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Law:
BigLaw Still Hiring Fewer Newbies; Second-Tier Grads Don’t Have a Prayer, Hiring Partner Says --- Biglaw’s New Normal Isn’t Great For New Talent --- A Leaner World for Young Lawyers
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Things You Can Do With a Law Degree: Telemarketing--- Vampire?
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The Strongest Law Firm Brands in the Land
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Crowell & Mooring Names New Bankruptcy Partner
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After Bryan Cave Merger, a Significant Number of Holme Roberts Partners Are Now Counsel
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China-Based Hackers Target Law Firms as Back Doors in Search for Deal Data
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How to Work with a Jerk
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Is Business School the Answer?
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Why This Law Professor Fears for His Life
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Madoff Works Helps Boost Baker & Hostetler Revenue 14 Percent
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Quinn Emanuel cites contingent fees as reason for strong 2011 financials
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MF Global employee lawsuits to be led by one firm
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Highland Financial Partners LP and related companies seek $95 million from Orrick
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Jury finds Seyfarth not liable in malpractice case brought by former client
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Discrimination Suit Against Mayer Brown Can Proceed, Judge Rules
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Staying Relevant - Part 4: Technology and the Bottom-line
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Cravath Vet Getting $16M Heart Balm
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"Concierge" Legal Services?
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Gupta, JPMorgan, Goldman, Stanford, Carnival in Court News
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UBS, Foreclosure Accord, Berezovsky, Commerzbank, MF Global in Court News
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Do You or Your Client Understand the Scope of Representation?
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David Otunga Steps Out of the Ring to Return to the Courtroom
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World's first listed law firm takes over UK PI firm Russell Jones & Walker
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Hogan Lovells accounts show capital contributions rising
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Biglaw Blind Item: A Partner Walks Into A ….
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Making M&A Actually Work
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Is Law School a Good Idea for Middle-Aged Professional? Experts Warn of Risks and Bias
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Law School Transparency: The ideological structure of a legitimated scam
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Edwards Wildman Says Salacious Suit Should Be in Arbitration
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Lawyer gives up claim to $14 mln lottery ticket, but why?
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Lawyers Jump Into Cruise Ship Disaster Cases
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Legal Assistant Accused of Using Embezzled Cash to Fund Gastric Bypass
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"The Good Wife" - Everyone setting up everyone else
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Say What?!
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Jail for man who attacked police with light sabers
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10-Year-Old Boy Arrested For Pointing Toy Gun At Woman
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School Backs Off Claim that Playground Touching by 6-Year-Old Was Sexual Assault
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Judges:
Would Jesus Belong to a Country Club?
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Hiring of Lobbyist by Court Bureaucracy Criticized as Trial Courts Fire Workers
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Suspended Judge Blames Political ‘War’ for Ethics Case
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Lamberth and the art of judicial writing
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Wall Street:
US Stock-Index Futures Rise as EU Members Adopt Budget Rules
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Stocks Stage Recovery as Traders Shake Off Euro Fears
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Shares seen rebounding as Greece nears deal
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Banks push European shares to 2-week closing low
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Greek anxiety drags down world markets
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Layoffs:
Small business adds 50,000 jobs in January
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P&G To Lay Off 1,600 After Discovering It's Free To Advertise On Facebook And Google
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Unemployed In 2011? Don't File Taxes Till You've Read This
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Worst place to lose your job: Florida
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CBO: Federal workers make more than their private-sector counterparts
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Federal Worker Pay: How Much is Too Much?
