• September 6, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Davis Polk Adds Two M&A Partners in Paris Davis Polk & Wardwell has recruited two Paris partners, including the firm chairman, from leading French law firm Jeantet Assoc

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  • October 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    Profile: Open Space, Closed Job

    It's not every Silicon Valley lawyer who finds himself in an ice bar, sipping vodka from a cup made of ice while literally chilling with his new bosses. But that's just what happened to Clint

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  • January 1, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

    Taking Aim at the Plaintiffs Bar

    Lawyers at a panel discussion sponsored in October by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's legal arm said they want to find better ways to investigate and sanction trial lawyers for allege

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  • October 18, 2004 | Legal Times

    Doing More With Less

    To hear D.C.-area managing partners tell it, business is great. Yet in our annual survey of the region's largest law offices, few of those 150 offices saw a spike in lawyer ranks

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  • March 21, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Wins make Anders a hot commodity

    Flush from winning a conviction against former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers, Assistant U.S. Attorney David Anders said he's not planning on switching sides to high-paying white-collar def

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  • October 18, 2004 | Legal Times

    2004 Legal Times 150

    To hear managing partners tell it, business in the Washington metropolitan area is great. Yet in Legal Times' annual survey of the region's 150 largest law offices, few fi

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  • March 30, 2010 | National Law Journal

    DOJ Ramps Up Corruption Fight

    Nearly two dozen executives in the arms-dealing business were in Las Vegas en route to meet a supposed defense minister from Gabon when FBI agents moved in. Twenty-one were arrested, accused of off

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  • February 20, 2006 | Legal Times

    Michele Roberts

    What sets Michele Roberts apart from her brethren on this list isn't merely gender, race, and age � she is female, African-American, and under 50 � but the unbridled joy with which obser

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  • December 20, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    N.Y. Judge Sends Icelandic Bank's Case Against Icelandic Citizens to Iceland

    IN 2008, Iceland's three major banks imploded. The financial crisis threatened to take down the country's entire economy. By May of this year, a trustee for one of the three failed banks, Glitnir B

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  • December 22, 2003 | Legal Times

    Executive Mixer

    Corporate scandals were a boon for a cadre of Washington white collar lawyers in 2003. But for at least two local law departments, a company's alleged misdeeds meant upheaval.MCI

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