Law:
Associate Gold Rush: A Stampede of Firms Big and Medium Join the Spring Bonuses Spree
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Demand for Associates Drives Pay Back Up to Pre-Bust Bucks (In One Market at Least)
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Almost 3K BigLaw Attorneys Down the Drain
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Law firms braced for third year of stagnant financials
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The Am Law 100 2011: Fat Chance
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Infographic: Do You Have BigLaw Chops?
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What's the Bigger Obstacle, Gender or Race?
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Cadwalader's Partner Scott Greenberg Tapped As Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyer
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Florida judge upholds block on AG investigation into foreclosure firm
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Ball Janik site offers window into cases
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Merger with 700-Lawyer Affiliate Gives DLA Piper World’s Biggest Attorney Roster, About 4,200 Strong
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Allen Matkins Partner Pleads Not Guilty in DUI Manslaughter Case
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Meyers Nave Hires Sweet in Municipal Restructuring, Bankruptcy Practice
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Color Coded Productivity Computers
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Five Tips for Dealing With Obnoxious Opposing Counsel
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Court Tells Pines To Ride The Pine
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How to combat workplace drama
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Prominent Attorney Jonathon Bristol Pleads Guilty in Kenneth Starr Money Laundering Crime
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Ex-Winston Partner Pleads in $19M Scheme; Gov’t Says He Sought Law Firm Status, Not Personal Gain
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King & Spalding Loses a Second Client - NRA - over Dropped DOMA Defense
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King & Spalding’S Reversal Of Fortune
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Kagan Praises Clement’s Integrity After His Resignation from King & Spalding
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How De-Equitizing Partners Can Undermine A Business Model
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What If You're Not a Recruiter's Dream?
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Are Am Law Rankings Distorted by Swiss Vereins? Two of Top Five Operate This Way
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Lawyers’ Competence at Issue in Supreme Court Appeal
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Alternative Firm Arrangements Surpass Alternative Fee Arrangements for Cost Control
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Booty-Dancing Partner: “I Was Falsely Accused”
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Retired NYC Lawyer Must Return Pension Overpayment, Court Says
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Are Law Schools Deceiving Students by Offering Merit Scholarships?
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Law schools may be forced to disclose scholarship retention rates
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Which Law Schools Dominate Judicial Clerkships?
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Law School Apps Down: College Might Not Be Far Behind
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Law Students: Feeling Stressed By Exams? Therapy Dogs are Ready to Provide a Sympathetic Presence
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"Prescription chihuahua"
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Can a rat be a service animal?
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Therapy Kangaroo
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Practicing Law in a Post-Apocalyptic World :)
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AIG, Barclays, Google, Goldman, Rajaratnam, BofA in Court News
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"The Good Wife" - There's Peter, surrounded by boxes, in his new apartment
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Cheerleader who wouldn't root for assailant loses
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Barclays, JPMorgan, Citigroup, Satyam-PwC, Starr in Court News
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Judges:
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge J. Rich Leonard Honored As Court Technology Pioneer
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Wall Street:
U.S. stock futures fall
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European stocks fall, led by car makers
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Mumbai stocks tumble to lead most of Asia down
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US Stocks Fall as Decline in Oil Producers Overshadows Bin Laden's Death
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Stocks Start May With Slim Losses
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Layoffs:
Fewer jobs for teens this summer
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The Best Cities For Jobs
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US Labor Participation Lowest Since Early 80s
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Nancy Folbre: Super Sad True Jobs Story
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Where are the jobs, Mr. President, Mr. Speaker?
