• March 1, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Chain Reaction

    The anxiety in Ronald Beard's voice was hard to miss. Beard, the chairman of Los Angeles's Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, was hearing daily -- hourly even -- from associates with news of all of our

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  • August 1, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    Valeant
 Bausch & Lomb Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. agreed to pay $8.7 billion in cash for Bausch & Lomb Holdings Incorporated in

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  • September 1, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

    The Power of One

    On a crisp sunny day in late March, lawyers from 39 law firms gathered at the corporate headquarters of Pfizer Inc, a nondescript office building a couple blocks east of Grand Central St

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  • March 5, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    After ERISA Decision, Confusion Remains

    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 sai

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  • December 28, 2009 | Daily Report Online

    Circuit denies release of Medicare data

    Judge Edward E. Carnes of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals invoked Mark Twain in his decision finding that a 1970s-era injunction prohibits the government from releasing Medicare data t

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  • June 6, 2013 | International

    Asia Deal Digest: June 6, 2013

    JapanMori Hamada & Matsumoto and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett are advising Osaka-based beverage maker Suntory Holdings Ltd. on what is e

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  • April 30, 2003 | The Recorder

    Chicago Firm Bonds With S.F. Boutique

    Chicago's Chapman and Cutler is opening an office in San Francisco by acquiring Gnazzo-Thill, a 10-lawyer financial services boutique.The deal, which was announced Tuesday and will clo

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  • November 29, 2001 | New York Law Journal

    U.S. Law Firms Cautious Over China's Entry Into WTO

    China's entry into the World Trade Organization, approved earlier this month, has many U.S. companies rubbing their hands in anticipation over the business opportunities they expect to be crea

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  • April 16, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Why Law Firms Tend to Settle

    Whatever advice they may give their clients about litigation, major law firms tend to follow the same strategy whenever they themselves are dragged into court: They settle. Withi

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  • September 11, 2001 | Legal Times

    Washington, D.C., Legal Community Reels From Terrorist Attacks

    At the offices of the AARP, 10 blocks from the White House, reporters who cover the Supreme Court had gathered Tuesday for a briefing on upcoming cases that could affect the elderly."This case

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