Law:
What’s Going on at McDermott Will & Emery?
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Tunisia Hires Ace To Track Down Ben Ali’s Assets
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Swiss Banks, Goldman, Standard Bank, BofA in Court News
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Weil Provided Counsel on $2 Billion Olympus Deal at Heart of Growing Scandal
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The Hours Survey Results: Y’All Been Working Really Hard
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In Maples Case, Associates Get the Blame
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Bad News for Former Biglaw Partners on the West Coast
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Judge Orders Ex-Partner's Discrimination Suit Against Irell Sent to Arbitration
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ACC Surveys CLOs on Hiring, Headaches, and Happiness
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In-House Communications Cited as Biggest Headache for Chief Legal Officers
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Lehman Paid $35.2 Million in Fees to Advisers in September
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Madoff, MBIA, Banco Espirito, McKinsey, Lehman in Court News
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The Value in Value Billing for Law Firms
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Anatomy of a Lateral Move
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iCloud PhotoStream Considerations for Lawyers
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One-year suspension for real-estate lawyer who dodged taxes
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Baker Donelson Plants Flag in Texas with Acquisition of 7-Attorney Spain Chambers
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U.S. can be top dog again by mid decade: What about legal sector
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Lawyer Suspended for Slapping in Deposition
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Lawyer Fined for Picking Euro Trip Instead of Trial
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How are attorneys responsible for John Bujak’s troubles?
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Loyola Law – L.A. Tries to Placate Disgruntled Recent Graduates
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Another barrier to law school: an unsavory digital trail
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Georgia State Law Students Poke a Little Fun at Their Classmates
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Simple Request for Public Officials' Salaries Got Him Fired, Bank VP Says
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Not One Legal Secretary Surveyed Preferred Working with Women Partners; Prof Offers Reasons Why
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Why Legal Secretaries Hate Women Lawyers
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Wealthy lawyer accused of refusing to pay for daughter's hearing aids... while buying $215,000 ring for his Playboy bunny fiance
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NY Lawyer Who Killed Self, Wife and 2 Kids Bought Shotgun 6 Months Earlier; Was Crime Spree Planned?
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On jury duty? Careful what you tweet
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Teamsters, Lawyers Square Off in Mexican Truck Debate - "You're better off having an employed lawyer than an employed trucker" :)
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Fugitive Ex-Lawyer Accused of Client Thefts in 2008 Is Arrested While Hitchhiking
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5 Criminals Who Pulled Off Major Crimes With Only a Phone
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Woman Furious After Police Trash House Looking For Suspect, Then Leave...
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Judges:
GOP Contenders Campaign Against the Federal Judiciary; One Candidate Wants to Ax the 9th Circuit
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GOP Campaign Proposals Seek To Knock Judges Down a Peg
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More than Half of Federal Appeals Judges Traveled on Sponsored Trips; One Was Olympics Arbitrator
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"Since you seem to be rendering justice in the dark, you don’t seem to need your law library, either”
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Republicans Turn Judicial Power Into Campaign Issue
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Office space: Judge Richard Posner
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Court Tells Users They Can't Use RECAP
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Power Outage Puts Broward Courts, Lawyers Back in Pre-Computer ‘Stone Age’
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Wall Street:
US Stock -Index Futures Are Little Changed
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Investors jittery as euro debt summit approaches
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Stocks Jump on M&A Activity, Earnings News
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Occupy Wall Street puts spotlight on police stop-and-frisk tactics
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Wall Street protest plans global rally ahead of G20
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There But for Fortune: What the One Percent Fail to Understand
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Occupy Wall Street Becoming A Tent City
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Will Occupy Wall Street alienate the middle of the country? It hasn't yet.
