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  • July 9, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Several Chicago lawyers are working pro bono on Olympics bid

    When the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid committee sought attorneys and law firms willing to donate legal time to the cause, there were more volunteers than assignments to go around.

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  • June 28, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Big deals are par for the course for this golf lawyer

    The sale in February of the Desert Mountain Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz., and its six golf courses, facilities and 500 nearby developable acres to a group of members for $73.5 million rep

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  • April 1, 2007 |

    Buyout Brainstorm

    Lori Lesser is a fast talker. Really fast. An intellectual property litigation partner in Simpson Thacher & Bartlett's New York office, she could conceivably bill twice as many hours a year if

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  • August 18, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Bankruptcy cases straddle the border

    TORONTO — Michael MacNaughton practices in Canada, but finds he is learning more and more about U.S. bankruptcy laws.A growing number of his cases involve bankruptcy procee

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  • January 1, 2007 |

    RESCUE RNAI

    When Merck & Co. Inc. acquired small biotech company Sirna Therapeutics for $1.1 billion in cash last October, it purchased a patent portfolio that could dominate the marketplace for dozens of

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  • December 20, 2006 | National Law Journal

    The art of negotiating a city's skyline

    CHICAGO-Attorney Thomas Murphy may take on the Federal Aviation Administration as part of his client's quest to build the country's tallest building in this city. He'd like to re

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  • May 8, 2013 | The Recorder

    Howrey and Heller United on Clawback Question

    SAN FRANCISCO — Defunct law firms look out for one another.The Howrey bankruptcy trustee is lending a hand to the Heller Ehrman estate as it tries to stymie four firms' effort

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  • August 22, 2011 | The Recorder

    Affymetrix, Latham Win Before Federal Circuit

    SAN FRANCISCO — The Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/ca/PubArticleCA.jsp?id=1202476267426http://www.law.com/jsp/ca/PubArticleCA.jsp?id=12024762674

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  • April 10, 2006 | Legal Times

    Life Sciences: Counsel on the Cutting Edge

    Genomics. Recombinant DNA. Molecular biology. Antioxidant foods.We're talking life sciences, the quintessential "hot" practice area. It brings together breathless headlines, cutt

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  • December 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    In Demand

    It took a $2 billion trading scandal at investment bank UBS to propel the world of exchange-traded funds into the public spotlight. But for a small universe of lawyers, these funds, w

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