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Law:
Alabama's Jefferson County Hires Bankruptcy Lawyer Klee
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Brian Resnick Moves From Broadway to Bankruptcy
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New York A.G. Defends Law Firms Against Outside Investors
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Judge Compels Arbitration in Secretary's Suit Against O'Melveny
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Lawyers look petty suing legal self-help website
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"Ford Fusion" fees are benchmark in fee awards
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Firm was 'wrong' to ask summer student to do an all-nighter
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Some of BigLaw Firm's Defenses to Allegations It Discriminated Against Older Lawyers Tossed
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BLP Partner Files Breach of Privacy Claim Against News of the World
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Quinn Emanuel Associates May Dress Casual, But Work in ‘Winner-Take-All’ Environment
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A Young Lawyer's Guide to Professional Dress
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Yet Another Reason To Go Solo
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From Associate to Solo -- Don't Overestimate Your Value
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Firms to be required to publish diversity data on websites
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Not All Legal Work Done Sitting Down, Judge Says in Lawyer's Disability-Benefits Case
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Lawyers Hit The Waves To Cool Off Tensions
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Could a Harvard Law Grad Go to Jail for Failing to Pay What He Owes?
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On-Campus Interviewing: Is Anybody Coming To See 3Ls?
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Extreme Makeover: Law School Edition
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With Don't Ask, Don't Tell's Demise, Law Schools Drop Military Recruiter Bans
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Is Your Significant Other an iPhone?
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Even a Solo Can Have a Clever Mobile App
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50 Legal Innovators Named
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The Time for Legal and IT to Work Together is Before a Litigation Crisis Hits
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Oops. Lawyer Pays Bar Dues with Trust Account Check, Is Reprimanded
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Lawyer Suspended for Unkept Promises to Homeowners Facing Foreclosure
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Lawyer Accused of Harassing Employee, Asking Her to Wear Swimsuit to the Office
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Lawyer Says Opposing Counsel Broke His Arm
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Tourette’s Doesn’t Interfere with Public Role for New General Counsel at ACC
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Lawyer’s Abandoned Laptop Bag Shuts Down JFK Terminal
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The Brewing Battle Over the Ground Zero Cross
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How Many Kids Can You Have And Still Be High-School Valedictorian?
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Wal-Mart Goes Nuclear Over Chicken Necks; Newlyweds Lose House; Husband Deported
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Judges:
"A five gallon bucket of porcupines"
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A priceless win at the Supreme Court? No, it has a price.
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Justice Ginsburg Lists Term’s Perplexing Oral Argument Questions
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Wilmer Partner Headed for Judgeship
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'Birther' Lawyer Rebuked by Federal Judge Over Filing Errors
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Wall Street:
Stock index futures mixed
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Stocks Tail Off on Debt Ceiling Gridlock
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Layoffs:
The Help-Wanted Sign Comes With a Frustrating Asterisk
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What's Wrong With America's Job Engine?
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Texas Bucks US Unemployment Trend
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Unemployed Boomers Struggle to Get By
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Municipalities
Jefferson County, Ala., Hires Bankruptcy Lawyer
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Jefferson County Commission hires national bankruptcy expert Kenneth Klee
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'80 percent' chance that Alabama's largest county will declare bankruptcy
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Should Jefferson County File Bankruptcy?
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Ala county faces biggest bankruptcy ever
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The 5 States Where Americans Pay the Most (and Least) in Taxes
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Aggressive Calif. Ceiling on Property Tax Lacks a Floor, So Gov’t Revenue Plunges With Home Values
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California Seeks $5B ’Bridge’ Loan to Pay Bills
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Fraud:
Toronto-Dominion bank sued by trustee liquidating Rothstein law firm
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Citigroup Asks Bankruptcy Judge to Reject $430 Million Madoff Trustee Suit
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Trustee for Victims of Madoff's Scheme Hones Arguments Against Mets' Owners
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Chasing Madoff
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Judge rejects plea bargain in huge alleged Utah Ponzi scheme
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NBA players, college coaches embroiled in Salinas investment scandal
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More names tied to Salinas are uncovered
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Parties seek to keep cash donated by Ponzi suspect
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SEC, nonprofit investor group clash in Stanford case
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Autos:
GM Bankruptcy 'Unusually Inexpensive'
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Auto investors left out in the cold
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Russian Mogul Pulls Electric Car from Financial Wreckage
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Saab Can't Pay Workforce Again
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Group of Saab Creditors Demand Debt be Paid
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Economy:
US consumer confidence ticks higher
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Americans' debt rage boils over
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Obama to Banks: We're Not Defaulting
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Treasuries Rise as Debt Ceiling Optimism Increases Two-Year Auction Demand
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On All Levels of the Economy, Concern About the Impasse
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Can Treasury just go overdrawn at the Fed?
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House GOP revolts against Boehner plan
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Conservatives squeeze Boehner on debt limit hike
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Republican introduces bill to prioritize debt in case of default
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U.S. May Have Way to Cover Bills After Deadline, for Week
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Eric Cantor to fellow GOPers: Quit your whining about debt ceiling and support Speaker Boehner
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U.S. likely to lose top rating: economists
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Experts predict $100 billion downgrade cost
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How a U.S. Debt Downgrade May Affect Consumers
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Obama team threatens to veto Boehner debt plan
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Obama vs. Boehner
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Obama's mystifying debt speech
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Obama's Ratings Hit Record Low
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Barack Obama, John Boehner and the fight for the middle class
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Debt crisis talks reach an impasse
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IMF head Lagarde warns 'clock ticking' on US debt deal
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Are the Bush Tax Cuts the Root of Our Fiscal Problem?
