Law:
Bankruptcy Judge Pokes Fun at East Coast Earthquake Response
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Over Trustee's Objections, Former Howrey Bankruptcy Counsel to Get Paid in Full
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Bonus Watch: Sidley’s Bonus Match Draws Yawns From Associates
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Litigation Financing Becoming a Useful Tool for In-House Counsel
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Lawyer loses challenge to lifetime SEC ban
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Ninth Circuit Judges En Banc Slam Lawyer for the 'Toughest Sheriff'
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Lawyer Who Stashed $1M in Safes Is Sentenced; He Tells of 'Abyss of Ruination'
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Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Barclays, BP, CDR, UBS in Court News
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Citigroup, Chevron, JPMorgan, BoA, BP, Knauf in Court News
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From Biglaw to Boutique: Come On Along, or Go Alone
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Pls Hndle Thx: Career Disservices
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Law Schools: The Price to Play Its Way
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Law School: A Den of Thieves
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What legal education could be; what law school is
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Law School Transparency hopes the second time's the charm on data
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U of Chicago Law Goes Open Kimono with Employment Data
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Bankruptcy lawyer Timothy Nixon entertains grads, families with commencement address
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Being tormented online? Federal judge Roger Titus says not to look
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Thief Falls 2 Stories Trying To Steal Copper From School Roof, Crawls Away On Broken Legs
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Judges Still Not Amused by Identical-Twin Hijinks
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Lawyer trades appellate briefs and commercial litigation for running a park for food trucks that feature everything from vegan entrees to Korean barbecue
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Sandusky Lawyer Defies Convention, Defends Himself --- The Wisdom of Sandusky’s Strategy
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Bonds Faces 30 Days . . . in Prison of Awesome!
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Judges:
Calif. bankruptcy judge mocks Wiley Rein's earthquake bill
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If You Are a Judge, Do Your Facebook Friends Matter?
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Newt Gingrich says he'd defy Supreme Court rulings he opposed --- Gingrich’s assault on ‘activist judges’ draws criticism, even from right --- Gingrich: Would Arrest Judges With Capitol Police Or U.S. Marshals
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New book gives behind-the-scenes look at colorful high court
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Former Texas Judge Charged With Taking Bribes in $40 Million Refinancing
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Wall Street:
Signs Point To Major Stock Market Rally
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Markets May Play Jilted Lover in Euro Zone Drama
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Stocks Sputter After Warnings on Europe
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Time short for S&P to end 2011 higher
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Layoffs:
As Wars End, Young Veterans Return to Scant Jobs
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Calif unemployment rate drops to 11.3 percent
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In a Sign of Labor Recovery, More Workers Are Quitting
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Even The Hardest-Hit Housing Market In America Is Seeing Unemployment Improving
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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MF Global:
CME Group cuts charitable giving , citing MF Global --- CME big wigs sue Corzine, MF officers
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MF Global : Who Knew What, and When?
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MF Global: Many Steps Before Money Can Be Returned To Customers
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New Jersey residents join fight for MF Global customer cash
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MF Global fiasco makes case for better client protection
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MF Global execs seek distance on missing money --- Corzine's best defense is an offensive rule
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MF Global's cost to farmers appears large
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MF Global Collapse Reveals Systemic Risk
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Barofsky on Fraud at MF Global , Corzine
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MF Global’s U.K. Administrator KPMG Says It Knows Where Clients’ Money Is --- Still no clarity on funds gone from MF Global
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MF 'broke the rules'
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Lessons from MF Global
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Prelude to a Collapse: MF Global Before Jon Corzine
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MF Global probe still work in progress says CFTC
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Jon Corzine's lucky suit isn't working so well for him
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Did MF Global clients forget Lehman's lessons?
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Rehypothecation Is An Old Story: MF Global's Is a Different Story
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Small Business:
Small Business Loans Fall to 12 Year Low
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Tax:
The Poor Pay The Highest Marginal Rates In The Country
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Autos:
Rattner Says UAW Wages Should Have Been Cut During Bailouts
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'Old GM' buried with bad assets of '09 bankruptcy
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GM 'won't support' new plans to save Saab
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Ex-auto czar: Obama bailout will cost taxpayers $14 billion
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Automaker Saab files for bankruptcy in Sweden --- Files after GM blocked financing deals
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Politics:
Dems put all their eggs in Warren basket
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Rick Perry Has Already Retired to Boost Pension Pay --- Branded Just Another Pension Hypocrite
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Buyout Profits Keep Flowing to Romney
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Republican Debate: ‘Grotesquely Dictatorial’ Courts
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Baseball:
Arguments set in Dodgers bankruptcy appeal by Fox --- Appeal to be heard quickly
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Could McCourt Keep The Dodgers? --- Why Frank McCourt won't renege on selling the Dodgers
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Judge Sets Stage For $4 Billion TV Deal For Dodgers
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Religion:
Crystal Cathedral sale to diocese a milestone; some see a miracle
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Corporate Governance:
FDIC v. IndyMac judge: Bus. judgment rule doesn't protect CEOs
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Banking:
Fed's Fisher: Big Banks Hold too Much Power
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A Closer Look at the WaMu FDIC Settlement
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Bank Layoffs Far From Over: Dick Bove
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Banks Should Reveal 'Full' Details of Capital, Basel Group Says
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Western National Bank of Phoenix, AZ, Closed By Regulators
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Premier Community Bank of the Emerald Coast Closed By Regulators
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FDIC Bank Closures
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Economy:
Economists And Analysts Have No Idea What Is Going To Happen Next Year
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Well, It Sure Seems Like Keynes Was Right
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House OKs $1T budget bill eliminating White House 'czars' --- Highlights of $1 Trillion Spending Bill
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House Republicans Balk At Senate Payroll Tax Cut Deal --- Payroll-Tax Cut in Limbo
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Payroll tax-cut extension adds $17 a month to typical mortgage --- Throw The Bums Out --- Really? A Two Month Extension for Tax Cut?
