• August 20, 2012 | International

    CNOOC: Better Luck This Time?

    Seven years ago, the state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) withdrew its $18.5 billion bid to take over

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  • November 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Less Than Zero

    The lawyers and staffers in K&L Gates's Pittsburgh headquarters won't have any trouble finding their new offices when they move in a few months. In fact, it would be hard for any

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  • December 7, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Lucasfilm GC Has Never Been Bored at Work

    Lucasfilm Ltd. was founded in 1971 by Star Wars creator George W. Lucas Jr. It has grown into a major independent production house and one of the world's leading entertainment companies. L

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  • September 15, 2003 | The Recorder

    Jury Rejects Bias Suit by Muslim Executive

    A federal jury returned a defense verdict Thursday in a wrongful-termination suit filed by a Lebanese-American executive who said his bosses pressured him to quit in the wake of the Sept.

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  • October 18, 2005 | The Recorder

    DLA's Plan? To Seize Opportunities

    In the 10 months since DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary was formed from a three-way merger, the firm has opened six new offices � stateside in Raleigh, N.C., and internationally in Frankfurt, Germa

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  • February 2, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Milbank Tweed Adds Compensation Specialist From Dewey Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has recruited Dewey Ballantine's compensation and benefits practice head. Paul J. Wesse

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  • March 27, 2007 | The Recorder

    Pillsbury Ejected from Bankruptcy Case

    A judge kicked Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman off a bankruptcy case for a conflict that may end up costing the firm its $4 million in fees.Citing a "complete breakdown of creditor con

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  • March 11, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Agent Orange Suit Brought By Vietnamese Is Dismissed

    A federal judge yesterday dismissed a lawsuit that accused American chemical companies of war crimes for supplying the U.S. military Agent Orange, a defoliant used during the Vietnam War.

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  • May 14, 2003 | The Recorder

    Patent Fight Yields Perjury Indictments

    The U.S. Attorney's Office charged a Silicon Valley high-tech executive and his brother with 19 counts of conspiracy, perjury and obstruction of justice Monday for allegedly falsifying evidenc

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  • September 15, 2003 | The Recorder

    Search for Flexibility Leads Some Women to Start Own Firms

    Michele Ballard Miller was tired of seeing the mommy track treated like a case of the mumps.By the time she quit big-firm life in 1998, she'd become an equity partner at then-Crosby, H

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