• April 16, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Industry Lawyers Argue WTC Was Underinsured

    Attorneys for insurance companies said Thursday that the evidence in the multibillion-dollar dispute over the destruction of the World Trade Center showed clearly that Trade Center leaseholder

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  • July 6, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    KPMG Decision Spurs Thompson Memo Critics

    A federal judge's scathing rebuke last week of the government's conduct in the KPMG case has emboldened defense attorneys to continue fighting against what they regard as overly aggressive pro

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  • October 20, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Mergers & Acquisitions

    Meow Mix Company Acquired by The Cypress Group for $425MThe Meow Mix Co., the Secaucus-headquartered maker of Meow Mix and Alley Cat brand dry cat foods, announced last Tuesday

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  • June 30, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Eight Minutes

    Here are three numbers to which lawyers need to pay special heed in this issue. One: Over the past ten years, the average gross revenue of the most successful law firms in the land increased b

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  • 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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