• May 18, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Short summers squeeze associates, firms

    In years past, summer associates at Blank Rome had 10 weeks to prove their mettle and earn a permanent job offer. The 23 2Ls arriving at the Philadelphia firm in June will have just si

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  • December 22, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Six Firms Handle $4.2 Billion Rental Company Acquisition United Rentals, the largest equipment rental company in the world, will buy RSC Holdings in a $4.2 billion cash-

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  • December 14, 2006 | The Recorder

    Companies unhappy with their law firms

    Corporate America isn't very happy with its law firms. In fact, only 32 percent of executives responding to a recently released client service survey said they would recommend a firm tha

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  • November 10, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Dodging a Bullet

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last month settled with Royal Ahold for alleged securities violations related to a $30 billion overstatement in net sales from 2000 to 2002. It also

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  • May 29, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Cravath, Paul Weiss, Skadden Counsel Time Warner Cable Split Time Warner Inc., a New York-based media company, plans to split off Time Warner Cable Inc. as

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  • May 10, 2005 | Legal Times

    Law Firm Co-Founder Lloyd Cutler Dies

    Lloyd Cutler, a White House counsel for Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and a founding partner of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, died Sunday in Washington, D.C. He was 87. T

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  • December 16, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Ex-Associate Pleads Guilty in Insider Trading Scheme

    Matthew Kluger, a former large-firm associate who was charged in April with participating in a massive insider trading scheme, pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Newark, N.J., to all four

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  • July 2, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    PRO BONO SCORECARD 2007: It Starts at the Top

    Francis Milone's conversion was a long time coming. "Historically, I had always been a busy lawyer," says the former litigator, who has served as head of M

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  • November 28, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Antitrust standing and the new economy

    The antitrust standing doctrine, which is now more than three decades old, faces new challenges brought on by a shift in our understanding of competition. With the growth of the Internet, mob

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  • June 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Clarence Thomas: Opening Doors

    African Americans who attended Yale Law School in the early 1970s landed a range of impressive jobs after graduation. Eric Clay, 1972 Federal cour

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