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  • January 25, 2000 | Legal Times

    Handle With Care

    Industry maturation, increasing competition, and globalization are all contributing to the consolidation of major industries. From a macro perspective, mergers are designed to provide opport

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  • May 6, 2011 | Bloomberg

    Berkshire's board treats Buffett to whitewash

    The resounding condemnation of David Sokol by Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is proving to be as strange as its initial pseudo-exoneration of him. Last week Berkshire released an 18-page rep

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  • August 12, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Law Firm's Layoffs May Be Sign Of Things To Come

    In what may be a sign of continued weakness in the commercial litigation market, one of Connecticut's largest grossing law firms confirmed Thursday that it is laying off as many as 4

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  • July 31, 2003 |

    Verizon, WorldCom Settle on Claims

    A settlement guaranteeing that one of WorldCom Inc.'s fiercest critics will not object to its reorganization plan won approval in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New Yor

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  • April 7, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    Ira Millstein Senior Partner Weil, Gotshal & Manges New York, New York Q: What went wrong with corporate governance? A: The economic bubble of the l

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  • August 28, 2009 | Bloomberg

    Whistleblower at UBS gets rewarded with prison time

    If he had kept his mouth shut and his head low, Bradley Birkenfeld would be a free man today. He didn't, so now the former UBS AG banker wears an electronic bracelet on his ankle and, beginni

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  • June 1, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

    N.J. Firms Boost Summer Clerk Pay

    New Jersey's bellwether firms are willing to pay more than last year for summer clerks who may ripen into permanent hires. It's not as if the firms have a choice. With first-year assoc

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  • January 10, 2000 | Texas Lawyer

    New Year, New Salaries

    As Texas firms mull over what to do about Vinson & Elkins' late-year decision to hike associate salaries by an abundant 10 percent, a Silicon Valley firm with an office in Austin raised stakes

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  • January 14, 2005 | The Recorder

    SEC Says Google's Lawyers Goofed

    Google and its general counsel, David Drummond, reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday in connection with the company's failure to register more than $80 mil

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  • May 30, 2005 | Alm

    Pitfalls of Mandatory Retirement

    Even as Sidley Austin Brown & Wood and the government battle over whether 31 attorneys should get damages resulting from the firm's mandatory retirement program, many law firms are stickin

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