• June 5, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Morgan Stanley's Recipe for Disaster

    It had been a long day for Jeffrey Davidson. It was already past 5 p.m. on March 22, 2005, and the Kirkland & Ellis partner had spent hours questioning potential jurors. His client, Morgan Stan

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  • September 30, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Summer Associates Survey 2010: Chill In The Air

      For this year's summer law clerks, 2010 is likely to go down as the year of the even leaner, meaner summer program. Like their predecessors last year, this year's summer cla

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  • August 16, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Hedge Fund Clients Bite Back

    NEW YORK — Like most hedge fund managers, James McBride and Kevin Larson expected to make a tidy sum. By the fall of 2003, they seemed well on their way. The series of Veras funds they ha

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  • November 15, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Branch offices

    Adams and Reese: New Orleans (108); Birmingham, Ala. (50); Houston (36); Baton Rouge, La. (23); Jackson, Miss. (22); Mobile, Ala. (11); Washington (2) Akerman Senterfitt: Miami (150);

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  • August 6, 2012 | National Law Journal

    D.C. CALENDAR

    TUESDAY, AUGUST 7 Online Ethics: The District of Columbia Bar presents "Ethics of E-Mail and Social Media." The program begins at 6 p.m. Speaker

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  • February 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    France

    Each year Paris-based legal magazine D�cideurs collects financial information for more than 300 firms, using reported data and in some cases estimates, to produce a list of France's lar

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  • May 8, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Beating the Spread

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton Managing Partner Mark Walker is old-school when it comes to partner compensation. He sees no reason to change Cleary's seniority-based lockstep scheme, in

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  • October 11, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Town Judge Censured Over 'Gross Insensitivity' A town court judge known for his sense of humor concededly went too far in making references to the physical characteristics of a

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  • July 18, 2005 | Legal Times

    Bringing US Airways In for a Landing

    It was a Saturday in late March 2004 and Brian Leitch was in a favorite place: a glittering curve of the southern Caribbean called Petit Byahaut, on the southwestern side of St. Vincent. He ha

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  • March 18, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    Hedge Fund Agrees to Pay $615 Million Over Insider Trading

    Two affiliates of hedge fund giant SAC Capital have agreed to pay a total of more than $615 million to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to settle insider-trading charges, in what t

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