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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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  • April 26, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    If This Is a Recovery, Why Am I Unemployed?

    With blockbuster merger announcements and even Internet initial public offerings once again making headlines, it's only a matter of time before the legal job market soars back to its late '90s

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  • October 8, 2007 | National Law Journal

    When to fault client choices

    The news of Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson's involvement in the legal representation of two Libyans charged in the Pan Am 103 bombing, which killed 270 people, is not ab

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  • January 23, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    A $220 Mil. Payday After Visa Antitrust Settlement

    I'll take a case of the '61 Latour as well. And put a couple of bottles on the plane. We'll drink them on the way to Ibiza," said Lloyd Constantine. He hung up and turned to study some samples

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  • May 10, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Southern District Disbars Attorney, Orders No Further Motions The Committee on Grievances for the Southern District of New York has disbarred a lawyer and ordered him not

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  • January 6, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Firms Balance Lateral Hires Versus 'Culture'

    For decades, the only way to become a partner at an elite law firm was to become an associate at that firm first, preferably straight out of a top law school.That is no longer the case

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