• August 24, 2010 | The Careerist

    Stop Making Sense: Hire! Fire! Hire Again!

    Some people find silver linings in life's misfortunes. Me--I tend to find dark linings even when the news seems bright and cheery. Recently, there's been a flow of upb

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  • April 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Subprime's Silver Lining

    Like beetles in springtime, bankruptcy lawyers thrive on decay. And if 2006 and early 2007 were times of relative famine, a feast has officially begun. Business bankruptcy filings shot up more

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  • March 7, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

    New Deals

    SBC COMMUNICATIONS INC. ACQUISITION OF AT&T CORP. James Ellis, senior executive vice president and general counsel of SBC Communications Inc., is using outside counsel from Sulliva

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  • December 14, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Congress Mulls Legislation That Regulates Trades Conducted Online

    The criminal case against four BP natural-gas traders looked like a textbook prosecution. The U.S. subsidiary of the British energy giant had already agreed to pay $303 million to settle civil alle

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  • December 7, 2009 | National Law Journal

    DOJ's manipulation case against BP traders crumbles

    The criminal case against four BP natural-gas traders looked like a textbook prosecution. The U.S. subsidiary of the British energy giant had already agreed to pay $303 million to settle civil alle

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  • February 11, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Corporate Lawyers Shift Gears

    As the capital market freeze wears on, corporate lawyers' energies have shifted from helping clients borrow money or raise cash through stock offerings to crafting complex debt-restructuring de

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  • December 28, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    BP Asset SalesBP p.l.c. has been on a selling spree. In October the company struck a deal to sell its 50 percent stake in

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  • July 28, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

    Dashboard

    A Good Deal After almost 25 years at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in San Antonio, Cecil Schenker joined Cox Smith Matthews as a sh

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  • November 13, 2006 | Legal Times

    As Dems Seek Answers, Lawyers Get Busy

    He has instigated some of the most memorable hearings of the past quarter-century: In 1994, when all seven tobacco company chief executives declared under oath that nicotine is not addic

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  • February 7, 2006 | Legal Times

    D.C. Firms View China With Caution

    Political winds shape business plans, and in 1994 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld scented something in the air. With the fall of the Soviet Union and a flood of outside capital into the former c

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