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  • May 3, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS . . . Bruce W. Akerly has joined Cantey Hanger in Dallas as counsel. . . . Danielle Herring has become a shareh

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  • October 22, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS . . . Lori Howard and Lance B. Metcalf have joined Epstein Becker Green Wickliff & Hall in Dallas as associates. Howard will focus on commercial litigation. Me

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  • September 9, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Citing Bad Faith by Pfizer, New York Judge Rejects Reorganization Plan for Pfizer's Quigley Unit

    Pfizer has been living with asbestos liability for a long time. And that won't end any time soon, now that Manhattan federal bankruptcy judge Stuart Bernstein has rejected a plan that the company had

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  • February 21, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Marketplace

    Capstone Equities has purchased the pyramid-roofed, 37-story former Banker's Trust tower at 14 Wall Street for $325 million. The private, off-market transaction is expected to close in April.

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  • November 13, 2000 | Florida Lawyer

    Fishing For A Niche

    There was a time when studies of a deep-sea Caribbean sponge by oceanographers at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution in Fort Pierce, Fla., would have been interesting only to other sc

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  • August 12, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Marketplace

    An SL Green subsidiary has announced its plans to sell a 49.5 percent interest in 485 Lexington Ave., a 32-story building between 46th and 47th streets. The buyer was Mazal 485 LLC, a joint venture

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  • December 4, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    After Objecting to 'Collusive' $20 Million Settlement in Wal-Mart Class Action, New Plaintiffs' Lawyers Double the Deal

    We've been known to be skeptical of plaintiffs lawyers who object to class action settlements and then back down after winning little tangible improvement for the class (while perhaps putting themselv

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  • June 21, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Simpson, Proskauer, Herrick, Dechert on $8 Billion Acquisition The Lightstone Group, a Lakewood, N.J.-based real estate company that owns more than 18,000 residential units

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  • December 19, 2000 | Legal Times

    The Legal Lineup

    BAACH ROBINSON & LEWIS:Name partner Jeffrey Robinson, a former deputy assistant attorney general under President Bill Clinton, joined Gore's team for its contest of the official ele

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  • March 21, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Clifford Chance Turns to Partner From London To Halt U.S. Slide

    Peter Cornell has heard from naysayers before. The global managing partner of Clifford Chance recalls that, when the London-based firm was eyeing continental Europe, skeptics said a B

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