Law:

As The Weil Turns: Houston, We Have A Problem --- Four Houston Partners Leave Weil for Winston
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How Bryan Cave Grooms Rainmakers
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UpCounsel: Online startup serving startups, small businesses could grow to equivalent of AmLaw 20
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Law Firm Leaders Focus on Empowering Women Attorneys
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Think You'll Stand Up to Sexual Harassment? Think Again.
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Why Men Prefer Dumb(er) Women
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Why Lawyers Drink So Much
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Stop Using the 37 Most Irritating Words at Work
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Former J.P. Morgan president discusses how to make outside counsel more engaged
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Reed Smith Partner Named PNC Top Lawyer: Business of Law
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Reed Smith taps D.C. partner Sandy Thomas to lead firm
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M&A confidence grows as mega deals fuel rise in global activity
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Paul Hastings partner sacked for massive CV lies
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How one law firm blossomed during the 2008 collapse
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Hiring of young lawyers making a big-firm comeback
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Squire Sanders: Cutting up the partner pie
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Law Professor Drops A Burn Into The Student Listserv
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Where Law Schools Get Their Money
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Law student posts semi-naked selfies on Twitter in bid to get admirers to buy her legal textbooks
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Don’t Even Think About Stealing A Law Student’s Laptop
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Deciding To Go To Law School In One Epic Flowchart
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Facing Drop in Applications, Law Schools Cut Costs --- "They were cannibalizing each other"
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Judge dismisses Cooley defamation suit, law school promises appeal
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Survey of Law Firm Associates Ranks Top Tech Performers
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iPhone and iPad Information Management Tips Plus the Best iPad Keyboards
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Surface Upgrades Add Outlook, Beefed Up Batteries & Stronger Keyboards --- Surface 2 and Pro 2 Tablets Integrate With Microsoft's Office Suite
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2.9 Million Adobe Accounts Compromised
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Building a Better Smartphone: What's Next?
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Ashfords loses Chairman and top partner
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UK: First ABS firm to go bust
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D.C. Is Shut Down, Seems Like A Perfect Time To Have A Party
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Shutdown the Shutdown
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7 Job Search Rules You Should Break
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What's Next For The Cast of 'Breaking Bad'?
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Fact-Checker to Alan Dershowitz: Who Says You're So Great?
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2nd Circuit Disconnects Dad's P---- Monitoring
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The Art of Generating Legal Business for Young Lawyers
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How To Make Important Decisions
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Temple University Student Suing Atlantic City Police After Violent Beatdown Caught On Video
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Montana Issues 6000 Permits To Kill Up To 30,000 Wolves . . . For A Wolf Population Of 625
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Suspect Dead After Attempting To Drive Through Barricade Near White House --- The Woman Shot By Police Outside The Capitol Has Been Identified
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Twelve Nebraska counties 'have no lawyers'
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Judge: Driving schools can charge women learners more because it was proven that "men were better drivers"
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Burglar told he's not allowed romantic relationships as part of probation deal
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Court Sentences Four Men To Up To 10 Years and 2000 Lashes For Dancing In Public
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Drive-Through Rage
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Man Arrested A Third Time Trying To Sell The Same Undercover Officer Drugs
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Groom Decides to Cash In on Slap Bet During Wedding Ceremony
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Judges:

Lawyer Rebekah Nett's religious slurs against bankruptcy judge prompt Minnesota Supreme Court hearing
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Nation's Chief Judges Brace for Shutdown's Full Force
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Justice Scalia Doesn’t Give A ‘Merda’ About The Shutdown
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Closed Until Further Notice
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Court working next week
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Ducks
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Kennedy says too many disputes left for court
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Justice Kennedy on the Difference Between “Professional Responsibility” and “Legal Ethics”
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The End of the Reasonable Observer
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Shutdown or No, Hot-Button Issues Await Supreme Court Next Week
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The Courts and the Shutdown
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Former Pennsylvania Congressman Suspended From Practicing Law Due To Criticism Of Judges
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See the video: Frosting flies in courthouse cake incident
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Wall Street:

S&P 500 Futures Rise
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Markets Complacent As Investors Wait On DC
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US stock markets tumble as shutdown stalemate worries investors
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Layoffs:

