• January 2, 2006 | Legal Times

    5 Questions for 2006

    Mergers. Firm dissolutions. Associate salary hikes. Last year was anything but docile in the legal market. With ever increasing competition among firms, 2006 looks to be equally challeng

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  • October 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn

    As the economy stabilizes, firms are making "opportunistic" hires. Jenner & Block is betting on more insurance litigation. K&L Gates is hoping

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  • December 30, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    City's Anti-Smoking Campaign Is Ruled Invalid A New York City regulation requiring store owners who sell cigarettes to post gruesome images of lung disease, brain damag

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  • August 6, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Documentary Outtakes Show Fraud by Plaintiffs, Chevron Claims

    Chevron Corp.'s attorneys at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, who successfully fought for hundreds of hours of outtakes from the documentary "Crude," about the 17-year-old Ecuadorian environm

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  • August 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Midlevel Blues

    Ben Johnson III, the managing partner of Alston & Bird, tells a story about being a young partner at the firm in the early 1970s. He was sitting in on an interview between then-s

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  • April 28, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    Ecuadorans in Chevron Lawsuit Seek Kaplan's Recusal for Bias

    Lawyers seeking to enforce an $18 billion environmental damages judgment against Chevron in Ecuador have asked Southern District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan to recuse himself. In the latest salvo

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  • June 6, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New arrivals Alston & Bird (Atlanta): Nelson A. Boxer, formerly of Dechert, has joined the firm's New York office as a partner in the litigation and trial, and sec

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  • July 2, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Arms Company Fights to Keep DOJ Docs Secret

    Executives at Armor Holdings Inc., a military equipment company in Florida, learned in 2007 that one of their own had been paying bribes to obtain and keep business. The company reached out to the

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  • April 17, 2013 | Litigation Daily

    Magistrate Judge Recommends Denial of Donziger Claims Against Chevron

    Steven Donziger, the U.S. plaintiffs lawyer who helped to win a $19 billion environmental judgment against Chevron Corporation in Ecuador, can't bring counterclaims in Chevron's fraud and rac

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  • March 20, 2006 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    New partners Arent Fox (Washington): Linda A. Baumann joins the health care group as partner in the firm's Washington office. She has served in the past in the U.S. Depar

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