• May 1, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Profits Top $2 Million at 15 Major Law Firms

    Most of the nation's top-grossing law firms now have profits per partner of over $1 million, according to this year's AmLaw 100 survey, which was released yesterday by The American Lawyer maga

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  • January 16, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    CUNY Law's Rivera Named to Fill Ciparick Seat

    ALBANY - Governor Andrew Cuomo yesterday nominated Jenny Rivera, a professor at the City University of New York School of Law with no prior experience as a judge, to fill a state Court of App

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  • July 25, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Marketplace

    The New York Public Library has reportedly sold several floors at its Science, Industry and Business Library at 188 Madison Ave. for $60.8 million. The 13-story city landmark building is loca

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  • January 1, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    Northeast Utilities / NSTAR Northeast Utilities agreed to buy rival New England electric power producer NSTAR for $4.2 billion in stock and $2.5 billion in assumed debt on October

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  • November 9, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Drop Zone

    THE MIDSIZED FIRM For Chadbourne & Parke, the damage done by the economic downturn settled right at unlucky 13. The New York firm saw 13% of its overall hea

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  • August 28, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    At Issue in NHL Case: Who Decides Who Can Own a Team?

    It's complicated, it's happening all the way in Phoenix and it involves the least popular of the nation's Big Four pro sports leagues, but the Phoenix Coyotes bankruptcy case is shaping up to be th

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  • March 14, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    Alston & Bird raises first-year pay

    ALSTON & BIRD has raised the starting salary for first-year associates in its Charlotte and Raleigh, N.C., offices to $145,000-almost 50 percent more than it was paying them a mere 15 mon

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  • February 7, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Surprises, Steadiness as New Partner Classes Are Made

    When it comes to making new partners, last year's laggard can easily become this year's leader. Cravath, Swaine & Moore made just one partner in 2004. This year, the firm made eig

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  • August 3, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    SunTrust settles $60M suit against Merrill Lynch

    ATLANTA-BASED SUNTRUST BANKS Inc. has settled a three-year-old suit against Merrill Lynch & Co. and Nomura Securities International Inc. over the bank's purchase of $60 million of securit

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  • April 9, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Two Reinsurance Partners Set to Leave Cadwalader Two reinsurance partners, including the head of the practice, are leaving Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft to join other law fi

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