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Wall Street discontent high but Occupy Wall Street largely unknown
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New York D.A. declines to drop charges against Wall Street protesters
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Real Grievances Fuel Occupy Wall Street Protests
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Occupy Wall Street Is A Boon For Republicans
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Adbusters Calls For Occupy Wall Street To Demand G20 Impose 'Robin Hood' Tax
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Occupational hazard
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Protests Present Dilemma for Democrats
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Police, Wall Street protesters fall into uneasy truce
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The Mayor's Migraine: The Wall Street Protests
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Occupy Wall Street: Most agree with dim view of financial sector poll says
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Public Divided Over Occupy Wall Street Movement
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Occupy Dallas protesters arrested outside Chase Tower
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Layoffs:
Texas jobless rate nearly doubles since 2007, report says
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GOP in Congress in Quandary on Jobs
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Earn $2,000 a night
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Municipalities:
Bankruptcy lawyer: National unions may block CF pension deal
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Judges Upholds Decision to Void Former Central Falls Police Chief's Contract
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Gov. Corbett launches state takeover of Pa. capital, declares fiscal emergency
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Insurer, bond trustees still pushing Harrisburg incinerator debt suit despite city bankruptcy filing
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Debts of U.S. states over $4 trillion
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The 10 Most Debt-Ridden States In America
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Lehman:
JPMorgan Seeks to Seal Data in $6 Billion Fight With Lehman
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Lehman brokerage has spent $642M to liquidate
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Lehman, SunCal End Bankruptcy Fight Over California Projects
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Baseball:
Dodgers bankruptcy : Creditors ask judge to deny TV rights sale
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Dodgers try lowering season-ticket prices to lure fans back - Fan Perspective - Two season ticket holders to join creditors' committee
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MLB accuses Frank McCourt of 'looting' $189 million from Dodgers
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Dodgers to bankruptcy judge: Six more months, please
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Dodgers Lawyers Suing Bryan Stow Beating Suspects
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Hockey:
No other bidders for Stars
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Volleyball:
AVP Hosts First Tournament After Leaving Chapter 11
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Hotels:
Fighting Over John Paulson's Plans for Bankrupt Hotels
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The Hotel Issue
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Small Business:
The unhelpful lionization of small business
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Compensation:
Why America's Highest Paid CEOs Are Insanely Overpaid
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Aviation:
Dubrovnik Airline out of business?
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"Guess they discovered a 'personal item' in my bag"
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Economy:
Vatican Calls for New World Economic Order - Crackdown on financial markets - Condemns collective greed
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Fed's Dudley Sees Need to Remove 'Impediments' to Stimulus
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QE3 among Fed's remaining bullets, Dudley says
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Dudley: Fed Policy Helps, but Central Bank Alone Can't Fix Economy
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Economists Predict Scant Growth in 2011
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It'll Be a Grinch's Holiday Season When the US Credit Rating Gets Downgraded Again
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World Power Swings Back to America
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Risk on the rise as political leaders give in to mob rule
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How Congress and federal employees are living the high life at our expense
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David Frum: It's Time We Republicans Finally Admitted That Paul Krugman Might Be Right
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Roubini: Ignore the data, there's still a 50% chance of recession
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The 147 Companies That Control Everything
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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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Real Estate:
Judge narrows mortgage-backed security claims against Washington Mutual
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Goldman Sachs sued by real estate lender Capmark, conflicts alleged
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Researchers say Ibanez case is about laymen's rights, not default
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HUD: Robo-signing settlement to accelerate principal reductions
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House Republican to unveil housing reform sans Fannie, Freddie
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Troubled homeowners get a lifeline
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Obama to unveil help for homeowners - Will not require Congressional approval - 'We Can't Wait' for Congress
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Obama Touts Plan to ‘Help Responsible Homeowners Refinance’
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Barofsky Doubts HARP Expansion Will Aid Housing Market
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Obama’s pathetic refinancing initiative
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Everything You Need To Know About Obama's New Housing Program, And Why It Could Actually Work
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Moral blind spots in Obama mortgage refinancing scheme
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Expansion of Mortgage Program Is Limited in Scope
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FHFA mortgage refi boost expected to be modest
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Obama stresses refi plan won't 'solve all problems'
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Obama's Refinance Plan is a Lifeline Everyone Should Grab
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Obama's Mortgage Refinancing Effort: This Time It's Different
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Obama Refi Plan is Not Housing Stimulus
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On the Administration’s Latest Potemkin Help Struggling Homeowners Plan
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Administration’s mortgage-refi plan could aid 1 million people, but many others won’t benefit
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Fed Wants to Ensure U.S. Housing Affordability, Dudley Says
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Fed could target housing to help economy: Dudley
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Ruling From MA's Highest Court Puts Thousands Of Foreclosure Sales into Question
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Mastro associate appeals bankruptcy ruling on mansion
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EpiCentre lenders sue developers, say books were altered
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EpiCentre court documents: Lincoln Harris was asked to make lease contract 'disappear'
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California housing starts up 10% on multifamily strength
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Moody's: Commercial Real Estate Prices increased 2.4% in August
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Property Managers Have Panic in Their Eyes
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Newspapers:
Trib bankruptcy near end?
