• March 14, 2005 | Legal Times

    Howrey's High-Wire Act

    Just before Christmas 2003, Howrey Simon Arnold & White got a huge present from partner Alan Wiseman and the team of lawyers he was leading in a class action against several tobacco comp

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  • May 22, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    U.S. Firms Try to Take 'Mainhattan'

    Frankfurt may be Germany's Manhattan -- or "Mainhattan," as the locals call it -- but this Monday morning in February it's fairly quiet, free of the constant crush of people that makes the Big Appl

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  • May 24, 2004 | Legal Times

    Lawyers Fill Candidates' Coffers

    The pressure to raise enormous sums for the presidential campaign is on, and lawyers are delivering.Law firms and individual attorneys have poured nearly $17 million into presidential

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  • April 23, 2007 | Legal Times

    Keeping Score

    Landing LowellAfter a year of courtship, McDermott Will & Emery has sealed the deal with high-profile white-collar lawyer Abbe Lowell. Lowell, who has spent the pas

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  • June 9, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Simpson Thacher, Debevoise On $4.3 Billion Cleaning Products Deal Sealed Air Corporation, the maker of Bubble Wrap cushioning, is venturing int

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  • August 14, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Panel Rejects Exchange's Bid To Copyright Pricing Plan

    The New York Mercantile Exchange cannot enforce a copyright in the settlement prices it produces to value customers' open positions, a federal appeals court has ruled. In upholding a t

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  • May 6, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Pro Bono Digest

    In the just-completed Volunteers of Legal Service 2004 survey of New York City law firms who have taken the Volunteers of Legal Service (VOLS) Pro Bono Pledge, lawyers at 39 law firms performe

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  • July 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Pro Bono Report 2011 Getting Trashed

    To anyone driving along the Susquehanna River on South Cameron Street in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, it’s evident that the city’s trash incinerator is nearby. It stinks. The incin

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  • November 22, 2006 | The Recorder

    Bankruptcy Lawyers Adjust to Drought

    An improving economy isn't good news for everyone. With fewer businesses going broke, the pace of traditional work for bankruptcy lawyers has slowed considerably -- for now.Industry experts

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  • September 8, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Bad Good News: Slowdown in Filings Fuels Competition for Bankruptcy Cases

    Something new is facing New York's bankruptcy bar -- a slowdown in business. Just two years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., the number of businesses filing for Chapter 1

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