Law:
Boston Law Firms Shaken by Blasts
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Q&A: Ed Weisfelner on Dewey, Lyondell and being direct
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$720 mln fee request in credit card case is audacious, risky
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Reinvent BigLaw Into, well, Us
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Beyond The Lawyer Bubble
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Big Classes, Slow Jobs Market Are Bad News for 2012 Grads
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Billing That Much For Contract Attorneys Isn’t ‘Unusual’ or ‘Untoward,’ It’s Obscene
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Wachtell, WilmerHale, Cravath, Skadden: Business of Law
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Origination Credit: Cage Match in Business Suits
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A Higher Calling - With the support of his firm, an Am Law 100 partner joins the clergy
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Law firms face suits over copying journal articles used to support filings
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Dispute Arises Over Cost of Temp-Help Lawyers
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25 Northeast law schools, ranked by graduate employment rate
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Standard & Poor's downgrades Albany Law School
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Justice Department wants to add dozens of lawyers
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Need a Job? 5 Reasons to Head to D.C.
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The S--iest Lawyers In America!
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A Polygamist and His Paralegal
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Toby Ziegler: Teaching Us to be Better Lawyers
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Top 10 Annoying Clichés Lawyers Love
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Financial Crimes Authorities Investigating Disappearance of Florida Attorney
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ATL March Madness: The Law Firm With the Brightest Future — Champion
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ABA Releases Jobs Data for Graduates of New York Law Schools
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Chevron Under Attack in the Ecuadorian Legal Battle
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Riot Police Called In As Students Ran Amok At Rutgers
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Arrest raises hopes of progress in killings of Texas prosecutors
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Death Toll Stands At 3, 140 Injured In Attack On Boston Marathon — Law Enforcement Still Searching For Suspects --- CBS: Saudi Man In Custody Was Tackled By Bystanders At Boston Marathon --- The New York Post Says 'Saudi Suspect' Held In Boston Bombings Despite Police Denial --- Boston Hospital Confirms Doctors Are Treating Shrapnel Injuries, 'Several Amputations' From Marathon Blast
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Cops: Woman Called 911 Seeking Divorce
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Teen arrested for calling 911 to complain about 'how mom was talking to him'
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6-year-old drives family car, heads to Chinese restaurant
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Carjacker caught because he couldn't drive stick
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Say What?!
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Judges:
Oops. Judge holds himself in contempt when his own cellphone rings during court hearing
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The Chief Justice, a Dean, and a Newspaper All Walk Into a Censorship Scandal
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At SCOTUS, Maryland Judge Finds Tables Turned
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Courthouse screeners enforce ban on cellphones ... and a pet duck
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Wall Street:
US stock futures reclaim lost ground
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Wall Street Soars as Rest of Economy Limps Along
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Wall Street posts worst day since November 7 on gold's drop, Boston blasts
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Layoffs:
Employers Less Interested in College Major Than Critical Thinking Skills, Survey Finds
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Companies won’t even look at resumes of the long-term unemployed
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This Laid Off Ad Man Wrote The Perfect Exit Email
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Hedge Funds:
Top 25 hedge fund managers made $14 billion in 2012
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Health Care:
Scooter Store Files Bankruptcy With Plan to Sell Assets --- Plans sell assets following investigations
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Municipalities:
Jefferson County Judge Won't Let JPMorgan Suit Proceed
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State-appointed receiver leaving Central Falls, RI
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Lehman:
Why I Left Lehman: The Spoiled Cynicism of Wall Street
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Engineering:
Birdsall Agrees To Pay $2.6 Million Settlement
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Celebs:
Rich, Famous and Tussling with the Taxman
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Turnarounds:
Turnaround Management Association Of New York Announces 2013 Board Members And Pro Bono Initiative
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Alternative Energy:
LDK Solar defaults on US$23.7 million bond
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Trucking:
FBI and IRS raid Pilot Flying J truckstop headquarters
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Economy:
Gold tumbles as China data hits commodities, stocks --- China Stuck With Sub-8% Growth as G-20 Confronts Slowdown
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Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren on unemployment and the outlook for QE
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Widening Gap in Views of Federal, State and Local Governments
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Everything We Know About What’s Happened Under Sequestration
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CEOs Earn 365 Times Average Worker's Pay
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
Home Builder Confidence Hammered by Rising Costs
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Elizabeth Warren's statistically savvy dismantling of regulators' $9.3 billion foreclosure settlement
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Behind the foreclosure surge in New York, New Jersey
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Lawyer convicted in $50M Las Vegas mortgage scheme
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Do MBS trustees have power to make global put-back deals?
