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  • August 27, 2009 | Daily Report Online

    Deal Watch: DLA Piper helps expand rural Internet access

    DLA Piper lawyers are working to help their clients get a piece of the $7.2 billion in stimulus money targeted, in part, at efforts to increase broadband Internet access in rural areas

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  • April 5, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Malkin & Ross Pioneers Grass-Roots Lobbying

    n Inside albany nPHOTOgraph BY ALAN SOLOMONALBANY - In the mid-1980s, when legislative staffer Gene DeSantis was approached by a couple of advocates who thought they could create a vi

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  • December 30, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Simpson, Schulte Advise $6.3 Billion Purchase of Auto Financing Company Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), Canada's second-largest bank by assets, has reached a $6.3 billion ag

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  • November 28, 2006 | National Law Journal

    1st Circuit Ruling Helps Ease Recoupment from Execs of Advanced Legal Fees

    Spending $1 million of his employer's money on legal fees to fight a $70,000 insider-trading penalty may have been easy for Robert D. Happ, but having to pay the million back to his former comp

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  • July 31, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    2nd Circuit Affirms Ebbers Conviction, 25-Year Sentence

    The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday affirmed the conviction and 25-year prison sentence of Bernard J. Ebbers, the former CEO of WorldCom whose reputation and business were destroyed by

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  • May 20, 2013 | International

    Sheppard Mullin's Seoul Ambitions

    Since opening its market to foreign law firms last year, Korea has seen some 20 U.S. and U.K. firms push forward with Seoul offices. They are joining a collection of several large and stron

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  • Thrasher v. City of Amarillo

    Publication Date: 2013-02-26
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    Date Filed: 2013-02-22
    Court: 5th Cir.
    Judge: Priscilla R. Owen, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 11-10153

    United States Court of Appeals Fifth CircuitLyle W. Cayce ClerkBefore JONES, OWEN, and HIGGINSON, Circuit Judges.Brandon Thrasher asserted claims under 42 U.S.C. 

  • May 9, 2005 | Legal Times

    Let the Buyer Beware

    Since the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, acquisition diligence has become very important for public company acquirers. Because a public company's post-acquisition business must compl

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  • Hertz Corp. v. Friend

    Publication Date: 2010-02-23
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    Date Filed: 2010-02-23
    Court: U.S. Sup. Ct.
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    Case Number: No. 08-1107

    THE HERTZ CORPORATION, PETITIONER v.MELINDA FRIEND et al.No. 08–1107In

  • December 29, 2006 | The Corporate Counselor

    Companies Face Big Risks With Late SEC Filings

    Companies that are late in filing their financial statements with the SEC may simultaneously trigger default provisions under their credit agreements and indentures. Accounting problems from practi

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