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How Harry Reid caused the debt-ceiling debacle
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White House aide: Not raising debt limit could lead to a depression
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Mo Money, Mo Problems: Songs for the Standoff
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What a downgrade would mean
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US Rating Downgrade is Now 'Base Case'
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Betting $4.8 billion on a US default
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Housing bust, recession hit minorities hardest: study
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National Debt Clock Prepared for Multiple Scenarios
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Trump: Let's Default to Get Rid of Obama
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QE3 may do markets more harm than good
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Fed's Hoening: Fed Policy Helps Wall St. Banks
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Why This Crisis Isn't Different
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6 Likely Social Security Changes
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The American Dream Further Out of Reach
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FSB Issues Recommendations on Global Resolution Planning
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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:
Charging Fees to Bring Mortgage Litigation: Fair or Foul?
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Delaware Attorney General Said to Investigate Mortgage Database MERS
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Bringing the big banks to justice, one mortgage at a time
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Mortgage Servicer Settlement Update
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LPS finds new business from mortgage servicer crackdown
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Coakley steps up probe into foreclosure fraud
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Massachusetts to Spurn Any Foreclosure Accord With Some Liability Releases
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States Balk at Banks Foreclosure Deal
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California Launches Assault On The Single-Family Home
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Ocwen unveils new principal reduction program
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Housing Double Dip: Is it Over?
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US home price rise fails to lift housing gloom
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Nondistressed home prices stabilizing
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A Look at Case-Shiller, by Metro Area
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The 19 Cities Where Housing Is Worse Than It Was Last Year
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June homes sales in Las Vegas up from May, down from year earlier
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US Housing Prices Remain Weak
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S. FL home prices rise slightly, still down 5% in a year
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Freddie completed more than 10,000 mortgage mods in June
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Home Prices 'Bouncing Along The Bottom' Case-Shiller Shows
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Lehman Cranks Up Sales as Prices Rise
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Developers pick up pieces from losses, start again
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Adverse possession amid the foreclosure crisis
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Inspirada Owner OK'd to Tap Loan From Builders
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Corporate Reform:
Warren to leave CFPB Aug. 1
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Amid Senate Rumors, Warren Heads Back to Cambridge
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Raj Date to replace Elizabeth Warren
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To Buttress Consumer Bureau, a Compromise
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George Soros dumps investors to avoid new financial regulations
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George Soros: Why Is He Pulling Back?
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In Bowing Out, Soros Takes Cheap Shot At Regulators
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Baseball:
Why Frank McCourt Has His Eyes Glued to the New York Mets
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Mail:
Nearly 3700 post offices may close
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Post Office List of Potential Closures
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Aviation:
Ryanair sees small airlines going bust on high oil
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(3 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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UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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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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Bankruptcy Reform:
Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Venue Reform Act of 2011 (H.R.2533)
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Trustees:
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Insurance:
Ambac Financial Agrees to Extend Plan Settlement Deadline
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Mass Torts:
Brief Calls BP Compensation Process an ‘Abject Failure,’ Seeks Special Master
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Anadarko open to BP spill settlement talks
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Building Materials:
WR Grace raises earnings outlook, eyes bankruptcy exit
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Electricity:
Judge to rule this week on Dynegy restructuring
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Food/Beverage:
Harim USA is highest bidder for Allen Family Foods assets
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Jobs up in air as judge makes Allen Family Foods ruling
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Health Care:
Man attempts surgery on his hernia with butter knife
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Hospital Bills Dead Woman $9.2 million
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Celebs:
Maguire's poker suit heads to trial
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Lehman:
Goldman Sachs Said to Buy Lehman Claims at Two-Thirds Discount
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Lehman Cranks Up Sales
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Orchestras:
The Philadelphia Orchestra's bankruptcy bills have grown by $750,000
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Trucking:
US: Truck Tonnage Up in June
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IMF:
Lagarde: IMF May Need More Financial Resources to Tackle Crises
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UK:
One in 60 face bankruptcy in the UK
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CBI factory order balance falls in July , morale weakens
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South West insolvencies soar
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Distressed deals continue to fall
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Insolvencies set to increase in the short to medium term
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Blubbing Fergie hits a new low
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Appointment of Administrators - 26 July 2011
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Winding Up Petitions - 26 July 2011
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EU:
European Banks Slash Jobs
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PIIGS:
Italian, Spanish Bonds Drop on Concern European Aid May Not Be Sufficient
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Banco Santander Profit Falls 38%
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Deutsche, HSBC, BNP advising Greece on bond swap
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Bailout Will Add to Greek Debt
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Fund of €10m to assist Superquinn suppliers
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Japan:
Process for TEPCO bankruptcy should start immediately
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Cyprus:
Moody's downgrades Cyprus by 2 notches
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Australia:
Two Opes Prime directors sent to jail
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Opes Prime creditor says jailed directors 'got off lightly'
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Argentina:
2nd Circuit Rules for Bondholder Blocking Argentina Brady Bond Swap
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