• August 22, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    A very quiet departure

    VERISIGN INC. was quick to announce the arrival of its newest general counsel - but not so quick to reveal his predecessor's departure. On July 17 VeriSign issued a press release stat

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  • August 14, 2001 |

    Cellular Hero

    Issued: April 1992Prosecuted by: Russell Miller (in-house)Litigated by: Cooley Godward and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldIf you buy a cell phone this y

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  • October 1, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    Enterprise Products/Teppco Enterprise Products Partners L.P. agreed to acquire Teppco Partners L.P. for $5.9 billion in equity and assumed debt

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  • June 21, 2004 | Legal Times

    2004 D.C. 20: The Road to Riches

    Profitable firms are all alike; every unprofitable firm is unprofitable in its own way. Or is it the other way around? You can't know for sure by looking only at the numbers. Did p

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  • Burns v. PA Dep't of Correction

    Publication Date: 2008-09-29
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    Date Filed: 2008-09-19
    Court: 3rd Cir.
    Judge: Smith, Circuit Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 07-1678

    PRECEDENTIALArgued April 9, 2008Before: SMITH, HARDIMAN, and COWEN, Circuit Judges.OPINIONThe Hohfeldian issue presented in this appeal requires us to determine whether a disciplinary conv

  • October 15, 2012 | Texas Lawyer

    Part-Time Partners at Large Firms in Texas

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  • February 26, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Sarbanes-Oxley Case Marred by Missteps

    It is a warm fall morning in Birmingham, Ala., and Donald Watkins is in town for a meeting. The hotel-like condition of his office, in the back of a bank he founded, suggests that this i

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  • May 29, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Cravath, Paul Weiss, Skadden Counsel Time Warner Cable Split Time Warner Inc., a New York-based media company, plans to split off Time Warner Cable Inc. as

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  • March 1, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

    New Deals

    PLAINS EXPLORATION ACQUISITION of NUEVO ENERGY John Wombwell, executive vice president and general counsel of Plains Exploration & Production Co., is using lawyers from Akin Gump S

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  • July 11, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    AIG's $350M MBS Lawsuit Proceeds Against Fund

    A $350 million lawsuit file merican International Group accusing hedge fund Moore Capital Management of aiding in a complex fraud involving packages of mortgage-backed securities insure

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