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  • November 5, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Daring and Controversial Legal Structures Help Fortress and Blackstone Avoid Tax and SEC Scrutiny

    It was ingenious and audacious, and officials at the Internal Revenue Service were upset. In November 2006 Fortress Investment Group LLC filed its first documents with the Securities and Exc

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  • June 20, 2002 | Law.com

    For Verner Liipfert, Next Shake-Up May Be Merger

    Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand has been to hell and back. Now, one of Washington, D.C.'s most storied lobby firms is at a crossroads, talking with at least two firms abou

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  • June 10, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Southern Law Firms Also Pushing Into New York Market

    Southern firms need a substantial New York presence to counteract perceptions of provincialism and establish their credentials as national firms.ASK New York managing partners to name their

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  • May 1, 2004 | Corporate Counsel

    The Third Way

    It looked like a done deal. In the summer of 2002, the senior executives of London's Benfield Group Plc, the world's largest reinsurance brokerage firm, prepared to take their business public.

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  • February 28, 2002 | The American Lawyer

    How Big a Slice?

    By 1998, the fabled bankruptcy department of New York-based Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy had fallen on hard times. Many of the practice area's partners had left the firm during the 19

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  • Sierra Club v. Franklin County Power of Illinois, LLC

    Publication Date: 2008-10-31
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    Date Filed: 2008-10-27
    Court: 7th Cir.
    Judge: Williams, Circuit Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 06-4045

    ARGUED OCTOBER 29, 2007Before BAUER, RIPPLE, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.Franklin County Power of Illinois, LLC, wants to build a coal power plant in southern Illinois. Because the plant will e

  • February 27, 2004 | Legal Times

    More Firms Using PACs for Congressional Access

    WASHINGTON -- When Elliott Portnoy joined Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal in 2002 to build the firm's new federal lobbying practice, he believed that a major component of his success would b

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  • January 6, 2009 | Bloomberg

    Construction spending falls less than predicted

    Spending on U.S. construction projects fell less than half as much as forecast in November, reflecting gains in commercial and government building that partially cushioned the slump in reside

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  • August 2, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

    "PR" Stands for "Profit" at Locke Liddell

    When it's crisis time for a Locke Liddell & Sapp client, the firm provides more than legal advice to help the client solve its predicament. A client also can hire Julie Gilbert, the firm's

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  • In re Southern California Sunbelt Developers, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-06-09
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    Date Filed: 2010-06-09
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas W. Dressler (argued), the Dressler Law Group, LLP, Los Angeles, California, Stella A. Havkin, Litwak & Havkin, Woodland Hills, California, for the appellants.
    for defendant: William Miles Burd, Burd & Naylor, Santa Ana, California, C. Michael Chapman, Laguna Niguel, California, Todd Carl Ringstad (argued), Ringstad & Sanders LLP, Irvine, California, for the appellees.
    Case Number: 08-56570

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 7176In the Matter of: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SUNBELT DEVELOPERS, INC., Debtor,ORANGE BLOSSOM LIMITED PARTNERSHIP; PEAR TREE