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Who Got Rich From Strangling Newspapers?
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Television:
Netflix Subscriber Losses Worse Than Forecast
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How Netflix Lost 800,000 Members, and Good Will
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Netflix Broke This Cardinal Rule, Now Pays The Price
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Why The Netflix Death Spiral Is Imminent
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Politics:
Who's Afraid of Elizabeth Warren?
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Warren and Empiricism
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Swing voters respond better to '99 percent' than 'Occupy Wall Street'
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The Republican Idea of Tax Reform
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Romney And Perry Are Making Things Very Easy For Obama With Their "Cut Taxes For The Rich" Tax Plans
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How Would Herman Cain's 9-9-9 Plan Impact Mortgage Banking?
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The Bonkers Herman Cain Campaign Video Everyone Is Talking About
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Ron Paul Wants To Eliminate Federal Student Loan Programs
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Rick Perry: Gee, Was Obama Born Here?
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Rick Perry really is doubling down on the birther stuff
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Why Rick Perry Is Freaking Out
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Bachmann's Misstatements Catching Up to Her
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Photography:
Kodak Hires Top Firm That Specializes in Bankruptcy
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Museums:
Loan approved for Las Vegas Mob Experience
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Celebs:
Blixseth Tells Life Story in New Book
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Oil/Gas:
Plains All American Details SemGroup's Flaws
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Houston company offers to buy SemGroup
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SemGroup: Offer from Plains All-American 'undervalued'
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Plains takes SemGroup offer to investors after board rebuff
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Solar:
Special Report: Singed by Solyndra
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Solar Subsidies vs. Shipyard Jobs
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Book Reviews:
In 'The Litigators,' John Grisham fleshes out his characters
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Banking:
In Cautious Times, Banks Flooded With Cash
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Swiss Banking Secrecy Has No Place in Globalized World
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UBS Reports 39% Drop in Quarterly Profit After Trading Loss
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UBS profit despite rogue trader
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UBS admits failure of internal controls
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Hilarious Line From SocGen On The Bank Stress Tests
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Electricity:
Dynegy, creditors discuss unit's bankruptcy
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Beartooth Electric Coop to fight Southern over refusal to seat member
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Autos:
Big 3-UAW contracts transform industry
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Chrysler-UAW contract closer to ratification
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Honda Hires 1,000 for Indiana Plant
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Saab pulls the pin on Pang Da and Youngman investment deal
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Pang Da, Youngman say JV deal with Saab still valid
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The Divergent Fortunes of Saab and Volvo
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Geely Has No Interest in Troubled Saab
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Religion:
Milwaukee archdiocese pension funds fall short
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Vatican Calls for Oversight Of the World's Finances
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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:
TerreStar, MSR Resorts, Madoff, A&P, Montana Co-Op
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Lehman, Innkeepers, Madoff, Tribune, Xanadoo
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Rochelle on Lehman Claim Trading, Municipal Bankruptcies
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Tax:
Bankruptcy farm sale tax dispute headed to Supreme Court
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Cross-Border:
Vitro's 'Unorthodox' Debt Plan Spurs US Lawmakers' Complaints
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Indubitability:
All or Nothing? Bankruptcy Court Determines that the Partial Surrender of Collateral to a Secured Creditor Is Not the Indubitable Equivalent of the Secured Creditor’s Claim
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Insurance:
Ambac Financial Seeks More Time to Control Its Bankruptcy
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PMI hires Evercore Partners to study restructuring
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Fraud:
Rajaratnam: U.S. pushed me to turn on friend
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Rajaratnam's Quoted Comments Are 'Inaccurate,' US, FBI Say
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Raj Rajaratnam Was Done In By Multiple Moles
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Raj Rajaratnam Should Not Have Trusted the Fortune Teller
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The Outsider
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The Plea Deal They Offered Raj Was Pretty Great
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Rajaratnam's kidney transplant could cost taxpayers $300,000
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Here Are The Weirdest Things We Learned from the Raj Rajaratnam Profile
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Chaat, ola leaves and the curious case of Raj Rajaratnam
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Amish man charged with defrauding millions wants no-contest plea
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Madoff Feeder-Fund Investor Seeks to Confirm Arbitration
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Fidelis creditors seek settlement with former CEO
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Judge sets Le-Nature's restitution at $661M
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Mass Torts:
Judge Denies BP Appeal That Might Have Killed Thousands of Claims
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Education:
Pennsylvania Academy of Music leaders take closed school to court
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Finance:
10 things you can tell about a finance guy by looking at him on the morning train
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Health Care:
States to sharply limit Medicaid hospital stays...