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The St. Louis Fed Presents Its Guide To Our Unemployment Nightmare
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Two Out Of Three Looking To Switch Jobs, Says New Survey
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Sleepwalking through America’s Unemployment Crisis
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Outlook for US Job Creation: Grim
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Aviation:
Southwest Says Fees It Shunned to Remain at AirTran for Now
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Corporate Reform:
Headaches at the SEC's think tank
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Bank Group’s Chief Expects Warren’s Nomination Soon
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US Consumer Finance Agency Plans Draw Concern
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Bachus Says Consumer Bureau Proposal Isn't Attack on Motherhood
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Fine Print on Dodd-Frank, ‘SOX on Steroids,’ Slow to Arrive
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Springtime for bankers
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Citadel's Griffin assails too-big-to-fail reforms
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Money Talks, Regulation Walks
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Celebs:
Vick paying off all his debt
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The skeletons in Trump's closet
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President Trump? 'I'm Very Serious'
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Debt Collection:
Rule protects federal benefit recipients from garnishment
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Total Consumer Statute Lawsuits Rise; FDCPA Cases Hold Steady
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Lehman:
Lehman Seeks $500 Million From Barclays in Dispute Over Promised Bonuses
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Compensation:
FDIC Wants To Seize Wall Street Salaries? There’s Insurance For That
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Economy:
US Manufacturing Grows in April
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Household Formation and the "Big L"
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The Economic Impact Of Bin Laden's Death
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Geithner gives Congress more time on debt limit
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Geithner's Bombshell Buried in Debt Warning
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Debt-Limit Deniers Say Geithner Tries to Stampede Republicans Into Vote
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Treasury extends debt ceiling window to Aug. 2
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Treasury Will Act to Avoid Default
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6 Senators Hone Plan to Cut Deficit
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Sen. Durbin Has ‘Positive Feeling’ About a Gang of Six Debt Deal
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What Drives the Deficit?
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How US Squandered Its Finances in 10 Years
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As Food Stamp Recipients Hit New Record, 400 Americans Account For 10% Of Capital Gains
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Doomsday bunkers selling fast for America’s rich to escape the Apocalypse
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Who’s Over-leveraged Now?
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CBO Traces Deficit Back to 2001
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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:
LPS filed motion for sanctions in bad faith, foreclosure defense attorney alleges
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The Chapter 11 “Shell Game”
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Florida AG sues three companies for charging upfront fees on loan mods
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Mass. high court wades back into foreclosure mess
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Vericrest Financial: homicidally otiose
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Construction Spending increased in March
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Can the Mortgage Industry Clean Up, Pull Together?
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Banks try to make vacant foreclosures look 'lived-in'
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Phoenix-based Realty Executives files for bankruptcy
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Hawaii's foreclosure overhaul calls for mediation
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Private mortgage modifications drop 20% in first quarter
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TN: Banks try to hasten foreclosures in state
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RMBS market worries quiet mortgage cramdowns may get louder
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Cash-flush investors still cautious about RMBS
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Freddie Mac provides mortgage forbearance for victims of southern storms
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Thornburg Mortgage Trustee Sues JPMorgan, Citigroup in Bid for $2 Billion
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Health Care:
Doc holiday
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Autos:
Chrysler 1st Profit Since Bankruptcy
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Profits at Last! Chrysler Finally Makes Some Money; Now the Hard Part Begins
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Chrysler Profit Shows Detroit Revival as Japanese Struggle
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Record Fall in Japan's Car Sales
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Short-term loan to let Saab make cars again -- for a while
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Honda to Cut Production of New Civic
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China's Hawtai Motor comes to Saab's rescue
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Hollywood:
Lights, Camera, Auction
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Banking:
Problem-Asset Sales Heat Up As Capital Swells, Stigma Wanes
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WaMu Inc. bankruptcy costs top $400M
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Banks Said to Be Quizzed by European Union Over Libor Rates
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Swapping Your Dead Cow For My Dead Pig Won't Fly With OCC
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Fed: Banks more willing to make consumer loans
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Banks Adding Treasuries Signal Lower Confidence in Recovery
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Distressed Investing:
JCR Raising $100M to Lend on Distressed Properties
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IP:
Nortel OK'd to auction patent portfolio June 20
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Municipalities:
Financial Martial Law in Michigan
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Gov. Rick Snyder wants state assistance to help struggling schools, not emergency financial managers
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Snyder sees emergency financial managers as failure to work together
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Indiana muni bankruptcy bill sponsor to try again
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Las Vegas monorail's future is in question
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Credit Counseling:
Supreme Court to Hear Arbitration Case re Consumer Rights Under Credit Repair Law
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Credit/Debit Cards:
Bank Seeks Order Blocking Fee Caps to Process Debit Card Transactions
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Anatomy of a $500,000 credit card fraud
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Swiped: Banks, Merchants And Why Washington Doesn't Work For You
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Debate Over Debit Card Regs Misses Some Potentially Pro-Consumer Rules
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Tax:
US Might Make More Firms Pay Corporate Tax
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U.S. Business Has High Tax Rates but Pays Less
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Hockey:
Negotiations for the Dallas Stars progress
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Retailing:
Furniture Retailer Cisco Bros. Files Chapter 11
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Sears ailing
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Education:
Is A College Degree An Insurance Policy?