Initial Jobless Claims Are At Their Lowest Level Since May 2007 --- New Jobless Claims Up to 308,000
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Where You Should Move If You're Looking For A Job
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United Technologies Sees 5000 Jobs at Risk in Shutdown
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Food/Beverage:

The Company Behind “Project Honeygate” Stuck Claiming Bankruptcy
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Mi Pueblo files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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Fresh & Easy demise: 'When, not if'
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The best NYC restaurant for every cuisine
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Health Care:

Feds probe former MPH
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Health Insurance Exchanges: Reading the Tea Leaves on Day One
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GOP Has Already Gutted Health Care in States
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Where the Uninsured Are
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‘A trickle, not a wave:’ What insurers are seeing in Obamacare enrollment
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Corporate Reform:

Citigroup fined $30m for selectively releasing research
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Accounting:

Deloitte Settles Suits Over Taylor Bean Audits
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Furniture:

Judge approves base bid for Furniture Brands' auction --- KPS emerges as key bidder
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Furniture Brands enters into $280 million purchase agreement
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Furniture Brands: KPS nod raises access to financing
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Diamonds:

Antwerp Diamond Firm Bankrupt With Debts of $26M
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Economy:

Service firms expand at a slower pace --- US jobless claims show job market healing but service sector slows
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Global economy in 'epic scale' change, says IMF's Lagarde
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Labor Department Won't Release U.S. Payrolls Report
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Obama's Debt Ceiling Social Security 'Trump Card': Played --- Obama Goes Directly After Boehner, And Says He's The 'Only Thing That Is Keeping The Government Shut Down' --- Obama blames Republican 'obsession' for government shutdown --- Why big business failed to stop its worst nightmare in D.C. --- CEOs All At Sea --- Government Shutdown: It’s Not The Republicans’ Fault!* --- American Economic Confidence Has Collapsed In The Past Three Days --- Analyst: Obama Still Hasn't Thrown Down His Devastating Trump Card --- Conservatives Are Angry Because They Have No Idea What They Want --- Warren Buffett On Washington: 'We'll Go Right Up To The Point Of Extreme Idiocy, But We Won't Cross It' --- The 'Grand Bargain' Is An Insane Way Out Of The Government Shutdown --- Mitch McConnell And Rand Paul Were Caught On A Hot Mic Talking Shutdown Strategy --- GOP Congressman Makes Park Ranger Apologize for Shutdown --- Boehner to GOP: We Won't Default on Debt --- Aggressive Blunderers --- The Marines Have Canceled Their Big Air Show Due To Government Shutdown --- Small businesses fear bankruptcy from national park shutdowns --- Amtrak Funds at Risk in Extended U.S. Government Shutdown --- Fox News downplays shutdown as just a ‘slimdown’ --- Wall Street Seeks to Soothe, While Preparing for Trouble --- Obama Has Canceled His Entire Trip To Asia Because Of The Government Shutdown
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U.S. Treasury Issues Dire Warning on Debt Ceiling --- The Doomsday scenario of a US default --- Long debate over debt ceiling could harm economy, report says --- How a Debt Ceiling Crisis Could Do More Harm Than the Shutdown --- What would a US default look like? --- Deutsche Bank: All Of Our Clients Are Asking What Happens To Markets If The US Defaults On Its Debt --- Why we won’t mint the coin, why we can’t just pay off bonds, and other scary debt-ceiling facts
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Economists fear debt ceiling fight may bring recession --- Treasury Says US Default Impact May Last More Than Generation --- Treasury warns default could cause worse financial crisis than 2008 --- US failure to lift debt ceiling could damage world economy: IMF
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US manufacturing expands at best pace in 2½ years
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This Vulture-Fund Billionaire Is the GOP's Go-To Guy on Wall Street
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Military Family Upended by Shutdown
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Economist: Budget Battles Cost 1M Jobs
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America's Services Industry Explains How The Budget Fiasco Is Screwing Up Business
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A Staunch Republican Tries Obamacare ... And Discovers That It's Actually Pretty Awesome
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First a default, then a depression? Some think so
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Global stocks, dollar fall on US shutdown, debt ceiling worry
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Rosengren: Shutdown Could Delay QE Taper
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Richard Fisher's Angst on Fed Balance Sheet
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JP Morgan's Ultimate Guide To The Markets And The Economy
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Henry Paulson: Jamie Dimon Had 'Courage And Confidence' During The Financial Crisis
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

