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  • February 1, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Sealing Divorce Documents Not Lawful

    A recent state appellate court ruling in the divorce of a Los Angeles billionaire has declared a California statute unconstitutional because it allows spouses to seal entire documents from public v

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  • April 11, 2003 |

    Sidley Austin Brown & Wood2613 $ 5,204 56 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett25215 10,476 17 Vinson & Elkins1838 3,112 1011 Hogan & Hartson17418 3,071 1116

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  • May 30, 2008 | Bloomberg

    Accounting regulation may be a vote away from disarray

    So much for the notion that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Two years ago, a tiny Las Vegas accounting firm called Beckstead & Watts LLP filed a lawsuit challenging the cons

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  • November 22, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Parmalat Creditors In U.S. Cry Foul Over Spreading Litigation

    The legal war accompanying the collapse of the bankrupt Italian food giant Parmalat is being waged mainly in Italy. But litigation has spread to American courts, and some U.S. creditors of Par

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  • September 30, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    2010 A-Z Summer Associate Rankings

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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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