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  • October 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    A Break with the Past

    In July, London's Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer faced an unwelcome milestone in its 264-year history: getting sued by a former partner, for the first time ever. In an employment claim, Peter

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  • July 5, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Marketplace

    Covington & Burling has leased 160,000 square feet in the New York Times Building at 620 Eighth Avenue. It will become the second law firm tenant in the 52-story building, after Seyfarth S

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  • March 7, 2002 | Law.com

    Schlissel Leads Long Island Firm

    Lifting up a two-inch stack of resumes and cover letters, Lois Carter Schlissel displayed the mail from young hopefuls wanting to practice law for Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein."This is

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  • August 23, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Lawyers 'Fly Blind' on Options Penalties

    The stock options backdating scandal has produced 16 criminal prosecutions, the disclosure that 220 companies have been subject to internal or federal investigations and 100 corporate earnings rest

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  • August 1, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    N.Y. Law Is Applied to GE Indemnity for Polluted Sites

    The interpretation of insurance policies indemnifying General Electric against liability for hundreds of millions of dollars in claims from polluted sites around the country, including the Hudson R

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  • July 16, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Ex-Sidley Partner Admits Faking Bills, But Not for Gain

    A former Sidley Austin partner now with DLA Piper has admitted to submitting $120,000 in improper expenses while with his former firm, but claims he didn’t do so to benefit himsel

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  • July 26, 2007 | The Recorder

    Daniel Weiser, 1959 - 2007

    The untimely death of Daniel Weiser has put his family, friends and his colleagues at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in a state of shock and grief.On Monday, the 48-year-old corp

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  • February 10, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Corporate lawyers shift gears

    As the capital market freeze wears on, corporate lawyers' energies have shifted from helping clients borrow money or raise cash through stock offerings to crafting complex debt-restructuring

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  • May 6, 2013 | International

    Can China Change CFIUS?

    To most Americans, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States is just another innocuous bit of D.C. bureaucracy. The interagency committee, chaired by the Treasury secretary but

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  • June 30, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Davis Polk and Wachtell CounselOn $18.5 Billion Bid for Unocal China National Offshore Oil Co. Ltd. put forward a politically controversial counterbid for energy comp

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