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  • December 12, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    In re: Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation

    Decided Dec. 5, 2006Before Newman, Sotomayor, and Hall, C.JJ.Appeal from the October 13, 2004, order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Shir

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  • October 15, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Creative Financing Closes Deals in Tight Credit Market

    The moribund credit markets have stalled financing for more than a year and stanched the flow of merger and acquisition deals, but some lawyers are using extraordinary deal structures and cre

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  • June 10, 2008 | The Recorder

    9th Circuit Taps Special Prosecutor for Toxic-Tort Case

    A special master has already recommended that attorneys Thomas Girardi and Walter Lack pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in sanctions, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals isn't done with t

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  • May 12, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Power player

    Name and title: William A. Von Hoene Jr., executive vice president and general counsel Age: 54 Utilities giant:

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  • April 17, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Feerick Named Chair of Ethics Commission Fordham Law School professor John Feerick will become chairman of the state Ethics Commission, and of its successor agency in September

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  • January 14, 2013 | Daily Report Online

    FTC continues fight to unseal Solvay memo on paying rivals

    A fight by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to make public a Georgia pharmaceutical company's confidential memo detailing a strategy to pay rival drug companies not to compete has become par

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  • July 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Time Well Spent

    Big law firms are notoriously resistant to change. But recession changes everything, even time-tested routines for hiring new

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  • September 27, 2002 | Law.com

    Success Knows No Gender

    Elizabeth K. Andrews, an associate at Tyler Cooper & Alcorn, is chair of the Women and the Law Committee of the Connecticut Bar Association.Success in the legal profession means differen

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  • April 10, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Lawyers on Major TransactionsFried Frank and Mayer Brown Help Internet Brokers MergeIn a stock deal valued at about $1.3 billion, Omaha, Neb.-based on-line broker Ameritrade H

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  • January 14, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Rulings on Damages Caps

    Tort reform statutes evoke spirited arguments from the plaintiffs' and defense bars. But as two state supreme court decisions from the final days of 2007 demonstrate, they also raise fun

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