Law:
Patton Boggs lets go 65 attorneys and staff; 23 in Washington --- No partners get pink slips --- Layoff Watch: Patton Boggs Blows Folks Out the Door --- As profits fall, Patton Boggs lays off 65
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Bonus Watch: Sharing the Wealth at O’Melveny & Myers
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Ex-Jenkens & Gilchrist Lawyer Gets 8 Years in Tax Case --- Ordered to pay $190M
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Norton Rose issues warning shot to underperforming partners
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SJ Berwin launches capital consultation with partners
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Law firm billing contract lawyers at $1K hourly must reveal what they were paid, federal judge says
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Hogan Lovells sees global revenues dip as PEP falls 6% --- Blames foreign exchange for revenue and profits dip
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Coudert bankruptcy administrator shines light on unclaimed funds
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Milbank, Fried Frank, Morgan Lewis, Venable: Business of Law
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Women Partner Watch 2013: Gaining Ground
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She’s Trading Her MG for a White Chrysler LeBaron
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Court rules AIG settlement belongs to Dreier law firm estate
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Law firms wage war of ad-search words in court
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Clash of the Biglaw Titans: Ted Olson and David Boies Meet in Second Circuit Showdown
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Ten Things Your Law Firm Boss Wants You To Know, But Isn’t Going to Tell You
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JD: Trust me, I'm a doctor
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Former Client Sues Two Lawyers, K&L Gates Over Deal
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In Houston, Reed Smith Nabs 12 Partners From Texas Firms
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Using Michigan Law’s ‘Debt Wizard’ Should Be Part Of The LSAT Games Section --- One Law School Reveals The Scary Reality Of Paying Back Massive Debt
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The Georgetown University Law Center for Bagels and Lox?
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Conflicts of Interest Are Just Classier With English Accents
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Cory Booker: The Perfect Wingman for This Seyfarth Shaw Associate
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Life Inside the Aaron Swartz Investigation
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Anheuser-Busch faces bad buzz from "watered beer" lawsuits
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Birthday Boy, 44, Battered Father With Cookie Cake
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Would-be carjacker crawled away after lawyer knocked him down and kicked him, police report says
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Jury Goofs Blamed as Judge Tosses $1B Award in Apple-Samsung Fight
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Ex-Con Accused of Sneaking Into NYC Jails
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New indictment accuses jailed lawyer of defrauding utility of millions
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Feds Say Man Deserved Arrest Because Jacket Said 'Occupy Everything'
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Woman Says Boss Slapped Her in the Face With . . .s
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Don't hate me because I'm beautiful
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9 out of every 10 successful robberies require a gender-appropriate Halloween mask :)
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Neighbor from hell, 78, ripped out homeowner's flowers in fight over a squirrel she thought was trained to enter her garden
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Attorney and father-of-two leaps to his death off traffic bridge on day he's due to begin 3.5 year jail sentence for bribing a judge
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Police Dog Accidentally Fires Gun During Search
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Manhattan Escort Breaks Her Back After Jumping From A Sixth Floor Apartment To Escape Alleged Kidnappers
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Man calls 911 nine times for cheeseburger
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Say What?!
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Judges:
Sandra Day O'Connor: Retired but hardly at rest
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Rebuked by Sotomayor, Texas Prosecutor Defends Reasoning Behind 'Poorly Posed' Question
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Welcome to Food Court
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Lawyer convicted in judge bribery case dies in apparent suicide as another is found guilty
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Woman Who Flipped Off A Judge Now Receives Applause From The Bench (And An Apology From Me)
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Cases Halted As Five Lawyers Become Trapped In Upstairs Room At Court
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2 cats roam courthouse dome, tasked with scaring pigeons away
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Birmingham attorney appointed to Supreme Court of Palau, an island nation in Pacific Ocean
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Wall Street:
US stock futures on track for lower start
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U.S. Stocks Gain for Week as Data Offset Budget, Italy
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Odds are High Stocks Will Fall 40% by Fall
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Zimmerman: Market is Going to Tank
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Look Out, Wall Street: The Goldman Sachs Partners Ball Is Back
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Phil Falcone Maintains ‘Absolute Lawfulness’ Of Lending Himself A Hundred Mill From Investor Fund
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Buffett underperformed the S&P last year
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Wall Street's Other Side: Red Bull, Cold Calls
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Layoffs:
Washington morass fails to stop jobs improvement
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Mayor Bloomberg Agrees With Marissa Mayer, Says Telecommuting Is Dumb
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The 13 Best Resignation Letters Of All Time
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Labor:
How Marissa Mayer Figured Out Work-At-Home Yahoos Were Slacking Off
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How To Say ‘No’ To Your Boss
