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  • December 5, 2002 |

    The Gadget Factor

    Three years ago or so, in the heady days of the Internet, there was a brief period during which some law firm leaders thought that they could achieve better lawyering through technology. Exper

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  • January 5, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Late Surge in Billion Dollar Deals Hints at Rosy 2011 for BigLaw

    Almost 20 deals in the $1 billion range were announced during the week that The Am Law Daily took its holiday break and the short period before. We couldn't let them pass by without offering a quic

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  • October 13, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Judge Halts Spitzer Probe of Loan Discrimination by Banks

    Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has been blocked from pursuing national banks for allegedly discriminatory lending practices. Southern District of New York Judge Sidney Stein Wednesday

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  • June 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    United Kingdom

    Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom dominated European merger activity in the first quarter of 2006, confirming that U.S. firms have gained traction in Europe over the last 18 months. In

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  • September 21, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Endless Summer Casual in New York and Washington, D.C.

    The New York office of San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe was a holdout among holdouts.The everyday-casual epidemic began on Orrick's home turf, California, in 1996 and

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  • December 27, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    DOJ's attack on corporate fraud cools

    In his summer of discontent, there were few days of undiluted glory for then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and July 17 was no exception. Just six weeks e he resigned, Gonzales stood

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  • January 23, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Public Integrity Unit Fights Corruption

    Armed with the rarely applied Tweed Law, a team of young lawyers in the New York attorney general's office won a criminal plea this month from a top executive for a private security firm that

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  • July 21, 2000 | The Recorder

    Hanging a Cyber Shingle

    The disclaimer on the Web site of Atlanta's King & Spalding runs almost 450 words, topping 500 if the copyright notice is counted.It explains how materials on the site are informat

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  • June 4, 2007 |

    CDW Goes Private

    Computer equipment retailer CDW Corp. ended a day of speculation with an announcement that it had struck a deal for Madison Dearborn Partners LLC to take it private for $7.3 billion.The Chic

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  • February 3, 1999 | Daily Business Review

    Microsoft Gets an Economics Lecture!!!

    An exasperated government economist lectured a Microsoft attorney Thursday on the definition of a competitive marketplace, using the classic example of Henry Ford's initial production of black automob

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