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  • January 1, 2012 | Law.com Corporate

    A Woman of Mystery

    Who is "Daisy Wong"? In the breezy blog that she writes about Hong Kong's legal scene, she claims to be a young female associate at one of the city's top law firms. While some readers hav

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  • September 21, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    A Waste of Money?

    Last January, most firms in The Am Law 100 thought that they had closed the books on their annual associate bonus decisions when Sullivan & Cromwell suddenly upped the ante. On a Friday afterno

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  • September 22, 2008 | Legal Times

    Financial Crisis Creates Lots of Legal Work

    Another week of tumult in the financial markets is sending shock waves through Big Law. Some firms are scrambling to handle the lucrative bankruptcy and restructuring work emer

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  • March 15, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    IP Litigators: Worth Their Weight in Gold?

    As a senior patent litigation associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Jeremy Pitcock was wooed by firms offering partnerships, $75,000 signing bonuses and, on top of his partner paycheck, 5 pe

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  • March 27, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Bragging Rights

    Back in 2002, Jones Day was the first winner of The American Lawyer's biennial Litigation Department of the Year contest; beating out Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Kirkland & Elli

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  • October 25, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Alston & Bird, Simpson Thacher Advise on $2.1 Billion Medical Supply Deal

    Health care services company McKesson Corporation plans to expand its medical supply business through the proposed acquisition of a href="http://www.ps

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  • July 12, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Sullivan, Simpson Thacher Counsel $26 Billion Hilton Hotels Acquisition In its first major investment as a publicly traded company, The Blackstone Group LP has reached an agreem

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  • December 7, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Simpson, Sidley, Cleary Advise On $36 Billion Equity Office Deal In a record-breaking deal, Equity Office Properties Trust has agreed to be bought by Blackstone, Real Estate Par

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  • November 5, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    'New York Presence' Takes on New Meaning

    For more than a decade, law firms just about everywhere, in Pittsburgh and Providence as much as London and Los Angeles, have dreamt of New York. The dream was that any firm

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  • June 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Stretched Too Far

    These are hard times for most people who work at big law firms. For some, they are unbearable. The suicide in late April of Mark Levy, a 59-year-old lawyer at Kilpatrick Stockton who r

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