December 10, 2010

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Law:

Top Partners to Work for – Washington, D.C. (Part 2)
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Law Firm Heads Having Blue Christmas
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Small Firm Bonuses: The Results
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What Law Firm Offers Value for the Dollar, According to In-House Counsel?
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Boies Firm Under Fire in Trade Secrets Case
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Haynes and Boone Hires Former Dubia, Erickson Lawyers in California
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Laterals: 2:1? 15:1? Or Another Answer Entirely?
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Partners sacked and revenues flat at Camerons
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The Greater Fear
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Bingham’s Bungling
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Prison Rather Than State Bar Presidency
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Locke Lord Launches Their iPhone App
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In-House: Business Development (Part 1)
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In-House Lawyers: Be Careful When You Give the Boss Tips for Talking to the AG
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Cost Reduction is Good, Cost Certainty is Better
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Firm Sues Company That Settled With Its Former Client for Cutting It Out of the Deal
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Federal Prosecutors Rarely Lose Their Jobs, Despite Misconduct Findings
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Salma Hayek Brings Heat to SCOTUS Immigration Debate
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Holiday Card Contest
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Another Best Law Firm Holiday Card of 2010
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Stanford Law School Launches New Study of the Legal Profession
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Want Balance? Dump Law and Go to Medical School
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Website Promises Lawyers 'One Really Good Idea Every Day'
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Crossword Champ, Able to Solve NYT Saturday Puzzle in 5 Minutes, Has Legal Lineage
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Lawyer of the Day: Lawyer Accused of Beating Her Boyfriend, Roughing Up Corrections Officer
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Ex lawyer cons £20m from victims to fund Bollywood dreams
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Firm bans staff from discussing the weather
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No, Your Baby Can't Read
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Tip For Wannabe Thelmas And Louises: Don’t Waste Your Time Googling "Tracking Device"
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Judges:

Michael Vick Judge, Mellowed Since His Prosecutor Days, Is Happy for QB’s Success
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Texas Man Credited as World’s Youngest Judge Still on the Bench 20 Years Later
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Do Judges Read Online Briefs Differently? Brief Writers May Need to Be Briefer
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Some of Our Business: Supreme Court Hearing Arguments on Significant Business Cases This Fall
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Impeached Ex-Judge Wanted to 'Take This Fight to the Senate'
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Justice Kennedy: "I will look in Corpus Juris Secundum or ALR or something."
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Wall Street:

Stocks head for mixed start ahead of jobless data
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How the Major Stock Indexes Fared Thursday
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Day Trading Still Alive, Outsourced to China
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Morgan Stanley Promises to Curb Pay, and Actually Means It
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The Colossus of Wall Street - The most influential man you've never heard of
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Layoffs:

Jobless Claims: US Weekly Claims Fall 17,000 Amid Slow Jobs Recovery
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More Evidence That Last Week's Ugly Jobs Report Was Wrong
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Unemployment for college graduates and people over 45 hit highs
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CFOs More Optimistic on Hiring
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A Decline in Self-Employment
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Unemployment and Food Stamps
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You don't want to be unemployed in Vermont
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Trucking:

Judge approves payout for ex-Arrow Trucking employees
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Shipping:

Container Ship Rates Fall 30 Percent
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Gambling:

Taking a Hit at Indian Casino
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Racetracks hustle to preserve betting business
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Gov. Paterson: More OTBs could fail
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Tax:

IRS Considers Taxpayer Offshore Amnesty Program
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Obama Weighs Income Tax Overhaul
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Politics:

Empty the Pork Barrel: States Will be Hit Hard
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Health Care:

Molecular Insight Seeks Bankruptcy After Bondholders Reject Restructuring
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Letters of Credit:

Contingent liabilities, letter of credit edition
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Municipalities:

Many communities, school districts are near the top of the bankruptcy bubble
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Telecoms:

Verizon balks at FairPoint creditors' bid to look at its books
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Economy:

Household Worth in US Rose by $1.2 Trillion in 3rd Quarter
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$9 Trillion Lost in Houses
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Home Values May Drop by $1.7 Trillion This Year
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A Look at Americans' Journey to Rebuild Wealth
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Markets Defy Fed's Bond-Buying Push
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More Than Half of US Wants Fed Reined In
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How Economics Saved Christmas
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Jobless claims fell nearly 4% last week
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House Dems reject tax-cut deal
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Some Millionaires: Tax Me More Please
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Is The Tax Compromise Better For The Middle Class Or The Rich?
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Ron Paul, Author of 'End the Fed,' to Lead Fed Oversight Panel
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Most Americans Say They’re Worse Off Under Obama, Poll Shows
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Treasury: Financial Bailout Income at $35 Billion
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Why Do the Poor Stay Poor?
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Economic Stress Map
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Economy Tracker Map
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US Debt Clock
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Bailout Recipients
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Real Estate:

