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September 13, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Obama proposes limits on tax breaks for Muni-bond investors

President Barack Obama proposed curbing the amount of interest from municipal bonds that top earners can exclude from their taxable income, a step that may diminish demand for state and local-government securities.
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November 11, 2011 | Daily Business Review

MF Global's dive shows few changes on Wall Street

After countless new rules designed to make Wall Street safer, it's come to this: Another securities firm has collapsed from risky, poorly disclosed bets. Not enough, in other words, has changed since the U.S. financial system nearly toppled three years ago.
7 minute read
July 13, 2012 | Daily Business Review

Faulting 'short cut' in search, porn verdict reversed

Agents armed with a search warrant for a first-floor apartment who learned the child pornography suspect actually lived on the second floor and proceeded to search his apartment violated the Fourth Amendment, the Second Circuit ruled.
5 minute read
December 17, 2010 | Daily Business Review

Banks smarten up branches to woo customers

The personal touch is making a comeback. That old-fashioned habit of stopping in at your local branch is being encouraged again as the banking industry looks to put the spark back in service.
5 minute read
October 25, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Ruling overturned in case tainted by acts of suspended lawyer

Six months after suspending an attorney for professional misconduct ranging from harassing his own clients to disclosing client confidences, a child neglect case against a registered sex offender will be retried because the attorney did such a poor job.
4 minute read
November 19, 2009 | Daily Business Review

The benefits of sabbaticals for lawyers

What if law firms allowed lawyers to take sabbaticals? How would that change the culture of the firm and the productivity of the lawyer?
10 minute read
August 01, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Former Supreme Court Justice Arthur England Dies

Arthur England, a longtime Greenberg Traurig shareholder, died at 80 after a yearlong lung ailment.
4 minute read
December 22, 2010 | Daily Business Review

Capital Sources: South Florida banks have hard time finding buyers

The long-expected consolidation of South Florida's battered banking sector has been taking its time becoming a reality.
7 minute read
July 18, 2012 | Daily Business Review

Beazer buys time for rebound in housing

Beazer Homes sold $300 million of secured debt, raised about $160 million selling stock and hybrid securities and has said it would buy back $250 million of bonds.
6 minute read
November 01, 2011 | Daily Business Review

U.S. banks sell more insurance on Europe debt

U.S. banks increased sales of insurance against credit losses to holders of Greek, Portuguese, Irish, Spanish and Italian debt in the first half of 2011, boosting the risk of payouts in the event of defaults.
10 minute read

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