• May 12, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Unsuitable Targets

    As the nation's major law firms wrestle with how to avoid massive liability in the post-Enron world, they can take some comfort in the thought that the lawyers suing them are not entirel

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  • August 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    FOOTNOTES: Blood on The Tracks

    Hedge funds love secrecy. They don't want the world to know how much money they control, how they invest their trillions, or how much profit they pocket. As private entities, they're lar

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  • May 1, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    10 Firms Hit $2 Million Mark in Partner Profits

    The rich mostly got richer in 2005, as more of the top law firms charted in the AmLaw 100 survey pushed past the $1 million and $2 million marks in terms of profits per partner. A whop

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  • February 18, 2008 | National Law Journal

    The world's his court

    Name and title: Rick Buchanan, executive vice president and general counsel. Age: 44 Company profile: From 10 tall men running up and down the court,

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  • August 31, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

    People In The News

    New ProfessorsTemple University's Beasley School of Law has expanded its faculty with the addition of five full-time professors who will be joining the faculty beginning

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  • January 22, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    N.Y. Law Firms Sound Alarm About Power-of-Attorney Changes

    Dozens of prominent New York law firms are warning that a new state power-of-attorney statute designed to discourage fraud in elder law and estate planning could create "unnecessary confusion

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  • July 30, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Signs of Hope for Summer 2011?

    On-campus interviewing starts in two weeks at some schools, and early indications are that hiring at premier law firms will jump--in some cases by a lot--after plummeting this summe

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  • January 2, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Deals In Brief / IPOs

    The U.S. IPO market endured a downward spiral along with the rest of the equity markets for much of 2011. Three companies completed IPO s of $1.8 billion or more in the year's fir

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  • March 7, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

    For Flowserve GC, Alternative Billing's Day Has Come

    Flowserve Corp. supplies engineered and industrial pumps, seals and valves to customers in the power, oil, gas and chemical industries. It sells its products and offers aftermarket services to majo

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  • December 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Harboring Doubts

    At 3 p.m. on Friday, September 5, as the Washington, D.C., region was bracing itself for Tropical Storm Hanna, Fannie Mae general counsel Beth Wilkinson was meeting with the country's th

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