• October 13, 2011 | National Law Journal

    FHFA Bank Suits Moved to Southern District Federal Court

    One of the more opaque moves by the Federal Housing Finance Agency when it sued 18 of the world's largest financial instituti

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  • March 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Rainbow Revolution

    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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  • May 6, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    Obama Continues Surge of Nominations of NY Lawyers for Federal Bench

    President Barack Obama continues to feed nominees into the pipeline to fill the largest number of vacant seats in the Southern District of New York since the mid-1990s. The

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  • December 3, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Simpson and Kirkland Counsel $1.3 Billion Acquisition of Birds Eye Pinnacle Foods is set to purchase Birds Eye Foods, the country's largest producer of frozen vegetable

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  • April 1, 2002 | The American Lawyer

    The Perfect Storm

    It's the start of a new decade, and deal work is in the dumpster. In Washington, President Bush is sending troops abroad, while Wall Street struggles to cope with a recession and a stagn

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  • May 16, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Can the 'Jewish Law Firm' Success Story Be Duplicated?

    To many, perhaps most, observers of today's legal scene, a "white shoe" law firm is nothing more than a large, prominent firm serving a primarily corporate clientele. But those who entered t

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  • October 31, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Bad News on Bonuses

    About those ever-swelling year-end bonuses associates have enjoyed in recent years -- maybe not this year. A slowdown in legal work and decreasing profits at law firms mean that m

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  • May 13, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Simpson, Morgan Lewis, Willkie, Cleary, Covington on $3.4 Billion IDC Buyout In the largest private equity deal so far this year, Interactive Data Corporation (IDC), a p

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  • March 1, 2005 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals and Suits

    Kmart Sears Kmart Holding Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Co. began their Christmas shopping a little early last year. The two retailing giants announced an $1

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  • July 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    The Good Fight

    Is free legal work always pro bono? May a firm fairly include in its pro bono hours exemplary work for which it is paid? These are questions The American Lawyer has been discussing more than u

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