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Law:
Is Biglaw "alive, well, and rich"?
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Why are female lawyers leaving BigLaw? ‘Maternal wall bias,’ lack of transparency cited
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Barrister in top female bodybuilding competition win
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Accounting ‘rogue outliers’ seek to change billable hour
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A new billion dollar firm is born
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10 Questions with Jeffrey Stone from McDermott Will & Emery LLP
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Stealth Lawyer: Matt Faustman, UpCounsel Co-Founder
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Lawyer Turns Over Baby Naming To Crowd Vote — What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
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Martin, Leigh, Laws & Fritzlen Adds New Partner
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Underemployed Law Grads Find A Silver Lining After Losing A Huge Lawsuit Against Their Alma Mater
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Judge Cool to Ex-Associate's Bias Claims Against Ropes
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Davis Polk Takes The Gloves Off In Fight With Legal Recruiter
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Documents Shed New Light on NSA Data Gathering --- The NSA's Own Leaked Slide Shows How Absurd Its Surveillance Is --- NSA's 'Widest-Reaching' System Could Read Facebook Chats And Private Messages --- America: Where Truth is Treason --- The Loser in the NSA Scandal: Internet Users --- Senators Look to Make U.S. Surveillance More Transparent
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Small-Town Police Departments Are Getting Billions In Big Military Hardware
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Business Etiquette You Need To Know
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Ignoring LinkedIn Has Consequences
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Is Your Smartphone Emasculating?
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Dean of Law School addresses 8% Bar passage rate
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Harvard MBAs: They're having paradigm shift, just like JDs
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23 Year Old Driver Loses License for 165mph
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Shooting Armed Man May Leave Cops Liable
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Robbers stole techniques from Ben Affleck movie, feds say; film clips to be shown to jurors at trial
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7-figure divorce legal bill is ‘financial suicide’ for BigLaw partner and his wife, judge says
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JK Rowling Settles Legal Fight Against Lawyer Who Outed Her
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George Zimmerman Was Pulled Over By Texas Police For Speeding
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Inside Aaron Hernandez's world of trouble
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Smartphone Thief Not So Smart, Hides in Attic When Police Use GPS App to Track Him
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Escaped Suspect Drives Home with Hands Cuffed Behind Back
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Gay Athletes Could Be Prosecuted At '14 Winter Olympics
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Say What?!
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Judges:
NC: Wilson bankruptcy court to reopen in Greenville
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Senators Introduce Bill for Overloaded Federal Courts
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The (Almost) Lost Speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
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Scalia ‘More Than Happy’ To Judge Gay People :)
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Top judge suspended after police discovered she was harboring her fugitive armed robber boyfriend
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Clarence Thomas’ wife sparks effort to impose tougher Supreme Court ethics
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Wall Street:
US Stock -Index Futures Advance Before Manufacturing, Jobs Data
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Stocks close mixed after Fed announcement
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New Michael Lewis Story Makes Goldman Sachs Look Absolutely Ruthless --- Michael Lewis: Did Goldman Sachs Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?
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Layoffs:
ADP reports 200,000 job gains in July --- More Workers in July Than Forecast
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Why Employers Don't Want To Hire Overqualified Candidates
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Commodities:
Goldman Sachs Offers Aluminum to Clients Stuck in Queue
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Danger in Wall Street's Love of Commodities
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End of an Era as Banks Eye Commodities Exits
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Credit Reporting:
Here's The Credit Error That Led A Woman To Win $18.6 Million Against Equifax
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Religion:
Federal Judge: Catholic Church Has A Constitutional Right Not To Compensate Victims Of Abuse
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Food/Beverage:
Starbucks and Burger King: A Tale of Two Economies
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Hog Producer AgFeed Files for Bankruptcy After Dispute With Hormel
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Former Sizzler restaurants shut down
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Northern Beef Packers heads to bankruptcy court
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Assets of Omtron USA Sold To Group of Auctioneers & Investors for $5.36 Million
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Aviation:
Parties file objections to American Airlines plan of reorganization --- City of Fort Worth files objection in American Airlines bankruptcy case
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American Airlines wraps up $1.41 billion in new financing
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Disgruntled Airline Speaks Up About Boeing 787 Payout
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Delta Passenger Abandons Baggage to Avoid $1,400 in Fees
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Gambling:
Caesars Plummets Amid Fears of Bankruptcy
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Atlantic City's Revel to close poker room
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Alternative Energy:
$600M Pocatello Hoku unfinished plant could be dismantled, sold for scrap
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As solar panels pile up, China takes axe to polysilicon producers
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Hockey:
Glendale Punished as Hockey Deal Follows Baseball
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Pensions:
Company pensions in peril as shortfalls hit record
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Illinois: worst pension funding of 50 states
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Health Care:
Interfaith Medical Center set to close --- State pulls plug on Brooklyn hospital --- Brooklyn hospital sends out layoff notices --- Hospital seeks OK to shut down
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Life and Death in Assisted Living
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Rural / Metro closer to default on bond --- Ambulance Company Preps for Bankruptcy Filing - 10,000 jobs at stake
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Fitch Places Community Health Systems on Rating Watch Negative
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Are Companies Bluffing on Health Benefits?
