supreme Court justices are talking more
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Round 2: The Goodwin Liu Confirmation Slugfest
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Did DA, When Formerly Serving as Judge, Inflate Trial Stats via ‘Pick-and-Plea’ Technique?
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Wall Street:

Stock index futures point to early gains
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Strong Jobs Report Pushes Shares Higher
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Stocks manage gains
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SEC Proposes Slashing Wall Street Pay
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Judge Unexpectedly Imprisons Goldman Programmer
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Goldman Evokes Blood Sucking Leeches
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Layoffs:

Private sector added 217,000 jobs in February
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Announced U.S. Job Cuts Rose 20% From Year Ago
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Job Cuts Reach An 11-Month High Of 50,702
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Wage Growth Picks Up to Two-Year High
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Agencies Fine and Sue Companies That Purported to Aid Jobless
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Gambling:

California's Indian casinos slowly recovering from recession
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In a first for Indian casinos, revenue has fallen
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Textbooks:

Nebraska Book Said to Weigh Bankruptcy as Debt Maturities Loom
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Food/Drink:

Supplements Maker Eniva Files for Chapter 11
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Gas City Owner Looks To Sell Creamery Ice Cream Chain To Son
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Parmalat Net Income Falls on Declining Settlements; Proposes Bonus Shares
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Municipalities:

Alabama county in talks to hire turnaround firm
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Debt-Laden Jefferson County Near Hiring FTI Consulting
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Beleaguered Idaho County Seeks Chapter 9 Protection
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Boise County Says Bankruptcy is Only Option
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Cities For Rent And For Sale
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Vallejo retirees speak up about bankruptcy plan
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Massachusetts Recovery Jittery
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When Governors Say No to Federal Crack
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The Hollow Cry of ‘Broke’
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Bernanke: No Quick End to State Budget Woes
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GOP: Health Overhaul Will Cost States $118B
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Johnny Can't Read Teacher's Plush Contract
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Why You Should Stop Worrying And Love Muni Bonds
(DBN)

Roubini Says Get Out Of Municipal Bonds
(DBN)

For Muni-Bond Market, Calm After Storm
(DBN)

How Big Is the Pension Funding Gap?
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State Tax Breaks For Seniors On The Chopping Block
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Video Rentals:

Blockbuster Judge Calls Sale Proposal 'Aggressive'
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Blockbuster Creditors Agree to Standstill on Opposition to Sale Proposal
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Blockbuster Should Liquidate Instead of Reorganize
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Trucking:

Fitch set to downgrade YRC Worldwide
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Health Care:

Men may be facing a depressing future
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Small Business:

Why Wall Street Lobbyists Want to Scare Small Businesses
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Tax:

Credit Suisse Banker Bagios Denied Release From U.S. Custody in Tax Case
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House To Vote On 1099 Repeal Bill
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DOJ Targets ‘Visionary Tax Attorney,’ Says Calif. Lawyer Is Promoting Illegal Tax Shelters
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Student Debt:

Disabled Former Cop in Student Loan Story Gets Her Debt Forgiven
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Accounting:

Big Four domination creates dearth of expert witnesses
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Ticketing:

Fort Worth ticket broker Ticket Stock files for bankruptcy
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Economy:

Bernanke under fire again on Capitol Hill
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Highlights: Bernanke's testimony to House panel
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Fed's 'beige book' shows improvement in US economy, moderate growth
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Fed Reports Growth in All Parts of US
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US Business Under Pressures to Raise Prices
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Factory Orders Outpace Inventories
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Bernanke Doesn't Rule Out More Bond Buying to Aid Economy
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Poll: Support Lacking for Entitlement Reductions
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Poll Shows Budget-Cuts Dilemma
(DBN)

Is the New York Fed Making a Big Mistake?
(DBN)

It's time to end the party of easy money
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US crude ends near 2-1/2 high on Libya fighting
(DBN)

Oil Prices are Too High. Period
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IEA: The Age of Cheap Oil is Over
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Lack of Information, Not Oil, Driving Prices
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Ally Begins to Repay Bailout as Treasury Prices $2.7B TruPS Stake
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MetLife securities sale will expedite AIG payments to Treasury: AIG
(DBN)

Investors pull billions from emerging markets
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Obama administration sees unsettled home prices keeping market down
(DBN)

Long Live the American Dream
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What Global Markets Say About U.S. Default Risk
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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:

