• November 24, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

    Wilson Sonsini Helps Client Land $250 Million in VC Financing

    Despite the nation's shaky economy and a credit crunch that makes it difficult for businesses to borrow money, an Austin Internet company recently landed $250 million in new venture financing.

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  • August 1, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Good Will Hunting

    The best testimonial about a law firm might come from a lawyer who's left. That's the idea behind firms' growing emphasis on alumni networking - the treatment of former employees' good will as

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  • January 11, 2010 | The Recorder

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

    McKesson Corp. agreed to pay $960 million to end one of the largest securities class actions ever. Investors had sued in 1999 after McKesson merged with HBO & Co., then revealed accounting irre

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  • February 11, 2002 | Daily Report Online

    Learning From the Last Recession: Nation's Firms Show More Agility

    Nathan Koppel [email protected] The December collections frenzy is now a memory. If the check was really in the mail, it's arrived and been counted. Firms have paid las

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  • February 11, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Testing stage

    Name and title: Steven W. Spector, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary. Age: 42 Life on the pharm: San Diego-based Arena Pharmaceuti

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  • October 1, 2004 | The American Lawyer

    Courthouse to White House

    I'll never forget the shock of disillusionment I felt the first time I read an international treaty. What I had imagined as august documents of war and peace, comity between nations, the eleva

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  • September 28, 2009 | National Law Journal

    D.C. MOVES

    COVINGTON & BURLING James O'Connell, 40, has joined Washington-based Covington & Burling as a partner in the antitrust and competition practice. Prev

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  • January 31, 2002 | The American Lawyer

    How Bad Is It?

    The December collections frenzy is now a memory. If the check was really in the mail, it's arrived and been counted. Firms have paid last year's bills, written their year-end bonus checks (if

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  • April 27, 2009 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    NEW ARRIVALS Covington & Burling (Washington): Deborah Garza joins the firm as co-chairwoman of the antitrust and competition law pract

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  • May 31, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New partners Arnold & Porter (Washington): Luc Gyselen, a senior official with the Directorate-General for Competition at the European Commission, will join the fi

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