Law:

Snapshot: Michael McGrail
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BigLaw Bonus Season: Treading Water is a 'Victory'
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Slaughter and May adopts merit-based bonuses --- Linklaters introduces merit-based salary
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Law Firm Managing Partners Expect A Bad Year — For Everyone Else
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A Glimpse at the Legal Profession's Future
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Quality Legal Advice, Service Delivery Top List of Important Issue for In-House Counsel
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Davis Polk's London base tops client rankings for quality of advice
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UK: Hourly rate growth boosts Q2 revenue at top 10
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Business of Law
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BigLaw firm opts for smaller office space in ‘realistic reset’ of real-estate spending
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Holland & Knight refutes Maureen Dunkel’s fraudulent transfer claims
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Ready for Tights with Open-Toe Shoes?
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Economic Diversity in Law Firm Hiring
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Run, Larry, run! BigLaw partner tops his Guinness Book of World Records marathon feat
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Should Law School Applicants Have to Take the LSAT?
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U of Iowa to cut law school tuition 16 percent
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THIS Is What It Looks Like When A Law School Actually Cuts Tuition
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Dean Frank Wu on The Problem of Tuition
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The Evolving Law School: Can We Stop Using Casebooks?
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More on when law school graduates and jobs will be in equilibrium: 2018 or 2019 it is
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$129M law school at ASU’s ‘wildly successful’ Phoenix campus to include biggest US nonprofit firm
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General Counsel Are Feeling Worse About the Economy
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Firm of the Year: Lawyers fear murderous colleagues
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Here's How Often You Should Dry Clean Your Suits
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12 Apps You Need To Use If You Want To Get Stuff Done --- The fastest-growing iPhone app ever
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The Do's And Don'ts You Need To Know About Dating A Colleague
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10 Lawyer Gifty Things Available on Etsy
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Racy Emails Between Citi's Top Economist And The Former NYU Economist Accused Of Stalking Him
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It's Becoming Clear That The NSA's Nightmare Has Just Begun
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Review: Connelly’s new ‘Gods of Guilt’ tops legal drama of Harper Lee Prize-winning ‘Fifth Witness’
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Cut the dog in half! That way each of you can have part of him.
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Top prosecutor faces ethics case over racial remarks that derailed murder trial
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Doctor’s wife is charged in his shooting outside law office after mediation session
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Doctor Love Triangle Goes Terribly Wrong
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The Disturbing Reason 97% Of Federal Drug Defendants Plead Guilty
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The Strange Story Of A Washington Man Who Decided To Start Killing Sex Offenders
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Coffee shop holds food drive for man who stole from tip jar
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Girlfriend 'Playfully' Shoots, Kills Boyfriend
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Say What?!
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Judges:

In Bankruptcy Dispute, ABA Warns of Caseload Consequences
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New bankruptcy court to open
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On the Integrity and Secrecy of Judges
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Why It's A Big Problem When A Supreme Court Justice Uses Google
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Judge’s ‘impatient treatment of litigants’ makes her ill-suited for busy courts, commission says
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Justice O'Connor Sits with Ninth Circuit Panel
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Appellate Court Saves Money by Making Chambers Space Go Farther
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Judge in hot water for fondling lawyer
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Wall Street:

Markets Are Higher Ahead Of Major Jobs Report
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World stocks advance before jobs report
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Asian markets mostly lower after upbeat US data
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US stocks close mixed; Dow extends losing streak into a fourth session
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Suddenly Things Have Gotten A Little More Interesting In The Market
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Layoffs:

Unemployment Won’t Hit 6.5% Until 2015, Fed Research Suggests
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Two Cities With Unemployment Rates North of 25%
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Jobless claims fall sharply
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Fast-food workers strike, protest for higher pay
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5 Ways Small Businesses Can Survive The Future Robot Economy
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Corporate Reform:

Lew calls for 'race to top' on bank reform
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Food/Beverage:

Quiznos tries again to restructure debt
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Brennan's Inc., former owner of the landmark restaurant, is bankrupt
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Investment firm wins auction for SD beef plant
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Real Mex Restaurants Shakes Up Its Front Office
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Olive Garden's New Italian-Style Burger — The Verdict
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Bloomberg Wrote A Vicious Takedown Of One Of Wall Street's Favorite Restaurants
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Workouts:

