Law:
The Lateral Experience
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Job Cuts Come to Edwards Wildman, As Revenue Drops 9%
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The rapping lawyer and other true tales
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The Biglaw Wedding To End All Biglaw Weddings
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Tax Proposal Harms Law Firms, ABA President Says
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Lifetime SEC Lawyer Totally Shreds The Agency On His Way Out
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Lawyer who owes $35M in litigation debt says he has the cases to cover it
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$9B in punitives awarded in Actos drug case; jurors deliberated less than two hours
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‘You are not alone’: Law prof who considered suicide tells his story
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White Law School Deans Can’t Jump
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Who Are The Smartest Law Students? LSAT Scores And GPAs Arranged By Undergraduate Major
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Pistorius wails while recalling shooting
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Negotiating Tips For People Who Hate Negotiating
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Productivity Mistakes You May Be Making
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Best Android Phone Ever
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Al Sharpton On His FBI Ties: I'm No 'Rat' — 'I'm A Cat'
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Arizona socialite found guilty of murdering millionaire husband so she could collect insurance and continue lavish lifestyle
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Du Pont heir didn't go to court-ordered clinic
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Woman convicted for killing boyfriend with stiletto
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America's Mentally Ill Prisoners Outnumber Hospital Patients, Tenfold
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Lawsuit: Male stripper did show at NY nursing home
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"Florida Woman doesn't play by the rules"
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Christians in Pakistan sentenced to death over a text
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Squirrel-Cooking Lawsuit Seeks $2M for Apartment Fire
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LAPD Cop Sues City, Claims Discrimination Over Wiccan Religion
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Texas Mayor Drops Gun At City Council Meeting
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Police Officer's Near Death Experience Caught On Camera
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Mother returns home to find babysitter has tattooed children
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Despite out-of-state vacation alibi, man spent nearly 25 years in prison for murder he didn’t commit
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The many disguises woman wore to track down ex-lover who still owes her $1.6m after 20 years
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Judges:
New Bankruptcy Judge In ED MI Gets Cases Assigned
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ED NY Bankruptcy Judge Retires
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“Are Court Stenographers Necessary?”
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Jurisprudential Jousting With a Supreme Court Justice
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Wall Street:
U.S. Stock Futures Rise
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US close : Stocks end modestly higher after choppy trading
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Is Wall Street Rigged? Of Course It Is
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Layoffs:
Why extending unemployment benefits could be a logistical nightmare
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"A Closer Look at Post-2007 Labor Force Participation Trends"
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No WARNing of Bankruptcy?
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5 Things You Should Never Do In A Job Interview
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Twitter is surprisingly accurate at predicting unemployment
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Krugman: Are class interests perpetuating high unemployment?
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Workers Are Quitting Their Food Service Jobs, And That's A Really Good Sign
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Fraud:
Former Adams Produce Distribution Manager GM Sentenced To Prison For Part In Defrauding Government
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Court ruling buoys victims of defunct Santa Rosa financial firm
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CVS to pay $20 mln to settle SEC fraud charges
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US Wants One Trial in $5bn S&P Fraud Case
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U.S. Attorney Asks Judge for Three Year Sentence for Former KPMG Partner
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Olympus says being sued by six banks for $273 million over 2011 scandal
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Banking:
Big banks to get higher capital requirement
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JPMorgan's Dimon says U.S. banks healthy, Europe lagging
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Celebs:
Chrisley Knows Creditors Best? --- Reality TV Dad Used Wife to Hide Assets As They Reportedly 'Haven't Worked Since 2012'?
