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  • July 20, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Firms flock to hottest party of the summer: Harvard's

    As a summer associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, Rachel Slutsky has eaten lunch at Nobu and Gramercy Tavern, gone bowling at Bowlmor Lanes and seen "The Wedding Singer"

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  • March 5, 2007 | Alm

    Top Law Firms Roll Out Rainbow Welcome Mats

    In his famous dissent in Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down Texas's same-sex sodomy law, Antonin Scalia railed against the legal profession for emb

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  • December 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Bratty Behavior

    How can an 11-inch plastic doll cause so much trouble? She does look like a mischief maker, with her puffy temptress lips and provocative almond-eyed stare—the kind

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  • November 2, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    DOJ Steps Up Enforcement With 2 Big Cases

    It may be Christine Varney's October surprise. In Varney's first 18 months on the job as head of the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, agency lawyers have litigated just one c

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  • November 20, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    The Untouchables

    When Marc Manly, then general counsel of the midwestern energy firm Cinergy Corp., first learned of his company's possible merger with Duke Energy Corp. last year, he knew who he wanted in his

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  • January 28, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    Boies Schiller Partner Named to Discipline Panel

    Nicholas Gra administrative partner and general firm counsel at Boies, Schiller & Flexner, has been appointed to the First Department Disciplinary Committee, an unpaid position. Gra

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  • July 28, 2008 | Law.com

    KKR to List on New York Stock Exchange

    Private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. plans to go public on the New York Stock Exchange later this year via a share s

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  • December 12, 2006 | Alm

    Name Partner Schulman Exits Milberg Weiss

    Steven Schulman, a name partner at Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman, resigned from the embattled class action powerhouse Friday, seven months after he and another partner were indicted in

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  • January 17, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Wachtell, Cleary, K&L Gates, Advise $4 Billion Mortgage-Lender Buy Bank of America has purchased the troubled mortgage lender Countrywide Financial for $4 billion in stock.

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  • December 8, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Hey, Big Spender

    The $6.6 billion buyout of Toys "R" Us Inc., by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Bain Capital LLC, and Vornado Realty Trust in March was not the biggest deal of 2005. Yet many lawyers were r

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