• December 6, 2011 | Daily Business Review

    How to kill the holiday party fun

    This time of the year, I'm usually flooded with invitations to law firm holiday parties. But this year it looks like I'm banished from the cheer, because I'm not getting any invitations. (Is it

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  • June 1, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

    It Wasn't My Fault

    How does a general counsel stay out of jail if he's been accused of helping company executives line their pockets with millions of shareholder dollars? If he's Mark Kipnis, the former legal ch

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  • January 11, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Attorneys Expect Fewer Deals as Markets Face Uncertainty

    After a record year for mergers and acquisitions, activity will dip this year due to a decline in transactions, corporate attorneys predict. "It is hard to be an optimist," Sullivan & Cr

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  • March 8, 2012 | New Jersey Law Journal

    New Partners Yearbook 2012

    Like water seeking its own level, new partnerships rose this year to 150 — their prerecession average. It was as strong a resurgence as the earlier fall-off was precipitous. Ou

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  • November 30, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Lawyer Count Drops in Some Top New York City Firms

    A combination of rising attrition and reduced hiring has led to sharp drops in the number of attorneys at many of New York City's leading law firms. Sullivan & Cromwell, one of the

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  • June 9, 2005 | National Law Journal

    French Firm to Beef Up Presence in U.S. Markets

    Amid mounting competition from globalized law firms based in the United States and London, France's largest independent firm is making a push -- though after some reluctance -- into North Amer

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  • December 22, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Paramount Pictures, an entertainment subsidiary of Viacom Inc., has agreed to buy the studio DreamWorks SKG Inc. The deal, valued at $1.6 billion, will bring Paramount num

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  • August 11, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

    LeBoeuf Lamb Gets Leaner, And Some Say Meaner

    According to this year's AmLaw 100 survey of the nation's top-grossing law firms, New York's LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae had profits per partner of $855,000 in 2002, up a stri

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  • July 18, 2001 | The American Lawyer

    Firm Anxiety

    Rex Beaber had mixed emotions as he settled into Greenberg Traurig's Los Angeles conference room on Aug. 8, 2000. The office was in turmoil, and fingers were pointed at co-managing share

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  • December 11, 2006 | Alm

    Name Partner Schulman Exits Milberg Weiss

    Steven Schulman, a name partner at Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman, resigned from the embattled class action powerhouse Friday, seven months after he and another partner were indicted in an al

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