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  • November 11, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Poison Pills Are Drawing More Fire

    Corporate boards today are witnessing an increase in shareholder activism and scrutiny of their corporate governance practices. The number of shareholder proposals seeking to terminate or rest

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  • June 12, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Debevoise, Wachtell, Cleary, Ropes Counsel $28.1 Billion Cellular Buy Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications Inc. and Great Britain's

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  • May 8, 2008 | Legal Times

    Courtside: Judge pay hike may be losing steam

    Hope is beginning to dim that Congress will pass a pay hike for federal judges this year-despite some early legislative successes and behind-the-scenes lobbying by Chief Justice John Roberts

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  • June 17, 2008 | National Law Journal

    N.Y. firm sees exodus of lawyers

    Ten U.S. partners and two dozen associates have voluntarily left Thacher Proffitt & Wood in the past six months after a severe slump in structured finance. The slump has prompted t

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  • August 9, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Where Have All the Securities Class Actions Gone?

    The era was marked by mysterious envelopes. When opened, the official-looking documents inside informed the reader that, because he owned three shares of, say, Microsoft Corp. stock some years

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  • January 19, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Stage is set for legal labor brawl

    WASHINGTON — Business calls it "Armageddon." Labor says it's "a modest step." The multimillion-dollar ad campaigns are beginning even before a proposal making th

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  • April 1, 2004 | The American Lawyer

    The 2004 Corporate Scorecard

    The year-enddealmaking uptick notwithstanding, much of 2003 was characterized by the samecaution and uncertainty that haunted 2002. Potential acquirors and would-betargets circled each other n

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  • January 28, 2002 | Law.com

    Health Law

    Some notable developments in recent months may have opened a window of opportunity for health care providers with fraud and abuse problems. Previous columns have described the federal government's

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  • June 19, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Legal Research: Bridging the Generation Gap

    A procedure known as a mind-meld [performed by Mr. Spock, a Vulcan, of Star Trek fame] ... mak[es] it possible to share thoughts, experience, memories, and knowledge with another individual.

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  • July 2, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Latham Reps Quest Software in Sale to Dell

    A months-long bidding war over Quest Software Inc. — a maker of data-protection and database-management software — appears to have reached its co

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