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  • July 2, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Securities Class Actions Against Merrill Dismissed

    Saying that investors who lost money when the Internet stock bubble burst had simply gambled and lost, a federal judge yesterday dismissed two class actions that accused Merrill Lynch of infla

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  • January 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    A Memo Too Far

    For Many months, sound and fury had been building about the Thompson Memo. Organizations ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce had called for reform o

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  • July 19, 2001 |

    CIGNA's $49 Million Dispute a 'Tax Matter' Subject to Arbitration

    A dispute over $49 million in taxes arising from ACE Ltd.'s acquisition of CIGNA Corp.'s property and casualty business falls within an arbitration clause of the acquisition agreement, a New Y

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  • January 10, 2001 | New Jersey Law Journal

    New Jersey Firms Still Aren't Players in N.J. Deal Work

    In a record year for mergers and acquisitions, New York law firms last year continued to dominate the landscape, handling the most valuable deals in New Jersey.Of the 30 largest New Je

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  • January 14, 2002 | Law.com

    Antitrust Trade and Practice

    The cost of playing hide-and-seek with the premerger notification requirements of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act has increased exponentially. In United States v. The Hearst Trust et al.

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  • November 2, 2007 | The Recorder

    McDermott Will to Add Lower-Paid Associates

    With soaring associate salaries, rising litigation costs and general counsel's resistance to it all, something has to give.While some firms quietly turn to contract attorneys or even ship gr

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  • March 1, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Communicator

    ON A QWEST Rich Baer is chief legal officer at Denver-based Qwest Communications International Inc., the nation's third-largest telecommunications company. Within Qwest's 14

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  • February 3, 2005 | The Recorder

    High Court Squints at Genentech Award

    Officials at Genentech Inc. can breathe again.The state Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to review a Second District Court of Appeal decision in which the South San Francisco biotech

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  • March 1, 2007 |

    Is Bankruptcy Guru Harvey Miller Resuming Legal Practice?

    The man widely considered to be the dean of bankruptcy attorneys, Harvey Miller, is thinking of leaving as vice chairman of investment bank Greenhill & Co. to make a return to the courtroom, ac

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  • June 27, 2000 |

    From Out of the Past

    A 1950s-era legal theory is drawing renewed interest since UAL Corp. announced its $11.6 billion acquisition of US Airways Group Inc. Known as the incipiency doctrine, it authorizes regulators to bloc

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