December 10, 2013

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Law:

Associate Bonus Watch: Cadwalader And Proskauer Ante Up --- More BigLaw firms announce bonuses that follow Cravath scale
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Survey Shows Lawyers Are STILL Unhappy Even After They Make Partner
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Legal industry loses jobs for second month in a row
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10 Things You Can Buy With Your Associate Bonuses
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Bankruptcy MVP: Morrison & Foerster's Gary Lee
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Vedder Price Adds Former Seyfarth Bankruptcy Partner
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Above the Law’s Fifth Annual Holiday Card Contest
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S&P Warns That A Certain Type Of Law School Is In Big Trouble
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ABA Reconsiders Practical Skills Mandate for Law Schools
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Legal Education Section considers random audits of law school jobs data
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Law Schools Slash Tuition—But Will They Come?
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New Partner Watch: The Quinn Emanuel 13
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Business of Law
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The Seven Top Legal Stories of 2014
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Courts throw out lawsuits that pushed for chimps to be given the same rights as humans
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Biglaw Firm Holds Associates To Strict Social Media Policy --- Gen Y, Meet Milbank
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To Be Two or Not Two: Should You Partner Up When Starting A Firm?
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I’m Not A Difficult Client; You’re A Difficult Lawyer!
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Time Conversion Chart for Lawyers & Law Students
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The 15 Most Underrated Apps Of 2013
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ILTA survey reveals extensive lawyer use of iPhones, iPads
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LinkedIn drives more traffic to law firm websites than all other social media combined
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25 Awesome Gifts Under $25 For Your Office Secret Santa Pool
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Boies Denies Ethics Breach Amid Reports of Greenberg Split
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Ex-Chadbourne Partner Sues Firm for Return of Capital
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Sidley Partner Hires Prominent Lawyer in Sex Assault Case
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Jump in IPOs Means a Boost For Corporate Lawyers in 2013
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Happiness is resisting answering your mobile: People who can ignore texts or calls are likely to be more contented
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George Zimmerman's Girlfriend Wants To Drop Assault Charges And Get Back Together With Him
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Gay teacher fired after applying for marriage license
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What Life Was Like In South Africa During Apartheid
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Pennsylvania Fifth Grader Reportedly Suspended For Shooting A Pretend Arrow
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Man Commits Suicide in Mall After Girlfriend Refuses to Stop Shopping
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FBI To Arrest 18 LA Sheriff's Deputies In Corruption And Abuse Probe
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Woman Stuck to Home Depot Toilet After Prankster Puts Glue on Seat
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22-Year-Old Wife Says It Was An Accident When She Pushed Her New Husband And He Fell Off A Cliff
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Judges:

Guitar-playing bankruptcy judge tuned in to people
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Criticized by Alito, federal judge sees a lack of ‘understanding or interest’ in bias issues
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Judge criticizes prosecution for criminal background checks of several black jurors
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Wall Street:

US futures edge higher, Fed speculation persists
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Stocks: New closing high for S&P 500
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The Hidden Costs Of Working On Wall Street
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The Unofficial Goldman Sachs Guide To New Year's Resolutions
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Job stream from Wall Street turning into a Florida flood
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Layoffs:

McDonald's And Starbucks' CEOs Make More Than $9,200 An Hour
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Politics:

Third Way, Elizabeth Warren , and the Real Battle
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There's A Brewing Democratic Civil War, And Elizabeth Warren Is Leading The Charge
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Three Tweets Show Why The GOP Establishment Vs. Tea Party Primaries Are So Damaging
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Food/Beverage:

McDonald's November sales miss as US weakness persists
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Celebs:

From bankruptcy back to baseball: Curt Schilling replaces Oral Hershiser on ESPN’s ‘Sunday Night Baseball’
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Opera:

Last Chance To Buy Historic Assets Of New York City Opera At Online Auction Set For December 19th
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Health Care:

Workers Sue Sandy-Devastated Hospital as Bankruptcy Looms
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Savient Reaches Agreement On Use Of Cash Collateral
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Concierge Doctors Are Becoming a Real Thing
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New Affordable Care US health plans will exclude top hospitals
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Major ambulance service shuts down without notice in six states
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Autos:

Government sells last of its GM shares --- GM stock hits new high --- The US Lost $10.5 Billion On The GM Bailout --- Report says GM bailout saved 1.2 million jobs
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Economy:

Survey: Fed Economic Stimulus Will End in 2014 --- Inflation Is Wild Card in Fed’s Equation
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Fed President Bullard: The Fed Should Start The Taper Small, But Pause If Inflation Doesn't Pick Up --- Bullard Sees Odds of Taper Rising Along With Labor-Market Gains
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Fisher Says Fed Should Begin Tapering QE As Soon As Possible
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‘Seven percent solution’ backs Bernanke into a corner
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Americans Continue to Regain Lost Wealth - Household net worth hits record high in third quarter --- Household Worth Rose by $1.92 Trillion in Third Quarter
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How to End Global Income Inequality
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CBO:Top 40% Paid 106.2% of Income Taxes; Bottom 40% Paid -9.1%, Got Average of $18,950 in 'Transfers'
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Warren Buffett: George W. Bush Once Said The Greatest Economic Statement Of All Time
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Warren Buffett On Life, Luck, And Winning The 'Ovarian Lottery'
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The Balance Sheet Recession Is Over
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3 Million Pounds Of Commodities Needed To Support Each American
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Just call us ‘Generation Why’
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Yes, Millennials Are Cheap—and This Graph of the Teenage Budget Explains Why
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The True Cost of a Higher Minimum Wage
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

