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  • September 3, 2002 | The Recorder

    Second City Players

    Chicago law firms have been ambling into the San Francisco Bay Area in greater numbers in recent years, capitalizing on solid, recession-proof practice areas that are allowing them to boost th

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  • July 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Crossing Borders

    If it's jackpot awards you're after, U.S. courts are no longer the only game in town. Last month King & Spalding won an international arbitr

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  • November 29, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Parmalat Creditors in U.S. Cry Foul Over Spreading Litigation

    The legal war accompanying the collapse of the bankrupt Italian food giant Parmalat is being waged mainly in Italy. But litigation has spread to American courts, and some U.S. creditors of Par

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  • December 13, 2001 | Corporate Counsel

    Lure of the Silk Road

    November 2001 was a turning point for the People's Republic of China. Early that month, Motorola Inc., the biggest foreign investor in the country, upped its stake. At a highly publicized meet

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  • July 14, 2003 | Legal Times

    Court Aces

    The last time Kenneth Geller argued more than two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court in a single term was 1985, when he was working in the solicitor general's office representing the governme

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  • February 25, 2003 | National Law Journal

    The Wrestling Match With ERISA Goes On

    Carter Phillips wonders whether any statute has required more frequent interpretation than the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).It's been "a nightmare," he says,

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  • April 26, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Taking Steps in Defending the Workplace

    THE ISSUE of workplace security has simmered on the back burner in most of corporate America, occasionally boiling over when an employee triggers a headline with an act of random or premeditated vi

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  • September 16, 2002 | Legal Times

    On the Court's Docket

    The Supreme Court's business docket for fall reads like a tort reformer's playbook; it includes cases on excess punitive damages and class action litigation that could turn the upcoming months

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  • February 14, 2005 | Legal Times

    D.C.'S Midsize Firms Vanishing as Market Heats Up

    WASHINGTON -- It began, perhaps appropriately enough, at Arabelle, a romantic Manhattan restaurant best known for its role as a "Sex and the City" set.Mary Cranston, the chair of San F

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  • February 6, 2006 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    SAN FRANCISCODeborah Abernathy has joined Bullivant Houser Bailey as an associate. Abernathy, who will represent insurance companies on coverage issues and litigat

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