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  • March 18, 2004 | The Recorder

    Shearman Helps Take Chinese Company Public in $1.8 Billion IPO

    Shearman & Sterling guided China's largest chip maker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., through an IPO that raised $1.8 billion last week.The share offer is reporte

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  • August 20, 2002 | The Recorder

    The Top 10

    Diversify, diversify, diversify.That's the lesson from the California 40, The Recorder's rundown of the 40 top-grossing California firms in 2001.Law firms whose pr

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  • October 10, 2008 | The Recorder

    Heller Falls

    Heller Ehrman, a 118-year-old fixture of the San Francisco law scene, announced its dissolution after a serie

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  • April 27, 2005 | The Recorder

    The Macromerger of Adobe and Macromedia

    M&A lawyers like their mergers large, and not just to increase their billable hours. Fenwick & West Managing Partner Gordon Davidson says they're simpler, especially when the c

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  • March 23, 2009 | Legal Times

    On the Move

    COOLEY GODWARD KRONISH Connie Bertram, 43, has joined Cooley Godward Kronish as partner in the firm’s employment and lab

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  • September 1, 2005 | The American Lawyer

    Keeping Score

    Think the same old firms make The A-List year after year? Not quite. This year four new firms made it onto our list of the best of the best in U.S. law firms. Two of those, Weil, Gotshal &

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  • July 16, 2007 | National Law Journal

    The Defense Hot List

    AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD There's an old saying: "Mess with the bull, and you'll get the horns." The horns for a bunch of plaintiffs' firms would be Akin Gump Strauss

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  • December 18, 2003 | The Recorder

    Death Drop

    When it comes to death sentences, the Alameda County district attorney's office had a rough year.Prosecutors pursued five capital cases but only got the death penalty in one. One

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  • June 3, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Law Firms Strike Alliances for Stimulus Work

    As law firms ramp up traditional lobbying and specialized practice groups in hopes of snagging economic stimulus funds for clients, a few have adopted a more esoteric strategy. Unlike tradi

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  • September 15, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Why do mergers die? It's like dating.

    It's a given that many law firm mergers flame out before they ever get off the ground, but reports of unsuccessful pairings have been particularly prominent in recent w

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