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  • October 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Singapore: Feeling the West's Pain

    Singapore's export-focused economy has been among the hardest hit in Asia by the global economic crisis. The falloff in demand for the island nation's electronics and chemicals shrank

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  • August 28, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf Lamb to Merge

    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 partner approval,

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  • April 4, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Sudanese Lose Bid to Establish Class as Victims of Genocide

    Sudanese plaintiffs who claim they were victims of genocide at the hands of their government in collaboration with a Canadian oil company have lost their bid for class certification in the Sou

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  • April 17, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Lawyers on Major TransactionsChadbourne, Kirkland, Gibson Counsel Sale of HerbalifeNutritional and weight loss product manufacturer Herbalife International Inc., which maintain

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  • January 6, 2003 | The Recorder

    Red Scare

    Weakened by an anemic tech sector and fighting each other for precious litigation work, the Bay Area's biggest law firms scored sallow returns in 2002 with only a few managing to post signific

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  • December 3, 2002 | The Recorder

    The New Refrain at Brobeck? Accentuate the Positive

    Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, wracked by a year of partner defections and continued decline in corporate work, is attempting to take the offensive to keep remaining partners on board and to

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  • October 17, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Summer Associates Survey 2011: A Season In the Sun

    Law students who spent the past summer working at some of the nation's largest firms went into their jobs knowing the negative reputation that life at such firms can have. They ended

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  • July 11, 2000 |

    Napier's Victory Set to Save City Link With Law Society

    Michael Napier and the City are celebrating his election as president of the Law Society in London.Napier, a senior partner at Irwin Mitchell in Sheffield, received almost double the v

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  • January 1, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    NBC / Vivendi

    Having first agreed to agree, Vivendi Universal S.A. and National Broadcasting Company, Inc., proved as good as their word a month later. Vivendi, which has been trying to shed its entertainme

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  • April 9, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Two Reinsurance Partners Set to Leave Cadwalader Two reinsurance partners, including the head of the practice, are leaving Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft to join other law fi

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