• December 13, 2000 | Alm

    Just Say No to Laptops

    Matt Berger doesn't go mano-a-mano over power outlets anymore. He doesn't show up early to board meetings to claim space and an AC supply. He no longer hogs tables in Starbucks to read his e-m

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  • October 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    Intel / McAffee Intel Corporation agreed to pay $7.68 billion in cash for Mc­Afee, Inc., on August 19. The acquisition w

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  • May 1, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Big Suits

    GE v. Mitsubishi A federal jury in Dallas ruled on March 8 that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., had infringed one of General Electric Company's wind turbine patents

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  • June 1, 2003 | The American Lawyer

    Magic Tricks

    England's empire builders of international legal services are taking a hit in their own once-indomitable engine rooms. For a decade, most of London's so-called Magic Circle firms have taken de

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  • February 22, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    State, U.S. Courts Allow Suits Against MBIA to Proceed

    For the second time in a week, bond insurer MBIA Wednesday lost a motion to dismiss a challenge to its controversial 2009 restructuring, in which the insurer transferred $5.4 billion in assets to a

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  • January 11, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Big Mergers Fall, But N.J. Lawyers Have Few Worries

    Mega-merger activity in New Jersey took a beating in 2001, but local deal-making lawyers aren't bothered by the falloff because most of that work is done by out-of-state firms.Sure, corporat

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  • March 17, 2006 | National Law Journal

    A White-Shoe Firm Gets Some Unwelcome Attention

    In terms of public relations, having an attorney on your law firm's employee roster who is accused of paying for sex with young girls may be about as bad as it gets. Cravath, Swaine & Moore

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  • August 1, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    Non-Independence Day

    When is an independent director not independent? That's the question posed by a recent Delaware court decision involving Oracle Corporation director Joseph Grundfest. Noting the ties between O

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  • November 19, 1999 | New York Law Journal

    U.S. Firms Leading in Eurodeals

    U.S. law firms have long anticipated that a mergers-and-acquisitions boom would remake Europe, but they may not have imagined that when it happened, they would play such an influential role.

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  • June 13, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Arbitration Scorecard 2007: Top 50 Treaty Disputes

    Hulley Enterprises, Ltd. (Cyprus), Yukos Universal Limited (Isle of Man), and Veteran Petroleum Limited (Cyprus) v. The Russian FederationAd hoc (UNCITRAL; administered by the Permanent

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