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  • January 4, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Dechert Adds 65 Lawyers From Swidler

    Dechert has recruited 65 lawyers from Washington, D.C.'s Swidler Berlin Shereff & Friedman, effectively acquiring its New York office. The move adds 57 Swidler Berlin lawyers to De

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  • June 4, 2009 | National Law Journal

    SEC charges former Countrywide CEO

    The Securities and Exchange Commission is going after its highest-profile target yet as it sorts through the wreckage of the subprime mortgage meltdown: Former chief executive officer of

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  • March 9, 2009 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    NEW FIRM OPENING Durie Tangri Lemley Roberts & Kent (San Francisco): Daralyn Durie, Ragesh Tangri, Mark Lemley, Clement Roberts and Rya

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  • November 24, 2008 | National Law Journal

    How they cope

    LOS ANGELES — On a recent Monday, Nimish Patel walked into the offices of five of his associates to deliver the bad news: They were laid off. His Los Angeles law firm,

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  • October 7, 2010 | Daily Business Review

    Treasury turns to outside counsel to run TARP

    In one of the federal government's biggest legal services contracts ever, the Treasury Department hired 13 law firms to help run the Troubled Assets Relief Program at a cost to taxpayers of up to $

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  • March 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Manhattan Transfer

    It's two days after he moved to Manhattan, and Morrison & Foerster chairman Keith Wetmore is chatting about his to-do list: "The first and easiest thing is to get tickets to Sweeney Todd,

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  • November 23, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Jedi lawyer

    STAR WARS EMPIRE Lucasfilm Ltd. was founded in 1971 by Star Wars creator George W. Lucas Jr. It has grown into a major independent production house and one of

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  • July 24, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Struggling Firms Find Safety Net at Bingham

    Wall Street calls it value investing — buying something that's underpriced relative to its long-term value. The legal community could label it the Bingham McCutchen strategy. Most recentl

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  • January 19, 2007 | The Recorder

    Indian Tribes Bet on Big Firms

    When the Pojoaque Pueblo in New Mexico decided to go ahead with a huge $245 million casino, resort and infrastructure development last year, they turned to the capital markets for financing instead

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  • August 3, 2009 | The Recorder

    Outsider Ready to Break In

    SAN FRANCISCO — Yosef Peretz, dressed in a dark suit too large for his small frame, lowered himself into the passenger seat of a sleek gray Tesla Roadster with thick orange racing stripes

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