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Existing Home Inventory is up 9.6% year-to-date on April 15th
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FinCEN: Suspicious foreclosure rescues alert investigators
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FNC: House prices increased 6.1% year-over-year in February, At 28 Month High
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Federal Court Refuses to Toss Bank of America Class Action
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Michigan appeals court rules mortgage registry's role is valid
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Banking:
Citigroup profit spikes 30%
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JPMorgan hit with new investor lawsuit over 'Whale' losses
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Deutsche Bank confirms is cooperating with authorities on Libor
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Retailing:
JCPenney: First Challenge for CEO Mike Ullman Is Financing
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Penney looking under the cushions
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JCP ‘Air’ heads
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Penney Wounded by Deep Staff Cuts
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J.C. Penney job No. 1: Calming vendors
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Orchard Supply Readies For May 1 Restructuring Deadline
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Telecoms:
Is Egren angling for a Clearwire bankruptcy?
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Imaging:
Kodak to sell document imaging assets to Brother for $210 m
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Electricity:
EFH to make May debt payments to buy time for bankruptcy
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Energy Future Holdings preparing for prepackaged bankruptcy
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Texas power company Energy Future proposes prepackaged bankruptcy
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Energy Future Issues Opening Salvo as KKR, TPG Seek Stake
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Energy Future Sees 33% Earnings Drop as Gas Hedges Expire
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Tax:
“Auditing” an EDNY Decision with a Plethora of Tax Issues (Part One)
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Why doing your taxes is much harder than it ought to be
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Americans' Faith in Tax Fairness Hits 10-Year Low
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The Top 10 Private Equity Loopholes
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Mass Torts:
Texas City Refinery Neighbors Sue BP for Billions of Dollars
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BP manager testifies at trial over Gulf oil spill
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Bankrupt Meningitis Pharmacy Battles States Over Insurance
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BP Official Says He Wasn’t to Blame for Rig Explosion
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Massachusetts pharmacy wants same lawyers in bankruptcy case
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Aviation:
AMR Files Bankruptcy -Exit Plan Based on US Airways Merger
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Doug Parker to employees: Why I earned $5.5 million in 2012
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Southern Air Completes Financial Restructuring And Emerges From Chapter 11
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Fraud:
Madoff trustee cannot block $410 mln Merkin accord-judge
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US to fault JPM on Madoff botch
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Rochdale Rogue sez he’s guilty
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Limits of Insider Probes Expand
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Scruggs’ conviction upheld by federal appeals panel
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Gambling:
Former Full Tilt Poker CEO pleads guilty, avoids prison time
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Bankruptcy Crimes:
Man gets probation for bankruptcy -related fraud
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Coal:
Rally to protest Patriot bankruptcy plan
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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 (97 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (16 new filings today)
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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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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Plan Confirmation:
Can a Plan of Reorganization Separately Classify a Claim That Is Personally Guaranteed?
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Settlements:
Settlement Is in Best Interest of Estate; Not ‘Outside the Realm of Reasonableness’
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Sales:
Court holds that Successor Clause in Expired Collective Bargaining Agreement Does Not Prevent Sale of Debtors' Businesses
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Recent Pleadings:
Dodgers Bankruptcy Judge Shuts Down McCourt's Ex-Wife's Efforts To Dig Into Mediation
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Events:
Clean Up In Aisle 9: Distressed M&A and Reorganization Opportunities and Challenges in the Retail Grocery Sector
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TBTF:
US bank regulators gain ground against too-big-to-fail bailouts
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Feds' 'Too Big to Fail' Team Wages Perception War
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Goldman Sachs may have just inadvertently strengthened the case for breaking up the big banks
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Consultants:
Norma Corio Joins Miller Buckfire As Co-President
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Insurance:
M&A Representations and Warranties Insurance:What Every Buyer and Seller Needs to Know
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D&O Insurance: Fourth Circuit Affirms That Convicted Exec Must Repay Insurer for Defense Expenses
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Student Debt:
How Obama Wants to Change Student Loan Interest Rates
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Since 2007, student debt has doubled to $1.1 trillion
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Small Business:
Uh Oh, Obamacare Math Sinks In for Small Businesses
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Biotech:
Judge turns down motion to appoint examiner or trustee in Biovest
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Baseball:
LA Dodgers Secret Deal Can't Be Used in Divorce: Judge
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Sovereigns:
Argentina May Get US High Court Hearing in Bond Case --- Cristina and the Supremes
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Argentina Default Risk Causes MFS Withdrawal
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UK:
Corporation tax returns up 40%
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Growing confidence among CFOs
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EU:
Draghi Says ECB Policy Can't Address Root Causes of Euro Crisis
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Big depositors in Cypriot banks to lose 8.3 bln euros
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Watchdog raises data protection concerns about proposed EU insolvency law reforms
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PIIGS:
Ulster Bank wants to serve bankruptcy proceedings on Sean Dunne in Ireland --- Ulster Bank battles to serve Dunne's bankruptcy papers
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Pescanova chairman sold shares before crisis struck
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Greece to sack state workers to unlock bail-out
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Monte Paschi Prosecutors Seize $2.3 Billion of Nomura Assets
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MENA:
UAE credit bureau's June start time challenging - bankers
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China:
Moody's lowers China outlook after Fitch downgrade
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Ford Expects 40% of Sales From China By End of Decade
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