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  • June 1, 2003 | The American Lawyer

    Magic Tricks

    England's empire builders of international legal services are taking a hit in their own once-indomitable engine rooms. For a decade, most of London's so-called Magic Circle firms have taken de

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  • November 7, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Do Lawyer-Moms Have It All?

    High on the polished walls of the Great Hall are 19 imposing oil portraits of distinguished men: the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, along with 18 former presidents of the Association of the B

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  • July 24, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Lawyers on Major TransactionsShearman, Allen & Overy Counsel Sale of French Oil Seed CompanyIn a deal with a potential total value of about $830 million, Bunge Ltd., a

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  • May 1, 2006 | Legal Times

    Honors and Appointments

    40 AT 50Fourteen law firms — out of 109 that qualified — were honored by judges on D.C.'s federal bench for their pro bono work. A celebratory reception, the 40

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  • May 27, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Guatemalan Asylum Case Helps Push Envelope in Abuse Matters

    "Honestly," admits Sheila M. Zachman, who together with Nathan J. Greene has just made a significant mark in asylum law, "I thought we were going to lose."But at perhaps the sharpest p

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  • March 27, 2002 | Law.com

    Layoffs: The Big Picture

    Leo Cunningham, one of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's two hiring partners, calls them "born-to-do-deals transaction jocks." They are the young associates who once populated the print

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  • February 1, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Veteran Shearman Finance Partner Joins Baker Botts Baker Botts has recruited a veteran New York finance partner from Shearman & Sterling. William R. Giusti, previousl

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  • September 5, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Associates in Pro Bono

    Corporate Pro BonoNew York-based Viacom International, with some 300 in-house attorneys, has joined a small number of corporations offering formal pro bono legal p

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  • January 11, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Leading M&A Transactions — Target or Acquirer Based in N.J. — 2009

    Related article: Except for Major Pharma Deals, N.J. M&A Activity Plunged in ‘09 /st

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  • October 9, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    BofA case shines light on secret disclosures

    When Manhattan federal district court judge Jed Rakoff scuttled Bank of America Corp.'s $33 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, he didn't mince words. The settleme

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