Law:
Associate Bonus Watch: Very Elated At Vinson & Elkins
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McDermott Woos Two Kirkland Finance Partners
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Quinn Emanuel announces work-from-anywhere program --- Quinn Emanuel Will Pay To Make Associates Go Away For A While
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Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
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Business of Law
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These lawyers wind down with amped-up vacations
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Enhancing the Client Experience: Moving From Receptionist to Concierge
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2 handy gadgets for road warriors
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Summer Associates Or Lateral Hires: Is There A Right Way To Build A Firm?
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I Actually Can’t Believe This Lawyer Put This Ad On TV
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Want The Courage To Leave Biglaw? Get A Dog
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Why Amanda Knox Is Completely Innocent And The Italian Justice System Is Utterly Insane --- How The UK Sees Amanda Knox
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Which law firm is the oldest in the United States?
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It’s time to look at regulation of ‘quasi-legal’ work done by lawyers
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Judge Shows Compassion Toward Law Firm for Leak --- Judge sanctions Samsung and counsel over release of confidential info in big-bucks Apple patent suit
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Dylan Farrow Details Alleged Abuse At The Hands Of Woody Allen
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A New Florida Trial Is Reminding Everyone Of George Zimmerman And Trayvon Martin
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High-speed-chase suspect is allowed to leave state to attend Super Bowl
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NJ Governor Christie Knew of Bridge Lane Closures, Former Official’s Attorney Says --- Christie's Office Attacks Claims of Ex-Ally's Lawyer
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Man used tow truck to steal abandoned cars from Atlanta highways
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Police Chop Off Woman’S Hair
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Judges:
Trial begins for judge facing misdemeanor battery charge in dog-waste dispute
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Meet the chief judge of the nation’s most divisive, controversial and conservative appeals court
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Wall Street:
US Stock -Index Futures Drop Before Manufacturing Report
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Markets Falling Again — Japan Officially Enters Correction
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US stocks fall on disappointing earnings; Dow dips 0.94%
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Most Expect Stock Turmoil to Pass
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10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell
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Layoffs:
The 20 Happiest Jobs In America
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United Airlines dumps Cleveland, 460 jobs go away
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Corporate Reform:
Jamie Dimon's Pay Raise Proves Regulators Don't Get It At All
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DOJ Opens Probe Into Firms' Finance Dealings With Libya
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Credit Counseling:
Debt-relief firms have dubious record
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Health & Beauty:
Creation's Garden files for bankruptcy --- CEO Awaits Murder Trial
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Food/Beverage:
Is Quiznos Headed for Bankruptcy?
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Companies seek payment via PACA
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Speculators buying up Mamtek bonds - Buyers banking on big jury award or settlement
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Mass Torts:
9-figure fund expected for fiery derailment victims
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Maine rail bankruptcy likely to spawn more lawsuits
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World Fuel Services Sued Over Deadly Derailment
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There Should Be a Nuclear Option for Railroads
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For Grace, a long road out of bankruptcy court
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Alternative Energy:
Suntech Power planning bankruptcy filing in US --- Suntech Signs Restructuring Support Agreement
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Solar Insurance Costs Halve as Cheap Panels Quash Premium
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Video Games:
Bill in General Assembly would stop RI's payments on 38 Studios debt
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Curt Schilling and 38 Studios might be getting their own Rhode Island law
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Electricity:
IRS Asks Court to Reject Edison Mission's Ch. 11 Plan
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Shipping:
World Trade's Dirty Secret: Abandoned Ships
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Student Debt:
US Senators Blast Student Loan Profits
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Television:
Crane doing all he can to get Astros on TV
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Advertising:
Here Are All The Ads You Saw In The Super Bowl
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Economy:
Krugman: A world economy destined to seesaw between bubbles and depression
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Roubini: Optimism About Emerging Markets
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How Will History See Bernanke’s Legacy?
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Fisher: Fed Not World’s Central Bank
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Fisher Blames Politics for Slow Recovery
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Tucker Carlson: Poor people get ‘consumed with envy’ of the 1 percent
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4 Big Economic Datapoints Are Coming Out Today --- Monday: Auto Sales, ISM Mfg Survey, Construction Spending
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Investment Manager Explains Why 99.5% Of Americans Can Never Win
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The Bone-Chilling, Heart-Wrenching Process Of Counting The Nation’s Homeless
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Millennials at 30: It's the Economy Not Us
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US: Fastest Growing and Shrinking Economies
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100 Years of 1% --- And 10%
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
An Astonishing Share Of Homebuyers Are Paying All Cash
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Judge Approves Bank of America’s $8.5 Billion Pact
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Morgan Stanley: We Don't See Bubbles Developing In The Hotter Local US Housing Markets
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Remember The Housing Market 'Shadow Inventory' That Had Everyone Completely Freaked Out?
