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  • August 23, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Investors' Claims Proceed Against Madoff Feeder Fund Southern District Judge Victor Marrero ruled last week that a purported class of investors who lost billions in fund

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  • December 29, 2008 | Legal Times

    Burning Down the House

    It’s official: 2008 is the year the Big Law boom came to a screeching halt. Deal flow is dead, hundreds of lawyers and staff were pink-slipped, and some major Am

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  • November 23, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Spitzer Expected to Renominate Ciparick to Court of Appeals Governor Eliot Spitzer will announce on Monday his renomination of Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick as an associate judge of

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  • July 19, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Australian Firms Grab Lead Roles on Mining Deal

    Australia is increasingly the place to be for large international and Am Law 200 law firms seeking new venues for deal work. On Monday, China's Hanlong Mining Investment put forth a a class

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  • March 1, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Big Suits

    Correction: In the original online and print versions of this story, the section related to the Fairfax Financial v. S.A.C. Capital Management, et al. litig included incorrect inform

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  • December 28, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    The Power of One

    Big Law is not known as a welcoming place for women partners. But a close look at the latest numbers reveals that women are actually making g mp;#151;sometimes substantial g

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  • May 9, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Firm Wins Deferred-Payment Case

    NEW YORK � The New York Court of Appeals has ruled that law firm Fish & Neave acted properly when it voted to defer compensation due to partners leaving the firm, including former managing

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  • January 31, 2002 | The American Lawyer

    How Bad Is It?

    The December collections frenzy is now a memory. If the check was really in the mail, it's arrived and been counted. Firms have paid last year's bills, written their year-end bonus checks (if

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  • April 16, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    $84 Million and Counting for Fees, Expenses in Record-Setting Bankruptcy

    The law firms working on various pieces in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy have begun submitting their fee applications, and the early returns are fittingly big for the largest and most c

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  • November 30, 2007 | The Recorder

    All's Too Quiet on Bonus Front

    LOS ANGELES � Want to kill a conversation with a California law firm leader? Talk about bonuses. Weeks after top New York firms started announcing lavish specia

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