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  • June 28, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Taint of Earlier Case May Have Contributed to Vivendi Trial Defeat

    Following a rare securities fraud class action trial, a jury 2 1/2 years ago returned an estimated $9.3 billion verdict for shareholders of Vivendi Universal SA. That verdict was gutted a yea

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  • July 6, 2007 | National Law Journal

    As tender offers sizzle, lawyers cook

    DEAL-MAKING LAWYERS are closing deals faster as companies re-embrace quick tender-offer acquisitions, which are direct offers to buy stock from a target's shareholders. The potential

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  • May 2, 2002 | The Minority Law Journal

    Measuring Up (and Down)

    The good news first: Last year the percentage of minority attorneys at the nation's largest firms finally broke into the double digits -- 10.1 percent, up from 9.7 percent in 2000. The n

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  • November 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    New Business

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  • October 15, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Circuit Reinstates Apartheid Alien Torts Claims

    A federal appeals court has reinstated class actions brought under the Alien Tort Claims Act against dozens of corporations accused of aiding and abetting apartheid. Over the objection

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  • March 28, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Big Suits

    U.S. v. Countrywide et al. On February 9, Bank of America Corporation agreed to pay $1 billion to settle a federal probe

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  • April 17, 2006 | Legal Times

    Civil Actions

    The following selected cases were recently filed in .S. District Court for the District of Columbia; .S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Greenbelt division; and

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  • October 1, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Deals in Brief/Health Care

    This month's Big Deals column opens with Aetna Inc.'s $7.3 billion agreement to buy Coventry Health Care Inc. Before that deal was announced there was a burst of dealmaking in

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  • August 4, 2010 | Daily Business Review

    Boies Schiller: Work hard, very Hard, then count the moolah

    We're taking a break from our roster of megafirms to speak with Alan Vickery, hiring partner of Boies, Schiller & Flexner. As every law student knows, the firm was founded by litigation superst

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  • December 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Under Siege

    Nearly 20 years ago, Qualcomm Incorporated's founder, Irwin Jacobs, made one hell of a bet. Jacobs believed that a technique invented for guiding torpedoes during World War II-a highly complex

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