• January 14, 2002 | Law.com

    Squadron Ellenoff To Merge With

    Hogan & HartsonWASHINGTON, D.C.'s Hogan & Hartson has agreed to acquire 104-lawyer, New York-based Squadron Ellenoff Plesent & Sheinfeld in a deal expected to become

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  • August 2, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Judge Declines to Recuse in Fraud Suit Against His Alma Mater

    Three attorneys behind a spate of fraud class actions targeting law schools made the case yesterday that a trial judge who attended one of the schools being sued cannot be impartial. T

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  • October 3, 2000 | The Standard

    ICANN Asked to Connect the Dots

    The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers received a surprisingly large batch of applications to add new top-level domains, as 45 companies and groups requested permission to cre

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  • November 21, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Wachtell, Gibson Dunn Advise as Alleghany Wins Fight to Acquire Transatlantic

    Insurer Alleghany said Monday that it has agreed to pay about $3.4 billion to acquire Transatlantic Holdings, a company that has attracted multiple takeover attempts over the past several mo

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  • May 31, 2002 | The Recorder

    The Courtship of Clifford Chance

    A phone call from Tower Snow Jr. four months ago started a chain of events that culminated in the defection of a large group of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison partners to Clifford Chance an

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  • September 12, 2002 | The American Lawyer

    A $500 Per Hour Bargain

    The National Basketball Association's free agent signing period began in July, tipping off this year's fast break to grab available talent. One league agent is pleased that in the current mark

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  • April 29, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    The 2013 Am Law 100

    Well, now we know which firms were swimming naked after all. In fiscal 2012, The Am Law 100—which welcomes new members Bracewell & Guiliani; Faegre Baker Daniels; Fragomen, Del R

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  • July 26, 1999 | Legal Times

    FIRMS EYE FTC DIRECTOR

    William Baer, director of the Federal Trade Commission's Competition Bureau, announced his resignation from the commission last week, but he will not consider employment opportunities until after he l

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  • September 27, 1999 | Legal Times

    Covington Opens Up

    When lawyers from New York's Howard, Smith & Levin flew to Washington in July to meet with Covington & Burling's management committee to discuss the possibility of a merger, the differences

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  • October 21, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Marketplace

    Investment holding company C.V. Starr & Co. has signed a new, 141,000-square-foot lease at 399 Park Ave. for its world headquarters. C.V. Starr has rented 23,000 square feet on a portion

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