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Debt Collection:
US regulators penalize debt collector for deception
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Corporate Reform:
Consumer bureau already handling thousands of complaints
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The Upsides of the SEC's No-Guilt Deals for In-House Lawyers
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Aviation:
PBGC to continue pressuring American to keep pension
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TWU calls for fight to keep American Airlines jobs local
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AMR Workers Union Hits the Campaign Trail
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Latest count on American Airlines airplanes
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American Airlines unions likely to face concession requests
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Bankruptcy of defunct Pace Airlines heads to mediation
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Spirit Airlines Does One Thing 'Better' Than Any US Competitor
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Judge allows Travelport litigation to continue
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Spanish airline collapse leaves 20,000 stranded --- Spanair files for voluntary bankruptcy --- Spain takes legal action --- Vueling Jumps After Rival Spanair Halts Operations
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Pressure shows on Europe's frail airlines
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Hungary moves to protect Malev from bankruptcy proceedings --- Malev runs out of cash
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Nigerian regulator threatens to ground distressed
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Politics:
Gingrich Camp Lays Out Plans For Long Fight --- Labels Romney 'Wall Street Elite' --- Gingrich: Romney 'Breathtakingly Dishonest' --- Buchanan: Reagan White House saw Newt as 'political opportunist... not trusted' --- Reagan sources say Gingrich 'torch' quote taken out of context --- Gingrich stakes campaign on electability --- Gingrich: I won't debate Obama if media moderates --- Newt Gingrich Endorsing Obamacare --- Gingrich Sued for Using ‘Eye of the Tiger’ Song --- Newt Gingrich Judges You
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The Darkest Day in the History of American Super PACs
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Advertising by outside groups is up 1,600 percent in this election cycle
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Some Legal and Policy Ramifications of Newt Gingrich’s Plan to Colonize the Moon
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Why Mitt's Wealth Matters: It's Policy, Not Envy
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The Truth About Herman Cain And Newt Gingrich
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A Former Lobbyist Tells All
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Banking:
The Numbers Are In: Find Out Just How Many Americans Have Ditched Their Banks
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Forget the Big Bonuses; a Pay Squeeze Is Coming
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Surprisingly, few executives are interested in running a crisis-stricken bank
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Morgan Stanley, Citigroup Lead Pay Cuts
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FDIC Sues Ex-Officers of Merced’s County Bank Over $42 Million in Loans
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Four Banks Fail – FDIC Losses Approach $1 Billion On YTD Bank Closings
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A Look At The Capital Strength Of The 20 Largest Banks In America
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Media:
Tribune Workers’ $32 Million Settlement Over Retirement Fund Wins Approval
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Tribune's bankruptcy bill: $231 million and counting
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UK police arrest Murdoch tabloid staff, raid offices
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Shipping:
Trailer Bridge filing new Ch. 11 plan
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Arpeni Dollar Bondholders Complete Exchange in Bankruptcy
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The Truth About The Massive Plunge In The Baltic Dry Index
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Banks could be big losers in cargo shipping glut
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Municipalities:
Emboldened GOP Wants To Abolish State Income Taxes
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Is Providence Going Belly Up?
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CA cities facing a perfect storm because of pension obligations --- States Grapple With Public Worker Pension Funds
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Nationwide cutback in government jobs; Illinois down for years
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IN: Plan approved for distressed local governments to ask for financial manager
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Wyo again best for business, tax-wise
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The 10 Worst-Performing Cities In The World
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The 10 Most Expensive Urban Areas In The US
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Distressed Investing:
Size of Bankruptcy Key to Investing in Distressed Companies
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Rating Agencies:
Illinois Tells Standard & Poor's to Pay the Piper
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Economy:
US consumers fizzle out even as incomes rise --- Jittery Consumers Equal Bigger Savers --- Less Spending Can Be Good for U.S. Economy
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The Siren Call of Austerity
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Take Federal bailout money, watch your company's stock fall 90%, become a co-chair of Davos
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The Fed's Rain Dance At The Bottom Of The Stairs
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Report: Fed Members Laughed While Housing Bubble Grew
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Dallas Fed Manufacturing Survey shows expansion in January
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Study: U.S. recovering faster than its peers
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Why The Obama Recovery Has Been Much More Impressive Than Reagan's --- Comparing Obama and Reagan’s economic records
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'Take Care Of Me' Society Is Wrecking The USA
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Feds: ‘Poor’ Consume Like The Rich
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The Future Of The Global Economy Rests 'On A Knife's Edge'
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Federal employees better compensated than private sector workers
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Americans Still Skeptical About Central Bank
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8 Industries China Leads Where We Once Did
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A Privileged Millennial Comes To Grips With Being Poor
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Are Corporations More Powerful Than Governments?