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Gambling:
Westin Casuarina in Las Vegas goes into Receivership
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Non-Profits:
WikiLeaks facing bankruptcy : Assange
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Sovereigns:
The Scary Truth About Downgrades
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UK:
U.K. Index Gets Boost on Hopes of Agreement to Save Euro
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Largest ever EU rebellion rocks British PM
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EU:
EU Finance Mins To Meet Weds Before Summit, No Eurogroup - Juncker Spokesman
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Germany: Bailout Will Cost Over $1.4 Trillion
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New Unease for Europe's Rescue Plan
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ECB's Bini Smaghi : Crisis firepower must reflect risks
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Eurozone to boost bailout fund's power
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Eurozone 'is heading for recession '
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Euro Zone May Already be in Recession
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Europe: Manufacturing, Services Shrink
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Opposition forces Merkel to parliament over EU bailout boost
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Europe's crisis is all about the north-south split
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Document shows eurozone considering 2 options to leverage bailout fund’s capacity
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Talks Adjourned, Aides Try to Iron Out Euro Rescue Details
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Work continues on European crisis plan
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Banks Clash With Lawmakers on Greek Aid as Bond Losses Loom
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Bank recapitalization: who needs what
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New EU bailout will fuel a debt supercycle
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As Greece faces default, where is Europe's firewall?
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Life on the Bohemian credit plan - No wonder Slovakia balked at the eurozone's Greek bailout
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Europe's political differences – a very personal matter
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Europe's Growth Outlook At Mercy Of Debt Politics
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PIIGS:
Most Greek bailout money has gone to pay off bondholders
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Hard line adopted on Greek debt loss - Bondholders asked to take 60% cut in value
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Greek banks tumble over writedown fears
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Haircut fears chop 17% off Greek bank index
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A haircut for the bold or the bald?
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Hard line adopted on Greek debt loss
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Greek PM hopes EU summit to turn page on crisis
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A Greek Trader: The State Of Things, Why The Worst Is Yet To Come
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Fearing bankruptcy , Greek Jews ask brethren for help
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Berlusconi Vows Action After EU Urges Italian Economic Overhaul
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Berlusconi calls crisis cabinet meeting
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Berlusconi insists Italy's economy sound
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Why 'Italy's Growth Engine Is Broken'
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Berlusconi insists Italy will cut debt, chides Germany, France for belittling Rome
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Berlusconi Becomes Euro Zone's Laughing Stock…Again
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The exception that proves the rule
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ie: Drumm granted US hearing over house-sale money
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Vietnam:
Some private hospitals in HCMC on verge of bankruptcy
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China:
China's Economy Heading for a 'Soft Landing'
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China's Police Begin To Arrest 'Runaway Bosses'
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Shanghai Homeowners Smash Showroom in Protest Over Falling Prices
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A Glimpse into Chinese Law-Making
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Black Market Lenders Say Money Is Drying Up Around China's Most Famous Ghost City
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MENA:
Libya: Meet the New Islamic Radical in Charge
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Sharia law declaration raises concerns in new Libya
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