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  • August 11, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

    WorldCom's SEC Penalty Approved

    U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Arthur Gonzalez on Wednesday approved a $750 million settlement between WorldCom Inc. and the Securities and Exchange Commission that resolves a historic civil fraud

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  • August 28, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Firms muscling up on bankruptcy

    DESPITE WHAT'S EXPECTED to be a 12-year low in bankruptcy filings this year, major U.S. law firms are starting to beef up their ranks of restructuring attorneys in anticipation of heavier cas

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  • January 4, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Orrick and Dewey Call Off Merger Deal

    New York's Dewey Ballantine and San Francisco's Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe announced Thursday that they have called off their merger discussions. "Both firms are successful, global fi

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  • January 4, 2010 | Focus Europe

    Book of Business

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  • September 19, 2011 | Bloomberg

    Shell games hide European banks' financial woes

    The last time the world had a major banking crisis, fair value accounting rules were near the top of the list of scapegoats most likely to be denounced by government and industry leaders. Not

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  • November 26, 2002 | Corporate Counsel

    Love The Job You're With

    Everything seems a little brighter this year for in-house lawyers. Colleagues are more collegial; the work is more interesting. And the pleasure of working with outside counsel increased from

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  • June 2, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Marvel, Disney Fire Back at Kirby Heirs

    In the rock-em, sock-em world of comic book-derived IP, the financial stakes tied to ownership of classic characters like the Incredible Hulk, Spider Man, X-Men, and Spider Man are truly supernatural.

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  • August 9, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Day Pitney 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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  • March 12, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Is Arbitration More Costly Than Litigation for Corporations?

    When the current ADR revolution was first building up a head of steam in the 1970s and 1980s, one of the main attractions of both arbitration and mediation was the opportunity to reduce the costs o

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  • August 1, 2010 | Legaltech News

    Monitoring Money

    Predictability, transparency, and control. In the wake of the recent economic turmoil, clients have strongly pushed this concept. While the legal industry has gone through a number of shake-u

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