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In About Face, Boehner Opposes Deal On Payroll Tax
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Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: US Economy Edition
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Even the Roman empire wasn't as unequal as America today
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Inside the 1%
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A Simple Explanation Of How Inequality Has Made The Great Recession So Much Worse
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50 Economic Numbers From 2011 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
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Interest Rates: 1831-2011
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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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Real Estate:
SEC sues former Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac execs --- Subprime slime --- Suit Is About False Statements, Fraud
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Taxpayers Paying to Defend ex-Fannie, Freddie Executives from SEC
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A Look at Freddie Mac’s Housing Predictions for 2012, and a Review of 2011 Predictions
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Attitudes Of Young Bode Ill For Housing Recovery
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Investors target JPMorgan over $95 billion of RMBS
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Darrell Issa: Four lawmakers got Countrywide VIP loans
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William Lyon Homes files for pre-packaged bankruptcy
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Nevada AG sues LPS, alleging mishandled mortgage documentation
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Pending CFPB rule could lead to flood of foreclosure challenges
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OCC Offers Guidance On Foreclosed Properties
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How Speculators Fed US Housing Bubble
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FHFA vs. Chicago: Everyone Loses
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Parole board revokes ex-HomeGold exec's release
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BofAML: FHA probably won't require bailout
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This Woman Re-Occupied Her Foreclosure After Getting Evicted 11 Months Ago
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Bankruptcy fight breaks out over North Las Vegas land auction
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New York Is The Second Most Expensive City For U.S. Home Buyers
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Manufactured Housing Continues To Face Financing Obstacles
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Housing Recovery Held Back by Program Roadblocks
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Homeowners shouldn't be penalized for alleged Baum misconduct, regulator says
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MBIA moves to limit CMBS exposure
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Lehman sues banks over Archstone sale
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Current Mortgage Rates for Friday, December 16, 2011
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Corporate Reform:
Slapped Wrists at WaMu
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U.S. Suit Says 6 Executives at Loan Giants Misled Market --- Charges underline need for revamp
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FINRA mulls rule to collect restitution in court
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SEC asks judge to pause Citigroup case, await appeal --- Here's The Greatest Line From The SEC's Decision To Appeal
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Congress to Examine S.E.C. Settlement Policy
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Rakoff Decision May Be 'Unprecedented,' But He's Still Right
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How the Banks Cripple SEC Enforcement
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Frank responds to critique of financial reform
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Fraud:
Investors get nowhere as Stanford case crawls
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Prosecutors: Stanford competent to stand trial --- Stanford Appears to Be 'Faking' Amnesia --- Stanford: I Have 6 Doctors To Prove I'm Incompetent
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Parallels between MF Global and Madoff
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Mudd mire tightens Fortress siege
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SEC Says Rudy Ruettiger Is A Stock Scammer
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Cantor Says House GOP Will Push Insider Congressional Trading Ban Next Year
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SEC halts real estate Ponzi scheme in Mormon community
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SEC Targets Fannie, Freddie Execs But May Not Get Their Bonuses
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Ex-UBS trader swaps legal team ahead of hearing
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Credit Suisse hopes to catch rogue traders by forcing employees to take vacations
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Football underdog "Rudy" sacked for stock fraud
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Olympus Offices May be Raided This Week
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Protests:
More than 50 "Occupy" protesters arrested in New York --- Is this their last push until spring?
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Glass:
New York court order holds up Vitro bankruptcy plan --- Vitro Units Ordered to Withdraw Consent to Mexican Restructuring Plan
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Celebs:
Camille Grammer's bankruptcy lawyer boyfriend gives her some meaningful jewelry during romantic date
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Municipalities:
Downtown Birmingham ballpark: Jefferson County bankruptcy threw city a curve
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Prichard asks to file brief supporting Jefferson County's bankruptcy filing
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Soured JPMorgan deal stuck poor Alabamians with ridiculously high sewer bills
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Other cities show what bankruptcy might look like for Detroit
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SPD union might just bankrupt Stockton
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Bond Insurers Hired Lobbyists as Lawmakers Set Harrisburg's Path
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State Senators on Bill to Bar Harrisburg Bankruptcy
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There's a 82% chance the California pension system will run out of money
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Rhode Island Muni Outlook Unlikely to Gain as Economy Sags, Moody’s Says
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Photography:
Kodak's financing plans faces obstacles --- Not a Kodak moment --- Will it wind up in Chapter 11?
