• October 27, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    How One Gibson Dunn Partner Is Grooming the Next Generation

    Like many large law firms, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has a formal mentoring program aimed at pairing seasoned partners with the younger lawyers in line to replace them one day. At Gibson D

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  • December 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Showstopper

    It was a tiny, inconsequential blip in the Bank of America Corporation legal saga. On October 13 the bank’s lawyers at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and staff lawyers for

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  • March 21, 2011 | National Law Journal

    D.C. CALENDAR

    TUESDAY, MARCH 22 Tax Law: The District of Columbia Bar Taxation Section's financial products committee presents "Recent IRS Pronounce­ments: Op

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  • November 1, 2005 | The American Lawyer

    Banking on China

    Anthony Root spent much of this year working in a room without windows -- and, after 6 p.m., without air-conditioning -- in a dim Beijing office tower that locals call "the black turd." Hardly

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  • March 17, 2006 | The Recorder

    Expansion-Minded Law Firms Look to Korea

    As a boy, Justin Chang remembers his attorney father advising Korean-based companies. Long before Hyundai and Samsung were household names here, Korean executives would visit Chang's home near Los

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  • March 29, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    GE overhauls outside counsel roster

    JUST TWO YEARS after some 200 law firms endured the ultimate test of strength and patience for a shot at one of the 140 coveted preferred provider positions at General Electric Company, the l

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  • November 3, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Paterson Expected to Name Burstein as Counsel Governor David A. Paterson will name Karen Burstein, a former state legislator, bureaucrat and judge, as his c

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  • April 21, 2005 | Corporate Counsel

    Gents Regulating Gents

    The chief executive of Britain's Financial Services Authority, John Tiner, summoned the CEOs of 21 financial institutions to meet at midnight on March 2, 2004, at the agency's Canary Wharf hea

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  • January 29, 2007 | National Law Journal

    California firms move toward N.Y. salary hikes

    LOS ANGELES-After a few days of watching New York, the first California-based firms made their moves last week, charting two paths for associate pay. Los Angeles-based Quinn Ema

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  • October 22, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Shearman, Willkie Counsel Bloomberg Acquisition of BusinessWeek Magazine Bloomberg L.P., has entered an agreement to purchase BusinessWeek magazine from its owner The Mc

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