• September 12, 2002 | The Recorder

    The Power Puzzle

    Pittsburg City Hall is still cool despite a sultry July evening outside -- and all the hot air being generated within.It's City Council night, an occasion for cheap, air-conditioned en

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  • September 6, 2002 | The Recorder

    Powerful Relationships

    Pittsburg City Hall is still cool despite a sultry July evening outside -- and all the hot air being generated within.It's City Council night, an occasion for cheap, air-conditioned en

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  • April 16, 2003 | Daily Report Online

    Philip Morris Won't Have to Pay $12-Billion Bond

    Brenda Sandburg [email protected] Law firms have smoked out a lot of cash helping state and local governments securitize their 1998 settlement with Big Toba

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  • April 15, 2003 | The Recorder

    Decision Gives Bond Lawyers Breathing Room

    Law firms have smoked out a lot of cash helping state and local governments securitize their 1998 settlement with Big Tobacco.That's why they're breathing easier in the wake of an Illi

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  • April 15, 2003 | The Recorder

    Tobacco Decision Gives Bond Lawyers Breathing Room

    Law firms have smoked out a lot of cash helping state and local governments securitize their 1998 settlement with Big Tobacco.That's why they're breathing easier in the wake of an Illi

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  • June 4, 2002 | The Recorder

    Banking on Tobacco

    Gov. Gray Davis and his budget planners may be having Maalox moments over the huge gaps in the state budget, but California's financial mess is nothing but good news for San Francisco's

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  • April 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    The Last Good Year?

    The municipal bond market closed 2007 with a strong and steady finish, as projects involving tax-exempt financing for affordable housing and public-private partnerships between state or local

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  • April 11, 2003 |

    Looking Toward The Golden State

    Ask a public finance lawyer about 2002, and soon enough the talk turns to California. Facing widening deficits, plenty of state and local governments turned to the bond and note markets last y

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  • April 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    The Last Good Year?

    The municipal bond market closed 2007 with a strong and steady finish, as projects involving tax-exempt financing for affordable housing and public-private partnerships between state or local

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  • September 12, 2000 | The Recorder

    Law Firms Who Do Bond Work Vie for Puff of Tobacco Action

    If you thought the tobacco wars were over, look again. Now that billions in settlement money is headed to local governments, the battle has shifted to one between law firms vying to securitize

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