• December 7, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Ability to Certify IPO Class Unlikely After Circuit Rules

    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 plainti

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  • November 12, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Marketplace

    Intellectual property firm Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto has signed a 15-year lease for 126,000 square feet at 1290 Avenue of the Americas. The lease will cover

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  • June 28, 2004 | The Recorder

    Attorneys Teach the Quiet Game

    Plenty of people cheered when Salesforce.com's stock debuted Wednesday and rose more than 50 percent. Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich lawyers had another reason to cheer: Their client's SEC-i

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  • February 2, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Court Declines to Force Dissident to Vote Proxies

    A mutual fund operated by banking giant Citigroup cannot invoke Securities and Exchange Commission rules to force a dissident fund shareholder to vote its proxies, a federal judge in Manhattan

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  • June 26, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Attorneys Ask $19 Million in Chrysler Fees

    Jones Day, Schulte Roth & Zabel, and Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel have submitted applications for nearly $19 million in attorney's fees in the Chapter 11 case of the company formerly

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  • April 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    Everybody's Doing It

    The long freeze in first-year associate salaries is finally over. For the past six years, annual compensation for entry-level attorneys at most of the country's top law firms has stayed at $12

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  • March 4, 2005 | The Recorder

    Going Public in Japan

    Pillsbury Winthrop lawyers just completed what they describe as the first Japanese IPO by an American company that was not dual-listed in the United States.The San Diego, Calif.,-based

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  • January 5, 2005 | Alm

    Clifford Chance Head To Relocate to N.Y., Build U.S. Practices

    In a move to affirm his law firm's commitment to the U.S. market, Clifford Chance's global managing partner, Peter Cornell, has announced he will relocate to New York. Cornell, 52, wil

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  • March 10, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Senate Passes Bill to Reinstate Death Penalty The state Senate yesterday passed legislation that would reinstate capital punishment in New York. The bill sponsored by Sen

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  • June 6, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Davis Polk Corporate Partner Joins Latham Latham & Watkins has made a rare lateral partner recruitment from Davis Polk & Wardwell. Witold Balaban, w

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