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  • March 3, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Ex-CEO Charged in $11B WorldCom Accounting Scandal

    U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft flew to New York Tuesday to announce criminal charges against former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers, one of several company executives accused of presiding ove

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  • August 1, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Motorola Awarded $4 Billion in Damages in Fraud Case

    A federal judge has ordered members of a wealthy Turkish family arrested for contempt and held them liable for well over $4.2 billion in compensatory and punitive damages for defrauding Motoro

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  • November 13, 2006 | National Law Journal

    10 Law Firms Rejoin or Debut on the NLJ 250 This Year

    The annual on-off shuffle of law firms that win a place or lose a spot among the nation's largest 250 involved 20 firms this year.Filling the 10 slots created by the law firms that slid off

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  • July 11, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Proskauer Rose Triples Size of Paris Office Proskauer Rose has significantly boosted the size of its Paris office with the recruitment of six partners and as many as 15 a

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  • April 13, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Judge Asked to Bar Expert Testimony Against Belnick Defense lawyers for former Tyco International general counsel Mark Belnick yesterday argued that a Securities and Exchange Co

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  • December 26, 2006 | Alm

    In the Business of Doing Good

    When he became managing partner of Bingham McCutchen's New York office two years ago, Robert M. Dombroff's mandate was to hire more attorneys and raise the outpost's profile. Pro bono, he real

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  • February 16, 2005 |

    Verizon, MCI Face Tough Choices

    For years, Verizon Communications Inc.'s position on MCI Inc. was that crime shouldn't pay, a criticism of the bankruptcy case that allowed the former WorldCom Inc. to shed tens of billions of

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  • February 11, 2000 | Legal Times

    Managing the Madness

    Don't you feel sorry for managing partners at the District's top firms? Two months ago, they thought they had quieted associate demands when they raised starting pay above $100,000 - a figure that

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  • August 2, 2010 | National Law Journal

    CIVIL ACTIONS

    The following cases were recently filed in the Washington-area district courts. This information is provided by the district courts' official online bulletins. U.S. DIS

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  • May 6, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Text Messaging and Trials: A Volatile Mix

    Wireless technology, such as cellular phones and BlackBerrys, has raised a new concern in the legal system: Is text messaging being used to tamper with trials? That fear surfaced durin

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