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Why Even 20-Somethings Are Worried About Retirement
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Fact Check: Obama's Tax Record
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How folks who live alone are fueling the economy
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Expert who foresaw '08 crash warns of tough decade
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Economic Stress Map
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Economy Tracker Map
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US Debt Clock
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Real Estate:
The Nationwide Foreclosure Settlement Is Finally Taking Shape—Looking Nasty For Banks --- Accord Deadline Set for Feb. 3 --- Fla. AG urged to get tough on foreclosure --- Nevada AG to Decide on Nationwide Foreclosure Settlement --- Masto Raises Score of Questions Over Foreclosure Settlement
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Is The Justice Department Incompetent?
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Attorneys hit Nevada foreclosure processors with class-action suit
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What Makes Schneiderman's Mortgage Task Force Far Scarier Than Any Other --- Mortgage Fraud Task Force Has Big Names, Unclear Mandate
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Neil Barofsky on Banks, Mortgage-Fraud Unit
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Blame The U.S. For The Housing Bubble, Not China
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Foreclosure prevention plan has limited impact
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Freddie Mac’s big bet against homeowners --- Bets Against Homeowners Must Stop, Freddie Mac Was Told
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Freddie Mac: A mess, and likely to stay that way
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Current Mortgage Rates for Monday, January 30, 2012 --- Tight-fisted mortgage lenders pressure home sales
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Housing Problems Line Florida Campaign Trail
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Foreclosures Draw Private Equity as U.S. Sells Homes
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Foreclosure lawyer Stern has a stake in hamburgers
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Bill would protect soldiers from foreclosure
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Big Bad BofA Muzzling Mortgagors?
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This Woman's Awful Bank Of America Foreclosure Story Could Turn Into Another Viral PR Disaster --- Jackie Ramos vs Bank of America, part 2
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18 foreclosed homes given away by Wells Fargo
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A Few Policies We're Likely To See Very Soon
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The housing recovery that wasn't
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Majority of Americans Want Gov't to Help Stop Foreclosures
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Suits Challenge Missouri Foreclosure Law
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NJ Property Taxes, Highest in US, Rise Again
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Freddie Mac accused of betting against homeowners
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Freddie Mac Has To Answer One Huge Ethics Question
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Why a New Refinance Program Faces Long Odds
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Existing Home Inventory Declines 17% Year-Over-Year In January
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New York 2011 home sales off pace, prices stabilize
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International real estate shoppers eye Florida
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Architecture-engineering firm Durrant files reorganization bankruptcy
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Analysts see housing impact on economic recovery as minimal
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Home prices to fall 1% in 2012, rebound in 2013: Fiserv Case-Shiller
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The Case-Shiller Home Price Index Has A Major Deficiency That Almost No One Talks About
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Washington state considers borrower short sale protections
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Commercial-Mortgage Bond Rally May Have Run Out of Steam
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A Formula for Confusion
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Finance:
Fed Says Business-Loan Demand Rose in 4th Quarter
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Llamas:
Bizarre bankruptcy case in Iowa
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MF Global:
MF Global Said 'Never Been Stronger' a Week Before Failure
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Burned MF Global customers may be out of luck --- Funds May Never Be Fully Recovered
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MF Global: Money on Foreign Exchanges Remains Frozen
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MF Global and the lie about safe accounts
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MF Global's 'Vaporized' Funds Point to Questionable Internal Controls
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MF Global: Money on Foreign Exchanges Remains Frozen
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MF Global and the lie about safe accounts
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Corzine Hoboken Penthouse Lists at $2.9 Million, 11% Below Purchase Price
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Cruise Ships:
Carnival cuts profit outlook, blames Italy wreck
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Protests:
Critics of capitalism call global protest in June
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Protesters to be kicked out of DC parks
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Park Police tase protester
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Magazine Calls Occupiers To Come To Chicago In 'Tradition of' 1968 Rioters
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Occupy Protesters Make 'Citizen's Arrest' of FoxNews Van
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Oakland Mayor Says Occupy Using City As 'Playground'
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Student Debt:
Judge Certifies Class Against Sallie Mae
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Execs at for-profit colleges make even more than big-time college football coaches
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Is There a Media Blackout of the Student Loan Crisis ?
