• December 30, 2002 | Legal Times

    Port Authority

    Just before Thanksgiving, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association announced they had an agreement that would end the massive West Coast port

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  • April 26, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Insolvency Cases Plummet, But Firms Expect Upswing

    Bankruptcy filings plummeted last year, the first full year after the a major revision in the federal bankruptcy code. Filings in the federal bankruptcy courts dropped 70 percent natio

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  • August 20, 2003 | The Associated Press

    Enron Asks Judge to Get Tough on Deadbeat Customers

    Enron Corp.'s creditors will likely get a fraction of the billions they are due, but the bankrupt energy giant wants every penny from those who owe it money.Enron is asking a judge to

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  • June 17, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Greenberg Traurig Hires Maher for London Launch Greenberg Traurig is set to launch a London office with the addition of former Mayer Brown partner Paul Maher. Mr. Maher is joining

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  • September 2, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Alien Tort Action Survives Concerns of U.S., Canada

    The opposition of the U.S. State Department and the government of Canada to a lawsuit against a Canadian oil company over human rights abuses in the Sudan was not enough to convince a federal

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  • November 28, 2000 |

    The Managing Partner's Dilemma

    "No lawyer with a U.S. firm would dream of giving up his practice while being managing partner" says Kurt Wimmer.Wimmer recently relocated from the Washington headquarters of Covington

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  • August 20, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Computer Virus Onslaught Has Firm IT Staff Scrambling

    NEW YORK -- Most New York lawyers who receive e-mail from partners at Cravath, Swaine & Moore or Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz would likely open it right away.On Tuesday that

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  • November 13, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    N.Y. Lawyers' Group President Trades Practice for Washington Advocacy

    Norman L. Reimer, who stepped down in May as president of the New York County Lawyers' Association, where he led a long and successful effort to reform the state's indigent defense system, has begu

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  • September 12, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Judge Approves Fees in Northwest Airlines Bankruptcy Bankruptcy lawyers for Northwest Airlines Corp. were denied $4.2 million in end-of-case bonuses yesterday, with a judge sayi

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  • December 1, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    Law firms digging deeper on campus

    AS LAW FIRMS sought to bolster and diversify their summer associate programs during the fall recruiting season this year, some of them ventured beyond the list of law schools they usually vis

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