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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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  • September 24, 2002 | Legal Times

    Businesses Ask FDA to Drop Speech Limits

    It's not often that a federal agency asks to be criticized. But that's exactly what the Food and Drug Administration has done. The agency has opened up a no limits, bring-on-the-complaints

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