• November 1, 2004 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    San FranciscoSedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold has added C. Craig Lilly as special counsel. Lilly's practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corpora

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  • September 1, 2005 | The American Lawyer

    Brother, Can You Spare 20 Hours?

    Connie Fratianni was a model citizen. When she wasn't at her desk logging 2,200 hours as a Shearman & Sterling bankruptcy/restructuring partner, she was running a Girl Scout troop in Manha

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  • January 1, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    Northeast Utilities / NSTAR Northeast Utilities agreed to buy rival New England electric power producer NSTAR for $4.2 billion in stock and $2.5 billion in assumed debt on October

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  • May 10, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Can the 'Jewish Law Firm' Success Story Be Duplicated?

    To many, perhaps most, observers of today's legal scene, a "white shoe" law firm is nothing more than a large, prominent firm serving a primarily corporate clientele. But those who ent

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  • May 2, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    State Bar Announces Pro Bono Awards

    ALBANY � The New York State Bar Association will present its annual President's Pro Bono Service Awards today. Slated to receive awards at a luncheon in Albany are: � Jeffrey Simes of

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  • September 21, 2012 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Attorney Ineligibility Order Pursuant to Rule 1:28-2(a)

    SUPREME COURT OF NEW JERSEYPursuant to Rule 1:28-2, the Trustees of the New Jersey Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection (Fund) have reported to the Supreme Court the names of tho

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  • January 1, 2005 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals and Suits

    SonyMGM Even in his late eighties, Kirk Kerkorian is a relentless dealmaker. The mogul agreed on September 13 to sell Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., in which he owns a 72 percent sta

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  • July 24, 2000 | The Recorder

    Interest Groups Struggling to Find Lawyers

    Just three years ago, Ramon Arias had his pick of lawyers for jobs at the San Francisco Legal Assistance Foundation. He recalls being flooded with 60 to 80 applications for a single opening.

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  • September 21, 2006 | The Recorder

    Manatt Is Second L.A. Firm to Boost Starting Pay to $145K

    A year after first-year pay raises swept the Los Angeles market -- and then the nation -- L.A.'s Manatt, Phelps & Phillips is boosting starting salaries to $145,000. "We are recruiting a

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  • November 1, 2004 | The American Lawyer

    In-House

    After sheer size, over the past quarter century, nothing has changed more for law firms than their reach. Following broad economic trends-which is to say the interests of their clients-major l

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