Law:
Big-bucks bonuses for Boies associates top out at $300K; average is $85K --- Associate Bonus Watch: A $300K Bonus At Boies Schiller
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Associate Bonus And New Partner Watch: Ropes & Gray (Plus A Weil Partner Pick-Up)
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Associate Bonus Watch: Sullivan & Cromwell Breaks Its Silence
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Closeted BigLaw househusbands? Some ambivalence about changing gender roles --- Lawyers Don’t Make Enough Money To Afford House Husbands
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Female Associate Numbers Decline Again
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Law school applications continue their steep decline --- Applications Down 16%
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Law School Rankings by Elite Employment Outcomes
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What Have I Gotten Myself Into? Part Deux.
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10 Reasons Why I'm Happy I Left My Soulless BigLaw Job
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Business of Law
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Paul Hastings Lawyer Buys Hong Kong's Second-Most Expensive Home
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Law School Ethicist: Just Because You Are Breaking Exam Rules, Are You Cheating?
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Law lags other professions in minority hiring; which group is ‘most dramatically underrepresented’?
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Senior female attorneys become career-death, destroyer of junior associates
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Which Law Firm Is Getting Sued By A Contract Attorney Now?
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Liquidators of Investment Funds Sue DLA Piper
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Who gets client contacts when firms dissolve and lawyers leave? Ethics rule proposes an answer
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Litigator Immelt Set to Become Hogan Lovells' Sole CEO
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Lawyer Coloring Book :)
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12 on 12: Holiday Gift Wish List
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Ex-Troutman Real Estate Head Admits to Perjury
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Brooklyn Burglar Twerks for an Hour First
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What the Volcker Rule Really Does
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The NSA Is Using Google's Advertising Cookies To Track Its Targets --- How The NSA Uses Cookies To Hack Computers
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Pro-Gun Walking Dead Actress Pleads Guilty to Mailing Ricin to Obama
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George Zimmerman Skates Again
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American Student Studying In England Severely Beaten By British Gang For Resembling 'Harry Potter'
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Man Says Google's Autocomplete Feature Destroyed His Life
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Teens Throw Party in Mansion While Millionaire Homeowner is Out of Town
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New York college student dies in hospital after fraternity ritual
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Bootlegger tried to peel off $30K in cash to pay lawyer after 1931 trial victory
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Judges:
Judge Says Lazy, Unethical Prosecutors Across America Are Breaking A Basic Rule
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Budget Deal Could Help Judiciary Recover After Cuts
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Will there be a SCOTUS vacancy in 2014? Not according to this legal prognosticator
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Supreme Court Retirement Watch: What Will Happen In 2014?
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Chief Judge Kozinski Gets Benchslappy When Doubts About Lab Tests Concealed From Defendant
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Rocker judge juggles tech policy, Supreme Court and the Stones
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Inmate convicted in attempted murder-for-hire plot against federal judge
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Wall Street:
US Stock Futures Flat Ahead of Data
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Wall Street falls as budget deal sets off Fed taper worry
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Stay-At-Home Dads Are A Wall Street Mom's Best Accessory
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Layoffs:
Long-term unemployment: Doom.
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How You Should Address Getting Laid Off On Your Resume
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Turnarounds:
Bankruptcy Trustee, Attorneys Blow Life Back into Glass Business
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Debt Collection:
Third Circuit Says Technical Procedural Slip-Up in Bankruptcy Proceeding Is Grounds for FDCPA Claim
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Health Care:
First Med EMS, Huge Ambulance Company Covering 6 States, Suddenly Closes Laying Off 2,300
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Workers sue Sandy-devastated hospital as bankruptcy looms
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Here's Where People Are Signing Up For Obamacare --- California enrolls 107,000 in Obamacare policies through November
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Obamacare Enrollment Doubled in November, but Still Far Short of Pre-Launch Projections
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Payment Due: The Obamacare Deadline No One Is Talking About
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The Mysterious Surge of Higher-Income Obamacare Enrollees
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Television:
Judge approves creditors' proposal in Roberts Broadcasting bankruptcy
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Fraud:
Madoff's Ponzi Scheme Taught Us 8 Unforgettable Lessons About Spotting A Fraud
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JPMorgan May Pay $2 Billion to Resolve Madoff Probe --- Criminal Action Is Expected for JPMorgan in Madoff Case
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Five years on, Madoff still spinning the story
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Publishing:
Good Books Parent Files for Chapter 7
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Economy:
Reaction To New Budget Deal Shows How Much Conservative Groups Are Disconnected From Reality --- Boehner Unloads At Conservative Groups That Oppose The Budget Deal: 'This Is Ridiculous!' --- Budget deal a 'joke and betrayal': Stockman --- The Budget Agreement Should Cut Federal Employee Pay, But Not Like This
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Fed Message to Be Muddled If Aid to Unemployed Expires
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Krugman: Here's Why Everyone And The Pope Are Talking About Inequality
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Manufacturers Expect Revenue To Grow 4.4 Percent in 2014, ISM Says
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'Stanley Fischer favored for Fed #2 post'
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JPMorgan's Dimon upbeat about budget deal, economy
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S&P downgrades US growth forecast
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Pope Francis is whistleblower for the poor. Thank you Time for recognizing it
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Budget Deficit in U.S. Narrows as Job Gains Bolster Revenue
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Walmart to Offer Payday Loans to Employees :)
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Here's What The Minimum Wage Should Be In Every Major US City
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Biggest Trends Of 2014
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
Foreclosures drop to lowest level in 7 years
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Judge approves ResCap's plan to end its bankruptcy
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Most American Homebuyers Believe Super-Low Mortgage Rates Are Normal
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Mortgage Applications Increase For The First Time In 6 Weeks
