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  • December 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Big Suits

    Mirror Worlds v. Apple A jury in Tyler, Texas, on October 4 awarded what news reports say could be the second-largest verdict of 2010 and the fourth-largest patent verdic

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  • April 6, 2009 | Legal Times

    Ingredients in the Whole Foods, FTC Settlement

    As corporate mergers go, the purchase of natural foods grocer Wild Oats by its rival Whole Foods Market looked like small potatoes (organic yellow fingerling, perhaps). Nobody expected the proposed

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  • June 26, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    DLA Piper, Skadden, Fried Frank On $6.4 Billion Biotechnology Deal Invitrogen Corp., a manufacturer of

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  • June 2, 2008 | National Law Journal

    The 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America

    First, a reality check: At last count, a mere 5.4 percent of partners at U.S. law firms were members of minority groups. For women of color, the figure was fewer than 1.7 percent, according to

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  • March 25, 2005 | Legal Times

    DOJ Soups Up Wheels of Justice with 'Deferred Prosecution'

    The Department of Justice last week scored a major victory with the conviction of ex-WorldCom chief Bernard Ebbers for lying to investors and government regulators in an effort to cover up his

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  • February 23, 2006 | The Recorder

    Easy Cooperation Leads to Fast Close

    Attorneys working on Marvell Technology Group Ltd.'s $240 million purchase of Avago Technologies' printer-chip business completed the deal in less than a week."It shows that if you hav

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  • November 1, 2005 | The American Lawyer

    Banking on China

    Anthony Root spent much of this year working in a room without windows -- and, after 6 p.m., without air-conditioning -- in a dim Beijing office tower that locals call "the black turd." Hardly

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  • June 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    A Chasm With Consequences

    Let's start with one fact: There is now a $1.1 million gap between the average profits per partner of the top 23 firms on The Am Law 200, as ranked by PPP, and the average of the next

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  • August 4, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Online Divorce Services Spark Debate

    You might think a couple wanting a quick divorce would first stop at a lawyer's office � or maybe two lawyers' offices, one for each. Not necessarily. Their first stop may be the computer. Wel

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  • February 1, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    Berkshire Hathaway/Burlington Northern Warren Buffett is tripling down on Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation. Berkshire Hathaway I

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