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Metals:
PUCO Pushes Back Ormet's Hearing
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Boating:
Bids taken for Sealine yachts in liquidation
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Student Debt:
Congress finally votes to cut student loan interest rates --- Bill to lower student loan rates heads to Obama
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Economy:
US expands at brisk pace in 2nd quarter, defying gloom --- FOMC Statement: Downgrade from "moderate" to "modest" --- Data below FOMC June Projections
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US economy should be growing at 3-4%: Ex-Fed governor
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Private sector adds 200,000 jobs in July
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Study: Who is in the Middle Class?
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U.S. Economy Looking More Japanese
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The Fed Edged Away From A September Taper In Today's FOMC Statement --- Fed Sees Risk of Disinflation, Maintains Bond Buying Pace
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Obama Blasted The Huffington Post For Its 'Progressive Whipping Boy' Coverage Of Larry Summers --- Why it’s so difficult to figure out what Larry Summers is thinking --- The case for Larry Summers
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Obama Reportedly Tossed A Third Name Into The Mix For The Fed Chair --- Eight things you need to know about Don Kohn, who just might be the next Fed chair
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This One Tweet Reveals What's Wrong With American Business Culture And The Economy
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Why Economic Growth Is So Slow
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Why we don’t have jetpacks
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The Main Street Bailout That Came Too Late
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Pentagon to Bear Brunt of Sequester Part II --- CBO: Cancel Spending Cuts, Boost Economy
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US Bond Yields Reach Almost 2-Year High on GDP, Jobs Reports
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The 10 Riskiest Industries In America
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Milton Friedman's Brilliant 2 Minute Defense Of Capitalism
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Why Firms Don’t Pay Their Invoices
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Big California corporations parking $262 billion offshore
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Penury portrait
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
California City Readies Controversial Loan-Seizure Program --- Richmond eminent domain plan rattles mortgage industry --- Richmond Throws Down
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Fed recommits to current pace of MBS purchases
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Plaintiffs Firms Line Up for Fannie/Freddie Lawsuits
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FHA Solvency Act headed to Senate floor
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Ally Loss Widens After $1.6 Billion ResCap Settlement Charge
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Denver foreclosure lawyer faces federal sanctions
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MBA: Mortgage Applications decrease in Latest Weekly Survey
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Fannie Mae: Mortgage Serious Delinquency rate declined in June, Lowest since December 2008
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Wealthy Foreigner Investors Are Driving Up The Price On Brooklyn Townhouses
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AR: Ex-Developer Admits To 3 Felonies
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Credit Cards:
Court strikes down 21 cent debit card fees --- Visa Falls
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Municipalities:
What Detroit's Chapter 9 Bankruptcy Means
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Can P3s Save the Public Sector?
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Miller Canfield Set to Reap $2 Million in Detroit Fees
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How will Detroit bankruptcy judge rule? Crucial clues are in 1994 hospital failure
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Senator cites Detroit's bankruptcy as reason to deny aid to Egypt
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When should we aid Detroit? --- Congressional Democrats seek to boost federal aid for Detroit --- Does Detroit deserve a bailout? --- Rep. Mo Brooks: No federal bailout money for bankrupt Detroit
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Economists envision Detroit turnaround as catalyst for others
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Detroit Was a Cluster
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Detroit, decay and solidarity
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Detroit's Mayoral Race Is 'The Most Important In 50 Years' And It's Already Turning Into A Disaster --- Why the upcoming election is so crucial to Detroit's future
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Economic Growth Is the Only Fix For Detroit's Pension Blues
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Detroit's general employee pension board meets to discuss bankruptcy strategy --- Orr Wants Detroit Bankruptcy Judge To Replace Elected Pension Boards With Appointed ‘Retirees Committee’ --- Why Social Security Won't Bail Out Many Detroit Workers --- The government now assumes all pension promises will come true. That’s scary.