New Trends In Workouts - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
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Purchase Order Finance Solutions For Companies In Restructuring Or Turnaround
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Banking:

Banks: Forget Too Big to Fail, How About Too Small to Succeed?
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Pigeon:

Galbraith jailed after guilty verdict in Pigeon King scam
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Economy:

US jobless claims plunge to 298k, as layoffs slow
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Today's Jobs Report Is Even More Important Than The Last One — Here's Everything You Need To Know
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Four Things to Know Before the Friday Jobs Report
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Fed's Lockhart Calls for Setting Timetable for Tapering QE
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US GDP Grew 3.6% In Third Quarter, More Than Previously Thought --- Economists React: 'No Momentum' in GDP Report
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US factory orders fall on weak aircraft demand
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Obama Decries U.S. Income Gap That Has Widened Under His Watch --- How Do You Measure ‘Inequality’?
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Fed: US growth stays moderate during shutdown
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So far at least, austerity is winning the war
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Why Is Business Investment Flatlining?
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Senate Leaders Hope to Vote on Yellen This Month
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Why Buying Presents For The Holidays Makes No Economic Sense
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

Freddie Mac: 30-year mortgage rate 4.46%; highest since September
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Four Ways Mel Watt Could Change Housing Policy
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Investor Purchases Ebb in More Housing Markets
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Boost in New-Home Sales Greeted With Skepticism
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Citigroup, Wells Fargo Accused by L.A. of Discrimination
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Municipalities:

Judge Puts Detroit Bankruptcy Ruling On Paper: ‘The City Needs Help’ --- Detroit bankruptcy document: Causes, objections and findings detailed in court opinion --- The Opinion
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Detroit Pension Debt Not Special in Judge's Written Ruling
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Miller Canfield Denies Conflict in Detroit Assignment
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Judge urges compromise in Detroit bankruptcy case
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Meet Gerald Rosen, The Judge Who Is Trying To Save Detroit
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Union Seeks to Speed Up Detroit Bankruptcy Appeal
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Detroit pension board trustees walk out of meeting during vote on legal contract
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Advisers help public employee clients prepare for sharp decline in pension benefits --- Why Is There No Empathy For The Detroit Pensioners?
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Given the green light
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Bankruptcy might be Detroit's saving grace
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Rand Paul has ideas to help out Detroit
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Suburbs balk at Orr's water deal
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Sell artwork to pay creditors --- Will the DIA survive Detroit's bankruptcy ? --- Spinning off museum from city could save art, pensions --- Should a city 'monetize' its arts collection? --- Detroit's Plan to Sell City Art Faces Resistance --- Nowling: We're open to debt restructuring ideas that protect the arts --- Millionaire to give $5M toward protecting DIA art and Detroit pensions; who's next? --- Rivera Mural Protected From Detroit Bankruptcy Sale
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Obama, Detroit, and the New Gilded Age
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Puncturing public pensions
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Pension Theft: Class War Goes to the Next Stage
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Detroit bankruptcy forges ahead -- who will foot the bill?
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Appeals Process Begins for Determination of Detroit’s Bankruptcy Eligibility
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How Graffiti Could Save Detroit
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Where Detroit has gone, will others follow?
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Illinois Slouches Toward Bankruptcy
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California City's Return to Solvency, With Pension Problem Unsolved
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Cities blink in fight with CalPERS
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Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner on Detroit's bankruptcy: Pensions are no longer untouchable
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Jacksonville's pension reform task force agrees pension reform may cost taxpayers -- but bankruptcy is off the table
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Day of reckoning on public pensions
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Munis Set for Back-to-Back Annual Losses, Barclays Says
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The Safest City In The US And The Most Dangerous City In The World Are Only 300 Feet Apart
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Fraud:

A Hedcut Above? Bernie Madoff Didn’t Think So
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Madoff ‘Schtup’ File Enriched Top Investors, Jury Told
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Acquitted on most counts, attorney nonetheless faces hefty sentence in $1B insurance fraud scheme
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SAC Manager Steinberg Warned Analyst the Walls Have Ears
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Tyco’s Kozlowski Says He’s Responsible for Crimes
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Autos:

