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  • May 5, 2004 |

    Feds Slap Gates With $800,000 Fine

    Don't accuse U.S. antitrust enforcers of never giving Bill Gates a break. Gates agreed Monday to pay $800,000 to settle charges that he violated the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act in 2002 by ac

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  • August 26, 2004 | Lawfirminc.

    Downsizing On-Campus Interviews

    It's no longer the days of wine and roses for law students as the nation's law firms reconsider how best to woo the brightest while keeping an eye on their pocketbooks.Historically, fi

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  • September 19, 2011 | Bloomberg

    Shell games hide European banks' financial woes

    The last time the world had a major banking crisis, fair value accounting rules were near the top of the list of scapegoats most likely to be denounced by government and industry leaders. Not

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  • May 6, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Firms Facing Tougher Loan Terms

    Law firms needing extra capital from banks to weather the rough economy are finding that the times -- and the terms -- have changed. Many law firms are seeing a slowdown in work and a lengt

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  • October 22, 2002 | Corporate Counsel

    Holiday Wholesale Grocery et al. Philip Morris et al.

    Embroiled in a haze of smokers' tort claims, Big Tobacco may find a good old-fashioned antitrust case a breath of fresh air-as long as it's a win. In July, Philip Morris, Inc.; R.J. Reynolds T

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  • October 6, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    2nd Circuit Considers Liability of Government Officials for Post-9/11 Sweep

    The personal liability of high-ranking officials for the mistreatment of Muslim men swept up after Sept. 11, 2001, and segregated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn was sharply contes

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  • December 28, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    2nd Circuit Finds Private Offering Does Not Require Issuing Prospectus

    Plaintiffs who purchased securities in a private offering cannot have a cause of action under �12(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, a federal appeals court has ruled. The 2nd U.S. C

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  • September 22, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Conduct Commission Drops Investigation of RappaportThe State Commission on Judicial Conduct has decided not to pursue an investigation of Brooklyn Justice Edward M. Rappaport fo

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  • September 8, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS. . . Anna Whorton Schenecker has joined Ball & Weed in San Antonio as of counsel. Her practice areas include product liability, commercial litigation and insur

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  • August 7, 2006 | The Recorder

    Fish Sticks With Corporate Plan

    In 2000, Boston-based Fish & Richardson decided to swim against the tide. The 350-lawyer intellectual property specialty firm launched a corporate group to diversify and feed its patent litigat

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