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After Detroit , replace public pensions
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AG Bill Schuette stands to gain political points by defending Detroit pensioners
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In Detroit's Wake: A Review Of The Muni Bond Landscape ---Part 2 --- One City Does Not a Muni Market Make
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Detroit Bankruptcy Complicates Relationship With Michigan State Government
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In Wake of Detroit, Michigan County to Sell Bonds
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Rule setters and enforcers largely to blame in Detroit
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Some property appeals OK'd in Detroit bankruptcy --- Detroit Property Owners Can File Tax Appeals, Not Collect
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Some Detroit Firefighters Notified of Pay Cuts --- 10% pay cut coming for Detroit firefighter union members --- Help Wanted: Detroit Will Hire Firefighters
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Limbaugh: Detroit Went Bankrupt Because Blacks Drove Out Whites
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Detroit's Fox Affiliate Very Confused By Crisco Can and a Giant Fist
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Where are Detroit's Sugar Daddies Now?
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Director of the DIA says 'too soon to panic' --- Lessons from Fresno’s Flagship Museum for Detroit’s Institute of the Arts
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Look Who Worries, From Far Away, About Detroit's Bankruptcy
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Cash-strapped Detroit doesn't test water at beach
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Rosie the Riveter's factory gets 2-month reprieve
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Guerrilla artist trolls Detroit
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Plan For Belle Isle Utopia Revived After Detroit Bankruptcy Filing
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3 Personal Finance Lessons Learned From Detroit's Bankruptcy
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Where Would We Be Without Prop. 13?
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Portland vs. Detroit
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Controller's audit rips Stockton leaders --- Draft audit critical of Stockton officials, accounting practices --- Stockton may have to repay redevelopment money
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San Bernardino Bankruptcy to Get Nevada Judge as Mediator --- San Bernardino: Highs, lows of a year since filing for bankruptcy
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Lawmakers sue Illinois governor for canceling their paychecks due to unresolved budget issue
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North Dakota Boomtown Has So Much Money It Burns Off $100 Million In Natural Gas A Month
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San Diego's Mayor Claims He Never Received Sexual Harassment Training, So The City Should Pay For His Lawyer --- Filner Sued by San Diego as 8th Woman Comes Forward
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Legal costs near $40 million in past 24 months for bankrupt Jeffco, according to new figures
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Pension Funding Places Charleston, WV on Likely to go Bankrupt List
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Mass Torts:
BP will seek to recover some compensation payouts in Gulf
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In BP Settlement, Law Firm Loses Bid to Get Clients Paid
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Judge closes portion of Garlock hearing again
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Tax:
Liechtenstein Bank Fined $24M for US Tax Dodges
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New tactic to avoid US corporate taxes gains steam
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Retailing:
Shares of JCPenney Collapse --- Lender suddenly cuts off chain's suppliers --- Pinching Penney
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Why J.C. Penney Should Be More Like The Israeli Army
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Hollywood:
Why Do All Hollywood Movies Lose Money?
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Hollywood's Dark Nazi Past
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Non-Profits:
Newark nonprofit's bankruptcy case gets financial examiner to guard against fraud
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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 (22 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (29 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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Automatic Stay:
Second Circuit: Automatic Stay May Apply to Non-Debtor Parent and Affiliate
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Disclosure:
Ninth Circuit 2-1 Departs From Other Courts, OKs Claims Not Initially Listed in Bankruptcy
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Plan Confirmation:
Seventh Circuit mandates an 'auction process' in 'new value' Chapter 11 plans
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Recent Pleadings:
Broker Penson's Plan Confirmed
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TBTF:
Dodd-Frank And The Next Financial Meltdown
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Sadly, Too Big to Fail Is Not Over
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A Different Approach to Fix 'Too Big to Fail'
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Celebs:
Inside Teresa Giudice's Fraud Case: How Her Bankruptcy Filing Led to Criminal Charges --- Inside Teresa and Joe Giudice's lavish home --- Teresa Giudice case could get messy for Bravo, ‘Housewives’ franchise --- Bravo employees could be called to testify in Teresa and Joe Giudice's hearing --- Couple 'Intimidated' Former Business Partners, Says Lawyer --- Were 'Real Housewives' Stars Targeted For Prosecution Because Of Their Celebrity?