Ford's Mulally talks bankruptcy on Colbert Report
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GM withdrawing Chevrolet from Europe
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Aviation:

A Thank You from Tom Horton --- American CEO Horton tells workers successful restructuring and merger "all happened because of you"
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S&P Downgrades Qantas Airlines to Junk Status
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With American-US Airways merger, airline landscape reshaped
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Here's What An Intense Crosswind Can Do To A Boeing 777 Trying To Land
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These Are Your Rights If Winter Weather Cancels Your Flight
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Plastics:

Consolidated Container completes Shelburne acquisition
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Bankruptcy Crimes:

Californian Sentenced to 10 Months in Foreclosure Scam
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Hockey:

Report: NHL to pay Gretzky $8 million from his Phoenix Coyotes tenure
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Awards:

US Benchmark annual litigation awards 2014 shortlist announced
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Health Care:

Right to Recoup Medicare Overpayments Doesn’t Create Claim
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Personal Finance:

11 Things You're Better Off Buying Used
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Politics:

What you missed in the Elizabeth Warren vs Third Way battle
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Elizabeth Warren and Centrist Democrats Are Already at War
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Senator Chuck Schumer Lives Like a College Frat Boy
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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 (12 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (26 new filings today)
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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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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Where Have All the Bankruptcies Gone?
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Bankruptcy Filings On Pace for Six Year Low
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Subrogation:

Practical Problems With Purchase-Money Security Interests And Equitable Subrogation
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Turnarounds:

A Successful Formula For A Lab Turnaround
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The Distressed Skilled Nursing Facility: From Disaster To Turnaround
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Plan Confirmation:

A Shift In The Balance Of Power Between Lenders And Borrowers In Bankruptcy
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Bankruptcy Research:

W&L Law Professor Margaret Howard to Lead Major ABI Research Project On Individual Chapter 11s
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Cross-Border:

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Bankruptcy Court’s Decision in Qimonda
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Miscellaneous:

Bill on Bankruptcy: Delaware Garners Almost All Big Chapter 11s
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Property of the Estate:

Limitations Imposed Upon the 'in Pari Delicto' Defense
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Lehman:

Lehman To Sell DE Shaw Stake
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Litigation:

U.S. SC sides with Va. business in case over forum-selection clause
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Retailing:

Bankruptcy Judge Clears Sale of Edwin Watts Retail Chain
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Electricity:

When will Luminant file for bankruptcy ?
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Gas Stations:

Getty Petroleum Creditors Sue Former Owners for $6 Million - 'Grossly Insolvent'
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Private Equity:

A Whistleblower Is Looking To Take Away Private Equity's 'Crack Cocaine'
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IP:

Atari gets court approval for plan to exit bankruptcy
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Resorts:

Scrub Island Resort Owner Wants to Keep Fight in Bankruptcy Court
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10 Questions: The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort
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Hedge Funds:

Investors In Eddie Lampert's Hedge Fund Are Jumping Ship
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Telecoms:

Dish's Ergen Defends His Lightsquared Debt Purchases as Smart
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LightSquared Asks Judge Not to Toss Suit Against Dish, Ergen
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Sovereigns:

U.S. Backs Argentina at High Court in Bank Subpoena Case
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UK:

Property Companies Urged To Get Wise On Insolvency As Retailers Fold
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Britain to close hedge fund tax loopholes
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EU:

Europe's Solyndra and the Beauty of Bankruptcy
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PIIGS:

Rajoy to Rescue Highway Billionaires Who Bet on Boom
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Seán Quinn feels 'stupid' for getting too involved in Anglo --- Sean Quinn: “I was a bold boy, I accept that” --- Quinn: 'It never crossed my mind banks would go bust' --- Dunne fails in Irish bankruptcy application
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Canada:

Preferential Payments: Commercial Imperative Or Creditor Pressure?
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Germany:

Germany's central bank lifts growth forecast
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Brazil:

OSX-OGX Joint Bankruptcy Process Blocked by Court, Acciona Says
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OSX, bondholders in talks to delay interest payment
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Brazil utility Rede Energia files for bankruptcy protection
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Russia:

Putin urges adoption of individual bankruptcy law
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MENA:

Debt-laden Dubai World sells Atlantis hotel to state firm
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