• January 23, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Bonus Blues

    In December 1999, Dechert announced a special retention bonus program for its associates in which the firm's policy committee set aside $50,000 of its investment in high-flying client Internet

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  • July 5, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Wachtell, Paul Weiss, Wiley, Latham Counsel $16.4 Billion Acquisition BC Partners Ltd., a London-based buyout firm, will purchase a 76 percent stake in Bermuda-based satellite o

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  • August 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    Taking Stock

    When Internet retailer IAC/InterActiveCorp's profits soared by a cool 431 percent last year, it rewarded its general counsel accordingly. Much of the company's growth came from the high-

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  • September 30, 2003 | Daily Report Online

    Akin Gump, Shaw Pittman Probe Merger Possibility

    Marie Beaudette [email protected] and Lily Henning [email protected] WASHINGTON-Two of the city's largest firms-Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & F

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  • June 26, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Firms and Mergers: Dating 101

    Editor's Note: This is part one of a two-part series. The dating game has been around in one version or another since the late '60s. There was the host with the classic, big-tee

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  • July 18, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Training leaders a top priority

    Ten years ago, Frank Burch was running Piper Marbury, a 250-attorney firm with most of its lawyers in Baltimore. Today, he's running all right, but from coast to coast and country to cou

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  • January 29, 2009 | Daily Report Online

    Deal Watch: Developer snags Air Force project

    When a real estate developer dropped out of a military housing project in Texas, McKenna Long & Aldridge partner G. Scott Rafshoon's client stepped into the void. Balfour Beatty Co

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  • May 4, 2004 | Legal Times

    Washington, D.C., Firm in Merger Talks with Orrick

    Washington, D.C.'s Swidler Berlin Shereff & Friedman and San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe are in merger talks, according to lawyers close to the discuss

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  • In Re: Electronic Books Antitrust Litigation, 11 MD 2293

    Publication Date: 2012-05-18
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: District Judge Denise Cote
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs: Jason Allen Zweig, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP (NYC), New York, NY. Steve W. Berman, George W. Sampson, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP (Seattle), Seattle, WA. Jeff D. Friedman, Shana Scarlett, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP (CA), Berkely, CA. Kit A. Pierson, Emmy L. Levens, Jeffrey B. Dubner, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC (DC), Washington, DC. John Douglas Richards, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendant Apple, Inc.: Daniel S. Floyd, Daniel G. Swanson, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, CA. For Defendant HarperCollins Publishers LLC: Shepard Goldfein, Clifford H. Aronson, Paul M. Eckles, C. Scott Lent, Matthew M. Martino, Skadden, Armps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, NY. For Defendants Hachette Book Group, Inc. and Hachette Digital, Inc.: Walter B. Stuart, Samuel J. Rubin, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP, New York, NY. For Defendant Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC d/b/a Macmillan: Joel M. Mitnick, Alexandra Shear, Sidley Austin LLP, New York, NY. For Defendant Penguin Group (USA), Inc.: Daniel Ferrel McInnis, David A. Donohoe, Allison Sheedy, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Washington, D.C. For Defendants Simon & Schuster, Inc. and Simon & Schuster Digital Sales, Inc.: James W. Quinn, Yehudah L. Buchweitz, Weil, Gotshal, & Manges LLP, New York, NY. Helene D. Jaffee, Proskauer Rose LLP, Eleven Times Square, New York, NY. Martha E. Gifford, Law Office of Martha E. Gifford, Brooklyn, NY. *1

    Case Number: 11 MD 2293

    Cite as: In Re: Electronic Books Antitrust Litigation, 11 MD 2293, NYLJ 1202554340567, at *1 (SDNY, Decided May 15, 2012)District Judge Denise Cotep

  • August 17, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Latest Associate Salary Hikes Leave Corporate Clients Cold

    THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL Law firms are blaming market demands for the latest round of associate salary raises, but they may have discounted an important factor in their decisions to bo

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