• January 16, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Breaking Away

    Jonathan Putnam was no stranger to competition when he joined Kirkland & Ellis in 1993. He beat out 500 students to graduate first in his class from Harvard Law School, won a coveted posit

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  • December 3, 2012 | National Law Journal

    IN BRIEF

    BP BANNED The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has suspended BP PLC from future government contracts, citing its "lack of business ­integrit

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  • August 6, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Meeting Diverse Demands

    Soon after two missiles fired by an Iraqi pilot ripped into the U.S.S. Stark in May 1987, killing 37 sailors and injuring 21, the State Department sent its chief legal adviser and a trusted as

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  • March 8, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    The Score: Proskauer Reigns Supreme Atop Pro Sports

    UPDATE: 3/11/2013, 10:00 a.m. EDT. Information on outside counsel for the NFL's Carolina Panthers has been added to the second-to-last paragraph of this

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  • April 27, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Dialing for Dollars

    Has it really been 25 years since we started asking large law firms about the money they make? Actually, if you count from the first iteration of our annual financial survey, The Am Law 50 [J

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  • February 20, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    Litigator Juggles Pro Bono Representation of Inmate With Needs of Start-Up Practice

    Just as New York litigator Christopher Paolella was hitting his stride in surmounting the challenges of starting his own firm he received a call in October from an old boss that threw his lif

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  • January 20, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    A $220 Million Payday

    "I'll take a case of the '61 Latour as well. And put a couple of bottles on the plane. We'll drink them on the way to Ibiza," said Lloyd Constantine. He hung up and turned to study some samples

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  • February 15, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn: Lateral Moves in The Am Law 200

    Kirkland & Ellis has continued its push to be a major player in the mergers and acquisitions space, this time by hiring two new partners from major competitors on the West Coast:

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  • May 28, 2009 | The Recorder

    5 YEARS AGO 10 YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO

    During two hours of argument, the California Supreme Court appeared unlikely to allow local officials to issue marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples unless a court ruled that California's ma

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  • January 20, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    A $220 Million Payday

    "I'll take a case of the '61 Latour as well. And put a couple of bottles on the plane. We'll drink them on the way to Ibiza," said Lloyd Constantine. He hung up and turned to study some samples

    1 minute read