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What’s a college education worth?
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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:
(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:
Vitro, Harry & David, BankUnited, Metropark USA: Bankruptcy
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Lehman, Borders, Blockbuster, Innkeepers, Javo: Bankruptcy
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
HI: Bankruptcies fell in April for fourth time in 5 months
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Bankruptcy Poetry:
LA Dodgers
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The NFL
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Disclosure:
Think You’re Out of Hot Water Once Disclosure Statement Is Approved? Think Again . . . Court Denies Confirmation Over Inaccurate Disclosures
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Banking:
Banks Are Lending, But Not Enough
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Fraud:
Ex-Lawyer for Kenneth Starr Admits Role in Fraud
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Rajaratnam Has Emergency Surgery on Foot
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Galleon Judge Says No Deliberations Tomorrow Due to Juror’s Procedure
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"I hate you, I'm not telling you a thing."
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Santander fails to dismiss Madoff feeder fund suit
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Bernie Madoff Movie Back On Track
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Madoff: Paper trails and trials
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Trustee for Madoff victims faces tough road
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Warren Buffett Lets the Facts Bury Sokol
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The Citi broker who alerted Buffett to David Sokol's odd Lubrizol story
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Buffett Cut Sokol Calls Short, Saying, ‘We Just Shouldn't Talk’
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Rothstein and habeas corpus
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Want a piece of Hecker? You have another shot
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Newest Hecker auction would include the $60000 fur coat he gave Rowan
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Food/Beverage:
Owner of Girls Gone Viral KFC Files for Bankruptcy
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Bankrupt Harry & David still hiring
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Golf:
Auction Time for Connecticut Country Club
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Orchestras:
The Philadelphia Orchestra Declared It, So Who's Next?
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The Philadelphia Orchestra's Unfortunate Bankruptcy Filing
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Telecoms:
EchoStar says Terrestar's auction rules uncertain
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Nortel's European Units Seek More Than $10B From Parent
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Nortel gets court nods for Google's "stalking horse" bid for patents
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Oil/Gas:
Oil Industry to Public: Suck It Up Whiners
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Bernanke's Fuel, Oil's Rally
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UK:
UK Households: Worst for Finances Since 1977
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The UK Economy Just Got Even More Bad News
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Manufacturing grows at slowest pace in 7 months
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The Weird Thing About That Dismal UK Economy
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Time to Pay is 'ticking time-bomb' from the taxman
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Goldman Cheats and Wins Again: Gets Special Treatment in UK Tax Abuse Settlement
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Retail sales strong in April, outlook poor
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EU:
Buffett Criticizes Europe on Debt Woes
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Bond Vigilantes Ignore Next Stage of Euro Mess
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Europe Producer-Price Inflation Unexpectedly Accelerates
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Canada:
Gyro-Trac: COMI Under Part IV of the CCAA
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PIIGS:
Spain's Jobless Ranks Soar
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Greece hopes tax crackdown raise funds
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ECB Official: Extension of Greek debt maturities possible
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Year after bailout, Greece rejects debt restructuring
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Will Europe socialize Greek losses?
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IE: 558 companies declared insolvent in 2011
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New York Investor ‘Confident’ Irish Debt Spat Accord Possible
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Portugal needs over 100 billion euros in aid - report
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MENA
Syrian Army in Widespread Raids, Arrests
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An Introduction to Shari'ah Considerations in Bankruptcy and Insolvency Contexts and Islamic Finance's First Bankruptcy
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Over 270 debt-ridden Gulf immigrants committed suicide
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Bern freezes assets
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The Worst Thing Ever Written About The Conflict In Libya Or About Cappuccino
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France Is Dropping Concrete Chunks on Libya
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China:
China: Factories Slow Output Growth
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Chinese Real Estate Developers Profits Drop, Debts Approach One Trillion
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Mexico:
Mexican court dismisses Vitro involuntary bankruptcy
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