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  • April 2, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Ex-S&C Partner Sues KPMG for New Century Trustee

    A year ago, K&L Gates partner Michael Missal issued an examiner's report in the bankruptcy of collapsed subprime lender New Century Financial Corporation. In the report--a href="http://www.law.co

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  • February 6, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Does the Future Belong to Cadwalader?

    It's bowling night at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, and even the firm's biggest names are staring down pins at New York City's Bowlmor Lanes. Mergers and acquisitions partner Dennis J.

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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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