Law:
ABA Inches Closer to Vote on Nonlawyers Owning Stake in Firms
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Arnold & Porter Ties up With Howard Rice
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Bryan Cave Joins with Holme Roberts
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Dykema hires two attorneys for financial services practice in DC
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Who Are Hollywood's Top Legal Dealmakers? --- United artistes
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2011 In-House Salaries Are On The Upswing
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The End of Traditional Billing
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Bonus Watch: Shearman & Sterling Matches
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Crain’s 2011 ‘Best Places to Work in NYC’ List Includes Seven Law Firms
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Portrait of a Doc Review Gunner
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Lawyer who made anti-Catholic rants gets ultimatum from bankruptcy judge
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Sprung from prison, tort-bar king back raising money for Dems
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Estimated 7,000 guests turn out for Lanier Law Firm’s annual holiday party, featuring entertainment by Rascal Flatts
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Lawyers & Economics: The Greek Debt Crisis
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When Bad Clients Jump Out of a Box
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D.C. Attorney Charged in Fraud Scheme
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Why Newt Is the Role Model Du Jour
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Law Firm Says Judge Jailed Defense Attorney for Telling Client to Take the Fifth at His Arraignment
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ABA to ask law schools for more extensive job-placement data --- Some progress on transparency
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How Technology is Making Corporate Lawyers More Powerful
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Judge Rakoff, Citigroup, and the Upside of Saying 'Sorry'
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BP, Bayer, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, HSBC in Court News
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BofA, Alpha, Sharp, AMR, Morgan Stanley, AT&T, BP in Court News
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Gift Ideas: Perry Mason’s Lady Justice
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Trial Lawyer, 57, Is ‘Apocalypto,’ a Pro Wrestler in New Lucha Libre League
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Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Stealing $145K from His Atlanta Law Firm
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Woman Sues, Says Dealer Didn’t Disclose Her Smelly Used Car Once Held a Corpse
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County Displays Crucified Santa on Courthouse Lawn
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Bank robbery suspect arrested after fleeing on city bus
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Lawyer Hailed as Hero for Saving Boy Is Accused of Stealing Client Money
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Lawyer Blames Blago for Ethics Complaint Alleging She Showed Off Her Implants
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Seatbelt charges against Pope Benedict XVI dropped
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Judges:
Senate GOP Shoots Down Halligan Nomination --- Outrage machine grinds away --- Senate Republicans spend a day protecting the courts just to trash them --- System Continues to Fall Victim to Republican Obstruction
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Lawmakers Mull Possible Mandate That US Supreme Court Televise Arguments --- Senate Judiciary to Hold Hearings on Cameras in Court
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Benchslap of the Day
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I Don’t Think ‘Redaction’ Means What You Think It Means
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Judge Jed Rakoff -- A Light Unto His Fellow Jurists
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Wall Street:
US stock index futures signal gains for equities
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M&A Market Barely Above Water for 2011
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Layoffs:
Drop in US Jobless Rate Is Early Sign of Demographic Shift
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More Americans Move Abroad In Search of Job Opportunities
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Ongoing Developments in the Unemployment Conundrum
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Six More Reasons Why Jobs Market Is Still Bad
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Trapped by $50,000 Degree in Low-Paying Job Is Increasing Lament
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US Job Growth Engine Badly Broken
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Protests:
Bank Of America Employees Told To Be On High Alert For Occupy Our Homes Movement
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Occupy Our Homes : The Next Stage of the Occupy Movement
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Runaway Teens Found Living At Occupy Encampment
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Hundreds Occupy East New York For OWS Foreclosure Tour
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Protesters in Washington to 'Take Back the Capitol'
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Occupy affiliates join foreclosure protests
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Police clear out Occupy New Orleans camp
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The one indisputable triumph of Occupy Wall Street
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Municipalities:
Cash-Strapped Detroit Ending Free Police Escorts For Funerals
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Black-led Detroit Resists White Control Under Emergency Manager
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Gov. Jerry Brown implores California voters: Please raise taxes!
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Municipal-Bond Defaults May Beat Record in 2011, Lehmann Says
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Cuyahoga County facing $1.1 billion predicted reduction in property values
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Michigan Lets Prisoners Go to Save Money
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MF Global:
MF Global fallout delays farm seed, land deals
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Key Dates You Need To Know To Follow MF Global for the Next 2 Weeks
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5 Things That Should Never Happen At A Brokerage Firm
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CFTC chief slammed for ties to Corzine --- Corzine's troubles build --- Corzine due to appear at Dec. 8 hearing --- Pleading the Fifth smart but risky
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Gensler's grilling --- Bad watchdog!
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MF Global bankruptcy hits Austin
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MF Global: Costly For The Whole Industry
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Kiss the MF Global Money Goodbye, Sources Say
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Politics:
New Elizabeth Warren ad emphasizes 'gutsy' outsider credentials
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Brown opposed to filibuster of consumer protection nominee
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Will Foreigners Decide The 2012 Election? The Extreme Unintended Consequences Of Citizens United.
