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  • November 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Buried Alive

    On July 16, when federal district court judge Lewis Kaplan dismissed criminal charges against 13 former KPMG partners indicted in the government's massive tax shelter fraud case, he beamed a b

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  • August 4, 2008 | Legal Times

    Lawyer Makes House Calls

    John Graves is waiting by the door of his studio apartment when attorney Vanessa NesSmith arrives. NesSmith sits down on the bed, the best place from which to share do

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  • October 22, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    The Counsel You Keep

    When William Lytton arrived at scandal-ridden Tyco International Ltd., in September 2002, he faced a ton of work. As the new general counsel, Lytton inherited an internal investigation of the

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  • March 14, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Duane Morris Revenue Grows, PPP Up 3.2 Percent

    Duane Morris saw all-time highs in its gross revenue, profits per equity partner (PPP) and revenue per lawyer (RPL) metrics in 2011, according to firm CEO and Chairman John J. Soroko.

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  • February 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Economy Model

    Daralyn Durie, Mark Lemley, Michael Page, and Ragesh Tangri started kicking the idea around almost 20 years ago, when all four were students at UC Berkeley School of Law. They’d start their o

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  • July 22, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    After Sept. 11, Record Number of Lawyers Answer the Call to Take on Pro Bono

    ON THE morning of Sept. 20, 2001- when officials were still counting the dead and missing from terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and threats of deadly anthrax virus filled the daily press

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  • February 15, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Lawyers find big value in smaller practices

    Daralyn Durie, Mark Lemley, Michael Page and Ragesh Tangri started kicking the idea around almost 20 years ago, when all four were students at UC Berkeley School of Law. They'd start their ow

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  • November 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    How We Got Here

    Lehman Brothers is bankrupt, Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns have sold themselves, and Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have turned into bank holding companies. The era of the independent

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  • February 25, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    Changeable Partners

    AST JULY, WHEN A fat Brooklyn, New York, man sued McDonald's Corporation for allegedly causing his obesity, the lawyers for the hamburger giant didn't laugh it off; instead, they jumped into a

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  • August 17, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Antitrust Trade and Practice

    Application of the antitrust laws to joint ventures has always been unusually enigmatic. First, there is no agreed-upon definition distinguishing joint ventures from other inter-firm contractu

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