• September 26, 2005 |

    Hogan & Hartson Opens Hong Kong Practice

    Washington, D.C.-based Hogan & Hartson on Thursday became the first major law firm from the U.S. capital to open a Hong Kong office, marking a steady return of American law firms to Asia's fina

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  • July 1, 2004 | Legal Times

    China's Next Wave

    In 1916 Detroit's Butzel Long incorporated General Motors Corporation. By then, it had been servicing the automotive community for more than 50 years. Nearly a century later, 20 percent of the

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  • July 31, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Lawyers on Major Transactions

    Simpson, Willkie Help in Lehman Brothers' Purchase of NeubergerSeeking to become one of the industry's leading providers of services to high-net worth investors, Lehman Broth

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  • January 12, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    For White & Case, Global Expansion Was the Easy Part

    Virtually all large American law firms now call themselves global firms. But compared to White & Case, most are just tourists.The 2,000-lawyer New York-based firm has almost 40 offices w

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  • August 27, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf, Lamb Set to Merge

    Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae have agreed to merge, creating a firm of over 1,300 lawyers.Expected to become effective by October, subject to partner approval, the pl

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  • April 30, 2001 | The Recorder

    Life After Alza

    Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe's Julian Stern started out almost 40 years ago as a personal and tax lawyer for Dr. Alejandro Zaffaroni, the young Uruguayan scientist who would go on to pi

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  • February 28, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

    \Win Against FCC Opens Door for Acquisitions

    The D.C. Circuit's Feb. 19 decision to reject two Federal Communications Commission rules on media ownership meant a big win for mega-communications companies like Disney, Viacom and Rupert Murdoch

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  • May 20, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Raises in London May Foretell Genteel Pay War

    A law firm salary war could be brewing, but unfortunately for American associates it is across the pond in London.Linklaters recently raised eyebrows in the British legal community by

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  • January 19, 2005 | The Recorder

    Quinn Emanuel Hires Former Dean of Stanford Law

    Former Stanford Law School Dean Kathleen Sullivan has joined Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges as of counsel with the task of building an appellate practice for the firm.Sulli

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  • December 13, 2004 | The Recorder

    New York Bonuses Causing a Stir

    New York-based firms have gotten into the holiday spirit, rushing to hand associates fat across-the-board bonuses.But Bay Area-based firms don't seem to be in any rush to match them --

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