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  • April 28, 2008 | The Recorder

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    SCREENWRITER SEES PLENTY OF HEROES IN PATENT LAWTerrorists have infiltrated the patent office and want to get their hands on a secret flesh-eating biological weapon. The only ma

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  • April 26, 2004 | Legal Times

    Legal Rationale for Detentions Draws Skepticism

    Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Bush administration has constructed many of its policies in the war on terror on the legal foundation of a World War II-era Supreme Cou

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  • October 31, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    DLA, V&E Advise on TNK-BP's $1 Billion Brazilian Exploration Deal

    UPDATE: 11/1/11, 11:00 a.m. EDT. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is advising AAR on this matter, with Moscow-based M&A partner Linda Davies leading the fi

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  • April 3, 2007 | Legal Times

    Court Won't Hear Detainees' Appeal

    WASHINGTON � The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the next wave of appeals from Guantanamo detainees seeking to challenge their detention in federal court.The twin cases, Bo

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  • August 23, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Shaping the WTC litigation

    Name and title: Markus U. Diethelm, chief legal officer and head of group regulatory and government affairs Age: 46 The company: Swiss Reinsurance Co

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  • December 25, 2006 | Legal Times

    2006 Year in Review: Say What?

    • "Basically, we all walked out the door and said, �What the hell was that?' "— Susan Hackett of the Association for Corporate Counsel, on business lobbyists' reacti

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  • May 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    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

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  • November 1, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Debevoise, Simpson Thacher Match Cravath Bonuses Two more New York law firms have followed Cravath, Swaine & Moore in announcing year-end and one-time special bonuses for as

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  • July 13, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    White-Collar Crime

    Free With Registration: Self-Detect

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  • April 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Leaner and Meaner?

    As economic jitters increase, the associate compensation picture at the nation's highest-paying firms looks eerily similar to the boom before the bust seven years ago. In 2007 the ration of bon

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