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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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  • 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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