• April 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Let's Get Small

    The economy has emerged from recession—but some Big Law litigators are still downsizing, leaving Am Law 200 digs to join boutique firms or to start their own shops. In

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  • November 12, 2007 | Legal Times

    To Avoid the Knife

    The late 1990s and early 2000s were boom years for law firms as clients added dozens or even hundreds of firms to their portfolios. They thought it would allow them to cherry-pick the be

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  • August 7, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Lawyers on Major TransactionsSkadden, Cravath, Aid IBM's Purchase Of Pricewaterhouse Consulting UnitIn a deal valued at about $3.5 billion, Armonk, N.Y.-based computer manufactur

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  • May 14, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    NY BigLaw Partner's Defense Claims Only Clients' Lies Landed Him in Court

    Mayer Brown partner Joseph P. Collins was kept out of the loop on hidden debt and sham transactions at Refco Inc. and should not be sitting in the defendant's chair, his atto

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  • November 15, 2007 | Legal Times

    How Law Firms Can Avoid Being Cut by Clients

    The late 1990s and early 2000s were boom years for law firms as clients added dozens or even hundreds of firms to their portfolios. They thought it would allow them to cherry-pick the best legal ta

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  • November 15, 2007 | Legal Times

    How Law Firms Can Avoid Being Cut by Clients

    The late 1990s and early 2000s were boom years for law firms as clients added dozens or even hundreds of firms to their portfolios. They thought it would allow them to cherry-pick the best legal ta

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  • June 25, 2010 | Bloomberg

    Pimco's loss is a win for Wall Street fraudsters

    Crime didn't pay for Joseph Collins, a former corporate lawyer who received a seven-year prison sentence in January for securities fraud. It just has cost him a lot less money than it should

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  • August 24, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Panel Upholds Dismissal of Suit Over Alleged Racial Profiling A class of young black men, many of them former college students, cannot pursue claims that they were victimized by

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  • July 14, 2006 | The Recorder

    Scoring Diversity

    The Diversity Scorecard looks a little different this year. The most dramatic development is at the very top, where New York's Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison is the new No. 1 fir

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  • September 25, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

    Attorney Leaves Big Tobacco Behind to Represent the Richest Man in the World

    A few years ago, Steven R. Selsberg, a partner in Mayer Brown in Houston, thought he would make a smoking-hot career out of tobacco litigation, but today Selsberg is the go-to litigation lawyer in

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