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The Best-Paying Jobs For Women In 2013
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Lehman:
Jamie Dimon Claims He Tried To Save Lehman Brothers In 2008
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Seven Post-Lehman Lessons
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Retailing:
A Depressing Visit to JC Penny
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Metals:
Ormet struggled to find buyers, filings show
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Oil/Gas:
Creditor accuses former Delta Petroleum chief Parker of taking data
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Celebs:
Faded jeans magnate loses bid to escape involuntary bankruptcy
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Hollywood:
Rhythm & Hues Bankruptcy Status Update Shows No Decision on Warner Bros. Films
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Mass Torts:
BP Wins Bid for Access to Transocean Oil-Spill Insurance
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Municipalities:
Opinions Mixed As State Takeover Looms In Detroit
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Detroit Needs State Manager to End Crisis, Governor Says
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State takeover begins as Gov. Rick Snyder taps Detroit city manager --- Detroit is largest US city targeted for state takeover --- Gets Emergency Manager after $14B in Liabilities
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Phil Power: Bankruptcy Is The Only Way to Fix Detroit's Finances --- Detroit's leaders have forgotten what really matters --- Oakland County's L. Brooks Patterson on Detroit's finances --- A Detroit emergency manager : 6 keys to making it work --- Bing And Council Still Search For 'A Way To Fix This' Without Emergency Manager --- Detroit needs a professional city manager
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Detroit: Motoring towards disaster
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Madrid-Waddington considers another staff cut to slow down insolvency
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Hamden pension fund would be bankrupt in 5 years
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Broke Cities
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The 10 Most Miserable States In America
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MuniBK News Roundup
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Mining:
Bankruptcy filing won't stop operations at Hollister
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Pensions:
PBGC To Bridge Gap In Revstone Unit's Pension Plan
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Basketball:
Investors Plan to Buy Share of Kings in Bankruptcy Court
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Student Debt:
Now You Can Short The Student Loan Bubble
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The Student Debt Business: A Way Forward
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Entertainment:
Did the Internet kill "Girls Gone Wild"?
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'Girls Gone Wild' company to bare all in bankruptcy
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St. Louis Woman is Second Biggest Creditor in Girls Gone Wild
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Consultants:
Carl Marks Advises Monitor Group On Sale To Deloitte
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Corporate Governance:
Warren Buffett's Message to Whiny CEOs
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Economy:
Personal Income Falls 3.6% Due To BIG Drop In Disposable Income --- US Incomes Drop the Most in Twenty Years
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U.S. January Personal Income and Spending
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U.S. Consumer Spending Flat in February
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Debt trumps savings
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CBO: Federal Revenue to Set Record in 2013
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US Factories See Best Growth Since June 2011 --- Factory Work Returning, Industry Changed
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Boehner: Don't Know How Sequester Gets Resolved ---
Boehner: No Government Shutdown ---
Obama renews offer to cut social safety nets ---
GOP Clings to One Thing It Agrees On: Spending Cuts ---
Americans' Reaction to Sequester May Change Politics ---
Sequestration: Most Pathetic Part About It ---
Sequester Fallout: Americans Raise Hell ---
Sequester Cuts Won't Hit Pentagon til Summer ---
NYC to be hit hard by sequester: economist ---
Don't listen to those silly "the sequester isn't that bad" arguments ---
From coast to coast, states brace for sequester shock ---
Sequester storm gathers over D.C. economy ---
Sequestration by the Numbers: $234 Million in Budget Cuts
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What's It Take to Get a US Downgrade Around Here?
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Quantitative Easing Questions Answered
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Dollar gains, US shares rebound on ISM data
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Paul Krugman: Who should we listen to?
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The Two Speed Global Economy, Led by China
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Report: Tax bills for rich families approach 30-year high --- States with the highest and lowest tax burdens
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CEOs More Optimistic About Global Than U.S. Economy
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The Most Beautiful Correlation In The World Continues To Work Perfectly
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Millennials Will Give Up Cars Over Cell Phones
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The Gay-Straight Economic Gap
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
Q4 2012 GDP Details: Commercial Real Estate investment very low, Single Family investment increases
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Why the Independent Foreclosure Reviews Were Doomed to Fail
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SCRA and Foreclosures
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Ally Says $750 Million Contribution to ResCap Could Be Increased
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Investigating Ally's Retail Financing Practices
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Credit Suisse settles mortgage case with bond insurer Ambac
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RBS, Deutsche Bank Lose Appeal in Mortgage-Bond Lawsuit
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Second Circuit Rules in Favor of Investors in Multibillion Dollar NovaStar MBS Class Action
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Judge revives multibillion-dollar MBS dispute against bond issuers
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Assignment Of Rents: Can You Spend Rents And Still Provide Adequate Protection To The Mortgagee?