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The end of Obama's Hollywood romance
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Heartbreak Awaits Republicans Who Love Newt --- When Newt Gingrich Is Elected, This Is What He'll Do
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Romney staff spent nearly $100,000 to hide records
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Michele Bachmann Targeted in Petters-Related Clawback Suit
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Michele Bachmann Gets Stumped By An 8-Year-Old
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President Obama channels Elizabeth Warren in Kansas speech
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Health Care:
Clare Oaks, Retirement Community, Files for Bankruptcy
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Peninsula Hospital in danger of not making payroll
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Nevada Cancer Institute bankruptcy put on fast track
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Gas Stations:
Details Emerge On Getty Petroleum Marketing Bankruptcy
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Credit Reporting:
Credit Bureaus Refuse to Fix Faulty Data
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Economy:
Treasurys fall fourth day in five
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U.S. Job Creation Flat in November
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Obama sees 'make or break' time for middle class
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Obama Just Made The Most Important Economic Speech Of His Presidency
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Food Stamp Use on the Rise
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Bernanke Defends 'Secret' Bank Bailout --- Calls articles on Fed loans flawed --- Says Bloomberg Report Full Of 'Egregious Errors'
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Grantham: US Falling Behind in 3 Big Ways
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Woman denied food stamps kills self, shoots children
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Recession and Its Aftermath Create More Mr. Moms
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Fighting terrorism - one snow cone at a time
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Social Security Is Running Out Of Money At Least 5 Years Ahead Of Schedule
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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:
BofA to Settle Mortgage Securities Action for $315 Million
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California, Nevada AGs join forces to fight mortgage fraud
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U.S. regulators may rework mortgage plan, sources say
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Toll Brothers Reports Rise In Luxury Home Sales --- 4Q profit drops about 70%
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Why Home Prices Are (and Aren’t)Stabilizing --- CoreLogic predicts flat home prices through 2013 -- Prices Just Keep on Falling
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Mortgage applications jumped last week : MBA
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Keith Jurow: Goldman Is All Wrong, There Is No Housing Bottom In Sight
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Regulators still buried by risk-retention comments
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Occupy group plans to move people into foreclosed homes --- Movement Taunts Law in Home Takeovers --- Occupy disrupts foreclosure auction --- Oakland --- Brooklyn --- Detroit -- Los Angeles--- SF
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Bankruptcy Now Approved, Lehman Can Chase Archstone
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Delinquencies on commercial, multifamily mortgages decline
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Mastro auction provides peek at a rich disaster
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Lehman:
Lehman Seeks Holiest (Bankruptcy)Sacrament: Confirmation
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Court approves Lehman plan to exit bankruptcy
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Lehman's Very Expensive Bankruptcy Battle Is Finally Over
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Lehman investors, underwriters in $417 mln accord
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Lehman not pleased with Archstone bid, unlike S&P
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Corporate Reform:
We can do better than this, can't we Mr. Khuzami?
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The Department Of Justice Has Basically Given Up On Bringing Criminal Charges For The Financial Crises --- An Ex-FBI Official Explains --- Why no one's investigating Wall Street
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Sen. Bill Nelson Questions Tax Benefit in Dodd-Frank
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White Houses Pitches Debt Collection Regulation to Push CFPB Vote --- Takes confirmation fight to the public
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Days before vote, Senate spars over CFPB director
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Obama Trades a Likely Consumer Bureau Loss for a Political Win
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Aviation:
3 top American Airlines executives leaving after AMR seeks bankruptcy protection --- Airline's parent taps restructuring executive
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American's treasurer to oversee parent's restructuring
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High-risk trading takes AMR's stock for wild ride
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American Airlines' statement on creditors' committee
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AMR should rethink hub system, analysts contend
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AMR's Bankruptcy May Harm Airline Stocks
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Southwest Fights 'Cost Enemy' as AMR Bankruptcy Raises Pressure
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Will Air Canada Be Next?
