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  • March 2, 2004 | Corporate Counsel

    Preach What You Practice

    In 1995 Nancy Gardner was on maternity leave from New York-based Weil, Gotshal & Manges, and worrying about returning to her grueling securities practice. Out of the blue, she got a call f

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  • November 21, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Firms Losing Top Talent to Clients

    Law firms that have watched their attorneys move to in-house jobs with their clients traditionally have viewed such departures as an endorsement of their services and a way to re-enforce their conn

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  • April 2, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Judge Blasts Mother's Probe of Son's Jurors

    A Brooklyn judge has thrown out a motion to vacate a murder conviction predicated on the "vigilante" investigation of the jury by the defendant's mother. After 21-

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  • March 12, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

    Qualcomm's hard-learned lessons

    What happened to Qualcomm wasn't the first case of e-discovery gone wrong but it might have been the most incredible. For months leading up to a January 2007 patent infringement trial, two C

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  • September 20, 2010 | Daily Business Review

    High ambitions

    The year was 2008. Foreclosures were on the rise. Growing unemployment and mortgage rate resets were pushing owners to default on their home loans. The financial markets were collapsing as the U.S.

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  • February 14, 2005 | Legal Times

    They Might Be Giants

    It began, perhaps appropriately enough, at Arabelle, a romantic Manhattan restaurant best known for its role as a "Sex and the City" set.Mary Cranston, the chair of San Francisco

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  • November 25, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Holiday Weekend Deal Roundup, AmLaw Style

    Though things were relatively quiet in advance of Thanksgiving, we offer these brief reports on four of the deals that have been announced in recent days. Hopefully this roundup will

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  • January 1, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    Northeast Utilities / NSTAR Northeast Utilities agreed to buy rival New England electric power producer NSTAR for $4.2 billion in stock and $2.5 billion in assumed debt on October

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  • September 2, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    'Solicitation Plus' and Personal Jurisdiction

    Since the dawning of the Internet age, or at least soon afterward, plaintiffs have claimed defendants were subject to personal jurisdiction in New York's state or federal courts because the defenda

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  • June 25, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    California Judge Dismisses Defamation Suit Against Akin Gump

    A California state court judge has dismissed a $120 million defamation suit filed against Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and litigation partner Douglas Rappaport by a href="http://www.ir

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