• September 14, 2007 | National Law Journal

    How Associates Become Rainmakers

    By the time most law firm associates have reached the senior level (six to nine years out of law school), they have developed the technical skills and proficiency necessary to be good lawyers and t

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  • July 26, 1999 | Legal Times

    FIRMS EYE FTC DIRECTOR

    William Baer, director of the Federal Trade Commission's Competition Bureau, announced his resignation from the commission last week, but he will not consider employment opportunities until after he l

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  • June 21, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Confused Juries Can Lose Cases

    Dwelling on the dull minutiae of complicated communications technology is a sure-fire way to lose a jury. Such was the risk that Dan K. Webb knew he faced when he took on Vonage Holdings Cor

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  • November 4, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

    Media for a Merger

    When it comes to firm merger media, most firms still do not get it quite right. Successful merger media starts with early and honest planning. It communicates why your clients and prospects should car

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  • October 26, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Blackwater Lawyers Seek Military Guard for Iraq Investigation

    Criminal defense lawyers and their investigators routinely venture into rough neighborhoods to interview witnesses and gather evidence. But there's probably little concern about sniper attacks, mor

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  • January 25, 2005 | The Recorder

    News Briefs

    2ND CIRCUIT SAYS JUDGE DENIED PUBLIC ACCESSNEW YORK -- A guilty plea and a sentence have been overturned by a federal appeals court because Southern District of New York Judge S

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  • September 28, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    $19 Billion Acquisition of Freescale Involves Skadden, Fried Frank, Cleary Freescale Semiconductor Inc., the third-largest chipset maker in the nation, has been acquired

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  • May 4, 2009 |

    2009 Diversity Scorecard

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  • March 7, 2005 | Alm Media

    Ebbers' Defense Team Attacking Witness

    In the second day of closing arguments Thursday in the fraud trial of former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers, defense attorney Reid Weingarten tried to narrow the government's case to its chief wi

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  • June 27, 2000 |

    From Out of the Past

    A 1950s-era legal theory is drawing renewed interest since UAL Corp. announced its $11.6 billion acquisition of US Airways Group Inc. Known as the incipiency doctrine, it authorizes regulators to bloc

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