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  • December 7, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Q&A: Larry Lederman

    For decades, Larry Lederman, 77, was one of the busiest corporate and mergers and acquisitions lawyers in the country, shaping major developments in corporate law such as "leveraged recap

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  • April 26, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Business briefs

    LIABLE FOR $2.7 MILLION A New Jersey firm is liable for half of the awarded damages of $5.4 million in a suit brought by a Miami developer claiming it was cheated out of its inter

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  • February 2, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Milbank Tweed Adds Compensation Specialist From Dewey Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has recruited Dewey Ballantine's compensation and benefits practice head. Paul J. Wesse

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  • September 28, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Patent and Trademark Law

    Will a U.S. patent covering an innovative method for performing certain steps reach an accused infringer who performs one or more of those steps outside the United States? A patent's

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  • November 1, 2005 | The American Lawyer

    Banking on China

    Anthony Root spent much of this year working in a room without windows -- and, after 6 p.m., without air-conditioning -- in a dim Beijing office tower that locals call "the black turd." Hardly

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  • June 25, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Estate Tax Decoupling

    As a result of federal legislation enacted in 2001, the relationship between the federal and New York estate tax systems was substantially altered. One of the more important consequenc

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  • March 22, 2010 | International Edition

    Shearman Is Latest Firm to Revamp Pay for U.K. Associates

    Shearman & Sterling is ditching associate lockstep for its lawyers in the U.K., Asia and the Middle East in favor of a merit

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  • June 26, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Marketing Follow-Up

    Marketing and client development have become ingrained in law firms and, indeed, are integral parts of virtually every law firm's operations. Firms of all sizes and geographic locations

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  • February 23, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    N.Y. Life insurance deputy GC resigns due to lack of law license

    By Anthony Lin A senior in-house lawyer at the New York Life Insurance Co. has resigned after the company discovered in recent weeks that he had never been licensed to practice

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  • December 22, 2011 | Daily Business Review

    Shareholder derivative suit earns lawyers $300M in fees

    The plaintiff firms of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check and Prickett Jones & Elliott wanted $428 million in fees for securing the largest judgment ever in the Delaware Court of Chancery. They

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