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Law:
Kasowitz Benson Reaps Borders' Bankruptcy Cash; More Firms on the Case
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Howreying for the Exits: More Partner Departures, and Bootcamp Gets the Boot
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Who Will Milk Fees From Howrey's Mammoth Antitrust Case?
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Bonus Watch: WilmerHale Jumps Into Merit-Based Spring Bonuses
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Record High Partner Profits for Baker Botts in 2010
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Foley & Lardner Partner Sues Firm, Attaches Partnership Agreement to His Complaint
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Foley & Lardner Sued for Bias, Breach of Contract by Founding Detroit Partner
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Supreme Court Rules First Amendment Protects Westboro’s Funeral Protesters from Tort Suits
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5 New Partners Discuss What It Took to Reach Career Milestone
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Administrator for Law Firm Portrayed in ‘Erin Brockovich’ Has 50K Twitter Followers
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The power game
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Attention Shoppers
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Web Of Apparent Lies Brings Down Attorney
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Dodgers Owner McCourt's Ex-Wife Seeks Documents on Baseball Team Finances
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Will Other Global Firms Follow Clifford Chance to Oz?
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Trainee Retention Rate at UK Top 30 Firms Rises Over Last Year
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Small Firms, Big Lawyers: Don’t Be an Extension D-----
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Time to Purchase the iPad 2?
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The Future of Legal Education: Stop Resisting and Get Creative
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Law Schools That Will Get You Into Biglaw On The Cheap
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Jokes / Torts 101: A Woman, A Banana Peel, And…?
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Defense Lawyer’s Effort to Discredit Informant By Arranging Drug Buy Gets Attorney Convicted
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The Top 5 Steps for Delousing Your Law Firm :))
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Sheen: "I'm More Famous Than Obama!"
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Couple In Cuffs After Facebook Defriending
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Police Dog Alerted To Crack
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Mug Shots
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Teen Burglar Kills Goldfish Because He Didn't Want To Leave Any Witnesses, Cops Say
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Judges:
Fees Could Keep Courts Open for a Few Weeks in a Government Shutdown
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Kansas Appeals Court Tells Lawyer His Oft-Repeated Argument Is ‘Legally Vacuous’
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Judiciary Scales Back Budget Proposal, Raises Possibility of Layoffs
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Supreme Court justices are talking more
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Round 2: The Goodwin Liu Confirmation Slugfest
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Did DA, When Formerly Serving as Judge, Inflate Trial Stats via ‘Pick-and-Plea’ Technique?
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Wall Street:
Stock index futures point to early gains
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Strong Jobs Report Pushes Shares Higher
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Stocks manage gains
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SEC Proposes Slashing Wall Street Pay
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Judge Unexpectedly Imprisons Goldman Programmer
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Goldman Evokes Blood Sucking Leeches
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Layoffs:
Private sector added 217,000 jobs in February
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Announced U.S. Job Cuts Rose 20% From Year Ago
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Job Cuts Reach An 11-Month High Of 50,702
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Wage Growth Picks Up to Two-Year High
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Agencies Fine and Sue Companies That Purported to Aid Jobless
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Gambling:
California's Indian casinos slowly recovering from recession
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In a first for Indian casinos, revenue has fallen
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Textbooks:
Nebraska Book Said to Weigh Bankruptcy as Debt Maturities Loom
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Food/Drink:
Supplements Maker Eniva Files for Chapter 11
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Gas City Owner Looks To Sell Creamery Ice Cream Chain To Son
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Parmalat Net Income Falls on Declining Settlements; Proposes Bonus Shares
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Municipalities:
Alabama county in talks to hire turnaround firm
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Debt-Laden Jefferson County Near Hiring FTI Consulting
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Beleaguered Idaho County Seeks Chapter 9 Protection
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Boise County Says Bankruptcy is Only Option
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Cities For Rent And For Sale
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Vallejo retirees speak up about bankruptcy plan
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Massachusetts Recovery Jittery
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When Governors Say No to Federal Crack
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The Hollow Cry of ‘Broke’
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Bernanke: No Quick End to State Budget Woes
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GOP: Health Overhaul Will Cost States $118B
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Johnny Can't Read Teacher's Plush Contract
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Why You Should Stop Worrying And Love Muni Bonds
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Roubini Says Get Out Of Municipal Bonds
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For Muni-Bond Market, Calm After Storm
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How Big Is the Pension Funding Gap?