Pilot Program Aims to Promote Representation in Foreclosures
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Feb House Price Fall Biggest in a Year
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Treasury, HUD Lobby to Save Foreclosure Prevention Programs
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Treasury spends 3% of HAMP funds as of February
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Big Banks Say MERS Mortgage Database Draws Probes
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Foreclosuregate settlement: Is $20 billion too much or too little?
(DBN)

Officials Disagree on Penalties for Mortgage Mess
(DBN)

The Foreclosure Fraud Settlement
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Is the Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Overbroad?
(DBN)

Bank of America to write down mortgages under Hardest Hit Fund
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Community banks push back on mortgage market reforms
(DBN)

Lander Introduces Bill Requiring Banks to Post Bonds on Foreclosed Homes
(DBN)

Prime loans sour
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Fannie directs servicers toward new foreclosure attorneys, away from trustees
(DBN)

Obama Administration Defends Housing Bailout
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White House plan to help borrowers could die in House
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House members spar over efforts to avert foreclosures
(DBN)

Foreclosure For Sale: $7
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Is Requiring 20 % Down on Mortgages Too Much?
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Homebuilders Will Be Hurt by 20% Down Payment Rule
(DBN)

Lenders holding back critical information at mediations
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Motion to liquidate THP assets withdrawn
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Three more Wunsch partnerships in bankruptcy
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CMBS delinquency slows most since financial crisis, still hits record high
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The Multifamily CMBS Paradox
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For Distressed Investors, There is No Where To Go But Up
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Three Deals that Capture the Current State of Distressed Investing
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A Statistical Look at Distress Levels
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Regulators Reassure Lawmakers That Banks' CRE Distress Has Not Hit a Tipping Point
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San Francisco Office Market Rebounds
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Autos:

Old GM comes to end of road
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Auto Heads See China Fast Growth Risks
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Canadian Judge Clears Way for Ex-Dealers to Sue GM
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Fraud:

UBS Says Madoff Trustee Might Make Privacy 'Illusory'
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The Next Test for the Madoff Trustee
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Madoff’s Dirty Money
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Report: Mets owners face more Madoff allegations
(DBN)

Madoff Investor Sues U.S. for Negligence, Seeks $270,000
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Court gestures
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Ex-Colonial Bank exec pleads guilty in fraud case
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The £1bn-plus HBOS Fraud Investigation That Lloyds Keeps Trying to Brush Under the Carpet
(DBN)

Potential Raj Jurors In Court To Fill Out ‘Hardship’ Questionnaires
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Raj Rajaratnam Did Not Appreciate Having An Employee Question His Goldman Inside Information
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Insider Trading Suspect Jiau Ordered Jailed Because of Risk She Would Flee
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Hecker broke, jailed — and married?
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Celeb Ponzi schemer Kenneth Starr sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison
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Private Equity:

Battered Bonds a Berkshire Blemish
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Mail:

Postal Service Faces Financial Crisis, GAO Warns
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Regulators work overtime on USPS bid to drop Saturday delivery
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Compensation:

SEC Backs Rule That Would Delay Executive Bonuses
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BP Withholds Majority of 2010 Bonus Payments
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Retailing:

Borders seeks more time to decide which leases to keep
(DBN)

Retailer Loehmann's making a fresh start
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Lack's store-closing sales take in $35 million
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Gahanna's Creekside Facing Foreclosure
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Lehman:

Lehman Execs Strike $2M Settlement With American Eagle, Tribe
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“Flip” flap II: uncertainty in derivatives markets caused by the Lehman bankruptcy court’s decision will continue
(DBN)

There but for the Grace of Lehman…
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Mobile Homes:

Fleetwood closer to Palm Harbor purchase
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Derivatives:

The impact of CDS on restructurings
(DBN)

The big deal about the NYSE's big deal: Derivatives
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Debt Collection:

Woman Crushed To Death By Own Car -- Trying To Stop Repossession
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Celebs:

Creditors could win from Michael Vick contract
(DBN)

Many NFL Players Live Paycheck to Paycheck
(DBN)

Celebrity Accountant Heads to Jail
(DBN)

Jailed Wesley Snipes Appeals His Tax Convictions To The Supremes
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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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Insurance:

Through the Looking Glass With Ambac
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Rules Won’t ‘Squeeze Out’ Mortgage Insurers
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A.I.G. Fetches $9.6 Billion for MetLife Holdings
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Bankruptcy Statistics:

WD TX bankruptcy filings inch up
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Substantive Consolidation:

Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York Offers Practical Solution in Substantive Consolidation Conundrum
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Corporate Reform:

