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  • June 1, 2006 | The Minority Law Journal

    True Colors

    Warning: Firms may not be as diverse as they appear. Diversity, by definition, is composed of many elements. But this very characteristic makes it hard to measure. There's no easy way to determin

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  • December 18, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Shearman Advises on $5.25 Billion Panama Canal Expansion After years of discussion, the Panama Canal Authority has completed plans for a $5.25 billion expan

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  • June 1, 2003 | The American Lawyer

    Magic Tricks

    England's empire builders of international legal services are taking a hit in their own once-indomitable engine rooms. For a decade, most of London's so-called Magic Circle firms have taken de

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  • November 7, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Do Lawyer-Moms Have It All?

    High on the polished walls of the Great Hall are 19 imposing oil portraits of distinguished men: the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, along with 18 former presidents of the Association of the B

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  • July 24, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Lawyers on Major TransactionsShearman, Allen & Overy Counsel Sale of French Oil Seed CompanyIn a deal with a potential total value of about $830 million, Bunge Ltd., a

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  • May 1, 2006 | Legal Times

    Honors and Appointments

    40 AT 50Fourteen law firms — out of 109 that qualified — were honored by judges on D.C.'s federal bench for their pro bono work. A celebratory reception, the 40

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  • May 27, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Guatemalan Asylum Case Helps Push Envelope in Abuse Matters

    "Honestly," admits Sheila M. Zachman, who together with Nathan J. Greene has just made a significant mark in asylum law, "I thought we were going to lose."But at perhaps the sharpest p

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  • March 27, 2002 | Law.com

    Layoffs: The Big Picture

    Leo Cunningham, one of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's two hiring partners, calls them "born-to-do-deals transaction jocks." They are the young associates who once populated the print

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  • February 1, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Veteran Shearman Finance Partner Joins Baker Botts Baker Botts has recruited a veteran New York finance partner from Shearman & Sterling. William R. Giusti, previousl

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  • September 5, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Associates in Pro Bono

    Corporate Pro BonoNew York-based Viacom International, with some 300 in-house attorneys, has joined a small number of corporations offering formal pro bono legal p

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