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Teresa Giudice Makes Fans Pay Cash For Autographs
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Joe and Teresa Giudice New Docs Reveal Lavish Deadbeat Lifestyle
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Retailing:
Loehmann's to be brought back to life online
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Calumet Photographic Finds a Buyer
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Wal-Mart's Dismal Same-Store Sales
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Why teen retailers continue to struggle
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Gambling:
The New Jersey Casino Experiment Has Failed
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Mohegan second in bid for bankrupt Miami casino
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Aviation:
American to distribute final common stock allocations to creditors
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American, US Airways latest to revamp mileage awards --- American Raises Miles Needed for Free Travel on Busiest Days
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Etihad completes Alitalia health check
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Two More 'Pings' Detected In Missing Plane Search --- Search for Malaysian jet to be costliest in history
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Awards:
International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation Announces 2014 Founders Awards Recipients
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Shipping:
Overseas Shipholding Approved to Sign $300 Million Deal
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Economy:
IMF: World economy is stronger but faces threats
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IMF Says U.S. Drives Growth as Russia, Brazil Weaken --- Rich Nations Bolster Global Growth, I.M.F. Says
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Fed should be more specific about rate-hike plans - Plosser
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Fed needs collective vision on rates: Kocherlakota
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NFIB: Small Business Optimism Index increases in March
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CBO: Federal Deficit through March $187 billion less this year than it was in fiscal year 2013
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February job openings rise to 4.17 million --- Job openings rise to six-year high in February
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The State Of The Global Economy In Two Giant Slides
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The New Gilded Age
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US: Young Workers Destined for Failure
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Study: Untaxed corporate profits held overseas top $2.1 trillion
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A Major Demographic Tailwind Is Coming That Could Make The US Boom For Years
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Wall Street's Brightest Minds Reveal The Most Important Charts In The World
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More US moms are staying at home with kids: study --- It's complicated
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Why We're Not Going In To Recession
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Equal pay fact sheet: beyond the gender gap of '77 cents for every dollar' --- The End of Men, in one chart --- Why Women Don't Ask For More Money --- The States With The Largest Pay Gaps Between Men And Women
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The proof is in the data: Time to raise the U.S. minimum wage
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Stop adding up the wealth of the poor
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Trouble Is Coming If Corporations Keep Squeezing Labor
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Murray: 'Threat is growing’ of Highway Trust Fund bankruptcy
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Beef: It's What You Can't Afford for Dinner
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
Citigroup To Pay $1.13 Billion Over Sketchy Mortgage Practices
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Housing Tracker Existing Home Inventory up 7.7% year-over-year on April 7th
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Las Vegas Real Estate in March: Year-over-year Non-contingent Inventory up 128%
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Phoenix "listings are way up and sales are way down"
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Mortgage Monitor: Delinquencies are below 6% for the first time since 2008, "Little Sign of Easing" in Credit Standards
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BofA, Allstate End $700 Million Mortgage Securities Suit
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Lawsuit accuses OneWest of defrauding U.S. mortgage program
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Municipalities:
Detroit bankruptcy breakthrough: City hammers out deal with unsecured bondholders
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Snyder to Detroit pension funds: Time to settle
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State involvement expected after Detroit Emergency Manager leaves
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Detroit's 'no' chorus continues through bankruptcy
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Other cities should help Detroit get back on its feet
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When will Detroit's emergency manager be done?
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Former-Goldman Sachs VP: Detroit bankruptcy didn't need to happen
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Coachella Valley Unified School District may lay off 147
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Illinois House passes bill for Chicago pension changes --- Illinois lawmakers send Chicago pension bill to governor
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Puerto Rico Taps Cleary Gottlieb for Restructuring Help --- Puerto Rico fiscal year revenue rises 4.6 pct to date
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Desperate for taxes, Puerto Rico tries to get grip on underground economy
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Cranston removed from 'distressed communities' list
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Religion:
Archdiocese of Milwaukee Bankruptcy Inches Forward
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Healthcare:
TLC Health granted another employment extension
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Possible relocation of emergency services raises concern at Northern Berkshire community meeting --- U.S. Rep., Senators push action to restore emergency services for North Berkshire
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North Adams concerns: bankruptcy , healthcare, unemployment
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Palm Leaves
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Survey Estimates Net Gain of 9.3 Million American Adults with Health Insurance --- New Study Says Obamacare May Be Working — But Not In The Way Anyone Expected
