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  • June 23, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Budget Would Restore Legal Aid Funding A proposed budget agreement between the mayor's office and the City Council would restore the Legal Aid Society's budget to $68.8 million

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  • July 11, 2011 | Legal Times

    Speculation Starts About Next DOJ Antitrust Chief

    Antitrust lawyers say they expect more of the same from the next head of the U.S. Justice Department's Antitrust Division, as an election year overshadows the selection of an official with enormous

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  • May 25, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Coudert Explores Action Over Defections to Orrick

    Stung by the mass defection of all of its partners in London and Moscow, New York-based Coudert Brothers is exploring a possible lawsuit against San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcli

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  • December 8, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Fannie's Ex-GC Had Her Doubts

    At 3 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 5, as the Washington, D.C., region was bracing itself for Tropical Storm Hanna, Fannie Mae general counsel Beth Wilkinson was meeting with the country&rs

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  • December 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Big Suits

    Mirror Worlds v. Apple A jury in Tyler, Texas, on October 4 awarded what news reports say could be the second-largest verdict of 2010 and the fourth-largest patent verdic

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  • July 23, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Skadden, Paul Weiss and Wachtell Counsel $3 Billion CIT Refinancing Deal CIT Group negotiated a late-night lifeline with its bondholders Sunday that is intended t

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  • February 1, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    Berkshire Hathaway/Burlington Northern Warren Buffett is tripling down on Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation. Berkshire Hathaway I

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  • April 1, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Chadbourne's Business Is Up, but 11 Deferred Associates Still Get the Preemptive Ax

    While most large law firms that deferred associates in 2009 say they are on track to hire those young lawyers this year, Chadbourne & Parke last month made the difficult call to rescind job off

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  • April 13, 2005 | National Law Journal

    SOX Inspires Backlash

    Hundreds of publicly traded companies finished their first, do-or-die year complying with tough new accounting and public disclosure requirements under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

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  • February 13, 2003 | The Recorder

    Sunnyvale's Scios Scooped Up by Johnson & Johnson

    Health care industry titan Johnson & Johnson has agreed to purchase Sunnyvale-based Scios Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, for approximately $2.4 billion.Lawyers in the Menlo Par

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