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  • January 2, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Switch-Hitter

    On the morning of December 5, a crowd of about 250 lawyers squeezed inside a 60-by-70 basement conference room in the Sheraton New York in midtown Manhattan. The room was hot, the ai

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  • July 24, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Former Milbank Chairman to Testify as Will Expert in Astor Trial

    Three months into the criminal trial of socialite Brooke Astor's son, Anthony Marshall, and the lawyer he hired who allegedly helped him loot his mother's estate, the presiding judge has cleared th

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  • June 1, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Alternative Energy

    Ethanol is not just a hot commodity for farmers anymore. Once the specialty of small law firms in the Midwest, ethanol production has sparked interest among Wall Street law firms such

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  • March 17, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Ups and Down: More Bankruptcies in Asia, Few Bankruptcy Lawyers

    When economic crisis struck Asia in the late 1990s and early 2000s, international law firms with newly crippled clients in the region flew in their top restructuring specialists from the United Sta

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  • June 24, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Cravath, Skadden, Cleary, Sullivan on $3.2 Billion Pharmaceutical Merger One of Canada's largest pharmaceutical companies, Biovail Corp., has agreed to merge with Califo

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  • March 8, 2011 | The Recorder

    Left-Coast Lawyers On the Move

    Greenberg Traurig has added Mark Kelson as a partner in the Los Angeles office. Kelson, who was previously with Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, is a memb

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  • December 29, 2008 | Legal Times

    Switching Teams

    You organized the fundraisers and sat on the law committees. Maybe you popped up on the Sunday morning talk shows. Then your candidate, once a front-runner, stumbles at the

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  • March 19, 2009 |

    In Asia, More Bankruptcies, Few Lawyers

    HONG KONG — When economic crisis struck Asia in the late 1990s and early 2000s, international law firms with newly crippled clients in the region flew in their top restructuring specialis

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  • November 15, 2010 | National Law Journal

    U.S. firms invade Hong Kong

    The gateway to China for international capital, Hong Kong is already one of the most competitive legal markets in the world, with almost a hundred foreign law firms vying for business. What c

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  • July 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    The A-List 2010: Turning Pro

    The more things change, the more they stay the same. That's the best way to summarize our eighth annual A-List, our effort to look beyond pure dollars to quantify the q

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