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Many Obamacare Critics Grabbed the Federal Subsidies
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Obamacare 'accomplishing goal': Gallup poll
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Krugman: Any workable GOP plan would look pretty much the same as Obamacare --- House Republicans Are Quietly Giving in to Obamacare
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Final Medicare payments to insurers 'less worse': analysts
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5 Hidden Costs of Hospital Visits
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Currency:
US court can't reach Mt. Gox's Karpeles: lawyer
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Resorts:
Judge upholds $41M ruling against Tim Blixseth
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Mass Torts:
Bankruptcy judge nixes plan for Mitchell to distribute rail disaster insurance funds for now
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Hedge Funds:
Hedge Fund Manager Philippe Laffont To Return $2 Billion To Investors After 'Gut-Wrenching' Month
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Personal Finance:
4 Common Money Mistakes Smart People Make
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98 Of The Best Things In Life That Money Can't Buy
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Autos:
U.S. says GM in violation of its order to answer questions about recall
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GM Workers Who Built Defective Cars Fret Recall Hurting Comeback
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Massive Toyota Recall
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Financial Literacy:
10 Easy Ways To Teach Kids About Money
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Apparel:
PBGC Hardwick filing draws reply
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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 (36 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (6 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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New:Take Our Bankruptcy Reform Issues Survey
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Claims Trading:
Court Judgment May Set Interesting Precedent In $75 Million Meridian Sunrise Village Bankruptcy Case
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Miscellaneous:
The 2014 Champion Of Weil’s March Madness Is…
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The Bankruptcy & Reorganization Bullet Report
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CROs:
A Win and a Loss for CROs
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Cross-Border:
Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code: An Instrument for International Businesses
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Avoidance Actions:
Recording Defects: A Continuing Theme – Trivial Mistakes May Not Be So Trivial
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Bankruptcy Rules:
Agenda for the April 2014 Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules
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Recent Pleadings:
USEC Paid $16M In Debt Counseling Fees, $7.6M In Insider Bonuses On Its Way Into Bankruptcy
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Sbarro Committee Pans DIP Financing: Preordains secured creditor result without compensating unsecured creditors for unencumbered asset
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Consultants:
Joseph Miller Joins Hilco Global As EVP
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TBTF:
Fund managers beware: you're next
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Fed votes to adopt tougher leverage rules for big banks
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Big Banks Need Another $68 Billion to Be Considered Safe
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Currency:
MtGox CEO faces likely US arrest as legal woes mount
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Stockman Wants IRS to Reconsider Bitcoin Decision
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Food/Beverage:
Abner's chain files Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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Bankrupt Quiznos Settles With Franchisees in Cost Dispute
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Turnarounds:
Kick the Can or Use the Runway?
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Fishing:
Pescanova Stakeholders Extend Talks as Liquidation Process Looms
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Weather:
Calif. Snowpack 10% of Normal
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Corporate Reform:
SEC Lawyer: We're Too Timid on Wall St. Crime
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Finance:
Banks Urge Basel U-Turn on Global Asset-Backed Debt Rules
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Sovereigns:
Bondholder Schadenfreude Exposed as Argentina’s Debt Gains
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UK:
ICAEW: HMRC could supersede insolvency law with new powers
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UK to outperform other big economies with 2.9% growth, IMF predicts
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Law Society criticizes taxpayer crackdown by HM Revenue & Customs
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Independent Scotland would face immediate 23 billion pound debt - report
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EU:
Euro Bonds Ignore Growth Concern on ECB Before Greece Sells Debt
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ECB Faces Bankers Venting Concerns on Balance Sheet Health Check
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PIIGS:
Greece raises 1.3bn amid bond speculation --- Greek borrowing costs decline ahead of bond issue --- Greece Economy Has Started To Rebound But Stability Is Still A Long Way Off --- Greece faces long road to recovery, despite financial rebound
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Spain's Colonial agrees to 1 billion euro refinancing plan
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Decision on Dunne's New York project plans next month
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Renzi Cuts Italy Growth Forecast, Calls for Rich to Give
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Canada:
Arctic Beverages Ltd. seeking creditor protection
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Ukraine:
Russian GDP Growth Forecast Cut by IMF on Ukraine Crisis --- All-Out Brawl In Ukrainian Parliament --- Russia warns of civil war if Ukraine uses force to quell eastern revolts --- Crimeans Homeless in Ukraine Seek Solace in Kiev Asylums --- Pro-Russian Separatists In Ukraine Seize Government Buildings, Demand Russian Intervention --- Ukraine Bonds Extend Slump as Hryvnia Falls to Record on Gas Row --- John McCain: Let's Arm Ukraine
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China:
Chaori Solar Shares Tumble as Huatesi Polymer Enters Bankruptcy
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China's economy losing steam
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Malaysia:
Bankruptcy cases rising, warns minister
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