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  • March 25, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Delay of Game

    Up until A few weeks ago, third-year law student Elijah Watkins assumed he would show up for his law firm job starting in the fall after graduation - just as class after class of newly minted lawye

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  • March 31, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Firms Going Hollywood

    LOS ANGELES - At least eight law firms have opened offices in the Los Angeles area since the start of the current economic downturn about eight months ago - more than any other major metropolitan r

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  • June 17, 2013 | Daily Business Review

    Review 100: The Dance Is On

    For Becker & Poliakoff's Gary Rosen, finding a merger partner is like going to a dance: sometimes he's the pursuer, sometimes he's pursued.When his firm acquired the four-lawyer Co

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  • October 27, 2004 | The Recorder

    Open to Interpretation

    Confused about whether a trial court can entertain a renewed motion in the absence of any new facts or new law?Unsure whether a party can ever seek reconsideration after the 10-d

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  • October 5, 1999 | The Recorder

    A Building Controversy

    While home builders were engaged in a ballot battle this week over housing in the East Bay, lawmakers have begun to turn their attention to tort reform remedies for what they say ails the state's

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  • May 5, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

    The Law Office Management Committee — A Partnering Program

    Helen Lysaght is the director of administration for McManimon & Scotland, L.L.C. in Newark. More than a decade ago, the New Jersey State Bar Association teamed with several

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  • July 21, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Pa. High Court Favors Broad Collateral Review

    Taking its cue from a 2001 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled 5-1 that actions collateral to previously settled class actions should result in

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  • September 4, 2003 | The Recorder

    Sullivan & Cromwell Helps Investors Wire Purchase from GE Electric Capital

    A team of lawyers from SULLIVAN & CROMWELL's Palo Alto office helped hammer out the $2.16 billion acquisition of General Electric Capital Corp.'s Financial Guaranty Insurance Co. by a group of inv

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  • June 17, 2011 | Bloomberg

    Did wave of magic wand finally end 'too big to fail'

    In the words of Sheila Bair, the departing chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the era of too-big-to-fail banks isn't just ending-it's already over. Consider her statement two we

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  • October 8, 2010 | Bloomberg

    AIG's real numbers are still shrouded in secrecy

    American International Group Inc., the bailed-out insurance company, says it's poised to emerge as a "financially strong, independent company" once it repays the U.S. government. That claim m

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