• May 13, 2010 | National Law Journal

    As litigator, Kagan worked alongside power players

    Elena Kagan was fresh off a political defeat in late 1988. The presidential candidate s worked for, Democrat Michael Dukakis, had lost convincingly to Republican George H.W. Bush, and s

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  • October 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Metal Heads

    Never mind that Rio Tinto plc didn't want BHP Billiton to take it over. The $164 billion hostile bid itself signaled that something was changing in the mining sector. The bid is more tha

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  • May 9, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    $60,704 Pharmacia Corporation (U.S) Mannheimer Swartling; Pfizer Inc. (U.S.) Cadwalader; Linklaters Sullivan & Cromwell 18,440 Lattice Group plc (U.K.) Linklaters; Osler, Hos

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  • January 28, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    County Attorney Considers Legal Action Over Takeover Nassau County was gearing up yesterday for a possible court challenge to a state-appointed oversight board's decisio

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  • May 22, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Are Mattel, MGA Ready to Play Nice?

    After five years of legal wrangling and a three-month trial in 2008, the toy war that pitted Mattel, Inc. against the maker of the popular Bratz dolls may be headed for a détente. p

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  • August 21, 2009 | The Recorder

    Cooley Godward Represents SpringSource in $420 Million Sale

    Even though Cooley Godward Kronish lost its biggest deal makers -- a target="new" href="http://www.law.com/jsp/articl

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  • September 22, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Suspended Judge to Keep Salary Nassau District Judge David A. Gross, who is facing federal money laundering charges, will continue to receive his full pay even though he

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  • April 16, 2012 | National Law Journal

    'No retribution, no fear'

    Last month, a government auditor noted steps the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia has taken to improve its efforts to take down lobbyist scofflaws. Officials contracted a p

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  • May 11, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Citigroup Exits WorldCom Case With Settlement of $2.6 Billion

    The cleanup after the collapse of WorldCom Inc. advanced yesterday when Citigroup Inc. announced it would pay investors $2.65 billion to settle claims that one of its investment banking units

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  • April 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    False Positive?

    Jane Kober is no stranger to the disclosure requirements for public companies. In her seven years as general counsel of Biopure Corporation, a small Massachusetts-based drug company, she's reg

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