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  • December 6, 2011 | Daily Business Review

    Careers: Women still a blip on the new partner radar

    Correction: Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has four women out of 11 new partners. The original version mentioned one woman out of six. We re

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  • January 18, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Testa Hurwitz Votes to Dissolve The partners of Boston's Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault voted Friday to dissolve the firm. The 280-lawyer firm, which was founded in 1973,

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  • February 23, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Joseph Flom, Pioneering M&A Lawyer and Skadden Name Partner, Dies at 87

    It might seem strange that a Harvard Law School graduate who ranked in the top 5 percent of his class and served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review would fail to land a job at any of Ne

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  • June 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Did Affirmative Action Really Hinder Clarence Thomas?

    Why couldn't Clarence Thomas get a job with a big-city law firm when he graduated from Yale in 1974? It's not an idle question. That "time of dashed hopes and expectations," as Thomas once d

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  • February 19, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Skadden Arps, Wachtell Lipton Take Lead on Retail Bank Merger North Fork Bancorp has won the auction for GreenPoint Financial Corp. with an all-stock bid of $6

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  • September 14, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    A Landmark Day for Auditor Liability?

    The question seems pretty simple: If executives at a public company commit fraud that later comes back to cost the company, can its shareholders go after the company's auditors for missing the frau

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  • December 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Deals in Brief

    Money Talks. Blackstone Group L.P.'s agreement to buy Busch Entertainment Corporation from Anheuser-Busch InBev for $2.3 billion was--at press time--the second largest private equity deal of 200

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  • June 1, 2005 | The Minority Law Journal

    Gibson's Failing Grade

    On an improbably clear day in Los Angeles, a pack of children stormed into Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's downtown office, shattering the corporate serenity of the pale limestone lobby. The kids�boys a

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  • February 8, 2007 | National Law Journal

    2006 was the year of contested M&As

    THE RED-HOT mergers-and-acquisitions market continued last year, with financiers wrestling over desirable M&A opportunities in contested transactions and lawyers fighting behind-the-scene

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  • December 6, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Skadden, Gibson Dunn, Wachtell Advise $18.9 Billion Games Deal Vivendi, a Paris-based entertainment company, has gained control of video game maker Activision in an $18.9 billio

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