• August 14, 2006 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    UPDATESMichael Lowman, formerly assistant chief litigation counsel for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's division of enforcement,

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  • April 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Citations

    Excerpts from the 2,200-page report on Lehman Brothers, by bankruptcy examiner Anton Valukas of Jenner & Block, including some very different recollections: "[The Lehman

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  • March 2, 2009 | Legal Times

    Vote Nears for DOJ Nominee Ogden

    The nomination of David Ogden for deputy attorney general is headed for Senate confirmation as soon as this week. The 55-year old partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr w

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  • February 1, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

    SG Nominee Could Face Tough Term at High Court

    Analysis If confirmed by the Senate, Solicitor General nominee Donald Verrilli Jr. would face a U.S. Supreme Court term fraught with legal land mines for the Obama administr

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  • October 4, 2004 | Legal Times

    Civil Actions

    The following selected cases were recently filed in .S. District Court for the District of Columbia; .S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Greenbelt division; and

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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 3, 2008 | Legal Times

    The Secret to Success in an Up and Down Economy

    When I was a first-year associate in 1993, it was hard to imagine that well-established firms such as Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison or Shea & Gould would disappear. It was unimagin

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  • August 22, 2006 | Alm

    Firms Muscling Up on Bankruptcy

    Despite what's expected to be a 12-year low in bankruptcy filings this year, major U.S. law firms are starting to beef up their ranks of restructuring attorneys in anticipation of heavier case

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  • August 2, 2006 | Special To Law.Com

    Supreme Court Eases Standard for Title VII Retaliation Claims

    In Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White, 548 U.S. --, No. 05-259 (June 22, 2006), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the anti-retaliation provision of Title VII of the Civil

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  • August 17, 2011 | National Law Journal

    ASSOCIATE MOVERS

    NEW ARRIVALS Dechert: Jodi Schwimmer joins the firm's finance and real estate practice as counsel to the New York office. She

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