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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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  • September 1, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

    Off the Transparency Rails

    In July a federal judge in Washington, D.C., vacated the Securities and Exchange Commission's Dodd-Frank section 1504 rule, which would force U.S.–listed petroleum and mini

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  • November 1, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Dirty Minerals and Sunshine

    Sneaked into the Dodd-Frank Act are a pair of provisos that aim to harness the Securities and Exchange Commission's reporting requirements to promote corporate social responsibility and the r

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  • November 23, 2005 | The American Lawyer

    Is the Magic Circle Becoming the Tragic Circle?

    Britain's $18 billion legal market might seem miniscule compared to the $180 billion U.S. market. But numbers can be deceiving. Take a look at any global survey of law firms. Four British firm

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  • July 22, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Model Order Would Cut Patent Fights Down to Manageable Size

    Nearly two years after rolling out a model order intended to get a grip on out-of-control electronic-discovery demands, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's advisory c

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  • May 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    THE GERMAN LAWYER �ber-Rainmaker

    It was hardly the most promising start. When Shearman & Sterling launched its first German office in Düsseldorf in 1991, the local lawyers association took the firm to court over using th

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  • October 22, 2012 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    New Positions . . . Susan Snyder has rejoined Vinson & Elkins in Austin as a partner. . . . Craig L. Reid has joined Hay Compere in Austin as a partner in th

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  • July 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Top of the Heap: The A-List's New Leader

    Hughes Hubbard & Reed chair Candace Beinecke doesn't believe in "silver bullets" when it comes to managing a law firm. After years of steadily climbing up the ranks, her

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  • November 29, 2001 | The Recorder

    Danger in the Bargain Bin

    Silicon Valley is littered with so many struggling technology companies that deals between two healthy companies are rare.More often than not, the target in a mergers and acquisi

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