• April 20, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Wilmer Cutler Joins Forces With Hale and Dorr

    In one of the largest mergers ever between U.S. law firms, Washington's Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and Boston's Hale and Dorr have agreed to combine into a single firm of more than 1,000 l

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  • October 22, 2002 | Corporate Counsel

    Franco

    One morning just over three years ago, Laura Franco got word that the decision makers at Viacom Inc. had finally decided to spin off the company's MTV Networks's online business and sell part

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  • June 8, 2001 | New York Law Journal

    Case Against 'Goosebumps' Book Publisher May Proceed, 2nd Circuit Rules

    A federal appeals court has reinstated a shareholders' lawsuit that charges Scholastic Corporation misrepresented its financial condition to investors as a top executive cashed in the majority

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  • November 4, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Cravath Announces Reduced Bonuses For Junior Lawyers

    Cravath Swaine & Moore on Monday announced year-end associate bonuses that for the most junior lawyers were at best half of what they received last year. Second-year associates will rece

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  • July 25, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Milberg Named Co-Counsel in Options Case

    NEW YORK � A New York judge has given a boost to Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman by appointing the embattled law firm co-lead counsel in a consolidated suit over stock options backdating.

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  • August 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    BLACKROCK/BARCLAYS BlackRock, Inc., announced on June 11 that it had agreed to pay Barclays plc $13.5 billion in cash and st

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  • July 5, 2012 | The Recorder

    Vincent Maffeo

    If you wanted to build an impenetrable space shield capable of destroying flocks of incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles, who would you call? You might try Scientific Applications Int

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  • October 6, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Public Interest Projects

    A pledge of 5,000 hours of legal work on behalf of low-income children facing suspension from public schools and federal funding cuts for Head Start programs has been made by DLA Piper US

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  • December 6, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Huge IPO Case Hits Big Snag at 2nd Circuit

    A federal appeals court Tuesday vacated class certification in six key cases in the massive litigation over dot-com era initial public offerings -- a potentially devastating setback for plaintiffs

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  • May 3, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    In Defense of Reasons

    Arbitration bodies and the arbitrators who work for them have the same basic goal: to render efficient and enforceable decisions.But they can have quite different ways of doing it.

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