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  • July 24, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Black Verdicts Are In, but the Case Is Far From Over

    Despite the guilty verdicts reached last week in the trial of media tycoon Conrad Black, there's still plenty of litigation to come for attorneys involved in cases related to alleged fraud at the f

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  • September 28, 2007 | Legal Times

    So This Lawyer Walks Into This Comedy Club...

    If "funny people are smart people and lawyers are smart people," as Shawn Westfall maintains, does that mean lawyers are funny people?While the answer is clear to a logician, the puzzl

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  • November 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Why Heller Died

    When Heller Ehrman partners gathered at Santa Barbara, California's Bacara Resort & Spa in March 2007, there was already reason to be c

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  • January 26, 2010 | The Recorder

    Wilson Sonsini Attorney Known as 'Keeper of All Knowledge' Retiring

    When Michael Barclay told a Berkeley, Calif., professor in 1974 that he was going to work as an engineer for Intel in "Silicon Valley," the professor asked "Where's that?"

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  • February 22, 2010 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    San Francisco Christopher Kirkham has joined Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as a partner. Kirkham, who was previou

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  • March 7, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

    N.J. Mergers & Acquisitions

    Novartis To Acquire Hexal AG and Majority of Eon Labs for $8.3BNovartis, the Basel, Switzerland-based pharmaceutical company with U.S. headquarters in East Hanover, announced on Feb

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  • April 5, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Outside Counsel

    Consumers Expectations Play Role in Defect CasesIn 1973, New York for the first time recognized the tort of strict products liability in design defect cases.

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  • August 28, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Dewey and LeBoeuf to Merge

    NEW YORK � Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae have agreed to merge, creating a firm of more than 1,300 lawyers.Expected to become effective by October, subject to

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  • February 5, 2004 | The Recorder

    Akin Gump Chips Way Into Bay Area

    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has poached a pair of partners from local Bay Area firms, bolstering its fledgling San Francisco outpost and underscoring the significance of out-of-town fir

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  • May 26, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Sidebar

    IN THE WAITING ROOMTwenty-six people claim to have blown the whistle on Columbia/ HCA, the world's largest health care company, which is in a world of trouble. When the company agreed

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