• October 11, 2006 | The Recorder

    Instability Leads to a Hollywood Shuffle Among Law Firms

    A law student posted the question on an online message board last month: "Anything going wrong with Alschuler these days?" The well-regarded shop had dropped out of his school's on-campus in

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  • May 14, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Delaware Supreme Court

    FOR THE PAST year, the directors of U.S. companies have watched with wary concern as two branches of government — legislative and executive — have waged a war on corporate wrongdoi

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  • September 1, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    DeLoach et al. v. Philip Morris et al.

    Big Tobacco is used to defending itself against aggressive outsiders, but recently it had to handle a squabble within its own family. In May a group of major cigarette companies and tobacco le

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  • July 31, 2003 |

    Verizon, WorldCom Settle on Claims

    A settlement guaranteeing that one of WorldCom Inc.'s fiercest critics will not object to its reorganization plan won approval in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New Yor

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  • December 5, 2008 | Bloomberg

    Citigroup needs proper confession of its writedowns

    Now that Citigroup INC. has secured yet another taxpayer bailout, where are the writedowns You don't have to be that smart to figure out there's still a lot of rot on Citigroup's $2.1

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  • November 2, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    AGG bucks pay raise trend

    Arnall Golden Gregory is bucking the trend of paying green associates more greenbacks. The firm has announced that it will not raise first-year pay from $130,000 to $145,000 in January

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  • June 6, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Firms Starting to Take Hard Line on Law Directories

    NEW YORK -- What is the single biggest marketing expense at many large law firms? Not hip, computer-animated television commercials. Not bold, full-page ads in The New York Times&l

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  • December 21, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Son of Napster: The Inevitable Sequel

    The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case pitting the recording and film industries and thousands of individual artists against online companies offering software often used to trade co

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  • July 15, 1999 | The Recorder

    'Young, Hip, Cool and Fun'

    Nestled in a loft South of Market, the law offices of Britton Silberman & Cervantez evoke the casual comfort of a software company -- or, for that matter, a home. A piano sits in the foyer, and

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  • August 18, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Amici Line Up in Dispute Over Appointment of Ravitch

    As a Brooklyn appeals panel reconvenes today to consider the constitutionality of Governor David A. Paterson's appointment of Richard Ravitch as his second-in-command, both contending parties are g

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