• March 10, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Orrick Doesn't Hide Its Name Under a Bushel

    In midtown Manhattan, the names of most major law firms can usually be found discreetly etched, embossed or carved somewhere in the lobby. But few so far have ventured into the realm of exteri

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  • August 14, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Six Lawyers Named to Police Corruption Commission Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg yesterday named Mark F. Pomerantz, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, chairm

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  • October 4, 2002 | Daily Report Online

    Who's Your Daddy

    William W. Bedsworth OK, let's review. Kirk Kerkorian is an 84-year-old gazillionaire. Six months ago, I tricked you into wasting 15 precious minutes reading about his

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  • February 4, 2008 | Bloomberg

    Street pushes government to stave off U.S. recession

    With U.S. mortgage foreclosures set to top 1 million this year and home prices falling at the fastest pace since the Great Depression, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Vice Chairman Thomas Russo

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  • September 30, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    Activision Blizzard / Vivendi Activision Blizzard Inc. took advantage of Vivendi SA's restructuring by agreeing on July 26 to buy back a 35 percent s

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  • March 29, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Jury Awards Smoker $17 Million in Punitive Damages A Manhattan Supreme Court jury yesterday awarded $17.1 million in punitive damages against Philip Morris, the nation's

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  • March 3, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    N.Y. Summer Associates' Buildable Hours

    High up in the Lipstick Building headquarters of Latham & Watkins last Wednesday, attorneys and administrators from 27 New York firms talked of warm days to come for this year's summer ass

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  • March 28, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Casualties Of Casual Dress Code

    S MANY of you know, I was the original (and most vocal) proponent of the firm's business-casual policy . . . I am beginning to think that I made a mistake-"So began the attention-grabbing

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  • June 15, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Porco Murder Trial Venue Changed to Orange County The Appellate Division, Second Department, yesterday granted a rare change of venue in the Peter Porco murder case. Mr. Porco,

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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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