• May 4, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Silverstein Loses Bid on Largest WTC Insurer

    A federal jury made the rout of Larry Silverstein almost complete yesterday when it ruled for the largest insurer in the dispute over insurance payments for the World Trade Cente

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  • January 23, 2013 | Litigation Daily

    Report: New Securities Class Actions Way Down in 2012

    Securities plaintiffs lawyers are a resourceful breed, and a new report suggests that their hardiness is being put to the test. Federal securities class action filings dropped by 20 percent i

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  • June 28, 2012 | Lawjobs.Com News & Views

    They Are Not Miserable. Really.

    They can't stop yakking about it. No, it's not about Fifty Shades of Grey (though I hear it's the rage at some law firms), but that article by Anne-Marie Slaughter in The Atlantic ("Why W

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  • November 19, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Airlines hit by antitrust actions

    LOS ANGELES � More than 70 antitrust class actions have been filed against Korean Air Lines Co. in the wake of its agreement to pay a $300 million fine to the U.S. Department of Justice

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  • May 25, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Regulators Scrutinize Facebook Over IPO Mess

    In the wake of its botched initial public offering, Facebook is facing uncommonly swift regulatory scrutiny on multiple fronts. Still, securities lawyers say it's unlikely the social media gi

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  • December 10, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Directors' and Officers' Liability

    The enhanced role of independent auditors mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in evaluating a public company's financial statements and internal controls may produce a dilemma for corporate manageme

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  • July 20, 2001 | National Law Journal

    Legal Moves

    CORPORATE COUNSELSony Music Entertainment (New York): Sony has promoted Matthew Lansburgh to senior counsel. He joined Sony as counsel from New York's Simpson Thacher & Ba

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  • May 5, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Simpson Thacher, Cleary GottliebCounsel in Neiman Marcus Deal Private Equity firms Warburg Pincus and Texas Pacific Group announced Monday they would buy Ne

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  • November 16, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Juror Asks to Be Replaced in Embassy Bombing Case A lone juror yesterday wrote to Southern District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan asking to be taken off the jury in the trial of

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  • July 10, 2012 | The Recorder

    Wilson Sonsini, Davis Polk Advise on Palo Alto Networks IPO

    SAN FRANCISCO — The market for initial public offerings is heating up this week following a lull in the wake of Facebook Inc.'s lackluster debut in May. Corporate partners Jeffrey

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