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  • May 1, 1999 | The American Lawyer

    The Handbag Wars

    A tense, court-imposed cease-fire seemed to be holding between Gucci Group N.V. and LVMH Mo't Hennessy Louis Vuitton S.A. in mid-March. After LVMH, the French luxury goods house, had snatched up 34

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  • September 1, 2005 | The Recorder

    Mmmmmmm, Chocolate

    Imagine landing Willy Wonka as a client.While Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe attorneys didn't see any Oompa Loompas or glide down a chocolate river, they had fun representin

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  • October 24, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Accolades

    Two hundred lawyers representing 40 private firms and corporate law offices were honored earlier this month by MFY Legal Services for their volunteer counsel to indigent

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  • February 1, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Akin Gump, Goodwin Procter Advise $6.6 Billion Hotel Purchase In a deal totaling $6.6 billion, including debt, Morgan Stanley Real Estate and Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc. hav

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  • May 24, 1999 | New York Law Journal

    Coudert Joins Forces with Australian Firm

    Coudert Brothers will merge with the 70-lawyer Australian firm Norton Smith & Co., in part to benefit from that firm's stronghold in Asia. While British and American law firms have taken

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  • September 28, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Supreme Advocates

    June 26 began auspiciously for Carter Phillips, with word of a victory in a case that he had argued before the U.S. Supreme Court -- his third win of the term. And then the day got better.

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  • June 22, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Astor Probate Contest Hinges On Outcome of Criminal Case

    The criminal case against Anthony Marshall for allegedly looting the estate of his mother, Brooke Astor, is now in its ninth week in Manhattan Supreme Court and shows no signs of ending soon. B

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  • November 21, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Patterson Belknap Cites Testimony of 40 Confidential Witnesses in Amended Lawsuit Brought by MBS Insurer Against JPMorgan

    Assured Guaranty and its lawyers at Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler have raised the stakes in a lawsuit against J.P. Morgan Chase. Last year the insurer sued JPMorgan for losses it suffered

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  • September 22, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Max Berger Defends New Accounting Rules

    The sky is falling! Oceans are boiling, seas are raging! The end is nigh! To listen to the corporate defense bar, proposed new accounting rules that would force companies to declare poten

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  • April 6, 2000 | Texas Lawyer

    Money Talks

    Editor’s note: The single most important firm story since the beginning of 2000 is the spectacular increase in associate compensation, a trend that has rocketed through the nation ever since

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