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  • November 4, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Dodging a Bullet

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

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  • March 23, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    State Labor Chief Tapped For Legal Slot at U.S. Labor The White House has nominated New York state's labor commissioner, M. Patricia Smith, as solicitor at

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  • March 28, 2006 | Legal Times

    Top Law Firms Join Forces in Landmark Detainee Case

    When the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments today in a landmark dispute over executive power in wartime, the Bush administration will be outnumbered -- if not outgunned. Many of the nation's

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  • April 13, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Senate Confirms Briccetti for Southern District Slot Vincent L. Briccetti was confirmed yesterday as the latest judge to join the bench in the Southern District of New Y

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  • July 25, 2008 | The Recorder

    Wilson Sonsini said to sidestep derivative suit over Brocade backdating

    Thursday was a good day for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Sources revealed that the firm and its chairman, Larry Sonsini, likely will not be targeted in a backdating derivative

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  • July 25, 2008 | The Recorder

    Wins for Wilson Sonsini

    Thursday was a good day for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Sources revealed that the firm and its chairman, Larry Sonsini, likely will not be targeted in a backdatin

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  • November 28, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    City Bar Attacks NYPD's Proposed Parade Permit Rules At a public hearing yesterday at New York Police Department headquarters, the New York City Bar Association called for the w

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  • March 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    A Municipal Bankruptcy Bust

    The balance sheets of many local governments in the United States are abysmal. As federal stimulus dollars dry up, pension obligations swell, and tax bases shrink, citi

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  • January 30, 2006 | Legal Times

    D.C. Firms View China With Caution

    Political winds shape business plans, and in 1994 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld scented something in the air. With the fall of the Soviet Union and a flood of outside capital into the f

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  • July 5, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Merger policy and financial distress

    When the revised Department of Justice/Federal Trade Commission Horizontal Merger Guidelines were issued for public comment on April 20, they contained no significant change from the 1992 gu

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