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  • December 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    A Capital Concept

    It's just the sort of news that capital markets lawyers were waiting for: During the first half of 2011, companies raised $26 billion in initial public offerings. That total is nearly

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  • April 1, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

    Viva La Revolution?

    In Late January, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett announced that it was hiking its first-year associate pay to $160,000. Since then, the legal press has noted that an increasing number of firms

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  • January 25, 2007 | Legal Times

    O�Melveny Raises First-Year Salaries, Hogan Follows Suit

    Following news that O'Melveny & Myers was upping its first-year associate pay to $145,000 earlier today, Hogan & Hartson almost immediately announced it was matching that number.

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  • March 29, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Simpson Thacher, Wilson Sonsini Handle LexisNexis' Law360 Buy Legal research company LexisNexis announced that it will acquire Portfolio Media, the parent of legal

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  • October 14, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Determining Indemnifiable Conduct

    Corporate advancement disputes often arise shortly after current management has concluded that the official seeking corporate funds for legal expenses has acted disloyally or even deliberately harm

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  • June 14, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Weil, Skadden, Ropes, Cahill Counsel $8.2 Billion Avaya Acquisition Avaya Inc., a Basking Ridge, N.J.-based supplier of telecommunications equipment, has been acquired by Calif

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  • September 10, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Civil Frauds Unit Gets New Chief

    A veteran federal and state prosecutor of health care and other frauds has been named as the new head of the civil frauds unit in the office of Southern District U.S. Attorney Preet S. Bharara.

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  • May 18, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    Improper Solicitation, Post-Release Supervision, Stabilized Rent Increases

    This month we discuss a decision arising out of the sale of a business in which the Court of Appeals provided some guidance on what constitutes improper solicitation by the seller of its former cli

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  • May 20, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    New York Court of Appeals Roundup

    Juries were the subject of two of the cases that we discuss this month. In one case, the Court of Appeals held that the trial court's refusal to poll a civil jury upon request is never h

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  • October 13, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Lawsuits by Housing Agency Removed to Southern District

    One of the more opaque moves by the Federal Housing Finance Agency when it sued 18 of the world's largest financial institutions was filing 13 of the cases in New York federal court, four in New Yo

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