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  • February 3, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Staying put: The Great Recession led to a ten-year low in lateral partner moves

    After a record year for lateral moves in 2009, law firm partners looked around in 2010 and decided that there was no place like home. In the 12-month period ending September 30, 2010, only 2,

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  • May 29, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Dewey Bankruptcy Filing Raises Novel Issues

    Although a string of law firms have filed for bankruptcy in recent years, Dewey & LeBoeuf yesterday became the largest to file for Chapter 11 and raises novel issues for creditors and the

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  • In re: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co., 12-12171

    Publication Date: 2012-06-27
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: Bankruptcy Judge Robert E. Gerber
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: By: Andrea B. Schwartz, Esq. (argued), Susan D. Golden, Esq., Tracy Hope Davis Office of the United States Trustee, New York, NY. By: Alan W. Kornberg, Esq., Jeffrey D. Saferstein, Esq. (argued), Philip A. Weintraub, Esq., Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Counsel for the Debtors, New York, NY. By: Ira Dizengoff, Esq., Philip C. Dublin, Esq. (argued), Rachel Ehrlich Albanese, Esq., Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Counsel for the Informal Creditor Group, New York, NY. By: Fredric Sosnick, Esq., Edmund M. Emrich, Esq. (argued), Shearman & Sterling LLP Counsel for Citibank, N.A., as Administrative Agent under the DIP Credit Facility, New York, NY.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 12-12171

    Cite as: In re: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co., 12-12171, NYLJ 1202560833969, at *1 (SDNY, Decided June 22, 2012)Bankruptcy Judge Robert E.

  • November 5, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Associates Class of 2010

    It’s too soon to say whether the recovery cycle has kicked in for New Jersey law firms, but after two years of decline, associate hires are back on the upswing. Featured in this, o

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  • August 5, 2008 | Legal Times

    The Goodling Report: How Aides Took Control of DOJ Hiring

    Last week, in 140, detail-laden pages, the Justice Department's two top watchdogs laid out the tale of how the Bush DOJ used political litmus tests in an attempt to hire only those lawyers who woul

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  • July 24, 2008 | Legal Times

    Article calls foul on rumor about race, Blackmun

    The late Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun will always be remembered first and foremost for writing Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision declaring a woman's right to an abortion. But espe

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  • December 22, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    InVINSONable?

    It's been mostly business as usual this year for Joe Dilg, managing partner of 798-lawyer Vinson & Elkins. Formerly the lead V&E lawyer on the Enron Corp. account, Dilg had little time

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  • March 4, 2005 | Daily Report Online

    Targeting LLCs, LLPs to Fix Social Security

    T.R. Goldman [email protected] WASHINGTON-If an influential congressional committee has its way, some professionals and many small-business owners could be forced to dig i

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  • April 21, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Auction-rate securities suits rising

    Investors holding securities tied to the stalled auction-rate market, which sets interest rates for certain types of bonds at periodic auctions, are filing lawsuits and arbitration proce

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  • July 13, 2009 | National Law Journal

    40 Under 40

    Nostradamus is not on our payroll so The National Law Journal can't report the future today. But we can make some predictions. One is that the young Washington-area lawyers profiled

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