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  • February 21, 2006 | Legal Times

    Parsing Alito's Clerk Picks

    Two of Justice Samuel Alito Jr.'s former law clerks stopped in at his chambers earlier this month to congratulate him on winning confirmation.Alito was so happy to see them, apparently, that

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  • December 23, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Health care conglomerate Johnson & Johnson announced Dec. 15 it would buy Guidant Corp. in a deal worth $25.4 billion. The agreement will allow the New Brunswick, N.

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  • March 29, 2007 | The Recorder

    Jeffer, Mangels Aids Chapter 7 Rebound

    Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro partner Robert Kaplan has been working with bankruptcy law since 1977, but he'd never come across a deal like the recent $100 million loan h

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  • December 6, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    IPO Case Hits Big Snag At Second Circuit

    A federal appeals court Tuesday vacated class certification in six key cases in the massive litigation over dot-com era initial public offerings�a potentially devastating setback for plaintiff

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  • September 19, 2001 | Alm

    Daily Off-Site Backups Saved Data from Disaster

    Omer "Jack" Williams was a picture of grace under pressure after the terrorist attack on New York.The law firm he manages, the 160-lawyer Thacher Proffitt & Wood, was blo

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  • September 26, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    $70M Suit Against Cadwalader Reflects Risks of Practice in Mortgage-Backed Securities

    As the global slowdown in the market for mortgage-backed securities threatens a core practice area of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, the New York law firm is also wrestling with a $70 million l

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  • March 31, 2004 | Legal Times

    High Court Struggles With Alien Tort Statute

    In a case watched closely by human rights groups and business organizations alike, the Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled to decide when foreigners can use U.S. courts to litigate over foreign

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  • January 28, 2002 | Law.com

    Mayer, Brown Seals Largest U.K. Merger

    Mayer, Brown & Platt has acquired 250-lawyer London firm Rowe & Maw in the largest American acquisition of a U.K. law firm to date.When the merger becomes effective Feb. 1, the combi

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  • May 29, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Fools Rush In

    One by one, different segments of the bar have gotten the message in recent years: The U.S. Supreme Court is a scary place to be - a place where novices, more often than not, should fear to tr

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  • September 13, 2007 | The Recorder

    Irvine Dumps Liberal Law Dean

    Erwin Chemerinsky, the prominent legal scholar slated to be founding dean at UC-Irvine's new law school, had his offer withdrawn because of controversy created by his well-known liberal views,

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