• January 31, 2002 | The American Lawyer

    How Bad Is It?

    The December collections frenzy is now a memory. If the check was really in the mail, it's arrived and been counted. Firms have paid last year's bills, written their year-end bonus checks (if

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  • December 21, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    The five largest recent transactions, all worth at least $500 million, involving targets or acquirors from each of six European jurisdictions or regions: Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy,

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  • July 19, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Shearman, Wachtell, O'MelvenyIn $10.6 Billion Chemicals Deal Huntsman Corporation, a chemicals producer, has been purchased by Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc., an Apollo M

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  • October 27, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    How One Gibson Dunn Partner Is Grooming the Next Generation

    Like many large law firms, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has a formal mentoring program aimed at pairing seasoned partners with the younger lawyers in line to replace them one day. At Gibson D

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  • December 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Showstopper

    It was a tiny, inconsequential blip in the Bank of America Corporation legal saga. On October 13 the bank’s lawyers at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and staff lawyers for

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  • March 21, 2011 | National Law Journal

    D.C. CALENDAR

    TUESDAY, MARCH 22 Tax Law: The District of Columbia Bar Taxation Section's financial products committee presents "Recent IRS Pronounce­ments: Op

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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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  • March 17, 2006 | The Recorder

    Expansion-Minded Law Firms Look to Korea

    As a boy, Justin Chang remembers his attorney father advising Korean-based companies. Long before Hyundai and Samsung were household names here, Korean executives would visit Chang's home near Los

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  • March 29, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    GE overhauls outside counsel roster

    JUST TWO YEARS after some 200 law firms endured the ultimate test of strength and patience for a shot at one of the 140 coveted preferred provider positions at General Electric Company, the l

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  • November 3, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Paterson Expected to Name Burstein as Counsel Governor David A. Paterson will name Karen Burstein, a former state legislator, bureaucrat and judge, as his c

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