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  • July 16, 2007 | The Recorder

    The Diversity Scorecard

    Each year, the Diversity Scorecard finds small but consistent increases in the proportion of minority lawyers at large firms. In 2001, only about one partner in 30 was a lawyer of color.

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  • November 19, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Auctioneer

    COMPANY PROFILE eBay Inc. was founded in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar, then a 28-year-old computer programmer. When The National Law Journal first profi

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  • October 6, 2003 | Legal Times

    Courtside: High Court Preview

    GEARING UPA year ago, the Supreme Court opened its term on a relatively quiet note, with few blockbuster cases on its docket.Then came the affirmative action, gay

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  • July 8, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Jury Rejects Claims Against AIG's Former Chief Executive American International Group Inc. yesterday lost the first round in its bid to recoup $4.3 billion

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  • September 28, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    New Housing Law Clinic

    Opportunity literally knocked on Robert D. McCreanor's door one evening in 2002 when some of his fellow tenants in a Queens apartment house heard their new neighbor was a lawyer. Maybe

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  • April 9, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Class of '78: Still going after all these years

    During three decades of convulsive change, marked by nationalization, globalization, megamergers and spectacular flameouts, it's surprising how much has remained constant at the top of the NL

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  • September 24, 2007 | Legal Times

    Conference Call: New York's Contraceptive Law Challenged

    Conference Call summarizes the roughly 15 percent of all nonpauper petitions that are the most likely candidates for certiorari. It is prepared by the law firms Akin Gump Strauss Haue

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  • September 8, 2006 | Legal Times

    Law Firm Cash Being Given With Eye to '08 Elections

    If contributions from law firms are any bellwether of overall fund-raising patterns, then it looks like Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., will march toward the Democratic nomination in the 2008 preside

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  • Matter of Executive Life Ins. Co., 8023/1991

    Publication Date: 2012-04-19
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    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Nassau County
    Judge: Justice John M. Galasso
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: By: Steven M. Bierman, Jeff S. Liebmann, Martin B. Jackson, James Heyworth, Sidley Austin, LLP, New York, NY. By: Ralph Pernick, NYS Office of the Attorney General, Mineola, NY.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 8023/1991

    Cite as: Matter of Executive Life Ins. Co., 8023/1991, NYLJ 1202549403554, at *1 (Sup., NA, Decided April 16, 2012)Justice John M. Galassop class="de

  • August 4, 2004 | The American Lawyer

    Diversity Helped Firms Make the Cut in Shell Contest

    Early last year, Shell Oil Co. sent word to law firms it had worked with in the past that it was hosting a beauty contest. The company planned to select a group of "strategic partners" � a nuc

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