• 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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  • December 29, 2008 | Legal Times

    Burning Down the House

    It’s official: 2008 is the year the Big Law boom came to a screeching halt. Deal flow is dead, hundreds of lawyers and staff were pink-slipped, and some major Am

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  • September 7, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Real Estate Marketplace

    Carco Group, Inc., has signed a 10-year lease for 24,000 square feet at 5000 Corporate Drive in Holtsville with owner Wells Real Estate Investment Trust, an Atlanta, Ga.-based entity. The leas

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  • April 28, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    NY Lawyers Closing Billion Dollar Deals

    Sullivan, Osler, Cravath Counsel $7.8 Billion Mining Acquisition In a move to increase the company's copper reserves, gold miner Barrick Gold Corporatio

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  • May 6, 2009 | National Law Journal

    ASSOCIATE MOVERS

    ASSOCIATE PROMOTIONS TO PARTNER Bowman and Brooke (Minneapolis): Scott Paxton has been promoted to partnership. Paxton will practice in the aut

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  • August 27, 2002 | The Recorder

    Brobeck Loses a Top Biller in Its New York Office

    Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's securities litigation group sustained another blow Monday -- this time in the firm's New York office.Rainmaker Gregory Markel, one of the group's top-

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  • November 19, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Firms face new rules for retirement

    With hordes of attorneys poised to assume senior status, achieving a consensus among partners to ditch mandatory retirement policies is just the first step � and perhaps the easiest � in

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  • September 15, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Ebbers' Lawyer: White Collar Bar's 'Rolled Over'

    Government power over corporate America no longer benefits the public interest it portended to protect after recent corporate scandals, according to one white collar defense counsel who was at

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  • May 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    THE AM LAW 100 2008: Behind the Numbers

    Am Law 100 firms all have high gross revenues, but when it comes to translating that money into payouts for equity partners, the similarities end. Average profits per partner among the f

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