• November 30, 2007 | International Edition

    Private Client Work Goes Global

    It would appear that the perks associated with advising the world's super-rich do not extend to regular trips on private jets. That, at least, was the impression gleaned from an informal survey of

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  • January 1, 2011 | Focus Europe

    Happily Single?

    It was a grim morning in November 2008 when Andrey Goltsblat, managing partner of the leading Russian law firm Pepeliaev Goltsblat & Partners, set out for one of the most difficult meetings of

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  • January 17, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Urge to Merge Continues: McKenna Long, Herbert Smith Eye New Nuptials

    On the heels of reports earlier this month that the surge in law firm mergers that marked 2011 would con

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  • November 24, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Ex-Partner May Pursue Retirement Pay Claims

    A former Rogers & Wells partner who was asked to resign over a series of client overcharges may be entitled to lifetime retirement benefits, a Manhattan appellate court has ruled.

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  • August 4, 2003 | Legal Times

    Creating Second Acts in Legal Careers

    When, at age 57, Warren Kaplan was forced to decide his future as a lawyer, his initial reaction was to join another firm or start his own.It was 1993, and his firm, D.C.'s Melro

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  • September 22, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Simpson Thacher Advises on Breakup of Tyco Into Three Public Companies Tyco International will break itself into three publicly-traded companies in an e

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  • January 6, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200

      Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has lost the firmwide chair of its intellectual property and IP litigation group, JILL PIETRINI, to a target="_blank" href="http:

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  • February 24, 2003 | Legal Times

    A Patented Formula for IP Success

    When partners at Silicon Valley's Skjerven Morrill voted earlier this month to dissolve the firm, it seemed to confirm an increasingly widespread assumption: IP boutiques are a vanishing

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  • January 16, 2001 | Alm

    The Netherlands

    For decades, the top Dutch law firms coexisted peacefully, sharing the spoils of the country's lucrative corporate market. That tranquillity was shattered in May 1999, when the U.K.'s Freshfie

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  • May 12, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Good Times May Be Here Again for M&A Lawyers

    The long-awaited thaw in the M&A market has been bandied about in recent months about as often as a a target="new" class="linelink" href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-07/blockbuste

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