Law:
Major Law Firm Trying To Support Stressed Lawyers After Longtime Partner's Suicide --- Firm to review stress management --- Top lawyer told bosses plans to kill himself before committing suicide --- Friends pay tribute
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Bankruptcy Lawyer: Letting Lehman Fail Was 'Tragic Error'
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Jones Day, Gibson Dunn, Wilson Sonsini: Business of Law
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Lawyer refunds $8200 in fees to bankruptcy client $6371 in debt
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Arent Fox lays off about 20 support staffers, while Schulte Roth offers buyouts
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Inquest Convenes in Hogan Lovells Partner Death
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Lawyers & Marketing: Try tactics out on small scale
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Custom Apps Created by Law Firms – Brilliant Marketing
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Legal Sector: Unless your job produces revenue, be prepared to lose it
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Female GCs Worse Off than Female Equity Partners
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5 Rules Every New Associate Must Know (But No One Will Tell You)
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Law schools take fewer students as job market remains glum
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At law schools , a struggle to get students
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What Is This Creepy Law Professor Doing???
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What’s The Best Predictor Of Bar Exam Success? It’s Not The LSAT
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Cooley Changes Name Like It’s Heading Into The Witness Protection Program
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Face a classic word challenge and increase your personal power
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Clifford Chance trainee lawyer faces firing after flip remarks in YouTube video
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Man apparently seeking help killed by police
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Firing at Man in Times Square, Police Wound Two Bystanders
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The True Story Of How The US Almost Had A Fourth Branch Of Government
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After Gaining Right To Free Speech, Corporations Could Get Right To Religious Freedom, Too
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Former lawyer reportedly took $4M from victims, including his wife
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Suspended: Lawyer's Comment In Letter To Opposing Counsel Had No Purpose Other Than Embarrassment Or Harassment
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Three Things Your In-House Legal Recruiter Won't Tell You
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Judge to US: Release NSA Data on Calls
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California lawmakers pass bill allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain law licenses
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Sanction For Settlement Conference Verbal Threat
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A $4.2M mistake? Lawyer is liable for faxing ‘mundane advice’ to accountants, 7th Circuit says
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New Miss America Hit by Racist Tweets
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Medical Examiner In Zimmerman Case Sues For $100 M, Claims Prosecution Threw Case
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26 Reasons Saul Goodman Deserves His Own Spin-Off
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‘Better Call Saul’ is new ‘Breaking Bad’ spinoff; website touts two-for-one shoplifting defense
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Town Bans Women from Voting
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Say What?!
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Judges:
Indiana Judge Accused Of Multiple Violations
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Wall Street:
U.S. Futures Celebrate Summers Exit as Treasuries, Stocks Rally
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Major Averages Close Higher For The Session And The Week
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Poll: Americans Still Angry at Wall Street
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Investor Optimism Index Loses Most of 2Q Gains
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Layoffs:
Report Suggests Nearly Half of U.S. Jobs Are Vulnerable to Computerization
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Popular Jobs In The Future
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Why Your Employer Really Wants To Pay You With A Prepaid Debit Card
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Intel Is Shutting Down A Plant In Massachusetts And Laying Off 700 People
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Aviation:
American Airlines CEO can get $20M after merger, judge rules --- Judge cites AMR workers' sacrifices in rejecting CEO severance --- Why American's Tom Horton won't get his $20M payout --- Bankruptcy judge explains nixing American Airlines CEO's severance
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U.S. Bankruptcy Judge files his confirmation of American Airlines’ reorganization plan
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Air travelers lose with fewer choices
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United Airlines to honor tickets issued for $0 in glitch
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Rental Car Companies Find New Ways to Steal
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Hedge Funds:
Hedge funds reap rewards from bet on Lehman
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Hedge Funds Designed to Decimate Capital
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Banks Allying With Hedge Funds as Capital Rules Bite
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19 Awesome Perks For Workers At Hedge Funds
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Personal Finance:
How To Dress Like A Wall Street Hotshot Without Spending Cash Like One
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Autos:
Defunct Georgia car dealer cost Michigan pensions millions
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Fiat No Closer to Deal on Chrysler Stake
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Chrysler to file for Listing This Week
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Government closer to selling all GM stock
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Apparel:
Men's Wearhouse Has Been Crashing Since The Ouster Of Founder George Zimmer
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Lehman:
Lehman's Cold Dead Hand Is Still Reaching Out For Money
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In Lehman's Shadow, Ex-CEO Fuld Carries On, Quietly --- Ex-Lehman CEO can't get a job on Wall St
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"You work for Lehman? I thought that went bust"
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Payouts for ex-Lehman staff 'equal to salaries'
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Lehman's Legacy to US: Inequality for You
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Lehman Haunts Banks Even After Shares Triple
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Lessons learned from Lehman, but risks remain
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The Lehman Anniversary: Five Years In Charts
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The day Lehman Brothers hit the canvas and stayed down
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Lehman Brothers + 5 years
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The meaning of Lehman (take 2) --- The meaning of Lehman (take 3)
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Lehman Brothers collapse: five years on, we're still feeling the shockwaves
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The Death Of Lehman Brothers: What Went Wrong, Who Paid The Price And Who Remained Unscathed Through The Eyes Of Former Vice-President
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Greg Gentile: Bankruptcy 'a Blessing in Disguise'
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Why Lehman Wasn't Rescued
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Lehman Brothers five years on: 'I think we were singled out'
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Five Years After Lehman Brothers and the Financial Crisis, What’s Changed?
