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  • June 14, 2007 | The Recorder

    Cooley Helps Drug Maker in $420M Sale

    Biotech giant Amgen Inc.'s $420 million purchase of local drug maker Ilypsa Inc. demonstrates a trend of large life-sciences companies deciding to buy up companies outright, instead of investi

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  • August 15, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Judge Questions Amount of Jail Time Ferry Pilot Is Facing A federal judge on Friday questioned why Richard Smith, the pilot of the Staten Island ferry that crashed and ki

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  • July 30, 2008 | Law.com Corporate

    Cadwalader Lays Off 96 More Lawyers

    Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft announced today it is laying off 96 lawyers in a second round of job cuts as the Wall Street firm continues to cope with t

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  • January 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Obstacle Course

    Last November, Sharon Nelles was trying very hard not to think about cookies. The Sullivan & Cromwell partner was about to begin trial in a massive antitrust suit in Des Moines against her

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  • October 12, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

    New Term Dawns at U.S. Supreme Court

    Questions in high-stakes cases flew fast and furious during the first week of the new Supreme Court term, and not only from the justices' bench. The new term opened on Oct. 3 with as much sp

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  • October 7, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    The Message Minefield

    When the government unleashed a barrage of damaging e-mail during the Microsoft antitrust case six years ago, electronic discovery entered the popular consciousness. Recent cases as we

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  • August 11, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    JPMorgan Stirs the Pot in Billion-Dollar WaMu Litigation

    With $10 billion and its honor at stake, it's no wonder that JPMorgan Chase and its lawyers at Sullivan & Cromwell are scratching and clawing in the litigation over JPMorgan's fire-sale acquisi

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  • February 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Big Firm Love

    It's a cold February morning in Brooklyn Heights, New York, and the Seymours are huddled under the duvet, each clicking on his-and-her Black­Berrys. Across the b

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  • April 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    No Precedent

    Dealmaker #1 - Bank Bailouts: H. Rodgin Cohen, Sullivan & Cromwell H. Rodgin Cohen has never had a busier year. By our count--he has lost track--he advised on

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  • February 5, 2008 | International Edition

    Skadden Leads on Microsoft's Yahoo Bid

    LONDON — Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is leading a heavyweight lineup of advisers on Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for Web rival Yahoo. The New York firm is advising Y

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