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  • August 1, 2011 | The Careerist

    The Economist Doesn't Get It

    I wonder if women have created a monster by focusing on the difficulties of meshing career and home. Whenever there's a gender gap—be it in law, business, or any other sector—t

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  • November 10, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Jones Day, Simpson Thacher Advise on $1 Billion Radio Deal Cumulus Media, Inc., the second largest radio station operator in the country, announced Oct. 31 that it has si

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  • August 18, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

    Taking It Outside: Who Represents America's Biggest Companies

    We researched the Fortune 100 to find out which law firms they used in 2008 in each of the following practice areas: corporate transactions, torts a

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  • February 9, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Directors' and Officers' Liability

    Corporate directors know that they must exercise their fiduciary duties to the company and its shareholders in good faith. They encounter the necessity of good faith conduct in the core protec

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  • July 8, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    New York Court of Appeals Roundup

    Last month the Court of Appeals ruled that an underwriter may owe a fiduciary duty to the issuer it is advising on an initial public offering, even it such duty is not founded in the terms of

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  • July 13, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    New York Court of Appeals Roundup

    Last month, the Court of Appeals addressed for the first time application of the "continuous representation" doctrine to accounting malpractice claims, and was guided, in part, by the "continu

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  • June 28, 2013 | Litigation Daily

    JPMorgan Beats Back Claims over Financial Advice

    JPMorgan Chase & Co. has defeated a resourceful bid by plaintiffs lawyers to circumvent the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act, the statute that made it harder to bring plaintiff-fr

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  • July 8, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    New York Court of Appeals Roundup

    The Court of Appeals has handed down a raft of decisions as the end of the current term approaches. We discuss three of these. In Holterman v. Holterman, the Court held that distributiv

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  • February 22, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

    N.J. Mergers & Acquisitions

    Reed Elsevier To Acquire ChoicePoint for $4B Publisher Reed Elsevier of London announced on Thursday it would pay $4 billion for ChoicePoint Inc. of Alpharetta, Ga., a da

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  • January 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Deals in Brief

    The market for initial public offerings on U.S. exchanges improved significantly in 2010. There were 150 U.S. IPOs that raised a total of $34.5 billion in the first 11 months of the year. Tha

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