Household Mortgage Debt Rises For The First Time Since Q1 2008
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Existing Home Inventory up 1.8% year-over-year
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A Growing Crisis For Renters --- America’s rental crisis --- Why the Rent Feels Too Damn High—in 1 Graph
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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac To Hike Mortgage Guarantee Fees
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Those Sprawling Office Parks You Drive By On Your Way Into The City Are Now Being Abandoned
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Which Cities Have The Highest Percentage Of Renters
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The 20 'Super-Zips' Where America's Ultra-Elite Reside
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Municipalities:

Dec. 16 hearing set to consider Detroit bankruptcy appeal to 6th Circuit
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Let Detroit Keep Its Art
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Don't count on Team Snyder to aid in Detroit pension rescue
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Detroit's Bankruptcy : A Watershed Event
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Anatomy of Detroit’s Decline
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Video Shines The Spotlight On Detroit Firefighters And Their Pensions
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Pressure on Big National Non-Profit Funds Intensifies in Detroit
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A cartoon history of the Detroit bankruptcy
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Let's get this straight: AIG execs got bailout bonuses, but pensioners get cuts?
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Bankrupt San Bernardino Gives Police Raises
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New Glendale leadership: Bankruptcy not an option
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CalPERS is Worried
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The Detroit Bankruptcy : A Message to LA's Public Employee Unions
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California Tollway Sells $2 Billion Bond to Avoid Default
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Guilty verdict in California city corruption trial
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Fresno 'not going bankrupt ,' City Manager Bruce Rudd says
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Pension reform passage narrows Illinois' credit spread
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Pension crisis endangers Chicago's future
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Detroit Puts $1.1 Trillion of G.O.’s Under Scrutiny
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U.S. muni bond market contracts by most ever -Fed
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A mysterious law that predicts the size of the world's biggest cities
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Aviation:

Chapter payday for American Airlines
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Hard to say if airline consolidation will pause: American Airlines CEO
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New American Airlines Says CEO Parker Will Receive About $15 Million in Shares --- Horton to receive pay package worth nearly $17 million
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American Airlines-US Airways merger: seven things to know
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Will Pilots Keep Their Shares in the New American Airlines?
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Goodbye, AMR and US Airways Group, hello American Airlines Group and its new management team
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US Airways begins its fade into history
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American Airlines CEO: Fares Won't Rise if Demand Holds Steady
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'New' American Airlines debuts with a solid gain
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American chief pledges efficient merger
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American Air to seek more corporate customers after merger
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Is the New American Airlines Proof That the Industry Is Finally Fixed?
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TSA agents seize sock monkey's miniature 'gun'
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Protests:

Things Are Getting Ugly In San Francisco: Protesters Stopped A Google Bus From Moving
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Here Are The Demands From The Protesters Who Are Blocking Google's Buses
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Awards:

L.P. Harrison 3rd Recognized as Fellow of INSOL International
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Oil/Gas:

Trigeant Bankruptcy Shines Light on Billionaire's Family Dispute
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Buses:

Bus bankruptcy bedevils school districts
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Pensions:

A Multi-Billion Dollar Pension Crisis Threatens Chicago's Future
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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 (26 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
(large downloads)

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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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Bankruptcy Reforms:

Testimony Suggests Bankruptcy Code Changes to Deal With Financial Institution Insolvencies
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Discharge:

Debtor's Material Fraud Discovered Later Justifies Revocation of Chapter 7 Discharge
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Abstention:

To Hear or Not to Hear? Mandatory and Discretionary Abstention in Bankruptcy Cases
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Avoidance Actions:

Escaping Bankruptcy Preference Liability
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TBTF:

Why Federal Reserve Support Is Really a Bailout
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Too early to say goodbye to 'too big to fail'
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Fraud:

Madoff Wind-Down Tab Tops $820 Million
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Some claims against Madoff feeder funds, sons' wives are curbed
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Madoff Trustee Wins Once, Loses Twice with Rakoff
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Fla. congressman lost $18M in scheme
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Zeek Rewards Headquarters, Inventory Up For Auction
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SAC analyst claims sleep kept him from passing along tips
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Derivatives:

Competing Global Derivatives Rules Could Lead To 'Chaos'
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Corporate Reform:

While Regulators Drew Map, Street Changed --- 3 reasons why the Volcker Rule can't fix Wall Street
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Regulators Approved A Tougher Version Of The Volcker That Hits Wall Street Compensation Hard
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Rule that curbs bank risk-taking nears approval
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Near a Vote, Volcker Rule Is Weathering New Attacks
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Volcker Rule Eases Market-Making While Hedges Face New Scrutiny
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The Volcker rule comes out Tuesday. Here’s how we’ll know if it’s any good
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Telecoms:

Falcone, Harbinger Urge Judge to Allow LightSquared's Dish Suit
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Religion:

Stockton: Bishop tells faithful bankruptcy filing likely
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Corporate Governance:

CEOs' Personal Lives and Corporate Risk
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Distressed Investing:

The Best Ways To Profit From Bankruptcies
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Tech:

OCZ bankruptcy may yet ignite bidding war
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UK:

Cross-Border Proceedings: Which Law Applies?
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Energy investors 'may be bankrupted' by price freeze plan
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UK October Industrial Production Rises for a Second Month
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EU:

EADS to cut 5,800 jobs at defense and space unit
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PIIGS:

Irish exodus casts shadow on recovery from financial crisis --- Official in charge of Sean Dunne's bankruptcy 'happy to return' items not belonging to developer's estate, court hears
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$1.5 billion 'ghost airport' in Spain up for sale
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The Greek Economy Continues To Be Dismal
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Canada:

This Canadian city could be the next Detroit
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Bid deadline for Canada's Mobilicity delayed by a week
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“Quick Flip” Approval Guidelines in Canada
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Hydro hikes will cause bankruptcy , job losses
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Argentina:

How a 48-Year-Old Cop Wife Exposes Bond Risk
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