• November 20, 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 exp

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  • November 16, 2005 | National Law Journal

    No-Sleep Zone: The 24-Hour Firm

    John Cogan Jr. is chasing the sun.As the chairman of the global practice at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Cogan is in charge of business that never sleeps. And with his firm's go

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  • December 8, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New partners Baker Botts (Houston): Five of its attorneys have recently achieved partnership status: Brayton Dresser (corporate/New York), Maura Goldstein (global projects

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  • April 16, 2012 | National Law Journal

    'No retribution, no fear'

    Last month, a government auditor noted steps the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia has taken to improve its efforts to take down lobbyist scofflaws. Officials contracted a p

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  • July 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Pro Bono Scorecard 2008: The Pros

    When Steven Schulman heard that Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic needed volunteers to help develop a case charging the former president of Bolivia with crimes again

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  • May 31, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Investor-state arbitration and the U.S. courts

    A largely unheralded feature of modern international business law is the emergence of thousands of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and fair-trading agreements (FTAs) that give investors the ri

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  • January 8, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    The Score: Blues Bid Falls Through

    Plenty of Am Law 200 corporate lawyers stayed busy last year advising a bevy of clients seeking to buy and sell professional sports teams, assets that are generally considered to be recession

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  • April 11, 2011 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    NEW ARRIVALS BRACEWELL & GIULIANI (Houston): Jeff Vaden joins the firm's white-collar defense, internal investigations and regulatory e

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  • October 26, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Client Mergers Force Law Firms to Pick Sides, Some Partners to Move On

    For several years, Loeb & Loeb tried to maneuver the delicate politics involved in representing both brand-name and generic drug companies.But amid business pressu

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  • March 18, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Antitrust Trade and Practice

    Whether antitrust neophytes or competition law Brahmins, we always look forward to the annual meeting of the New York State Bar Association Antitrust Section held every January of the new year. In

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