• April 19, 2013 | Litigation Daily

    Burford Signs Deal With Chevron, Says Patton Boggs Hid Truth About Ecuadorian Plaintiffs

    In its effort to discredit lawyers holding an allegedly fraudulent $19 billion environmental judgment against it, Chevron Corporation has found an unlikely ally: Burford Capital Ltd., the wor

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  • August 9, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    For Chamber, Legal, Lobbying Fights Multiply

    On May 14, while speaking at the National Press Club, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue was asked about Elena Kagan's four-day-old nomination to the Supreme Court. The Chamber had y

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  • November 1, 2006 | Legal Times

    California Firms Expand in D.C.

    WASHINGTON � For those in Washington feeling like the ugly stepsister in the face of two New York-California law firm couples at the altar, there's good news. California does care about the D.

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  • February 2, 2009 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    San Francisco Tufts Stephenson & Kasper has added Sarah King as an of counsel. King, who was previously a partne

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  • September 27, 2004 | The Recorder

    Market Days

    BRANDING, BUDGETING AND OTHER CHALLENGES CONFRONT LAW FIRM MARKETERSDavid Read's job description at Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers sounds a little bit like that of a movie s

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  • June 9, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Chevron Presses Panel to Allow Review of Film's Raw Footage

    Lawyers for Chevron and two of its attorneys pleaded with a federal appellate panel yesterday to clear the way for a judge-ordered release of outtakes from "Crude," a documentary on a har

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  • November 1, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    When the Whistle Blows

    On August 18 a compliance officer at Interactive Brokers LLC in Chicago called the Securities and Exchange Commission to report that two men in Spain had been trading suspiciously in the stock of a

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  • January 9, 2006 | Legal Times

    Five Questions Firms Face in 2006

    WASHINGTON � 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 c

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  • January 13, 2010 | The Recorder

    Building (and Greening) the World

    AECOM is one of the world's fastest-growing A/E (architecture/engineering) firms. It was founded more than 25 years ago as the engineering subsidiary of Ashland Inc., a Kentucky-based chemical comp

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  • June 27, 2008 | Bloomberg

    Supreme Court ends term on a business-friendly note

    Even an off year for business at the U.S. Supreme Court is still a good year. The court Wednesday ruled in favor of Exxon Mobil Corp., cutting $2 billion from the punitive damages it

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