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  • August 9, 2006 | Legal Times

    A law firm IPO? Maybe in England.

    Picture lawyers idling away potentially billable hours tracking their firm's stock price rather than poring over their firm's profits-per-partner rankings or the results of the latest as

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  • October 10, 2007 | Legal Times

    Court Skeptical of Scheme Liability

    WASHINGTON � Weighing what has been billed as the securities fraud case of the decade, the Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed poised to slam the door shut on investor class actions aimed at deep-

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  • September 21, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Boom Town

    CHICAGO-Major U.S. law firms looking to muscle up their national networks are eyeing Chicago for expansion, attracted by the city's corporate clientele and seasoned pool of attor

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  • November 8, 2010 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    LATERALS ALLEN & OVERY (London): Paul Keller joins the firm's litigation practice as partner in the New York office and will focus on

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  • September 18, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Why Do Mergers Die? It's Like Dating

    It's a given that many law firm mergers flame out before they ever get off the ground, but reports of unsuccessful pairings have been particularly prominent in recent weeks. br /

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  • September 4, 2003 | The Recorder

    Bucking a Bad Economy, a Few Bay Area Firms Bulk Up

    Associates searching for a gig may be out of luck with most firms in the Bay Area -- that is unless they happen to hear from the recruiters at Gordon & Rees and Sedgwick, Detert, Moran &am

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  • June 22, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Pushing Limits

    John Olson, a senior securities partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, says he knows which two cases are about to become the talk of the securities bar. One, the U.S. Securities and E

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  • July 19, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Four Firms Take Lead on Two Billion-Dollar Infrastructure Deals

    Correction, 7/20/12, 4:20 p.m. EDT: The original version of this story incorrectly reported on a successful deal involving the privatization of public facilities

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  • December 29, 2003 | The American Lawyer

    Recalling a Battle in an Ongoing War

    For better or worse, a lawyer's entire career can sometimes be framed by a single case. William Colby knows that for him, that case is Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of H

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  • September 3, 2003 | The Recorder

    Bucking a Bad Economy, a Few Bulk Up

    Associates searching for a gig may be out of luck with most firms in the Bay Area -- that is unless they happen to hear from the recruiters at Gordon & Rees and Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnol

    1 minute read