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  • March 8, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Bankruptcy Priority

    In a victory for Motorola, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has granted the company's request to vacate a $135 million settlement between unsecured creditors and lenders of a b

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  • October 5, 2009 | Bloomberg

    FDIC is flying blind on the depth of banks' losses

    There was a stunning omission from the government's latest list of "problem" banks, which ran to 416 lenders, a 15-year high, as of June 30. One outfit not on the list was Georgian Bank, the

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  • September 28, 2009 | Bloomberg

    FDIC is broke and taxpayers are at risk, says Bair

    The FDIC's insurance fund is going broke, and Sheila Bair is wondering aloud about how to replenish it. This means one thing for taxpayers: Watch your wallets. Bair, the Federal Depos

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  • November 13, 2008 | Bloomberg

    Obama needs to scrap his Bailout Bunch

    It's hard to believe Barack Obama would even think of calling this change. Take a good look at some of the 17 people our nation's president-elect chose last week for his Transition Eco

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  • December 1, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits, December 2012

    Morgan StanleyCitigroupMorgan Stanley struck a deal with Citigroup Inc. on September 11 to take full control of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney by June

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  • April 21, 2008 | Bloomberg

    After Bear Stearns, SEC's Cox tells another tale

    Fresh from his assertions last month that Bear Stearns Cos. was well capitalized, Christopher Cox has told another whopper. In a two-page, April 1 letter to U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd

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  • May 13, 2004 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Jury Awards $19M in Patent Fight

    Entrepreneurs Michael Finney and his brother, John, founded MJ Research 17 years ago, in a Massachusetts attic. Today it commands a 30 percent share of the worldwide market for machines that s

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  • February 15, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Firm Wants All Its Associates to Have a Harvard Education

    Associates at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy are heading to Harvard.The firm has agreed with Harvard Law School to launch what it believes is a first-of-its-kind associate development program.

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  • October 2, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    More Dominoes Fall in Crisis Citigroup Acquires Wachov

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  • August 23, 2004 | Daily Report Online

    21 to watch: On the Rise 2004

    Profile stories of Gayle M. Abramson, Carla E. Brown, Christopher Carpenter, Christopher M. Carr, Kristin M. Childers, Hakim Hilliard, Ajay K. Jindia, Michael D. Johnson, William H. Jordan, A

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