• October 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Summertime Blues

    This year's crop of summer clerks was on the cutting edge of a changing industry. That meant plenty of job-offer wo

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  • May 31, 2008 |

    Deceitful Deals

    Trends converge to turn up the heat on international bribery.

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  • January 1, 2008 |

    Co-author Conflict

    2nd Circuit's decision on retroactive licenses rattles publishing and entertainment industries.

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  • June 13, 2007 |

    GCs and Board Members Rank the Top 20 Firms

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom ranked as America's best corporate law firm in a survey of general counsel and directors of publicly traded companies.

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  • August 4, 2006 |

    Law Firm Merger Activity Declining Slightly

    According to a recent report published by Hildebrandt International, U.S. law firms were involved in 31 mergers in the first half of 2006. This represents a slight decline from 2005, where firms entered into 34 mergers over the same period. The largest completed law firm merger of 2006 so far...

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  • June 16, 2006 |

    Directors Rank Skadden as Best Corporate Firm

    Directors Rank Skadden as Best Corporate Firm For the sixth consecutive year, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom was ranked the best corporate law firm in a survey of 1,390 directors and 279 general counsel of publicly traded companies. Corporate Board Member magazine and FTI Consulting conducted the survey. Two...

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  • December 31, 2005 |

    Boston Legal

    Lucinda Treat discusses the joys and challenges of being the Red Sox's general counsel.

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  • October 13, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Breakdown on El Camino Real

    With its head start in the Bay Area, Shearman & Sterling was poised to take the lead among New York firms in Silicon Valley. Instead, it stumbled and is scrambling to recoverThe mo

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  • July 1, 2004 | The American Lawyer

    Who's Sorry Now?

    Late last summer, Shearman & Sterling settled a suit by former client EIE International Corporation, a bankrupt Japanese conglomerate. EIEI claimed it had been stripped of its assets by on

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