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  • October 29, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Big firms prepare to staff the phones

    For thousands of lawyers across the United States, Election Day isn't just about casting ballots for their preferred candidates. It's also about making sure that the system under which Americ

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  • April 1, 2013 | Litigation Daily

    Banks Topple Antitrust Claims in Private LIBOR Suits

    Private antitrust litigation related to LIBOR isn't over — not by a long shot. But on Friday 16 banks accused of manipulating the benchmark global interest rate dispelled any notion

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  • March 1, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

    Reverse Commute

    PATRICIA FLETCHER, former executive vice president and general counsel of AV Homes Inc., joined Gunster Yoakley & Stewart as a shareholder in the firm's Miami and Vero

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  • December 10, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    New York Court of Appeals Roundup

    Last month the Court of Appeals addressed the state's exercise of its power of eminent domain for the Atlantic Yards project, as well as whether petitioners who first challenged the state's determi

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  • August 29, 2013 | Litigation Daily

    Blackstone To Pay $85 Million in Class Action Settlement

    Less than three weeks before the five-year battle between investors and Blackstone Group LP was set to go to what would have been a rare class action securities trial, the private equity gia

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  • March 28, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Pillsbury Joins Poly Prep Sex Abuse Lawsuit

    UPDATE: 3/28/12, 6:00 p.m., EDT, The fourth paragraph has been updated to reflect the fact that a Pillsbury spokesman has confirmed that the firm is taking the case on a pro bono basis

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  • January 31, 2007 | Legal Times

    Two more Washington firms up salaries

    WILMERHALE AND Steptoe & Johnson both raised pay for first-year associates in their D.C. offices to $145,000 Wednesday, joining the competition and establishing a new benchmark in the Was

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  • September 13, 2011 | Daily Business Review

    It's the cause, stupid

    I am not the cheery sort, which is why writing about the careers of a reliably unhappy group--lawyers--comes naturally to me. Lately, there's loads of misery in lawyerland. Unemployed lawyer

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  • June 11, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Directors' and Officers' Liability

    The combination of debt trading at a deep discount to par value and an increased role of hedge funds in the corporate bond market has spurred a wave of aggressive efforts by activist bon

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  • November 3, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Wachtell, Lipton, Arnold & Porter Advise $2.5 Billion Acquisition Hellman & Friedman LLC of San Francisco and the Fort Worth, Tex.-based Texas Pacific Group,/

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