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Reports: Malev bankruptcy nearing --- Hungarian ministry scathing over failures to manage
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Women kicked off airplane at claim unruly flight attendant was to blame - Passengers claim attendant was 'a bully'
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Three Elderly Women Claim Strip-Search By TSA
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Alec Baldwin thrown off AA flight at LAX for 'playing game' on phone
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The TSA continues to find new ways to make itself look ridiculous
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Banking:
Bank of America CEO says layoffs underway
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Bank of America Won’t Predict Outcome of ‘Stress Tests’
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Citi cuts 4,500 jobs, will take $400 million charge
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Banks seek to avoid Volcker rule " fire sale "
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New York Executives Go to Trial on Charges of Defrauding Amalgamated Bank
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Food/Beverage:
Olive Garden Weighs on Darden
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Bill’s Gay Nineties Saddened By Bankruptcy
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USA Springs loan deal remains elusive
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Photography:
Kodak focusing on avoiding bankruptcy
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Utilities:
Section 366(c)(2): Electric Boogaloo S.D.N.Y. Court Affirms Order Approving Debtors’ Contested Adequate Assurance to Utility Providers
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Southern Montana bankruptcy briefed to Great Falls residents
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Hollywood:
Morgan Creek Co-Chairman Rick Nicita Considers Exit as Deal Winds Down
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Baseball:
Major League Baseball Seeks to Stop Fox From Questioning Selig on Dodgers
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Dodgers subpoena News Corp. President Chase Carey
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Dodgers file MLB settlement with bankruptcy court -- Seek go-ahead on sale
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Non-Profits:
Hyman Jewish Center files for bankruptcy
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Telecoms:
Nokia China Denies Bankruptcy Rumor
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Sporting Goods:
Power Balance name may come off Sacramento Arena
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Bankruptcy Crimes:
No new trial in case of forged judge's order
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Enron:
Second Circuit Denies Enron’s Petition for Rehearing on Commercial Paper Settlement Payment Decision
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Education:
New Harvard Study Tears Apart Conventional Wisdom On Good Schools
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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:
2011 Year in Review: Chekhov’s Gun
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Doral, TMP, MF Global, AMR, Getty, Enron
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Rochelle on Syms-Filene's, Beacon, Selling a Law Firm
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
November Consumer Bankruptcy Filings Drop 12 Percent from Last Year
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NH: Bankruptcy filings reach 3-year low
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Eligibility:
Judge Declares Suffolk OTB Ineligible for Bankruptcy
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Litigation:
Woe Unto the Bankrupt Plaintiff Who Doesn't Schedule the Lawsuit
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Fraud:
Raj Rajaratnam's New Neighbors In Prison Are A Bunch Of High-Level Sex Offenders
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Olympus management 'rotten at the core'
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Executives Organized Olympus Cover-Up, Panel Finds -- Olympus Probe Figure Sells Boca Home to Ex-Wife for $10, Heads to Caymans --- Board signals it will quit
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Wall Street’s Repeat Violations, Despite Promises
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SEC is urged to sue over Stanford victims' claims
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SEC warns on congressional insider trading ban
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Obama wants harsher penalties for securities fraud
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Why No Financial Crisis Prosecutions? Ex-Justice Official Says It’s Just too Hard
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Derivatives:
Taxing Derivatives Gets Capitol Hill Airing
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Trustees:
'Investigative blogger' doesn't get journalist's protection, Portland judge rules - Defamed bankruptcy trustee
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Hotels:
Hotel Lenders Shun Foreclosures as $17.5 Billion in U.S. Loans Come Due
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Autos:
GM to Block Sale of Saab
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Saab says its salvage process is in jeopardy
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Ford Denies Searching for a New CEO
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Advertising:
TMP Directional, Former Monster Worldwide Unit, Files for Bankruptcy
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Retailing:
Consumers Aren't Buying Anymore Unless They See Huge Sales
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Celebs:
Martino fights back in his bankruptcy --- Asks judge to settle case soon
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Brunell emerges from bankruptcy
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Mass Torts:
Plaintiff can't link harmful asbestos exposure to defendant, court rules
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UK:
Woman murdered fiance for lying about his bankruptcy, 'massive debts'
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EU:
Geithner Backs Merkel-Sarkozy Crisis Plan With 'Stronger Firewall' on Debt
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Geithner doesn't see Fed funding IMF euro response
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Europe wrangles worsening debt crisis
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Governments lag firms in planning for euro split
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Banks hoover up dollars from ECB as stress persists
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EU talks on boosting financial firewall
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Bank of Canada: Europe Deteriorating
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S&P threatens euro zone, EU chief urges bigger fund --- EU Leaders Angry ---Five problems with plan --- S&P Tells It Like It Is
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Why Merkel and Sarkozy are kidding themselves --- Merkozy decrees: no more losses
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Merkel’s Path: Brinkmanship for Debt Crisis
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New European Bank Chief Takes a Bold Approach
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Nomura: The Euro Is Going To See A Massive Drop In Value In The Next Four Months
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The euro zone’s terrible mistake
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Arrogance of Elites Could Kill the Euro Union
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How the ECB could be forced to print money
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Taking Note of the Elephant
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Franco-German fiscal plan "promising": S&P
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Europe Shudders at Germany's New-Found Power
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Democracy is on the retreat in Europe
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PIIGS:
Euro Crisis Uncertainty: Anxious Greeks Emptying Their Bank Accounts
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Belt-tightening Greeks Turn to Starvation Cookbook
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Greek State Revenue Plunged In November
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The Dark And Beautiful Graffiti Of Athens' Disaffected Youth
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Creditors Claim Deal was a 'Bleed Out'
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Irish Cuts Economic Growth Forecast as Debt Crisis Escalates --- Unveils New Taxes to Trim Deficit
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Germany:
Another Surprisingly Good German Economic Number
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Australia:
Nick D'Arcy bankruptcy muddies waters for Olympics tilt --- Cost 'cop-out' --- Accusations fly --- Swimmer risks 2012 Olympics over bankruptcy
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Bankruptcy could save D'Arcy from compensating victim
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MENA:
Muslim Bros win first round of Egypt elections
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Rise of the Islamists
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Kazakhstan:
Kazakh regulator expects BTA rescue plans by year-end
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