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Mass Torts:
Ill. court will hear $17.8M asbestos appeal
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Pensions:
US workers fight loophole switch to uninsured church pension plans
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Alternative Energy:
Customers standing by bankrupt battery company Ener1
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Ener1 Wins Approval of $13.5 Million DIP Financing
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Lobbying firm drops unpaid Solyndra bill
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2012 Could Be a 'Lost Year' for Solar Energy
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Religion:
Snag cleared to Crystal Cathedral sale
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Diocesan Investigator Expands Abuse Focus
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Judge to rule about evidence in Catholic church sexual abuse trial
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Baseball:
South Korea Apparel Retailer E-Land Joins Group to Bid for L.A. Dodgers --- Eland Group survives in Dodgers bidding --- E-Land says in consortium bid for LA Dodgers
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Bidders for bankrupt Dodgers talking about combining groups
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Equipment Rental:
Ahern Rentals Announces Approval of DIP Financing
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Art:
In Italy, Art As A Window Into Modern Banking
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Newspapers:
Gannett profit drops 33 percent
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Oil/Gas:
Europe's refiners fall on hard times
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Food/Beverage:
How Quiznos Plans To Turn Things Around After Narrowly Avoiding Bankruptcy
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Health Care:
When health plans go high deductible
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S&P Warns Cuts Loom for G20 Nations on Health Costs
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Healthcare's Medical Gluttony
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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
(large downloads)
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:
Commercial Bankruptcy Filings Are Predicted to Increase in 2012
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Bankruptcies in Chattanooga area edge lower
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Claims Trading:
SecondMarket's Gottesman on Bankruptcy Trades
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Cramdown:
Auction 2012: How The Bank Lobby Owns Washington
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Consumer Bankruptcy:
Consumer Friendly Forms for Bankruptcy
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Fraud:
Ex-Stanford analyst says he was told to alter numbers
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Witness tells of mysterious Stanford portfolio
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In Stanford Fraud Case , Longtime Friends Become Courtroom Enemies
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Stanford Tried to Interfere With Antigua Regulator, Witness Says
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Stanford kept the SEC in the dark - with the help of former SEC execs
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Ex-Stanford worker described unqualified hires --- Seems to benefit defense
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Inside Stanford’s Ponzi puzzle palace
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The Madoff Trustee Wants To Demand $19 Billion From JPMorgan In A 17,500 Word Appeal
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So sorry, Merkin
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Picard seeks injunction against California attorney general
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Convicted Florida Con Man Tells All!
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Senate Begins Debate On Insider Trading Bill
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SEC Claws Back a CFO's Bonus for Alleged Fraud at a Subsidiary
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Litigation:
Survey Predicts Big Revenue Spike for Litigation Support
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Four Models to Rein in E-Discovery Costs
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Printing ESI & Scanning It Is Not OK
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Changes in the Plaintiffs' Class Action Bar and the Changing World of Shareholder Litigation
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The Hot Seat: an Interview With Aaron Shorr of Skadden Arps
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Autos:
Saab North America Creditors File Involuntary Bankruptcy
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Obama plays up auto industry success story
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General Motors May Have To Give Up On Opel
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Treasury ups auto bailout loss estimate... Taxpayers out $23.77 billion
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Was UAW No-Strike Clause Another GM Bailout Deception?
