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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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  • February 3, 2009 | Legaltech News

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  • October 25, 2006 | Legal Times

    Going In-House? It Might Be a Wise Move

    Earlier this year, Judge J. Michael Luttig of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stunned the legal world by surrendering his lifetime appointment to the bench in favor of the top legal job at Bo

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  • December 23, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Vying for Rigas Assets

    The federal government and Adelphia have both laid claim to assets acquired by John Rigas and his son Timothy, members of the founding family of the giant cable company that they were convicte

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  • February 8, 2008 | Bloomberg

    When lending industry cries for help, SEC comes running

    First the Securities and Exchange Commission's chief accountant gave the subprime-lending industry a valentine that wasn't in his power to bestow. Now some of the accounting rule makers are s

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  • December 18, 2003 | The Recorder

    PG&E Bends in Bid to Win CPUC's Blessing

    In a surprise compromise designed to ensure its exit from Chapter 11 bankruptcy early next year, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has agreed to key modifications to its reorganization plan.

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  • November 28, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Veterans law expert discusses his amicus brief over byzantine claims system

    Two years ago during arguments in an attorney fee case under the Equal Access to Justice Act, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. found "really startling" the government's admission that w

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