• October 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    The Great Game

    Soon after Simon Davies took over as Linklaters's managing partner in the fall of 2007, he brought together a gr

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  • March 4, 2003 |

    Feds Slam Smithfield With Suit

    In a case that could test the boundaries of the pre-merger notification law, the Department of Justice on Friday sued Smithfield Foods Inc. for failing to file Hart-Scott-Rodino Act notices wh

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  • October 17, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Summer Associates Survey 2011: A Season In the Sun

    Law students who spent the past summer working at some of the nation's largest firms went into their jobs knowing the negative reputation that life at such firms can have. They ended

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  • September 2, 2003 | The American Lawyer

    The A-List

    Once there was an age, the old-timers say, when lawyers could tick off by rote the names of the nation's leading law firms. They were dotted across the land like regional royalty. Within the l

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  • August 27, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Private Equity Deals Yield Roles for Six Am Law 100 Firms

    A trio of major private equity firms announced two major acquisitions on Monday, providing transactional work for six Am Law 100 firms.   a href="http://american

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  • February 21, 2006 | Legal Times

    Parsing Alito's Clerk Picks

    Two of Justice Samuel Alito Jr.'s former law clerks stopped in at his chambers earlier this month to congratulate him on winning confirmation.Alito was so happy to see them, apparently, that

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  • December 23, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Health care conglomerate Johnson & Johnson announced Dec. 15 it would buy Guidant Corp. in a deal worth $25.4 billion. The agreement will allow the New Brunswick, N.

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  • March 29, 2007 | The Recorder

    Jeffer, Mangels Aids Chapter 7 Rebound

    Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro partner Robert Kaplan has been working with bankruptcy law since 1977, but he'd never come across a deal like the recent $100 million loan h

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  • December 6, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    IPO Case Hits Big Snag At Second Circuit

    A federal appeals court Tuesday vacated class certification in six key cases in the massive litigation over dot-com era initial public offerings�a potentially devastating setback for plaintiff

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  • September 19, 2001 | Alm

    Daily Off-Site Backups Saved Data from Disaster

    Omer "Jack" Williams was a picture of grace under pressure after the terrorist attack on New York.The law firm he manages, the 160-lawyer Thacher Proffitt & Wood, was blo

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