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Private Equity:
Private equity great for managers, not-so-great for investors
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Retailing:
More Americans Are Realizing They Can Do All Their Shopping At A Dollar Store
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Consumers using smart phones while shopping
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Lehman:
Lehman Debt Accounted For $32B In Claims Traded In 2011
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HSBC Will Return $52 Million to Bankrupt Lehman Brothers
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Tax:
The Private Equity Industry Has Really Spent A Ton Of Money To Keep The Carried Interest Tax Rate
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Court rejects U.S. challenge to IRS orders
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Three UBS Clients Charged With Hiding Money From U.S. in Offshore Accounts
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Frequent flier miles taxable? Citibank says so
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Celebs:
Bow Wow's Tax Issues Worsen
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Cross-Border:
Canadian Foam Maker Domfoam Seeks U.S. Bankruptcy Protection
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UK:
What Krugman Didn't Say About the U.K.'s Austerity Plan
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Stephen Hester bonus: Top RBS bankers 'should follow boss' example
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Report Questions U.K. Pension Reform Savings
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EU:
Eurozone's strategy of pain for the year ahead
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Banks Set to Double Crisis Loans From ECB
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Big U.S. banks have hedged only 38% of their exposure to the EU crisis
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Hedge funds are short the Euro like "never before"
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EU Moves Toward Greek Confrontation as Leaders Seal Fiscal Pact --- European Politicians in Denial as Greece Unravels
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Wolfgang Schauble: Greece Bailout Not Guaranteed
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The Troika vs Greece
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Europeans See Poor Job Market
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European Stocks Rise on Budget Pact
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25 EU Nations To Sign Treaty To Stop Overspending
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FAQ: The treaty that could save Europe. Or not.
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Nowotny Says Euro Area Faces Recession in 'Phases'
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The Chart That Debunks Everything The Germans Believe About The Crisis
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Europe's lost generation
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US Banks Look at Their Exposure to EU Debt Crisis
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Most banks tightening credit to Europe, Fed says
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European commercial property loses ground on rest of the world
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PIIGS:
Putting lipstick on the PIIGS
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EU Nears Confrontation Over Greek Rescue
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Investors face more than 70 pct loss in Greek deal --- EU wants Greece to settle the terms of PSI soon --- Luxembourg FinMin: Greece, private creditors close to deal
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Germany Pins Greek Aid to Budget Control as Patience Wears Thin
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Papademos: Greece Could Need More Public Funding
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Greylock's Humes on Greek Debt Plan Negotiations
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Athens slams idea of budget commissioner
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Merkel Signals Greece Debt Deal Delay
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This Greek Debt Deal Is Doomed Even If 'Agreement' Is Reached
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Greece: debt inspectors delay labor talks
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Greek Deposits Rose in December After Three-Month Decline
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Greek CEOs Review Strategies, See More Job Cuts, PwC Survey Says
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Greece's Alpha Bank Freezes Merger With Eurobank
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Italy Lawmakers Approve Reduction in Their Pay
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Italy’s Jobless Rate Climbed to Highest Since 2004 in December
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Portugal Poses Looming Risk --- Portuguese Bond Yields Jump To Euro-era High Amid Default Concerns --- Markets push Portugal towards bond pariah Greece
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European Cliff Hanger – Portugal and Ireland
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Santander profit falls 35% on Spanish property provisions
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Germany:
Schlecker family's fortune lost in drugstore collapse --- Schlecker Family Exhausts Funds for Revamp
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Germany's Jobless Keeps Falling
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Canada:
“Preferring” Taxes in a Bankruptcy: Attacking Payments of Income Tax as a Fraudulent Preference
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North End could seek $249,000 DIP
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Catalyst Paper edges closer to court-ordered creditor protection
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Japan:
Japan's Population to Shrink by Two Thirds
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Daiwa posts $283 mln Q3 loss, cuts more jobs
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Russia:
Russian Economy Probably Slowed Last Year as Industry Lost Steam
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Putin Vows Asset Sales as State to Cut Role in New Economy
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MENA:
New UN draft resolution gives Syria 15 days to comply
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Dozens Die in Damascus Shelling
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Egypt Islamists look to build on success in polls
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Hong Kong:
Hong Kong Braces for Job Cuts at Lenders
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