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  • August 17, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Security concerns add twist to deals

    NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS have prompted a new law giving the U.S. government a seat at the deal table in a growing number of acquisitions of U.S. firms by foreign entities-a move that has in

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  • February 8, 2007 | National Law Journal

    2006 was the year of contested M&As

    THE RED-HOT mergers-and-acquisitions market continued last year, with financiers wrestling over desirable M&A opportunities in contested transactions and lawyers fighting behind-the-scene

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  • November 20, 2006 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    Cooley Godward Kronish has formed a government contracts pra with the addition of two partners from DLA Piper. Gregory Smith, former chairman of DLA Piper�s government contracts pra

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  • March 13, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200

    Allen & Overy has hired KEVIN BAER as senior counsel in Washington, D.C. Baer spent the past 15 years working in the government, at the Patent and Trademark Office and the International T

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  • May 21, 2012 | Legaltech News

    Preservation and Proportionality in Legal Holds

    Five high-profile members of the e-discovery community gathered in a panel on May 17 to discuss preservation and proportionality in legal holds from the perspectives of general counsel, litig

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  • September 13, 2004 | The American Lawyer

    Speaking Wisely at the Supreme Court

    Not long ago, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg described the first oral argument she made to the Court, when she worked as an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer in the e

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  • March 19, 2007 | Legal Times

    On the Record with Jon Hoak

    Last October, Jon Hoak, 57, was appointed vice president and chief ethics and compliance officer for Hewlett-Packard, the scandal-plagued California technology company that made the n

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  • February 27, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Parsing Alito's Clerk Picks

    Two of Justice Samuel Alito Jr.'s former law clerks stopped in at his chambers earlier this month to congratulate him on winning confirmation, and he was so happy to see them, apparently, that

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  • July 18, 2007 | The Recorder

    New CNET General Counsel Has In-House History in Tech

    Andy Sherman admits that he has, as he puts it, "high standards" when it comes to working with outside counsel.The newly appointed general counsel for San Francisco's CNET Networks Inc. has

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  • November 8, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS . . . Michael L. Baum has joined Dallas' Gibson, McClure, Wallace & Daniels as an associate practicing employment, personal injury and general civil litigation

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