• March 2, 2012 | Daily Business Review

    SEC accounting of record enforcement year in 2011 doesn't add up

    U.S Securities and Exchange Commission officials have been citing a jump in the number of enforcement actions last year as proof that an overhaul of the agency’s investigative force is

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  • January 15, 2001 | Law.com

    Movers & Shakers

    NEW HIRESJoan Canny, 38, has joined Miami's Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson as a shareholder in the labor and employment law department. She was previous

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  • May 10, 2010 | Daily Business Review

    Holy nonequity partners!

    Last year, as law firms struggled with the brutal realities of the recession, many managing partners took the tried-and-true approach to cutting costs--layoffs. At The Am Law 100, the hardest

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  • June 29, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Partner Profits at Elite Firms Hit $2 Million Mark

    Among the nation's largest law firms, $1 million in profits per partner used to be the benchmark that separated the elite from everybody else. Judging from this year's AmLaw 100 Survey, that m

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  • June 27, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Court Declines to Hear Challenge to Terroristic Threat Law The Court of Appeals has declined to hear an appeal of the constitutionality of Penal Law �490.20, the terroristic thr

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  • November 1, 2007 |

    IP People on the Move

    Douglas Williams, litigation cochair at Merchant & Gould, has moved to Fulbright & Jaworski in Minneapolis, where he now heads the IP litigation practice group. The registered patent lawyer

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  • November 1, 2010 | Legaltech News

    Estates to Supremes

    Two months ago in this column, I wrote about a number of newly launched blogs that demonstrated that blogging is alive and well within the legal profession. Rarely have I had such a response to a c

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  • March 17, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Court to Hear Same-Sex Marriage Cases in May The Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in four same-sex marriage cases on May 31. The Court has "boxed" on its calenda

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  • March 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Fear Factor

    Ryan Rettmann left Thacher Proffitt & Wood in the nick of time. Last March, not long before the subprime crash paralyzed the debt markets, the first-year structured finance associate moved

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  • January 18, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Law Firm, E-Discovery Vendor Settle Lawsuits Almost as soon as it began, the legal battle between Sullivan & Cromwell and Electronic Evidence Discovery Inc. (EED) has ended

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