• May 31, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn: Lateral Moves in The Am Law 200

    Stroock & Stroock & Lavan announced the opening of a new Washington, D.C., office this week. Sibling publication The National Law Journal reported that a href="http://lega

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  • November 1, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Latham: Why Boris Went Home Alone

    Last May, Latham & Watkins partners got an e-mail from managing partner Robert Dell about a sensitive subject.For the previous four months, Latham and the highly regarded British f

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  • July 31, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Russian lawyer's arrest raises tough legal system questions

    Russian prosecutors charged anticorruption lawyer and blogger Alexei Navalny, a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240529

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  • May 22, 2001 | Corporate Counsel

    Over There

    An in-house pro bono initiative has just launched in the U.K. as part of the country's Solicitors Pro Bono Group. The project, called Law Works for Community Groups, is designed to coordinate

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  • July 27, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Little Wachtells

    "If you focus on a specialty and on quality," offered Gordon Davidson, the chairman of Palo Alto's Fenwick & West, "you can operate in the same rarefied air as larger firms that are not

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  • December 7, 2004 | Alm

    DLA and Piper Rudnick Make Merger Official

    London's DLA and the partners of Piper Rudnick voted to merge the firms Saturday, creating what on Jan. 1 will be the world's third-largest law firm measured by lawyers and fifth-largest measu

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  • September 30, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    The Leader Board

    These are the Global 100 firms with the largest number of lawyers outside their home countries. RPL and PPP statistics are for each firm's most recent fiscal year. The "CAG

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  • January 1, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

    Flexing New Muscles

    For decades, most companies didn't worry much about the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, an obscure regulatory backwater whose lawyers brought a few dozen enforcement actions a year. Now

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  • May 1, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Deals in Brief/Real Estate

    After being almost dormant since last spring, the real estate market started to show signs of life in the first quarter. Simon Property Group, Inc., struck two deals worth a total of $3.5 bil

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  • April 1, 2005 | Legal Times

    Gaining a Foothold in Guantanamo

    The U.S. military's detention of alleged enemy fighters at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is becoming increasingly burdened by ongoing litigation in the federal courts. Suddenly a cause cel

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