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Ultimate Nightmare: Man Missing After Sinkhole Opens Up Under His Bedroom --- Sinkholes more common, costly than homeowners realize
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Justice Department Investigating Ocwen's Homeward Residential Business
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Baltimore: Bankruptcy suit reveals details about Turner's tries to develop Westport waterfront
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Warren Puts Down DC Roots
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Corporate Reform:
SEC steps up probe of Chesapeake, CEO McClendon
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CFTC to begin “shelving” enforcement cases amid budgetary restrictions
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Follow-On Shareholder Suits After CFPB Settlements
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Marketing:
Long slide lands YTB in bankruptcy court
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Photography:
Kodak amends some terms of financing deal --- Lands more flexible financing as it eyes bankruptcy exit
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Kodak may replace board
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Health Care:
HealthBridge, Federal Government, Union Argue in Bankruptcy Court
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U.S. Health Care Is Even More Broken Than We Thought
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Sequestration Set to Kick in, Cut Medicare by Billions --- 7 Healthcare Leaders Share Thoughts on Sequestration
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New Jersey firm bids $33 million to buy Universal Health Care
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Pauls Valley Hospital Authority files for bankruptcy
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Pratt hospice to have bankruptcy plan soon
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Judge OKs SD Hospice Payroll
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Jury awards $5.75 million to creditors of former elder care home
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Brooklyn Residents Rally To Save Interfaith Medical Center --- Hospital on life support: Brooklyn residents urge the state to save Interfaith Medical Center
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11 Recent Hospital and Health System Layoffs
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Nursing Home: We Take A Hands Off Approach To That Whole 'Saving Their Life' Thing
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Food/Beverage:
Ad Firm Asks Summer Internship Applicants to Bring Back the Twinkie
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Turkey processing plant bankrupt
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Student Debt:
Student debt tripled in eight years
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Student Loan Bubble Data
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Student-Loan Securities Stay Hot
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35% Student Loan Delinquency Rates
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The Myth of the Successful College Dropout: Why It Could Make Millions of Young Americans Poorer
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Compensation:
Swiss vote to curb executive pay --- Some Of The Toughest Executive Pay Rules On The Planet --- Swiss Prison Sentences for Golden Parachutes
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EU moves to limit banker bonuses as part of an effort to eliminate corporate excess
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Use of SOX Clawback for Executives Who Did Not Engage in Misconduct
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Predatory Lending:
Bleeding the Borrower Dry
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Celebs:
Casey Anthony out of hiding Monday, faces questioning in bankruptcy --- Casey Anthony: 5 things to know in the bankruptcy case
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Jacqueline Laurita slapped with tax lien: ‘RHONJ’ owes nearly $340K
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Michael Jordan's Alleged Ex-Lover Had Past Financial Issues
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Survey: Most Premier League Stars Go Broke
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Alternative Energy:
Biodiesel producer using canola seed goes bankrupt
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Electricity:
More information needed on Southern plan
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City raps trustee for secrecy move
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Distressed Investing:
Buffett sees opportunity in uncertainty
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Politics:
Warren critics, take note
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Ten Questions For Elizabeth Warren
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Aviation:
Some more Qs and As about the US Airways-American Airlines merger
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US Airways CEO Talks About New Airline's Leaders
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Professor: US Airways-American Airlines merger won’t fix those companies’ organizational problems
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Republic Airways Is Coming Back to Life
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Don't let frequent flier miles die with you
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Banking:
Nearly 30 percent of Georgia banks fail stress test
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Unofficial Problem Bank list declines to 808 Institutions
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Number of Banks on FDIC Problem Bank List Remains Historically High
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RBS CEO: A Lot Of Legit Companies Lose $9 Billion A Year
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Apparel:
Bankrupt clothier Ellen Tracy nets $20 mln for creditors
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Faded jeans magnate loses bid to escape involuntary bankruptcy
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Demons In Garments?
