• January 14, 2013 | Daily Report Online

    FTC continues fight to unseal Solvay memo on paying rivals

    A fight by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to make public a Georgia pharmaceutical company's confidential memo detailing a strategy to pay rival drug companies not to compete has become par

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  • January 9, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Claims Based on Unmanifested Defects Present a Conundrum

    A popular riddle about our perception of reality asks: "If a tree falls in a forest but there is no one there to hear it, does it make any sound?" Courts increasingly are faced with its prod

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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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  • October 22, 2002 | The Recorder

    News Briefs

    ANOTHER CHALLENGE TO PG&E ATTORNEYS FEES The United States trustee overseeing Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case has challenged millions of dollars

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  • July 29, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Bounty Hunter Tobacco Suit Is Thrown Out

    Photo by Rick KopsteinJudge WeinsteinA LEGAL THEORY allowing bounty hunters to sue tobacco companies first dreamed up by a Washington lawyer and a Baltimore law professor is "imaginat

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  • March 23, 2005 | Legal Times

    Justice Deferred

    The Department of Justice last week scored a major victory with the conviction of ex-WorldCom chief Bernard Ebbers for lying to investors and government regulators in an effort to cover up his

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  • June 5, 2006 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    UPDATESProminent bankruptcy lawyer James H. M. Sprayregen has announced plans to leave Chicago's Kirkland & Ellis to join investment bank Gold

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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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  • 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 17, 2006 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    UPDATEJudge Michael B. Mukasey, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, will rejoin Patterson, Belknap W

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