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Freight:
Holding Freight Hostage: The Legal Wild West Of The Transportation Industry
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Lehman:
Bankruptcy Court determines that TBA contracts do not qualify as customer claims
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Retailing:
FedEx, Profit Rising, Credits Online Shopping
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Making a List, and Taking It to the Pawnshop
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Forest Products:
Sino-Forest's main investors draw the line
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Sino-Forest begs bondholders for mercy
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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
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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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Miscellaneous:
BTA Bank Debt Plan, Solon Units, AMR's UK House
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Rochelle on Bankruptcy Fees, Madoff, Heller Ehrman
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11 Companies That Will Struggle in 2012
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Fewer bankruptcies in Southwest Florida in 2011
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Avoidance Actions:
Myths and realities of defending against preference demands
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Keep Your Claws Off My Principal: Eleventh Circuit Weighs in on Recovery of Fraudulent Transfers in Ponzi Schemes
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Delaware Bankruptcy Judge Sontchi Holds Subsequent New Value Defense Not Reduced by Post Petition Payments
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Litigation:
Misadventures in Searching Unallocated Space
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Aviation:
American's route to bankruptcy
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Why Airlines Keep Going Bankrupt
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Bankruptcy Woes Trickle Down To American Airlines' Vendors
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PBGC to American Airlines: You can't toss out your pension plan unless it means you're stuck on the runway
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JAL to repay $2.38 bln loans ahead of schedule
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Health Care:
Bankruptcy to close 2 hospitals on Oahu
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Attorney Russo takes charge of finances at The Westerly Hospital
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Alternative Energy:
How Long Until Solar Industry Revives?
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Japan Says Nuclear Power Cost May Be 50% Higher Than Estimated
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UK:
Bailur Says UK Stores Face `Extremely Bleak' Outlook
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Increased numbers of firms to fail in 2012
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The Dangers For LLPs Of Trading While Insolvent
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U.K. Said to Face Derivatives-Law Setback After Summit Clash
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U.K. to Force Banks to Separate Consumer and Investment Business
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EU:
Analysis: More euro zone banks risk money markets freeze
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Why The European Debt Crisis Might Actually Be Over...
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Moody's Cuts Belgium's Credit Rating By Two Notches
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EU, IMF halt talks with Hungary over central bank
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Reality Check: The EU Has Already Failed --- Fitch Doubts Outcome
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Europe Uncertainty to Send Money to the US
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ECB's Draghi urges eurozone to do more --- ECB to protect banks but won't step up bond --- Pours Cold Water On The Latest Bailout
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Why ECB lending won’t solve the euro crisis
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No Quick Fix for Euro Crisis in 2012 --- First Half of 2012 to Decide Euro's Survival
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Scary Movie
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Fed’s Dudley Says Europe Doesn’t Face Fiscal Insolvency Over Debt Crisis
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Fitch: Comprehensive euro zone deal "beyond reach"
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ECB liquidity auction could cheer or chill
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Euro posts largest weekly loss versus dollar in three months
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Merkel: Europe must stick to new financial rules
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PIIGS:
Talks about forgiving Greek debt proving difficult --- Greece’s Investors Reluctant to Take a Bath --- Talks making major progress
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Why the drachma is no answer
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ie: Quinn's wife faces bankruptcy after order to pay €3m --- Bankruptcy would give Anglo very useful insight into Quinn family's financial affairs
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14 Straight Quarters Of Falling Home Prices May Be More Than Spanish Banks Can Survive
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Fitch Warns of Downgrades for Spain, Italy
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Portugal Wavers On Debt Limit In Constitution
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France:
Fears over French credit downgrade
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Germany:
State of Berlin to save Solon?
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Projected Reform of German Insolvency Law -- Recapitalization Instead of Liquidation of Companies
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MENA:
Cairo Protesters, Police Clash; 10 Dead --- Revolution Gets Bloodier
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Egypt: Mixed Signals on Who is in Charge
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Egypt Economy Falters
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China:
China's November Home Prices Post Worse Performance This Year
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Backlash from Beijing raises fears that China's economy is slowing down
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As Economy Slows, Beijing Is Paralyzed
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A Village In Open Revolt
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China Debts Dwarf Official Data With Too-Big-To-Complete Alarms
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The Baltic Dry Index is telling a very different story about China
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The 2012 Blind Side: China's Housing Bust --- November Home Prices Post Worst Performance This Year Amid Curbs
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Brazil:
Brazil's Oil Boom Could See First Bust
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India:
Dirty dozen owes 90 % of India's tax dues
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Australia:
Centro Properties Group Reorganizes: One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Australian Restructurings
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Most Australians worried about debt
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North Korea:
One Great Thing About North Korea's Stagnant Economy
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