Elizabeth Warren still worried about banking system
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GOP warming to Elizabeth Warren
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Does Industry Cry Wolf on Regulations?
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Wait Until CFPB Director is Confirmed to Issue Rules say Business Groups
(DBN)

Making The Case For Elizabeth Warren
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Why Barofsky Mattered
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On way out, TARP watchdog takes a few more jabs at Timothy Geithner
(DBN)

A Straightforward Criminal Case Against Wall Street CEOs and Senior Executives
(DBN)

Dodd-Frank: SEC Goes After Big Game
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Private Equity’s ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards
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Hedge Funds, Brokers May Face Fresh Calls for Risk Data
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Banking:

SEC Probes Bank-Loan Practices
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Honesty for Banks Is Still Such a Lonely Word
(DBN)

A Test Where the Banks Had the Questions and the Answers
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What’s Behind Banks New Legal Risk Disclosures
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Mass Torts:

Gone Fishin’? Lawyers Say You May Qualify For a Check from BP
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Satellites:

Harbinger Offer Sets Back DBSD $1.1 Billion Sale To Dish Network
(DBN)

DBSD Judge Postpones Hearing on Dish Deal After Rival Bid
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Sales:

The limits of Section 363(f) to protect buyers from successor liability
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Non-Profits:

New York Bankruptcy Case Leads to 9/11 Charity Partnership
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UK:

Bank of England: Anger at Banks is Justified
(DBN)

Banks write off 25% more debt
(DBN)

Crisis Deepens At Struggling Music Retail Chain HMV
(DBN)

Winding Up Petitions - 2 March 2011
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U.K. Construction Expanded at Fastest Pace in Eight Months in February
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U.K. services growth slows in February, PMI shows
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U.K. House Prices Fall as Supply of Properties Surges Most in Three Years
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KPMG arranges second CVA at JJB Sports
(DBN)

JJB Sports Offers Landlords Sop to Back Rescue Plan
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EU:

March Madness for EU Summits
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ECB reviews bank support, to talk tough on inflation
(DBN)

Euro-zone retail sales rise 0.4%; GDP unrevised
(DBN)

Trichet Faces Oil Shock That May Damp Growth, Fuel Inflation
(DBN)

Merkel Digs In on Bailout Terms as Discord Mars EU Crisis Talks
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Canada:

Ponzi scheme renews calls for national securities regulator
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Fortress Energy says CRA's demand for $9 million pushed it to seek protection
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Germany:

Projected Reform of German Insolvency Law: Recapitalization instead of Liquidation of Companies?
(DBN)

German Retail Sales Increases for a Second Month as Unemployment Declines
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Middle East:

US mulling military options in Libya
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The Legal Implications of Military Intervention in Libya
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Libya : Could a Military Intervention Backfire?
(DBN)

Concerned neighbors warn against foreign intervention in Libya
(DBN)

Some Libyans Want Foreign Intervention
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Qaddafi Vows to Fight to the 'Last Man'
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Panic on borders
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Rebels rout Gadhafi force attack on oil port
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Gadhafi Forces Bomb Rebel-Held Oil Town
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Rebels Weather Qaddafi's Bombs, Seek Foreign Airstrikes
(DBN)

Qaddafi's African Dream in Tatters as Net Tightens Around `King of Kings'
(DBN)

Astonishing wealth of Gaddafi and his family revealed
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Gates: Libyan no-fly zone means attacking Libya
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China Signals Potential Opposition to No-Fly Zone Over Libya
(DBN)

Top US officials cautious on Libya no-fly zone
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Libya : Spending oil money across the globe
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Libya's Billions Invested In US Private Equity, Big Banks
(DBN)

Oil Declines Most in a Week on Arab League's Libya Crisis Resolution Plan
(DBN)

Dubai Stocks Extends Drop on Concern Mideast Unrest May Spread
(DBN)

Egypt Prime Minister Resigns
(DBN)

Mubarak Hospitalized in Saudi Arabia
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The Reported Truce In Yemen Is Falling Apart As Details Of The Plan Reach The Protesters
(DBN)

Saudi King’s $15 Billion Housing Grant Won’t Eliminate Shortage
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PIGS:

New Government Will Have To Abide By Deal, Says Rehn
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Department Repeated Warnings About Risks To Economy
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Portugal, Greece Ratings Kept on Negative Outlook by S&P on Debt Concerns
(DBN)

Rogoff Says Debt Restructuring ‘Inevitable’ in Greece, Ireland
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Young, Greek and unemployed
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