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  • June 23, 2003 | National Law Journal

    in brief

    Enron mediator The federal judge who oversaw litigation in some of the major accounting fraud scandals of the 1990s has been called upon to mediate among claimants in the Enron Corp. ban

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  • November 1, 2004 | Corporate Counsel

    DEALS AND SUITS

    Harrah's Caesars Las Vegas gambling companies are doubling down at home � and betting antitrust regulators don't come after them for doing so. In the second big c

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  • February 15, 2011 | National Law Journal

    9th Circuit Finds Pharmaceutical Sales Reps Exempt from Overtime Laws

    The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Monday ruled that pharmaceutical sales representatives are exempt from federal overtime laws, creating what some see as an appellate court split that coul

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  • October 12, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

    When To Fault Client Choices

    The news of Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson's involvement in the legal representation of two Libyans charged in the Pan Am 103 bombing, which killed 270 people, is not about a

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  • September 13, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Alleged Conflict Could Spell More Than Bad Publicity for Boies Firm

    Boies, Schiller & Flexner, the law firm of superstar litigator David Boies, has already received a pair of public black eyes over its hiring on clients' behalf a document production compan

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  • September 1, 2004 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    Wachovia/SouthTrustLike kudzu and Nascar, bank mergers are thriving in the South. On June 21 Charlotte-based Wachovia Corporation announced that it would spend $14.3 billion in stock to

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  • August 2, 1999 | Legal Times

    The Public Lawyer: John Pickering Looks Back

    Every fall, John Pickering has a word or two with the newcomers at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering.It's a Wilmer, Cutler tradition: Pickering, now in his 38th year at the firm he helped found

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  • March 28, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    With Strings Attached

    From the minute it was announced in March 2011, AT&T Inc.'s $39 billion bid for T-Mobile USA Inc. was the biggest M&A deal of the year. It hung on to that status until the day in Dece

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  • January 10, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Cravath, Skadden, Covington, Advise $686 Million Ethanol-Energy Merger Renewable fuel producer VeraSun Energy Corp. will acquire Minnesota-based US BioEnergy Corporation, for ap

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  • September 16, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    New System of Ranking Law Firms Draws Mixed Reviews

    U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers released on Wednesday their inaugural ranking of law firms, but don't expect firms to brag about securing the overall top spot.

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