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Tax:
Ernst & Young to pay $123 mln to resolve US tax shelter probe
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Shipping:
Shipping Companies Find a Safe Harbor in U.S. Bankruptcy Courts
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Defaults:
Moody’s: Global corporate default rate rises in 2012 against global uncertainties
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Consumer Finance:
Mortgage debt dominates consumer balance sheets
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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 (45 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (15 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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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Hawaii bankruptcies down in February for 24th straight month
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Miscellaneous:
Week Ahead in Bankruptcy : MF Global, "old" GM, Jefferson County
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DIP Finance:
Kodak, Lenders Finalize Terms of Interim, Exit Financing
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Bankruptcy Court Rejects Payment Of Make-Whole In Connection With The Prepayment Of Aircraft Finance Transactions
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Turnover:
What’s Mine is Mine and What’s Yours is Mine: Court Rules a Debtor Can Be Compelled to Turn over Property No Longer in His Possession
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Bankruptcy Alternatives:
The ABCs of an ABC
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Fraud:
February 2013 Ponzi Scheme Roundup
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National Lampoon Sues Ex-CEO Tim Durham for Allegedly Embezzling 'Vacation' Money
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Bernie Madoff: Lucky devil doesn't have to worry about funding retirement
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FBI agent looks back on Enron
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Nevin Shapiro: Scandal in college football: Mr Pot, meet Mr Kettle
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Hedge Funder Claims His Beauty Queen Ex-Girlfriend Spent Over $58,000 On His Credit Card After They Broke Up
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TBTF:
In AIG suit, NY Fed reveals details of crisis-era BofA settlement
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AIG Is Even More Not Owned By The Government
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Insurance:
CoCo evolution poses "Catastrophic" issues
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Hockey:
Chicago Hockey Brawl Spills Into Bankruptcy Court
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Religion:
Del. diocese looks to raise funds after bankruptcy
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Cardinal Keith O'Brien admits and apologizes for misconduct
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Autos:
US auto sales growth slows in February
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Court Approves American Suzuki Motor Corporation's Chapter 11 Plan
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February Car Sales by Manufacturer
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Chrysler Has Best February in 5 Years --- Chrysler's Future According to Marchionne
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Chrysler Moves to Silence Workers
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Bob Lutz: Whitacre Saved GM and Other Fables
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Gambling:
Trustee wants to auction off casino and all its contents
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Construction:
US Construction Spending Down 2.1%
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How Liberty Mutual Prepared for Ballenger's Bankruptcy
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Contractor to finish I-69 Ballenger projects
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Education:
In 15 Years From Now Half of US Universities May Be in Bankruptcy
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Grad Students Let Concordia-Chicago Have it
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The 10 Colleges Most Likely to Make You a Billionaire
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Personal Finance:
7 Signs You're Not Ready to Retire
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5 Ways to Avoid Medical Debt
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Hollywood:
Even as visual effects proliferate, the industry finds itself in crisis
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Sovereigns:
President Kirchner Says Argentina Willing to Pay Holdout Creditors --- Says will only pay holdouts on same terms
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Argentina given hope in debt battle --- Given month to make debt offer
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Argentine bonds fall after US court ruling
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US Court asks Argentina for payment plan --- Eyeing Argentine swap offer in debt case
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Court warns Argentina
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Why Argentina will default in 2013
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Sovereign Bankruptcy, Day One: Market Rallies
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Pari passu realpolitik (big news, and a goodbye)
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How the Developing World Escaped This Debt Trap
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UK:
Britain heads for new recession
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'Significant' drop in business insolvencies --- 'Zombie' fears as insolvencies rate falls to lowest for five years
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Ireland's ' bankruptcy tourists' face tougher treatment in English courts
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Sean McCann bankruptcy overturned by NI court
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Interview with DWF's Leaitherland reveals details of Cobbetts acquisition
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DWF to lock Cobbetts partners in for two years
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Staff at Cobbetts' rescued debt recovery arm face redundancy
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Coventry City chief warns club could be heading for insolvency
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Hibu Gets Default Rating After Missing Interest Payment on Loans
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Bankrupt dot com millionaire sentenced to four years in prison after she pleaded guilty to peddling painkillers and gun trafficking
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How London Became The Divorce Capital Of The World --- Battle for tycoon's assets threatens UK's title as divorce capital of the world
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Blockbuster receives bids to keep it going
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Rangers keep five Scottish league titles after investigation
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EU:
Euro zone sentiment falls in March after Italy election deadlock
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Euro area finance ministers to meet on Monday amid economic gloom
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PIIGS:
ACCA calls for insolvency practitioners to be regulated --- ie: 'Unknown' bankrupt developer racked up €250m debt
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Hundreds of thousands march against austerity in Portugal
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Italy Jobless Rate Jumps to Record High of 11.7 Percent in January --- Anger Builds In Italy As Old Guard Plots Fresh Technocrat Take-over --- Beppe Grillo Wants Italians To Vote On Leaving The Euro --- Morgan Stanley Says There's A 30% Chance Of A Crisis And New Elections In Italy
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Rumblings Of A Coup D'État In Spain
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Bailout auditors return to Greece --- Tax officials probe large bank loans to beat evasion
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France:
France seeks alternative to 75% tax... Proposed new rate 65%-66% also comes under fire
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France: No More Austerity This Year
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Austria:
FCC's Alpine Clears Way for Debt Cut, Removing Insolvency Threat
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Japan:
January construction spending drops unexpectedly
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MENA:
Dubai Group settles with creditors
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Australia:
Secured creditors scheme to get Channel Nine deal approved
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China:
60 Minutes: China's Ghost Cities
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Markets Are Falling After The Shanghai Property Stocks Massacre
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