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  • September 29, 2008 | Bloomberg

    Why mark-to-Paulson accounting won't save banks

    There's one glaring weakness in Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's plan to save the U.S. financial system: We know what the plan is. Any other problems with it are mere details. Much l

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  • March 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    A Really Bad Bet

    Thacher Proffitt & Wood real estate partner Donald Simone was at his desk on the fortieth floor of the World Trade Center's south tower early on September 11, 2001,

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  • April 13, 2004 | The Recorder

    New York State of Mind

    In 1996, Yahoo Inc. used Silicon Valley-based Venture Law Group to handle its sizzling-hot IPO. But this year, when Yahoo bought France's bargain-hunting Web site Kelkoo for $575 million, it t

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  • July 15, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Federal Circuit Divides On Description Issue In Drug Patent Battle

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has refused to review en banc a ruling against a New York university in a patent battle over rights to a multibillion-dollar pain-killer.

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  • November 30, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

    So This Is Goodbye:

    Consider it an evaluation period. As law departments — and often right behind them, the company's CFO or procurement offices — continue to demand more quality and value f

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  • December 29, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Legal Project Management: A Value Triple Play for Law Departments

    Legal project management is not just for law firms. With more and more frequency and in more and more companies and other organizations, law departments are coming to understand the benefits provid

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  • July 18, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Firms Seek to Cultivate Leaders

    Ten years ago, Frank Burch was running Piper Marbury, a 250-attorney firm with most of its lawyers in Baltimore. Today, he's running all right, but from coast to coast and country to country a

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  • April 11, 2003 |

    The Exodus Several firms-notably Clifford Chance, Dewey Ballantine, and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld-skimmed talent liberally from the foundering Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison

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  • June 22, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    How Are You Doing? Your Clients Want to Tell You

    How often do you nod to your waiter that your restaurant entr�e is fine when it's really not? It's easier, after all, just to finish the meal and patronize a different restaurant the next time

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  • April 4, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    HealthSouth Coughs Up Healthy Profits for Attorneys

    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 in legal fees for li

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