• May 6, 2008 | The Associated Press

    Corporate board members see bigger paydays

    After ConAgra Foods' board slashed the company's dividend by 34 percent as part of a restructuring plan, a few shareholders suggested the board should also feel the pain and slash its own pay

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  • December 20, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

    DALLAS - Fred Baron, a plaintiffs attorney with Dallas' Baron & Budd, sounds uncharacteristically complimentary of Halliburton Co., a defendant in asbestos claims. But that's because on De

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  • February 15, 2012 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    Bylaws Limiting M&A Suits to Del. Chancery Court Challenged

    Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check and Prickett Jones & Elliott set a record in the Delaware Court of Chancery less than two months ago when they won a $305 million attorney fee award in t

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  • June 13, 2007 | Legal Times

    Tax Case Before High Court Could Mean Big Bucks for Business

    Conference Call summarizes the roughly 15 percent of all non-pauper petitions that are the most likely candidates for certiorari. The Supreme Court's jurisdiction is almost entirely discretionar

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  • December 20, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

    DALLAS - Fred Baron, a plaintiffs attorney with Dallas' Baron & Budd, sounds uncharacteristically complimentary of Halliburton Co., a defendant in asbestos claims. But that's because on De

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  • August 1, 2002 | Daily Report Online

    Is there any difference between terrorists and other lawbreakers

    Evan P. Schultz President George W. Bush is a man who likes absolutes. He campaigned for president as the anti-Clinton, someone who knows what the meaning of "is" is. O

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  • March 4, 2013 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    NEW ARRIVALSWeil, Gotshal & Manges (New York): Allison Liff joins the firm's banking and finance practice group as part

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  • January 17, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Unpublished Opinions

    STATE COURT CASES ADMINISTRATIVE LAW � MOTOR VEHICLE FRANCHISE RELOCATION 01-2-6116 Open Road of Edison, Inc., etc. v. BMW of North America, et al., App. Div. (per curia

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  • December 9, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Davis Polk, Latham, Linklaters Advise on Pepsi Deal Food and beverage giant PepsiCo announced that it will spend $3.8 billion in cash to acquire a 66 pe

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  • December 13, 2010 | Daily Business Review

    In world of law, Rothstein story dominated news in 2010

    Rothstein Saga The Scott Rothstein case slithered through courts for much of the year. The disbarred Fort Lauderdale lawyer and his long-time assistant, law

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