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  • September 20, 2001 | Corporate Counsel

    Gimme Gimme Gimme

    They may not have groupies, but Benjamin Heineman Jr., Joseph Flom, and Harvey Pitt are the heartthrobs of the legal world. If one of them were to leave his prestigious perch (Heineman i

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  • December 12, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Bigger the Firm, Bigger the Closet

    NEW YORK � While it appears that many midsized law practices have proportionately more openly gay and lesbian attorneys among their ranks than some of the nation's megafirms, there may be a bi

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  • April 6, 2009 | National Law Journal

    THE APPELLATE HOT LIST

    AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD Twenty-five high-profile victories marked a successful 2008 for Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. The firm's long-establ

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  • August 12, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Am Law 100 Firms Have Been Generous with 'Super Committee' Members

    House and Senate leaders have picked 12 members to sit on a new "supe

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  • July 18, 2005 | Corporate Counsel

    Family Values

    After 15 years in private practice plus general counsel stints at three major corporations, Janet Kelley decided to focus on family-in this case, Family Dollar Stores, Inc., which promoted her

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  • December 8, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New partners Baker Botts (Houston): Five of its attorneys have recently achieved partnership status: Brayton Dresser (corporate/New York), Maura Goldstein (global projects

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  • October 12, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Kirkland Advises $2.5 Billion Sale Of Cardiology Drug Manufacturer Gilead Sciences, Inc., a Foster City, Calif.-based pharmaceutical company that specializes in anti-viral flu a

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  • December 15, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Judge Grants Pfizer Summary Judgment in Neurontin Fraudulent Marketing Case

    We can't say we didn't see this one coming--and so, at least to some extent, did the class action plaintiffs who sought to bring fraud and Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act claims

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  • June 27, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Deals In Brief/Health Care

    Health care deals came fast and furious in April, with several multibillion-dollar transactions in the sector, including Nestlé SA 's $11.85 billion agreement to

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  • July 2, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Milbank, Gibson, Davis Polk Counsel Merger of Consultancies In a rare public-private merger of equals, Towers, Perrin, Foster & Crosby struck a deal to join fo

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