• October 5, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Orrick, Akin Gump End Merger Talks Six days after Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe publicly acknowledge they were in "preli

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  • October 28, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Attorney Loses Bid to Resign 'Gracefully,' Is Disbarred An attorney who continued to practice law after being suspended has been disbarred. Howard L. Blau, who had an of

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  • October 11, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Wilson Sonsini Defends Itself Against Solyndra Accusations

    As House Republicans press for information about additional gove

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  • November 1, 2004 | Legal Times

    On the Move

    AKIN GUMPSteven Heeley has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld as senior policy counsel, where he will focus on American Indian law and policy. Heeley, 44, former

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  • May 1, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    Lucky Seven: Firms Do Lots of Deals Work

    Racking up a third straight year of growth, the volume of U.S. mergers and acquisitions totaled more than $1 trillion in 2005, which provided a solid source of work for large Texas firms that

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  • December 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    New Business

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  • September 15, 2003 | Legal Times

    We've Been There, Done That (Part 3)

    June 29, 1998THE TOP 20: THE NEWS IS GOODA year ago, law firm leaders and consultants in the D.C. area predicted that 1997 was shaping up as a strong year for legal bu

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  • March 14, 2005 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    San FranciscoIn an expansion of its intellectual property litigation practice, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld is adding a new partner, Yitai Hu, and f

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  • September 30, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Firms Sidle Up to Budding Practice: Indian Gaming

    Heidi McNeil Staudenmaier jokes that one Indian law course in law school made her the firm's expert on Indian legal matters when she landed her first job as a business litigator in 1985.b

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  • May 1, 2006 | Legal Times

    PPP Can Be a Misleading Indicator

    This year it finally happened. One of Washington's Big Four firms finally saw its local profits per partner hit the magical million-dollar mark. So three cheers for the new millionaires

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