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14 Cities Where House Flippers Are Making A Bunch Of Money
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Saga of Opus East, a failed Rockville-based real estate titan, continues in court
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The Decrepit Rotting Mansions That Were Owned By Global Billionaires
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Arch Capital Closes Acquisition of CMG Mortgage Insurance, PMI Operating Platform
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Municipalities:
Detroit's Debt Restructuring Plan 'Complicated' --- Pension, bondholder cuts at core of Detroit plan
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Detroit Said to Demand New Swaps Deal From BofA, UBS
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Detroit sues over pension debt deal that quickened bankruptcy --- The Lawsuit, With Exhibits --- Enough Talk, Says Orr; Lawsuit Will Show If Kwame's Pension Debt Deal Was Legal --- City of Detroit sues its own pension funds --- Detroit Criticizes Its Former Mayor in Lawsuit --- 'Disastrous' pension deal
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Detroit Ends Fight Over Retiree Health Care for 2014 --- Source: Detroit retirees get a better deal in health care benefits settlement
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Detroit's African-American museum needs to be spared, too
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How mediation has put Detroit bankruptcy on the road to resolution
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Detroit Bankruptcy Exit Plan Threatens Munis as Pensions Favored
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Benchmark Detroit: Measuring the Progress of Bankruptcy
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Survey of Mich. local leaders: Detroit bankruptcy right, but don't cut pensions
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How the next 2 weeks will shape Detroit's future
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Jones Day Earns $17 Million in Detroit Bankruptcy So Far
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Crowd turns out in response to Normandy school crisis
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Rochester: Trouble on the horizon?
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Drought-hit California unable to supply state water --- 'Worst drought in 500 years' --- US Cattle Herd Lowest Since 1951
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Personal Finance:
24 Things Millennials Need To Realize About The Real World
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For Some, Retirement Is Out of Reach. For Others, Boring.
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Aviation:
Lifestyles of the Rich and Stranded
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Collapsed Brindabella Airlines owed creditors $37,697,050
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Abu Dhabi-based Etihad enters ‘final’ assessment for Alitalia takeover
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Kingfisher says to appeal winding-up plea by creditor
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Investors seek to put Eastern Air Lines back in the skies
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Telecoms:
Private equity-backed LightSquared agree on restructuring plan with creditors to get out of bankruptcy
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LightSquared, creditors working on consensual restructuring
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Oil/Gas:
Tuscany International Files Bankruptcy on Low Rig Use
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Tax:
US IRS chief says no delay in tax-dodger law; some have doubts
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Retailing:
America's Shopping Malls Are Dying A Slow, Ugly Death
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Bankruptcy filing puts Dots on the spot
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Report: Eddie Bauer in sale talks with men’s suit retailer
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Struggling Retailers Report Change in Shopping Trends
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Could Wal-Mart Be the Next Giant Failure in Retail?
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Retail Wrecks: Amazon to JC Penney
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Coal:w
Essar Global infuses $150 million into Trinity Coal
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Debt Collection:
Third Circuit Holds that Debt Collectors Must Generally Comply with the Bankruptcy Code and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
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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 (45 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (96 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:
Bankruptcy filings fall in Ohio for fourth consecutive year
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Miscellaneous:
Cravath: Recent Developments in Bankruptcy Law
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Sales:
Are Credit Bids in a Deep Freeze?
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Lenders beware: Delaware bankruptcy court limits the amount of a secured lender's credit bid
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Credit Bidding in the Wake of Fisker Automotive
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Discharge:
Bankruptcy Court Authorized to Determine Debtor’s Wage Act Liability
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Defamation:
Bite Your Tongue . . . Or Wave the Flag of Absolute Judicial Privilege
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Avoidance Actions:
Avoidance Recoveries: Who Can Be Sued And When?
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Involuntary Bankruptcies:
Sixth Circuit Holds that Section 303(i) Authorizes Reimbursement of Costs and Fees Incurred in Collateral Proceedings, but Bankruptcy Courts Lack Authority to Impose 'Serious' Noncompensatory Punitive Damages
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Claims Trading:
Buyer Beware: Courts Put Claims Trades Under a Microscope
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Cross-Border:
Skadden: Non-US Cos. Can Effectively Restructure Using Ch. 11
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Religion:
Catholic diocese to file for bankruptcy protection --- Helena Diocese filing for bankruptcy in wake of child sex-abuse lawsuits --- Hundreds of abuses cases
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Diocese bankruptcy : Church sunk by $15 million abuse settlement
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'Not your typical bankruptcy ' filed by Montana diocese
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Lawsuit against St. Ignatius Ursuline Academy to proceed, lawyers say
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Celebs:
The Broke and the Beautiful: New House Edition
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Vince Young looking to dismiss bankruptcy petition
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Baywatch Star Nicole Eggert Files for Bankruptcy — Report --- '90s TV Star Files for Bankruptcy — She Has HOW Much in Bank Account?
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Pensions:
A Long Fight to Get What Was Theirs, in a 401(k)
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PBGC Revives Partition Authority
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Sovereigns:
“Dog-Eared” debt and the IMF's sovereign restructuring ideas
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UK:
Kerry Katona denies reports that she is facing third bankruptcy --- Kerry Katona & George Kay reveal all about bankruptcy claims
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UK: Real Wages Have Fallen for 50 Years
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UK Manufacturing Grows for 10th Month as Expansion Cools
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Lloyds Falls as Rising Redress Bill Signals No 2013 Dividend
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Hull 'bankruptcy tourism' company crashes
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EU:
Euro Zone Jobless Chart Flatlining
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PIIGS:
The History of the IMF and Greece's Bailout --- Greek manufacturing activity grows for first time in over four years
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ie: No sign of light for the ordinary Joe shackled by mortgage --- New insolvency system 'too expensive for the people who need it most'
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Bankia misses expectations but boosts lending --- Sale and purchase of a Productive Unit in Spanish liquidation insolvency proceedings
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Canada:
Eagle River Casino to remain open despite bankruptcy
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Beleaguered Heenan Blakie loses over 30 partners
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Poland:
Bankruptcy down by a third
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Argentina:
Argentina Bonds Plunge Most as Emerging Markets Tumble
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