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Danielle Staub To Pay Fine Over Bankruptcy Fraud
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DMX files for bankruptcy -- to get passport --- Rapper Owes Close To $10 Million In Debt
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Beyonce Dedicates ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ To Detroit After City Files For Bankruptcy
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OJ Wins Parole on Some Charges
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NBA player accused of attacking, stomping on homeless man
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Martha Stewart’s Legal Troubles and the Voracious Appetite for “More” That Friends Call Her Downfall
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50+ Famous entertainers who've declared bankruptcy
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Fraud:
Tourre Jury Begins Deliberations --- The Tourre Jury's Complicated To-Do List --- Fabulous Fab Jury Not As Turned On By Talk Of CDO’s As One Might Have Hoped --- Tourre jury in Day 2 of talks
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SAC Capital Advisors: How Steve Cohen Could Silence His Accusers
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Dalbeys agree to $330 million judgment
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$325 million in ZeekRewards assets reclaimed
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$300 Million Goes Missing; Adviser Gone Too
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Michael Lewis: Did Goldman Sachs Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?
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Trader fired for bogus bonus – his 1st day!
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Autos:
Unsold Cars Piling Up on Dealers Lots
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Peugeot cutbacks tame cash burn, lifting shares
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Fiat says it 'confident' it prevail in legal dispute over price for minority stake in Chrysler --- U.S. ruling may step up Fiat's Chrysler buyout settlement --- Chancery Agrees with Fiat on Formula to Buy Chrysler Shares
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Photography:
Kodak CEO Will Stay On for One Year After Chapter 11 Exit
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Kodak: The End of an American Moment
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Magazines:
Reader's Digest Re-Emerges from Bankruptcy
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Health and Beauty:
Bankruptcy judge approves auction sale for PRACS
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Social Media:
Syncapse Bankruptcy Documents Lay Bare The Financials Of Marketing On Facebook
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Personal Finance:
Survey: 72% choose thin over $$$
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UK:
Claims against Insolvency Practitioners – Is there light at the end of the tunnel?
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Railcare admin puts 500 jobs at risk
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U.K. Factory Growth Quickens as Recovery Strengthens
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Pressure intensifies for hacking law firms to be named --- U.K. Police Say Law Firms, Insurers Used Convicted Private Eyes
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Liverpool law firm confirms 83 jobs to go
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Insolvency expert Mike Gregory taken on by accountancy company
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Directors warned about taking early dividends
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EU:
Eurozone unemployment posts first fall in two years --- EU joblessness 'horrendous': official
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Eurozone Manufacturing Returns To Growth
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Draghi Seen Pausing in Signal of Nascent Euro-Area Recovery
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Troika: Cyprus’s bailout assessment positive --- IMF: Cyprus making good progress
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Euro-Area Debt-to-GDP Ratio Still Rising
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Investors look to ECB for guidance as economy perks up
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PIIGS:
Greek bailout has 11 billion euro funding gap --- Brazil refused to back new IMF aid for Greece --- IMF staff says Greece needs more money, potential debt relief --- Elderly Man Kills Self Over Son’s Layoff
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Dunne to appeal Irish bankruptcy
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JPMorgan Accused by Siena Prosecutors in Monte Paschi Probe --- Italian Manufacturing Expands For The First Time In 2 Years, As Exports Surge
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Spanish PMI Contracts
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Canada:
Detroit and the lost history of Canadian municipal insolvencies
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Germany:
IVG Said to Mull Court-Approved Restructuring Amid Debt Talks
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German Manufacturing Index Hits Highest Level In 18 Months
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France:
French PMI Rises — Output Expands For The First Time In 17 Months
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China:
Preying on China’s distress
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Surprise! China's official data show manufacturing expansion --- China factory sector perks up, elsewhere gloomy
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Moved by Detroit , China auditing its local debt
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Which Chinese City Will Become the Next Detroit?
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Why China's 2 PMI Numbers Are Going In Different Directions
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Australia:
Australian directors complain of need to use 'mountain of lawyers'
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The Australian Economic Nightmare In One Chart
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Brazil:
Brazilian bankruptcy law under spotlight in test case
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