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State Tax Breaks For Seniors On The Chopping Block
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Video Rentals:
Blockbuster Judge Calls Sale Proposal 'Aggressive'
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Blockbuster Creditors Agree to Standstill on Opposition to Sale Proposal
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Blockbuster Should Liquidate Instead of Reorganize
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Trucking:
Fitch set to downgrade YRC Worldwide
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Health Care:
Men may be facing a depressing future
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Small Business:
Why Wall Street Lobbyists Want to Scare Small Businesses
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Tax:
Credit Suisse Banker Bagios Denied Release From U.S. Custody in Tax Case
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House To Vote On 1099 Repeal Bill
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DOJ Targets ‘Visionary Tax Attorney,’ Says Calif. Lawyer Is Promoting Illegal Tax Shelters
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Student Debt:
Disabled Former Cop in Student Loan Story Gets Her Debt Forgiven
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Accounting:
Big Four domination creates dearth of expert witnesses
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Ticketing:
Fort Worth ticket broker Ticket Stock files for bankruptcy
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Economy:
Bernanke under fire again on Capitol Hill
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Highlights: Bernanke's testimony to House panel
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Fed's 'beige book' shows improvement in US economy, moderate growth
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Fed Reports Growth in All Parts of US
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US Business Under Pressures to Raise Prices
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Factory Orders Outpace Inventories
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Bernanke Doesn't Rule Out More Bond Buying to Aid Economy
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Poll: Support Lacking for Entitlement Reductions
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Poll Shows Budget-Cuts Dilemma
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Is the New York Fed Making a Big Mistake?
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It's time to end the party of easy money
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US crude ends near 2-1/2 high on Libya fighting
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Oil Prices are Too High. Period
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IEA: The Age of Cheap Oil is Over
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Lack of Information, Not Oil, Driving Prices
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Ally Begins to Repay Bailout as Treasury Prices $2.7B TruPS Stake
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MetLife securities sale will expedite AIG payments to Treasury: AIG
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Investors pull billions from emerging markets
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Obama administration sees unsettled home prices keeping market down
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Long Live the American Dream
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What Global Markets Say About U.S. Default Risk
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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:
Pilot Program Aims to Promote Representation in Foreclosures
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Feb House Price Fall Biggest in a Year
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Treasury, HUD Lobby to Save Foreclosure Prevention Programs
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Treasury spends 3% of HAMP funds as of February
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Big Banks Say MERS Mortgage Database Draws Probes
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Foreclosuregate settlement: Is $20 billion too much or too little?
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Officials Disagree on Penalties for Mortgage Mess
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The Foreclosure Fraud Settlement
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Is the Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Overbroad?
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Bank of America to write down mortgages under Hardest Hit Fund
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Community banks push back on mortgage market reforms
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Lander Introduces Bill Requiring Banks to Post Bonds on Foreclosed Homes
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Prime loans sour
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Fannie directs servicers toward new foreclosure attorneys, away from trustees
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Obama Administration Defends Housing Bailout
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White House plan to help borrowers could die in House
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House members spar over efforts to avert foreclosures
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Foreclosure For Sale: $7
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Is Requiring 20 % Down on Mortgages Too Much?
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Homebuilders Will Be Hurt by 20% Down Payment Rule
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Lenders holding back critical information at mediations
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Motion to liquidate THP assets withdrawn
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Three more Wunsch partnerships in bankruptcy
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CMBS delinquency slows most since financial crisis, still hits record high
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The Multifamily CMBS Paradox
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For Distressed Investors, There is No Where To Go But Up
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Three Deals that Capture the Current State of Distressed Investing
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A Statistical Look at Distress Levels
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Regulators Reassure Lawmakers That Banks' CRE Distress Has Not Hit a Tipping Point
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San Francisco Office Market Rebounds
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Autos:
Old GM comes to end of road
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Auto Heads See China Fast Growth Risks
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Canadian Judge Clears Way for Ex-Dealers to Sue GM
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Fraud:
UBS Says Madoff Trustee Might Make Privacy 'Illusory'
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The Next Test for the Madoff Trustee
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Madoff’s Dirty Money
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Report: Mets owners face more Madoff allegations
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Madoff Investor Sues U.S. for Negligence, Seeks $270,000
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Court gestures
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Ex-Colonial Bank exec pleads guilty in fraud case
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The £1bn-plus HBOS Fraud Investigation That Lloyds Keeps Trying to Brush Under the Carpet
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Potential Raj Jurors In Court To Fill Out ‘Hardship’ Questionnaires
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Raj Rajaratnam Did Not Appreciate Having An Employee Question His Goldman Inside Information
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Insider Trading Suspect Jiau Ordered Jailed Because of Risk She Would Flee
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Hecker broke, jailed — and married?