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The Lehman Brothers London Headquarters Sign That Sold For Over $66,000 Is Hitting The Auction Block Again
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Some Lehman creditors benefit handsomely from the bankruptcy
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Student Debt:
Student loans top $1.2 trillion
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Economy:
Here it comes: Are you ready for the Fed to taper? --- Federal Reserve chiefs finally face QE decision day
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What The Fed's Taper-Lite Actually Means
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The Great Recession in Charts
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44% Don't Know How US Economy Works
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Consumer confidence tumbles as interest rates rise
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Global: Where Corporations Want to Invest
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BofA Warns on Future Economic Growth
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Larry Summers out of running for Fed chairman --- Summers Withdraws from Race to Become Fed Chief --- Under consideration for Fed, Summers suspends Citigroup role --- Summers needs to junk his Wall Street friends --- In race for Fed chair, Larry Summers reaches out to Elizabeth Warren --- Democrats harden opposition against Summers for US Fed --- Republicans Holding Next Fed Chairman's Fate Stay Quiet --- Summers done in by two sets of critics --- For Summers, Path to Fed Job Gets Bumpier --- Tester to vote 'no' on Summers --- Summers Seen Prone to Tighter Credit Than Yellen in Poll --- Larry Summers Knew Exactly What Was Coming Months Before The Financial Crisis Got Ugly
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14 Questions About The Federal Reserve You Were Too Embarrassed To Ask
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Morgan Stanley: The Fed Has 'Heavy-Caliber Ammunition In Reserve'
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Zients to Become Obama Economic Advisor
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What we get wrong when we talk about 'the financial crisis'
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Explaining the Financial Crisis: Why Do We Still Not Know What Happened?
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How Lehman Brothers’ failure has become an anniversary for bank bashing
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Who really fixed the financial crisis?
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Our Financial System is Not Stronger
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Banks Keep Financial Crisis Door Open
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Obama to use Lehman anniversary to cite progress
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US retail sales data point to slow growth
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TARP didn't save banks, it ruined them: Kovacevich
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We're Almost at Break Even on TARP
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The Most Dangerous Idea In Economics Today Is That The Government Is Broke
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A Number Of Troubling Trends Are Redefining The Modern American Family
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'The Financial States Of America' With Tons Of Economic Data
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Five Years After Lehman, Could Another Collapse Be On The Horizon?
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Obama Says Republican Agenda Will Worsen Economic Inequality --- Obama to GOP: Don't risk an economic backslide --- Poll: 44% Oppose Raising Debt Ceiling
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Welfare and work: Taxing hard-up Americans at 95%
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
Pricey homes in Richmond's eminent domain plan
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ResCap Judge Approves Bankruptcy Deal With Insurer FGIC
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Homes Are Not Investment Vehicles
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California Inland Empire Still in Housing Tailspin
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Developer Glenn Straub prepares to bid on former Versace mansion
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Suburban field of dreams now littered with weeds, debris, lawsuits
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Municipalities:
How Chapter 9 Bankruptcy Has Pushed Detroit's Mayor Aside
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Finally, dispelling the myths behind Detroit's decline --- Detroit's 6-Decade Fall Into Financial Hole
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For decades, Detroit leadership was blind to city's mounting problems
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Gilt trip: Detroit's bankruptcy mediation is unfolding in a 'million dollar courtroom'
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How To Explain Living In A Bankrupt City
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Union leaders, pastors meet with Obama administration, members of Congress seeking plan for Detroit
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White House Plans To Send Some Money To Detroit During Bankruptcy
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Detroiters back city with clothes on their backs
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Detroit looks to health exchange to resolve bankruptcy
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A glimpse into Detroit life
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Groom: Detroit's Bankruptcy Filings - What Comes Next?
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Charles Pugh resigns from Detroit City Council
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Somehow, Illinois Will Have To Find An Extra $210 Billion Over The Next 10 Years
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Stockton: No joy in Mudville
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Bankruptcy proceedings raising tension between Stockton, Ports
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San Bernardino: Mayoral candidate forum focuses on bankruptcy
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Did Democracy Bankrupt Our Cities?
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Foothill-Eastern Toll Road Driving Toward Largest Bankruptcy Since Detroit's: Report
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Health Care:
Expansion by the Acquisition of Financially Distressed Health Care Facilities and Companies: Opportunities and Challenges
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The SCOOTER Store shutting down after federal scrutiny, CBS probe
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Fairbanks mental health organization cutting staff
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The Dawn Of A Bright New Day In Health Coverage
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53% Still Disapprove of Obamacare
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14 Oddball Reasons We're Living Longer Today
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Retailing:
Retail Sales in US Increase Less Than Forecast
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Fraud:
Will Traders Leave SAC Capital?
