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  • October 3, 2001 | The American Lawyer

    Losing the Race

    In the mid-1990s Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton had a lot to offer law school graduates looking for their first job in the profession. The firm boasted a relaxed institutional cultur

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  • September 3, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

    New York Firms Taking Different Tacks on Sept. 11 Foreign Offices

    As Sept. 11 approaches, New York's major law firms are wrestling with how to mark the solemn anniversary. Should the office be open or closed? Should there be a moment of silence or a more i

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  • June 28, 2001 | New York Law Journal

    High-Tech Fallout

    When Simon D. Roffe graduated from New York University's Stern School of Business in 1998, the stock market was the only place he wanted to work.He opened a small private hedge fund ju

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  • December 10, 2003 | Alm

    Tactics Shift in War on Terrorism

    Since Sept. 11, 2001, government lawyers have argued that normal rules of law do not apply to terrorists - whether they are picked up on the battlefield or inside U.S. borders. But wit

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  • January 16, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Suit Charging BAR/BRI With Antitrust Breach to Proceed

    A Manhattan federal judge has ruled that the BAR/BRI bar exam review comprises separate state-specific and multistate components that could potentially be tied and forced on consumers in violation

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  • August 17, 2011 | Bloomberg

    Regulators lack key tool to unwind big banks

    U.S. regulators given new powers to dismantle "too-big-to-fail" financial firms are still working to draw up so-called living wills-a central component of the toolkit needed to prevent future

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  • December 17, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Real Estate Marketplace

    Taconic Investment Partners recently inked four lease deals totaling nearly 11,000 square feet at 450 Park Avenue, a 33-story building the firm acquired in June 2002 through a joint venture wi

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  • February 21, 2007 | The Recorder

    Oops! Orrick Associate Lets Slip Mercury Backdating Document

    A fourth-year associate at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe inadvertently disclosed a sensitive document about stock option backdating that the firm has spent the last five months fighting to kee

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  • December 7, 2005 |

    Boston Scientific Betters J&J Bid

    Just three weeks after Johnson & Johnson finally seemed ready to complete its roller-coaster merger with Guidant Corp., another suitor for the troubled medical device maker has roiled the

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  • October 21, 2002 | National Law Journal

    Aftershocks of Sept. 11

    NAME AND TITLE: Kenneth P. Singleton, executive managing director, corporate secretary, general counsel, Cushman & Wakefield Inc. AGE: 41 9-11: The ter

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