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  • June 20, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Eleventh Circuit Rejects Challenge to $137 Million Alcatel FCPA Settlement, Rules Costa Rican Company Is Not a Victim

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit unceremoniously rejected a Costa Rican state-owned company's bid to cast itself as a victim of corruption on Friday, rejecting the first attempt

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  • June 8, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    State High Court Considers Requiring Electronic Filing The New York Court of Appeals is considering changing its rules and procedures to require the filing, in addition

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  • March 16, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Coffee Is for Closers

    In the most famous scene in the movie based on David Mamet's play "Glengarry Glen Ross," an executive named Blake, played by Alec Baldwin, tries to motivate a crew of sullen real estate salesm

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  • June 3, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    $2.6 Billion Deal for Medical Supply Company Enlists Ropes, Willkie Covidien, a producer of medical devices, supplies and pharmaceuticals, has entered an agreement to a

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  • July 28, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

    Dashboard

    A Good Deal After almost 25 years at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in San Antonio, Cecil Schenker joined Cox Smith Matthews as a sh

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  • May 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Measuring a Lawyer's Value

    Value per lawyer ranks firms by how efficiently they generate profits. For the third year in a row, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz tops the list, with a value per lawyer of $1.585 mil

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  • April 5, 2010 | National Law Journal

    2010 APPELLATE HOT LIST

    AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD Twenty-four victories in 2009 are emblematic of the firm's stature in appellate law. Its success lies in its coupling of long-est

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  • November 1, 2007 | Law.com

    Corporate Fraud Data Base

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  • April 2, 2001 | The American Lawyer

    No Time for Chads

    He wasn't a candidate, political strategist, or news anchor, but Thomas Myers, of counsel in the New York office of San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, pulled an all-nighter on

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  • June 9, 2005 |

    Solutia, Monsanto Reach Accord

    After 18 months in bankruptcy and nearly eight years after its spinoff, Solutia Inc. has reached a truce with former parent Monsanto Co. and its unsecured creditors.Under an agreement

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