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  • July 18, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    The 2012 GC Compensation Survey

    What a difference a year makes. This time last year, Charles Kalil was in the number 12 spot on our annual list of the hi

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  • August 15, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Texas Supreme Court Denies Republicans' Mandamus Petition

    Without comment, the Texas Supreme Court has denied a petition for writ of mandamus sought by Republican state officials in an effort to force 11 Democratic state senators who fled to Albuquer

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  • May 8, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Ready or Not: One Firm's Distress Opens New Markets for Pa. Firms

    Strategic plans projecting five years into the future can be thrown to the wayside when an unexpected opportunity arises — and that is just what has happened for many firms that picked u

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  • November 4, 2010 | Bloomberg

    Fed fights back when it is the fraud victim

    So now we know what it takes for the Federal Reserve to show an interest in rooting out fraud at a too-big-to-fail bank. The Fed must decide that the Fed itself has been defrauded. Bo

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  • July 6, 2010 | Bloomberg

    Case for accounting board became weaker

    Now that the Supreme Court has said the auditing profession's main regulator can continue to exist, here's a knottier question: Should it The case for preserving the Public Company Ac

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  • June 6, 2008 | Bloomberg

    Goldman says buzz off to groveling banking lobby

    There's seldom any joy in praising the mighty. Yet you have to give Goldman Sachs Group Inc. credit. Once again, it's living up to its reputation as the world's smartest bank. It's be

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  • September 9, 2011 | Bloomberg

    Suing banks is next best to letting them fail

    The Vietnam War gave us the expression, "We had to destroy the village in order to save it." The same kind of thinking might help explain the U.S. bank rescues of 2008: We had to save the ban

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  • April 4, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    HealthSouth's $147M Legal Tab Not Unusual

    ATLANTA — HealthSouth Corp. has helped lots of lawyers become more prosperous in recent years.The Birmingham, Ala., company expects eventually to pay a total of about $147 million

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  • February 1, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

    Stayin' Alive

    It was mid-2007, and Carl Krasik's plate was overflowing-and then some. Krasik's agenda as general counsel: to manage a megamerger between his bank, Mellon Financial Corporation, and the

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  • January 19, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Lottomatica S.p.A., the operator and license holder of Italy's national lottery, Lotto, and its majority stockholder, the privately-owned financial group De Agostini S.p.A., has

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