Mortgage rates fall, but shutdown may mean you can't get a loan
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The Bailout That Never Came
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So Much For That $25B Mortgage Deal, Wells Fargo Still Failing To Help Troubled Homeowners: NY AG
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Wells Fargo Playing Hardball With New York This October
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Clayton Data ‘Jumping Off Point’ for U.S. Mortgage Probe
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Trulia: Asking House Prices suggest "Slowdown" in Sales Price Increases
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The poor might’ve been hardest hit by the housing crisis, but the rich complain most
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Deloitte & Touche Settles Suits Over Taylor Bean Collapse
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Brooklyn Condo Boom Cooled by Manhattan-Like Rents
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The family dynasties ruling NYC real estate
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Municipalities:

Jones Day's Detroit Pact Now Capped at $18 Million
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Detroit's manager filed bankruptcy under time crunch
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13 things to know about Detroit's '13th checks' for pensioners
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Manna for Motown
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Clueless Detroit
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Kevyn Orr talks privatization, pensions, DIA art at forum
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How Europe's financial crisis is slowing down Detroit's bankruptcy --- European Banks Hold Out on Detroit
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Christie's assessment of Detroit's art to wrap up --- Detroit EM Defends Possible Art Sale: 35,000 Pieces Are ‘Free And Clear’ --- Orr hints Detroit may leverage DIA works in bankruptcy --- Art for leveraging, not sale -- a way to help city and save DIA --- DIA says it will work with Orr on solution --- Orr tells DIA to earn money from its treasures; long-term leases of artworks next --- DIA eager to pursue Orr's ideas to avoid selling artworks --- Could state's money save DIA's art from sale in Detroit bankruptcy?
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Detroit's debt piles up
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Detroit's bankruptcy creates a chance for change, leaders say
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Dave Bing on his time as Detroit's mayor: 'It's been 4 1/2 years of hell'
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After Detroit: Rigorous Research And Credit Selection Is The Key To Investing In Municipal Bonds
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Tons Of People Are Leaving Puerto Rico Because Its Economy Stinks
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Assured Guaranty: Stockton on course to exit Chapter 9 --- Stockton Gives Assured City Hall in Bond Debt Settlement --- Council approves Chap. 9 exit plan --- Mayor, city workers, firefighters endorse proposed sales tax
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Attorney: Clinton city leaders pondered potential of city bankruptcy
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Ex- Bell City Manager Robert Rizzo Pleads No Contest to 69 Counts
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Mass Torts:

In BP's Oil-Spill Saga, a Court Triumph It Might Regret
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BP Wasn't Prepared for Deepwater Blowout, Witness Says
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5th Circuit’s BP opinion adds to hot debate on use of class actions
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Autos:

Hedge funds, among the primary winners from GM's bankruptcy --- Hedge Funds Used Obscure Bond Bet to Win in GM Bankruptcy
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Paulson, Elliott Want 'Old GM' Estate to Pay $1.5 Million Fee for Settlement
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Fiat’s Marchionne Says Not Closer to Chrysler Deal Amid Talks
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Hollywood:

Michael Bay Blows Up Detroit
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Telecoms:

Cerberus Capital Said to Express Interest in BlackBerry
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Fraud:

SAC's Forceful Ways Shown in Massachusetts Citi Case
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Selection Of Jury In Trial Of Former Madoff Employees Underway
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Madoff Ex-Worker Trial to Shine New Light on Ponzi Scheme
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MF Global trustee plans to return more customer funds
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Tyco’s Former Finance Chief Mark Swartz Granted Parole
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After Fraud, Regulators Go After a (TD) Bank
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See how Rothstein bankruptcy ’s $46M fees were split up
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US: Detroit ex-mayor should get 28 years in prison
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Shipping:

Abandoned ship: Transport firms' legal battles leave sailors adrift
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Tax:

Push for Private Debt Collection Clouds IRS Confirmation
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Celebs:

Peter Laviolette Says BofA Took Him for a Ride
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Retailing:

JCP Going Bankrupt? No. But Distress May Destroy Retailer's Ecosystem
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With Shares At 52-Week Low, J.C. Penney Credit Default Swap Price Hits Record-Wide Level
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Firearms:

Airtronic USA Gets Plan Confirmation
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(4 new opinions today - DBN)

Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory

Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings (27 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (10 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:

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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Consumer Bankruptcies Continue Lower
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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UST:

Lawyerly Lingo – Defining “Disbursements” for the Calculation of Quarterly Fees
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Workouts:

Out-Of-Court Debt Restructuring And The Problem Of Holdouts And Free Riders
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TBTF:

Wall Street Banks, No Longer Invincible, Contemplate Their Death
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'Too Big to Fail' or 'Too Big to Manage'?
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Insurance:

Fifth District reverses McGlynn in bankrupt company’s failure to defend case
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E&O Insurance: Acts Alleged in Underlying Claim Did Not Involve Insured Services
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Video Games:

Ex-EDC chief: RI gov. forced 38 Studios bankruptcy
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Ex-EDC deputy: Board influenced on 38 Studios deal
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Curt Schilling, Former EDC Director Respond to Rhode Island's Lawsuit
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Opera:

New York City Opera Files for Bankruptcy --- City Opera Owes Millions to Creditors
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New York City Opera: Anna Nicole - Final curtains
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Remembering City Opera: 'We Will Miss it More than We Realize'
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Lehman:

JPMorgan Chase & Co : Citi Rejects $2 Billion 'Provisional' Payout in Lehman Fight
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Orchestras:

What About the Lost Art of Negotiation?
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Prisons:

Federal judge rules to keep detention center open
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Alternative Energy:

Italian Courts Seize GSF Solar Plants --- Asset Seizure Obscures Suntech Bankruptcy
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Credit Cards:

NY State No-Surcharge Law Unconstitutional
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Finance:

Covenant-Lite Loans Rise Again
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Aviation:

Avantair Trustee Moves To Sell Some Assets
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Okla. AG urges approval of American Airlines deal
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Arizona AG stands firm on antitrust lawsuit, while American Airlines flight attendants try to budge Virginia’s AG
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Estonian Air Was Very Close to Bankruptcy , Says Former Chairman
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Consumer Finance:

Payday Lending: New Research and the Big Question
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Education:

The failures of for-profit K-12 schools
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Oil/Gas:

GMX Resources Inc. Announces Entry Into Plan Support Agreement
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Student Debt:

Elizabeth Warren, You Can Do Better On Behalf Of Millennials Drowning in Debt
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Suze Orman takes on the student loan crisis
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Debtor Cannot Take Means Test Deduction For Student Loan Payments In Chapter 13, But May Pay Outside Plan With Interest
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Startups:

Archetypes, the biggest NYC startup you’ve never heard of, completely unravels
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Sovereigns:

Argentina Barred by U.S. Judge From Planned Bond Exchange --- Judge says Argentina debt swap plan violates court order --- Swap ye not Argentine bonds
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Lorenzino sharpens strategy against vulture funds in New York
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UK:

UK fraud prosecutor poised for more Libor charges
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Financial sector hit by UK regulation fines
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Insolvency and Recuse Awards Winners 2013
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Ex-Law Society Council member jailed for spitting at her parents
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London's Ukrainian Oligarch Court Battle Is Getting Explosive
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EU:

ECB's Coeure warns of liquidity offered on too easy terms
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Europe's Youth Unemployment Crisis In One Grim Map
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PIIGS:

A Typo Temporarily Added $13 Billion To Spain's Already Massive Load Of Debt
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Portugal passes bailout test, gets more funding
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ie: Judge orders Dunne to reveal deals with wife
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Brazil:

How Brazilian Tycoon Eike Batista Lost 99% Of His $34.5 Billion Fortune --- Eike Batista A Problem For PIMCO
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Serbia:

Documents Show How Serbian Companies Were Pillaged By Offshore Firms
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New Zealand

Bankruptcy lawyer bankrupt
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India:

Sluggish economy, tight credit take toll on small firms
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