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Celeb Ponzi schemer Kenneth Starr sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison
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Private Equity:
Battered Bonds a Berkshire Blemish
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Mail:
Postal Service Faces Financial Crisis, GAO Warns
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Regulators work overtime on USPS bid to drop Saturday delivery
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Compensation:
SEC Backs Rule That Would Delay Executive Bonuses
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BP Withholds Majority of 2010 Bonus Payments
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Retailing:
Borders seeks more time to decide which leases to keep
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Retailer Loehmann's making a fresh start
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Lack's store-closing sales take in $35 million
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Gahanna's Creekside Facing Foreclosure
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Lehman:
Lehman Execs Strike $2M Settlement With American Eagle, Tribe
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There but for the Grace of Lehman…
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Mobile Homes:
Fleetwood closer to Palm Harbor purchase
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Derivatives:
The impact of CDS on restructurings
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The big deal about the NYSE's big deal: Derivatives
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Debt Collection:
Woman Crushed To Death By Own Car -- Trying To Stop Repossession
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Celebs:
Creditors could win from Michael Vick contract
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Many NFL Players Live Paycheck to Paycheck
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Celebrity Accountant Heads to Jail
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Jailed Wesley Snipes Appeals His Tax Convictions To The Supremes
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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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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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Insurance:
Through the Looking Glass With Ambac
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Rules Won’t ‘Squeeze Out’ Mortgage Insurers
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A.I.G. Fetches $9.6 Billion for MetLife Holdings
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
WD TX bankruptcy filings inch up
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Substantive Consolidation:
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Corporate Reform:
Elizabeth Warren still worried about banking system
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GOP warming to Elizabeth Warren
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Does Industry Cry Wolf on Regulations?
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Wait Until CFPB Director is Confirmed to Issue Rules say Business Groups
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Making The Case For Elizabeth Warren
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Why Barofsky Mattered
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On way out, TARP watchdog takes a few more jabs at Timothy Geithner
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A Straightforward Criminal Case Against Wall Street CEOs and Senior Executives
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Dodd-Frank: SEC Goes After Big Game
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Private Equity’s ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards
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Hedge Funds, Brokers May Face Fresh Calls for Risk Data
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Banking:
SEC Probes Bank-Loan Practices
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Honesty for Banks Is Still Such a Lonely Word
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A Test Where the Banks Had the Questions and the Answers
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What’s Behind Banks New Legal Risk Disclosures
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Mass Torts:
Gone Fishin’? Lawyers Say You May Qualify For a Check from BP
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Satellites:
Harbinger Offer Sets Back DBSD $1.1 Billion Sale To Dish Network
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DBSD Judge Postpones Hearing on Dish Deal After Rival Bid
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Sales:
The limits of Section 363(f) to protect buyers from successor liability
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Non-Profits:
New York Bankruptcy Case Leads to 9/11 Charity Partnership
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UK:
Bank of England: Anger at Banks is Justified
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Banks write off 25% more debt
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Crisis Deepens At Struggling Music Retail Chain HMV
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Winding Up Petitions - 2 March 2011
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U.K. Construction Expanded at Fastest Pace in Eight Months in February
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U.K. services growth slows in February, PMI shows
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U.K. House Prices Fall as Supply of Properties Surges Most in Three Years
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KPMG arranges second CVA at JJB Sports
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JJB Sports Offers Landlords Sop to Back Rescue Plan
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EU:
March Madness for EU Summits
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ECB reviews bank support, to talk tough on inflation
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Euro-zone retail sales rise 0.4%; GDP unrevised
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Trichet Faces Oil Shock That May Damp Growth, Fuel Inflation
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Merkel Digs In on Bailout Terms as Discord Mars EU Crisis Talks
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Canada:
Ponzi scheme renews calls for national securities regulator
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Fortress Energy says CRA's demand for $9 million pushed it to seek protection
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Germany:
Projected Reform of German Insolvency Law: Recapitalization instead of Liquidation of Companies?
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German Retail Sales Increases for a Second Month as Unemployment Declines
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Middle East:
US mulling military options in Libya
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The Legal Implications of Military Intervention in Libya
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Libya : Could a Military Intervention Backfire?
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Concerned neighbors warn against foreign intervention in Libya
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Some Libyans Want Foreign Intervention
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Qaddafi Vows to Fight to the 'Last Man'
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Panic on borders
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Rebels rout Gadhafi force attack on oil port
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Gadhafi Forces Bomb Rebel-Held Oil Town
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Rebels Weather Qaddafi's Bombs, Seek Foreign Airstrikes
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Qaddafi's African Dream in Tatters as Net Tightens Around `King of Kings'
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Astonishing wealth of Gaddafi and his family revealed
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Gates: Libyan no-fly zone means attacking Libya
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China Signals Potential Opposition to No-Fly Zone Over Libya
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Top US officials cautious on Libya no-fly zone
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Libya : Spending oil money across the globe
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Libya's Billions Invested In US Private Equity, Big Banks
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Oil Declines Most in a Week on Arab League's Libya Crisis Resolution Plan
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Dubai Stocks Extends Drop on Concern Mideast Unrest May Spread
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Egypt Prime Minister Resigns
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Mubarak Hospitalized in Saudi Arabia
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The Reported Truce In Yemen Is Falling Apart As Details Of The Plan Reach The Protesters
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Saudi King’s $15 Billion Housing Grant Won’t Eliminate Shortage
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PIGS:
New Government Will Have To Abide By Deal, Says Rehn
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Department Repeated Warnings About Risks To Economy
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Portugal, Greece Ratings Kept on Negative Outlook by S&P on Debt Concerns
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Rogoff Says Debt Restructuring ‘Inevitable’ in Greece, Ireland
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Young, Greek and unemployed
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