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  • January 1, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

    A Major Investment

    J.P. Morgan is banking on STACEY FRIEDMAN, a former Sullivan & Cromwell litigation and regulatory partner, to head up its legal team as general counsel of the bank's rec

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  • June 26, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Trial Lawyers' New President Begins Term Jeff S. Korek, a partner at Gersowitz, Libo & Korek, a plaintiff's personal injury firm, began his term last week as the 40th presid

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  • May 2, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Simpson Thacher, Paul Weiss Take Star Roles on Silver Lake's William Morris Stake

    Private equity firm Silver Lake Partners announced on Wednesday the acquisition of a 31 pe

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  • March 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    A Really Bad Bet

    Thacher Proffitt & Wood real estate partner Donald Simone was at his desk on the fortieth floor of the World Trade Center's south tower early on September 11, 2001,

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  • April 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    Delaware Rules

    Three years ago Jeffrey Kindler, Pfizer Inc's vice-chairman and GC, had a big problem � and what seemed, on first glance, a baffling solution. Pfizer was facing what Kindler calls "the most si

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  • November 1, 2006 | The Minority Law Journal

    Fixing the Holes

    On a sizzling day in August, 64 eighth graders from Harlem and Brooklyn fill an elegant art deco courtroom in Brooklyn on the last day of a two-day mock trial. Two New York state judges in black robes

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  • September 27, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Pain on the Potomac

    The Beltway is no longer a barrier against the pitfalls of a down economy. The majority of Wash­ington's top-grossing law firms saw revenues slide in 2009, and 2010 isn't shaping up to be

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  • March 17, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    How NY Firm Lost Its "Bet the Firm" Wager

    Thacher Proffitt & Wood real estate partner Donald Simone was at his desk on the fortieth floor of the World Trade Center's south tower early on September 11, 2001, pushing to close a deal, whe

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  • January 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    45 Under 45 Let's Make a Deal

    Last September, Kim Taylor was feeling a bit nervous. The Kirkland & Ellis M&A partner was walking into the first face-to-face negotiation between her client, private equ

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  • January 11, 2010 | National Law Journal

    INADMISSIBLE

    WAINSTEIN GETS SCHOOLED IN CELEBRITY Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas, a self-described jokester, is hardly the ideal client, all the more reason he needs a goo

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