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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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  • April 20, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Paul Weiss Benefits Partner Joins Wachtell Lipton Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz has taken a step toward making its executive compensation and benefits practice whole again.

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  • October 1, 2007 | Legal Times

    Washington Firms Assess Price of Staying 'Top Tier'

    Call it a near miss.Earlier this year, New York's Simpson Thacher & Bartlett raised starting salaries for first-year associates to $160,000. In the competition to recruit top tal

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  • March 28, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Problem Solvers

    Our inaugural honorable mentions go to 12 dealmakers who handled a range of intriguing and innovative transactions. From 11-figure pharmaceutical mergers to small public finan

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  • June 19, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    The Careerist: Vault's Prestige List—Is Your Firm on It?

    You know it's meaningless, and I know it's meaningless. But who isn't curious about which firms asso pick as the most prestigious in our land? Based on a survey of 17,000 asso

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  • July 18, 2005 | Legal Times

    Mark Silverman

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