• October 21, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    The Bigger Problem Raised by the David Becker Conflict Report

    Last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission's inspector general dealt a body blow to David Becker, the agency's former

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  • April 21, 2003 | Legal Times

    Inadmissible

    MERGER MATES: ARE GOOD ONES TAKEN?When it comes to law firm mergers, the frenzy is abating. Law firm combinations nationwide during the first three months of 2003 were dow

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  • December 1, 2007 |

    Major League Baseball Strikes Out at the Eighth Ccircuit

    To baseball fans, October is for nail-biting, then celebration or heartbreak. In fantasy baseball, the month proved no less momentous. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled

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  • October 6, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Toyota Shareholders Invoke Japanese Securities Law in Consolidated Complaint

    Lawyers for shareholders of Toyota Motor Corp. who suffered losses tied to massive recalls and claims of sudden acceleration of its vehicles have filed a consolidated complaint invoking Japanese se

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  • November 1, 2004 | National Law Journal

    In Brief

    Another wave of suits from recording industry The recording industry last week filed another round of copyright infringement lawsuits against people it said were il

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  • September 5, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New Arrivals Akerman Senterfitt (Orlando, Fla.): The firm's Miami office has added former Judge Michael B. Chavies of the Miami-Dade county circuit. Prior to his se

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  • November 21, 2002 | The Recorder

    News Briefs

    BURGESS LANDS COURT COMMISSIONER POSTRhonda Burgess, a veteran deputy city attorney in San Francisco, has been appointed an Alameda County Superior Court commissioner.Th

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  • May 12, 2008 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    Andrew Steinberg

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  • February 3, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    The Sideways Route

    For decades, the only way to become a partner at an elite law firm was to become an associate at that firm first, preferably straight out of a top law school.That is no longer th

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  • December 20, 2006 | Alm

    Latham to Open Two Offices in Spain

    Few U.S. law firms have sallied forth into the Spanish legal market, but Latham & Watkins is changing that. Promising that the firm isn't tilting at windmills, Latham announced Mon

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