• January 1, 2011 | Focus Europe

    Happily Single?

    It was a grim morning in November 2008 when Andrey Goltsblat, managing partner of the leading Russian law firm Pepeliaev Goltsblat & Partners, set out for one of the most difficult meetings of

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  • May 7, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Law Firms' Shallow Pockets Frustrate Plaintiffs

    As the nation's major law firms wrestle with how to avoid massive liability in the post-Enron world, they can take some comfort in the thought that the lawyers suing them are not entirely thri

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  • December 22, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Pa. Supreme Court to Consider SEPTA's Immunity to FELA Claims

    The state Supreme Court granted an appeal in a case of first impression regarding whether SEPTA is immune from railroad workers' lawsuits filed in state court under federal law. The appeal w

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  • June 27, 2003 | The Recorder

    News Briefs

    $1B SETTLEMENT IN IPO FAVORITISM CASENEW YORK -- A $1 billion partial settlement was announced Thursday in hundreds of securities fraud lawsuits filed in Manhattan against techn

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  • March 1, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Circuit Widens In Banc Review Of Voting Laws

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has expanded its review of a New York state law that bars voting by convicted felons and parolees.The circuit announced last week that

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  • May 16, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Firms Come to the Aid Of Corporation Counsel

    OVER THE last several months the New York City Corporation Counsel put out a plea for help, and the city's legal community has responded in force. The result has been an upsurge in the numbe

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  • April 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    That's Entertainment

    Ah, Friday night . Time to kick back and relax. Hey, The Firm is on. Corporate lawyers talking about corporate law. Great show. Tonight, Jeff Smith of

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  • December 6, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Parents Sue Over Genetic Data

    An unusual trade secret case in Chicago pits a group of parents who carry a gene for a rare fatal disease against a Miami-based pediatric hospital and a researcher who used their tissue and histories

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  • January 18, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Regulators Eye AOL-TW Deal

    Who knew? It's a fair bet that lawyers in the Justice Department's antitrust division were muttering that to themselves on the morning of Jan. 10, thinking back on a horse trade they made

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  • February 14, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Campbell Soup to Pay $35M to End Suits

    Campbell Soup Co. has agreed to pay $35 million to settle a spate of federal class action securities suits brought by shareholders who said the company artificially inflated its sales figures

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