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Religion:
California diocese weighs bankruptcy over sex-abuse claims
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Dark days for church
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Milwaukee archdiocese seeks abuse settlements
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Chemicals:
After the fall, former Nova Chemicals CEO's life takes a new path
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Corporate Reform:
Ex-Wall Street chieftains living large in post-meltdown world
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In post-Lehman clean-up, top banker prosecutions stumble
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Firm That Broke the Buck in 2008 Fails to Reach SEC Deal
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How to Deter Misbehavior by Bankers
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Bankruptcy Crimes:
FBI: Former Machesney Park Man Charged with Bankruptcy Fraud
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Photos, Bankruptcy Fraud, May Finish Career Of Attorney
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Office Supplies:
Judge to approve National Envelope sale without auction
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Tobacco:
New owner of defunct Mocksville companies' cigar brands in dispute
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Movies:
He Bet on Financial Crisis, Used Profits for Documentary on It
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Ethanol:
Wall St. Exploits Ethanol Credits, and Prices Spike
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Pensions:
From bankruptcy filing to settlement deal
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(3 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 (29 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (43 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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Sales:
363 Asset Sales: Delaware Bankruptcy Court Agrees That “It ain’t over ’til it’s over”
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Involuntary Bankruptcy:
Blixseth bid for $3.3M in fees put on hold
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Adequate Protection:
It’s Called "Adequate" – Not "Automatic" – Protection
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Standing:
Committee of Bondholders Lacked Standing to Vote on Debtor's Plan of Reorganization
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Ipso Facto:
Ipso Facto Clause Works for AMR, Second Circuit Says
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Recent Pleadings:
Girls Gone Wild Trustee Says Debtor's Counsel Owes $50,000 - Employment Never Approved
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Bankruptcy Bonuses:
Court shouldn't rubber-stamp bankruptcy bonuses
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TBTF:
'Too big to fail' is still a threat to the financial system
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Still too big to fail
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Why GM Still Owes Taxpayers
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A Former Lehman Brothers Employee Describes How Crazy The Trading Floor Was On That Fateful Day
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Senator Warren Questions Progress Ending Too Big to Fail
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Weather:
Hundreds still unaccounted for in deadly Colo. floods
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US Has Coolest Summer Since 2009
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Alternative Energy:
Troubled electric car-charging company eyes bankruptcy
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U.S. Considers Auction of Fisker Loan
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Suntech CEO David King Latest Executive to Leave Solar Maker --- Suntech CEO follows three directors out door
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Coal:
Peabody Asks Court To End Its Funding For Patriot Coal's Retirees
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Agriculture:
Trying to Protect Crop Sale Claims: Title Retention Does Not Help
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Resorts:
Bankruptcy court approves Dyer Mountain sale
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Naniloa resort faces closure --- Hawaii land board denies lease payment extension for bankrupt Naniloa hotel --- Jobs in jeopardy
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Furniture:
Furniture Brands chose fast, controversial path
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Celebs:
Casey Anthony can’t plead Fifth in deposition, says lawyer for defamation plaintiff
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Did unpaid, newbie prosecutor imperil case by thanking juror Tom Hanks? Contact leads to plea deal
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The Broke and the Beautiful: Not Movin' on Up Edition
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Food/Beverage:
Bankrupt beef plant to pay bills, seeks sale
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Banking:
State closes The Community's Bank in Bridgeport
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Where's Snowden When You Really Need Him?
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Sovereigns:
Argentina formally requests US Supreme Court to review Appeals court favoring holdout hedge funds
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UK:
Brendan O'Carroll: The shocking story of the star of Mrs Brown's Boys
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Recovery and insolvency experts urge retailers to seek help before shutting up shop
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EU:
ECB's Draghi says euro zone recovery "fragile"
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The idea that the eurozone storm is over is delusional. It's merely resting
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Investors in Europe See a Glass Half Full and Rising
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The next financial bogeyman
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PIIGS:
ie: Hierarchies of privilege remain well protected --- It's about saving rotten banks – not helping debtors --- Broke and desperate but too poor for a debt deal --- Department of Justice seeks volunteers for insolvency complaints panel --- Trophy home 'guardian' has blown whistle on PIP folly --- Stafford let mask slip on how our betters cope with crash --- Struggling families with no assets won't get debt deals --- Former clients of IBRC to challenge bankruptcy bid
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Canada:
The untold story of how Canada survived the financial crisis
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Gray Aqua bankruptcy case transferring to NB
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Furniture Brands Canada declares bankruptcy
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Seniors' Bankruptcy rate alarming
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Brazil:
Brazil's Caixa Halts Loans to Batista's OSX Shipbuilder
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OGX Prepares to Tap Creditors for Cash to Avert Bankruptcy
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OGX Elects Board Members, Batista May Come Under More Pressure
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Batista’s Colombia Coal Mines Sale Latest Deal as Empire Shrinks
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India:
Weird Things That Happen In India
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Vietnam:
New bankruptcy law to help defaulted businesses die more easily
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Israel:
Israel's Channel 10 again on verge of bankruptcy
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