• September 30, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    Activision Blizzard / Vivendi Activision Blizzard Inc. took advantage of Vivendi SA's restructuring by agreeing on July 26 to buy back a 35 percent s

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  • August 6, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Pay hikes are leaving clients cold

    Law firms are blaming market demands for the latest round of associate salary raises, but they may have discounted an important factor in their decisions to boost pay � the client. Thi

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  • January 30, 2001 | New York Law Journal

    Federal Judge Narrows Claim in Auction House Suit

    Neither the Sherman Antitrust Act nor international law can be the basis for a civil action brought by people injured abroad by the price-fixing conspiracy of Christie's International and Soth

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  • March 16, 2012 | Legaltech News

    Cloud, Systems Integration Due in Time and Billing Applications

    Alice McEvoy-Willis, accounting coordinator at Calgary, Alberta regional firm Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer, is a busy biller. Her firm's 150 attorneys handle clients in the energy field and

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  • March 19, 2001 | Law.com

    Movers & Shakers

    HONORSMilbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy of counsel Orlan M. Johnson was selected for the Leadership Maryland Class of 2001. Leadership Maryland is an independent, educational,

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  • October 7, 2004 | The Recorder

    Sun Torpedoed: Day Tries Hand at Rescue Mission

    Two years ago Sun Microsystems Inc.'s go-to patent lawyer, Lloyd "Rusty" Day Jr., was busy pursuing the company's antitrust suit against Microsoft Corp.So when Eastman Kodak Co. sued S

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  • January 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Not Afraid to Litigate--or Negotiate

    The 2009 Criminal Trial of W.R. Grace & Company was perhaps the biggest corporate roll of the litigation dice in the last two years. A loss for Grace would have bee

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  • February 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    What Next?

    New York's Dewey Ballantine is faced with a Ronald Reagan-esque question: Is the firm better off now than it was six months ago? The short answer is "No." After a half-year of merger talks wit

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  • June 30, 2008 | National Law Journal

    IN BRIEF

    Dykema Gossett gets 53 from Schwartz Cooper Dykema Gossett has scooped up 53 attorneys from Chicago's Schwartz Cooper, including all seven members of its executive

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  • March 8, 2011 | Bloomberg

    Beware of market gurus pushing new strategies

    One cheer for James K. Glassman, the investment writer and co-author, in 1999, of "Dow 36,000." That book, published when the stock market was near a dot-com-charged speculative peak, urged i

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