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  • March 7, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Want to poach associates? Good luck.

    Amid an improved economy and an apparent upturn in lateral hiring, some law are trying to shield their associates from the wiles of recruiters offering richer rewards. Some

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  • July 26, 2012 | Alm

    At big firms, equity gender gap continues

    Virtually every firm claims that it is committed to helping women succeed. And they all seem to offer an array of women's programs — affinity groups, business-development training and wo

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  • September 18, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Former British Government Minister: Lehman Litigation Will Pass Through London; Milbank Names Creditors' Counsel

    Thinking about all the Lehman-related litigation on the horizon makes our heads spin like a roulette wheel. Think about it: Lehman's estate is more than seven times the size of Enron's, and we all kno

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  • April 1, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Panel Clarifies a Rule on Investor Recovery

    The standard for enforcing the statute of limitations on actions by investors to recover wrongfully realized short-swing profits from corporate insiders has been clarified by the U.S. Court of

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  • December 7, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Q&A: Larry Lederman

    For decades, Larry Lederman, 77, was one of the busiest corporate and mergers and acquisitions lawyers in the country, shaping major developments in corporate law such as "leveraged recap

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  • April 26, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Business briefs

    LIABLE FOR $2.7 MILLION A New Jersey firm is liable for half of the awarded damages of $5.4 million in a suit brought by a Miami developer claiming it was cheated out of its inter

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  • February 2, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Milbank Tweed Adds Compensation Specialist From Dewey Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has recruited Dewey Ballantine's compensation and benefits practice head. Paul J. Wesse

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  • September 28, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Patent and Trademark Law

    Will a U.S. patent covering an innovative method for performing certain steps reach an accused infringer who performs one or more of those steps outside the United States? A patent's

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  • November 1, 2005 | The American Lawyer

    Banking on China

    Anthony Root spent much of this year working in a room without windows -- and, after 6 p.m., without air-conditioning -- in a dim Beijing office tower that locals call "the black turd." Hardly

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  • June 25, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Estate Tax Decoupling

    As a result of federal legislation enacted in 2001, the relationship between the federal and New York estate tax systems was substantially altered. One of the more important consequenc

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