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Meet The Billionaires Who Own New York And London's Skylines
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Municipalities:
Detroit EM Orr previews bankruptcy strategy
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Orr, Duggan meet to decide the mayor-elect's role
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DIA joins deal in works with mediators that would protect art, pensions in Detroit bankruptcy
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Should Detroit Sell Its High-Value Art Collection to Pay for Its Bankruptcy? Only If it Cares About its Finances - or Art --- Mediators, DIA meet to work out art deal
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Detroit Leaders Defend Proposed $350 Million Bankruptcy Loan
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Detroit Bankruptcy Ruling Could Impact San Bernardino Mediation
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Hoffa: Detroit Bankruptcy Doesn't Change Pension Obligations
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Board: Pensions doing well
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Detroit Art City: The Detroit Institute Of Arts Story --- DIA meets with federal mediators in effort to safeguard Detroit's art
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Dave Bing says his tenure 'restored integrity' to mayor's office
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Detroit bankruptcy could affect north country communities
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Retirement crisis grows as cities raid pension and health plans
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Cutting Public Pensions: A Matter of Fairness
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How not to think about the pension crisis
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The 10 unhealthiest states in America
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Celebs:
Death Row Trustee Aims to Start Paying Creditors
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Banking:
RBS to Pay $100 Million to Settle U.S. Sanctions Probe
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Credit Unions Are Not The Mom-And-Pop Lenders They Pretend To Be
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Corporate Reform:
Paul Volcker: First He Challenged Obama, Then He Changed Wall Street
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Is the Volcker Rule too Soft on Wall Street?
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The Volcker Rule Will Not Work
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Volcker Rule Isn't Volcker Rule, Says Volcker
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Telecoms:
LightSquared Lawsuit Survives On Eve Of Bankruptcy Auction
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Centerbridge Partners to take over LightSquared for $3.3 billion --- Dish Network play for LightSquared may be dashed by $3.3 billion deal
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Falcone swoops past Ergen in battle over LightSquared
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Dish outmaneuvered in LightSquared deal
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Magyar Telecom Announces Grant of Recognition under Chapter 15
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Personal Finance:
25 Ways to Improve Your Finances in 2014
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Amazon Discount Tracker Camelcamelcamel Tips Users to Deals
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Religion:
Ireland: 325 Christian Brothers accused of abuse since 1975 --- Two religious orders utterly failed to deal with abuse for over 40 years
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Auto Racing:
Cleveland Speedway's future in serious question
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Food/Beverage:
Investors working on plans for Northern Beef plant
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Pharma:
Savient attracts a buyer willing to get it out of bankruptcy court
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Video Games:
38 Studios to sell off unfinished games
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Politics:
Poll: Really Low Approval Rating for Congress
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Poll: Obama's Approval Ratings Fall Again
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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 (18 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (9 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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Bankruptcy Reform:
Listen To Bankruptcy Reform Commission Teleconference On Progress
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Avoidance Actions:
Limitations Imposed Upon the 'in Pari Delicto' Defense
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Personal Bankruptcy:
(Yet Another) Chapter 13 Map
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Cross-Border:
Post-Vitro, SDNY Bankruptcy Court Approves Recognition Order Seeking Enforcement of Third Party Releases
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Autos:
Reckoning to Revival - How U.S. Workers Defied History, Rescued Detroit's Last Auto Factory—and Recovered the American Dream
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GM doesn't owe $450 million in retiree benefits: U.S. judge
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Advantage picks buyer, settles vehicle lease deal with Hertz
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Saving GM Was a Great Investment --- GM Stock: Could the Treasury Have Done Better? --- How Losing $11 Billion On GM Stock Is Actually Reasonably Awesome
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Resorts:
Monday hearing could determine closing for $5.2M sale of Naniloa Volcanoes Resort
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Corporate Governance:
Best and worst CEOs of 2013
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IP:
Auction held for 38 Studios intellectual property
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Fourth Circuit Affirms Application of Section 365(n) to Ensure Patent Licensees Sufficiently Protected in Granting Relief to Foreign Representative --- Fourth Circuit Protects Patent Licensees from Termination of Licenses in a Foreign Bankruptcy --- Fourth Circuit Addresses Protections for US IP Licenses in Case Under Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code
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Shipping:
Excel Maritime Cleared to Poll Creditors on Debt Plan
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Aviation:
American Airlines workers begin to see post-merger changes
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Don't Panic, AMR Shareholders! Your Investment Is Still Intact
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Asiana Crash Pilot Set Throttle He Didn't Understand to Idle
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Poll: No to Cell Phone Calls on Flights
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Defense:
Defense Contractor Star Dynamics Files for Bankruptcy
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Retailing:
Loehmann's facing new bankruptcy : sources
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Alternative Energy:
Troubled Fisker paid out hefty salaries in 2013
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UK:
Begbies Traynor hit by fall in number of insolvencies --- Begbies' revenues down 15%
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Recovery 'to cause more firms to fail'
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Akin Gump role central to collapse of UK bribery trial
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CBC £14m pensions black hole
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Senior appointment for Walker Morris' restructuring & insolvency group
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Canada:
Canada Post cuts: Turnaround plan or beginning of the end?
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Grant Thornton acquires Haley and Associates
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Africa
Report: Nigeria Is Missing $50 Billion In Oil Money
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Russia:
BPF Bank Closes 15 Offices Pending Insolvency Investigation
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Iceland:
IMF Says Iceland's Debt Relief Risks Housing Fund
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