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  • October 18, 2004 | The Recorder

    Sidebar

    DECONSTRUCTION BAR FINDS MEANING IN DERRIDA DEATHWhen the mind that launched 1,000 reactionary academic tracts died last week, at least a few local attorneys took note. One migh

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  • September 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Big Suits

    CENTOCOR ET AL. V. ABBOTT LABS In the largest patent verdict in U.S. history, on June 29 a federal jury in Mar

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  • January 10, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Prominent Law Firms Move to Limit Liability

    In a sign of increased caution in the post-Enron world, two of New York's most prominent law firms have elected to become limited liability partnerships.Sullivan & Cromwell and Pau

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  • December 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    Northeast / NSTAR Northeast Utilities agreed to buy rival New England electric power producer

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  • September 20, 2000 |

    Financial Reform Bill Has Limited Impact

    Nearly a year has passed since Congress tore down the barriers separating the banking, securities and insurance industries, but so far the results have been far more limited than many observer

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  • April 5, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Zell Takes Tribune Private In $8.2 Billion Two-Part Deal A group led by Chicago real estate billionaire and former lawyer, Samuel Zell, has entered into an agreement with Tribun

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  • August 9, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Where Have All the Securities Class Actions Gone?

    The era was marked by mysterious envelopes. When opened, the official-looking documents inside informed the reader that, because he owned three shares of, say, Microsoft Corp. stock some years

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  • November 16, 2001 | Corporate Counsel

    The Kindest Cut

    Last year, Fortune magazine ranked high-flying online broker The Charles Schwab Corporation as one of the top five places in America to work. A year later, the discount broker is

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  • December 28, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Big Firm Defectors Claim Risk of Starting Boutique Is Paying Off

    A recession may not seem like the perfect environment for starting a new law business, but with clients under pressure to manage costs and large firms favoring institutional clients in potential co

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  • September 30, 2013 | National Law Journal

    D.C. Law Firms Are Learning to Love Austerity

    Among Washington's largest law offices, more grew and fewer cut lawyers in 2012 than in the previous year, the annual Legal Times 150 survey shows. But even firms that expanded th

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