• February 13, 2009 | The Recorder

    800 Law Firm Jobs Lost in One Day

    Almost 800 associates and legal staff nationwide returned home jobless Thursday after eight firms conducted mass layoffs, citing an unprecedented downturn in demand. And the bloodlet

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  • January 21, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Sweetened Offer From Kraft Persuades Chocolate Maker to Back Acquisition British chocolate maker Cadbury plc has dropped its opposition to acquisition by the U.S. conglo

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  • June 29, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    LATERALS ARNSTEIN & LEHR (Chicago): Dale S. Bergman joins the firm's corporate securities and business organizations and transactions

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  • November 30, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Thacher Proffitt warns of looming layoffs

    Thacher Proffitt & Wood this week informed about 50 associates that their futures at the firm were uncertain because of the collapse of the market for mortgage-backed securities, an area

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  • November 30, 2007 | International Edition

    Private Client Work Goes Global

    It would appear that the perks associated with advising the world's super-rich do not extend to regular trips on private jets. That, at least, was the impression gleaned from an informal survey of

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  • January 1, 2011 | Focus Europe

    Happily Single?

    It was a grim morning in November 2008 when Andrey Goltsblat, managing partner of the leading Russian law firm Pepeliaev Goltsblat & Partners, set out for one of the most difficult meetings of

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  • January 17, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Urge to Merge Continues: McKenna Long, Herbert Smith Eye New Nuptials

    On the heels of reports earlier this month that the surge in law firm mergers that marked 2011 would con

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  • November 24, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Ex-Partner May Pursue Retirement Pay Claims

    A former Rogers & Wells partner who was asked to resign over a series of client overcharges may be entitled to lifetime retirement benefits, a Manhattan appellate court has ruled.

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  • August 4, 2003 | Legal Times

    Creating Second Acts in Legal Careers

    When, at age 57, Warren Kaplan was forced to decide his future as a lawyer, his initial reaction was to join another firm or start his own.It was 1993, and his firm, D.C.'s Melro

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  • September 22, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Simpson Thacher Advises on Breakup of Tyco Into Three Public Companies Tyco International will break itself into three publicly-traded companies in an e

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