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  • June 21, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New partners Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld: Peter A. Miller comes on board as partner and as head of the firm's real estate practice in New York. Cliffor

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  • September 24, 2007 | Legal Times

    Keeping Score

    Wiley's White-Collar LossLast week Barbara Van Gelder said goodbye to Wiley Rein, where she was the head of the firm's white-collar practice, and hello to Morgan, L

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  • April 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Suddenly, Last Summer

    Dealmaking in 2007 had a distinctly Jekyll-and-Hyde feel. Up to mid-summer, the deal environment was as crowded and frothy as the morning rush at a Times Square Starbucks. Private equity buyer

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  • January 31, 2001 |

    German Law Firm Splinters

    One of Germany's top 20 law firms, Gaedertz, is splintering after its partners could not agree on a merger with London's Norton Rose. The breakup is creating merger and lateral hiring opportun

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  • February 8, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Brief of the Week: Up for interpretation

    Int ers speak; translators write. It is a distinction that makes a real-world difference to those who practice those professions, according to the National Association of Judiciary Int

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  • March 20, 2006 | Legal Times

    Docket Watch: March 2006

    Cases coming before the Supreme Court in the coming weeks and the lawyers who will argue them. "Docket Watch" appears at the beginning of each two-week argument cycle when the high co

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  • January 11, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Obama focuses on three judge nominees for Chicago

    President Barack Obama has pared the list of judicial candidates for the U.S. district court in his hometown to two Chicago lawyers and an Illinois appellate judge, according to the chief judge

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  • June 26, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Ropes & Gray, newly-arrived in Chicago, snatches Kirkland partner

    CHICAGO — Ropes & Gray's Chicago office has snatched away a Kirkland & Ellis partner and two other lawyers who will help the a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticl

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  • January 31, 2011 | National Law Journal

    DLA Piper adds five Chicago partners from Paul Hastings

    DLA Piper has added five restructuring partners to its Chicago office from Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, including the founder and former chairman of Paul Hasting's Chicago location. br

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  • March 10, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Amicus briefs are ammo for gun case

    WASHINGTON � Arrayed in their traditional green jackets, these amicus briefs � remarkable for sheer number � call out to U.S. Supreme Court justices and clerks for attention in the most

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