Fitch sees 10% drop in home prices in 2011, negative outlook for MBS
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Mortgage Rates, at Six-Month High, Threaten Refis and Fed
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Borrowers wait for lower mortgage rates and lose
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Mortgages In Trouble Slowing
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Home Prices Decline Third Month in a Row
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Double dip in some markets drag home prices down 5.8%
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New York Study on Who May End Up Homeless Called Cruel
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Housing agencies clash over mortgage-relief program
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Foreclosures Hitting Paid Up Homeowners
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Foreclosures : Are Fewer Worse Than More?
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BofA Restarts 16,000 Foreclosures
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Condo owner challenges Deutsche Bank's robo-signer foreclosure
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Visualized: Florida’s Foreclosure Crisis
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Mortgage Brokers Are Checking Out
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Mortgage 'Modification' Called RICO Fraud
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ACLU wants interviews with 'robo-signers' on 'Net
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Lawyer appeals ‘robo-signer’ video order
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Happy Holidays! No foreclosures
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Foreclosure Crisis Hits P. Diddy's Hometown
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Take a Photo Tour of Foreclosureville, USA
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TARP Funds for Legal Services for Foreclosure Victims Blocked By Treasury
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Nominee to oversee Fannie and Freddie survives hearing
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The Anatomy of Mortgage Fraud: MERS's Smoking Gun
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The Continuing Saga of the Perils of Inadequate Documentation in Loan Transfers
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Credit Suisse figures GSE principal writedowns largely "symbolic"
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Farkas Dabbles in Real Estate While Seeking Trial Delay
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Fannie Mae survey finds traditional homeownership changing
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Bankruptcy Court Hears Revised Statler Plan
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Judge Rejects Cedarlake Village's Bankruptcy Reorganization Plan, Foreclosure Resumes
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Creditor balks at plan for Rosewood reorganization
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Lender takes back Minneapolis office tower
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Recession sends Silver Spring mortgage lender into Chapter 11
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The story behind the study on abandoned homes
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Celebs:

Actor Wesley Snipes Reports to PA Prison
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Wesley Snipes’s Prison Sentence Seems Pretty Fair
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Pensions:

Truth and Consequences on Public Pensions
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Social Security Seeks to End Free Loans
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Skiing:

Creditor Looks to Upend Tamarack Chairlifts
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Paper:

AbitibiBowater emerges from bankruptcy
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Corporate Governance:

Creditors of insolvent subsidiaries may bring derivative actions against parent company’s officers and directors for breach of fiduciary duties
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Newspapers:

Tribune Lawsuit Deadline Passes as Bankruptcy Plods On
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Video Rentals:

Merchandiser buys most assets of Movie Gallery
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Retailing:

Lack's selling stores, other real estate in bankruptcy case
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What comes next for Rosa's Home Stores?
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Borders loses $74.4 million in quarter
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On Christmas Shopping Lists, No Credit Slips
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Ringing the Alarm at Zale
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Ethanol:

Senators Pass Ethanol Tax Credit Extension
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Hotels:

Blackstone Said to Seize 14 Columbia Sussex Hotels It Sold Five Years Ago
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Accounting:

University Officials Not Impressed with Accounting Professor’s Demonstration of “First in, First Out”
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(2 new opinions today)

Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory

Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings
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Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
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Bankruptcy Jobs:

(1)- (2)- (3)- (4)- (5)- (6)- (7)- (8)- (9)- (10)
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)

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Miscellaneous:

Advanta, US Fidelis, Trico, Abitibi, Probe, PPI: Bankruptcy
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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Bankruptcy Filing Rate Drops Sharply in November
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NCUA Third-Quarter Report Data States Bankruptcy Filings Up
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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IP:

Treatment of IP Licenses in Bankruptcy
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Fraud:

Madoff Trustee's Bank Suits Questionable, Weil Gotshal Lawyer Miller Says
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Citigroup, Bank of America Sued by Madoff Trustee
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Banks deny sending money Madoff’s way
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Madoff trustee in '24'-like race
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The Last Bank Standing — for the Moment
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'Net winners' fair targets: Any 'profit' from Madoff was stolen from later investors
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Natixis Denies Madoff Trustee Claims
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Madoff investors say trustee should sue SEC over fraud
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Madoff Trustee Sues Glantz, Family for $113 Million
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Madoff's Legacy Forces Kiwi Hedge Fund Pure Capital to London
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Hadassah to pay back $45 million of Madoff gains
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Three Ex- UBS Executives Indicted in Muni Bid Probe
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Rothstein: Berger Singerman's ties to Gibraltar bank
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SEC Stops $68 Million Ponzi Scheme
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With Flurry of New Suits, Picard’s March to Saturday Moves On
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Small Business:

Unique Business Survival Strategy
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Corporate Reform:

Warren Says BCFP Will Need Clear Goals that Make Sense to Consumers
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Consumer watchdog boss pushes ahead in interim role
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Elizabeth Warren Rounds Up Her Deputies
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Cha-Ching! Payouts Continue For Four Florida Whistleblowers
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Dodd-Frank in sight, Bachus picks Miller for International Monetary Policy chair
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Issa Says He'll Focus on Fed in Investigative Role
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US Investigators Go After Ex-Siemens CEO
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Banking:

Bank Complaints Soar Even After Law Changes
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Bankruptcy judge OKs sale of AmericanWest Bank, Utah subsidiary
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Hollywood:

Vigilante Justice? Texas Refuses to Pay ‘Machete’ Producers
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Lions Gate Director Can Vote Shares Next Week as Carl Icahn Loses Ruling
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The Lions Gate Icahn Battle Gets Uglier
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UK:

Foreign insolvency judgment enforcement - a fiction?
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Howes Percival to investigate Asil Nadir's finances
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EU:

European Banks Healthier but Still at Risk, E.C.B. Warns
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Canada:

Bank of Canada sees Europe debt crisis as key risk
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Financial advisers plead guilty to $10M Ponzi
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PIGS:

Euro Tanks As Irish Bailout Vote Is Suddenly In Doubt
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Behind a taxi wheel, Greek ex-banker remembers glory days
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Italy:

Parmalat's Tanzi gets 18 years in bankruptcy
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Mexico:

Vitro Creditors May Face Lengthy Legal Fight Over Restructuring
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China:

China raises banks' required reserves to curb lending
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China's Inflation Battle Likely To Heat Up
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China's Exports Jump Unexpectedly
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