• June 26, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    As Chinese Investment in U.S. Heats Up, M&A Lawyer Carves Out a Niche

    When Guanming Fang arrived in the United States from China at age 24, she did not think culture shock would be a problem. She'd majored in English literature at Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, h

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  • February 12, 2009 | Legal Times

    DLA Piper Cuts 80 Lawyers and 100 Staff Members

    DLA Piper announced today that 80 associates and 100 staff members would be laid off across the firm’s 26 U.S. offices. The move comes during a week in which sev

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  • March 5, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Latham layoffs cap dire month

    February 2009 won't be remembered fondly by many in the legal industry. The month seemed like one continuous onslaught of law firm layoffs-with its final week bringing some particularl

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  • October 10, 2005 | Legal Times

    Debate Intensifies Over Miers' Qualifications

    President George W. Bush virtually guaranteed last week that his nominee, Harriet Miers, will be a rock-solid conservative vote on the Supreme Court.But even assuming that is true -- a

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  • May 12, 2004 | Daily Business Review

    Fixed Fight?

    Miami lawyer Tracy Nichols remembers the phone call she got from an irate in-house counsel at an investment bank. His bank had underwritten a stock offering that was the subject of a securitie

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  • December 15, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Lawyers of the Year: Teams Bush & Gore

    Before Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist let oral arguments begin on Dec. 11 in what would be the culminating appeal in the 2000 battle for the White House, he thanked the lawyers for "exempl

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  • June 26, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    As Chinese Investment in U.S. Heats Up, M&A Lawyer Carves Out a Niche

    When Guanming Fang arrived in the United States from China at age 24, she did not think culture shock would be a problem. She'd majored in English literature at Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, h

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  • November 13, 2000 | Florida Lawyer

    Fishing For A Niche

    There was a time when studies of a deep-sea Caribbean sponge by oceanographers at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution in Fort Pierce, Fla., would have been interesting only to other sc

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  • June 12, 2006 | Legal Times

    The Lawyer Behind the Wen Ho Lee Deal

    It began with the journalists. Last fall five reporters were held in contemp refusing to reveal their sources to Wen Ho Lee, the former nuclear weapons scientist suing the governmen

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  • October 6, 2003 | Legal Times

    Books in Brief

    Legal Spectator & MoreBy Jacob A. Stein(The Magazine Group, 320 pages, $20)Those who have spent any time with trial lawyer Jake Stein know he is a man of w

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