• August 10, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Hog Mild

    It's 9 a.m. on Mother's Day, and I'm out riding bitch on a Harley with a 52-year-old Davis Polk & Wardwell partner named Bob Heckart.With Heckart goosing the throttle of his Harley

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  • August 25, 2009 | Daily Business Review

    Lawyers rate how firms that downsize deliver bad news

    On a Monday morning in early March, two associates sat in an East Coast office of Morgan Lewis & Bockius, discussing a firm-wide e-mail from chairman Francis Milone. It had warned that becaus

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  • June 11, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Pro Se Robbery Defendant Denied His Right to Counsel

    ALBANY - A robbery defendant who fired his attorney and represented himself was denied his right to counsel because the trial judge failed to undertake the "searching inquiry" required before an ac

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  • November 30, 2001 | New York Law Journal

    Sheraton Corp. Claims Inexperienced Associate Cost It $50.1 Million

    To serve as lead trial counsel in a major case for an important client is the dream of all ambitious big-firm litigation associates. If you ask the Sheraton Corporation, it is the client's

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  • October 2, 2008 | Law.com

    THE GLOBAL 100 2008

    The Glob : Most Lawyers Purchase the Electronic Glob

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  • March 17, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Enron Probe Examines Firms' Roles

    The Enron examiner is back. And a few law firms can't be too happy about it. R. Neal Batson, the court-appointed examiner investigating the exotic financing schemes that contributed to Enron Corp.'s b

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  • August 26, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Pataki to Soon Announce Appellate Division Picks Governor George E. Pataki is soon expected to announce his choices for four Appellate Division vacancies � two each in th

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  • March 12, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    In-House: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young U.S

    NAME AND TITLE: David J. Zarfes, executive vice president and general counsel.AGE: 42ORGANIZATION: Paris-based Cap Gemini Ernst & Young is the third-la

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  • July 17, 2006 |

    EU Rescinds Sony-BMG Merger

    For the first time ever, a European appeals court on Thursday annulled a European Commission deal approval, saying regulators should never have cleared the music merger between Sony Corp. and Berte

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  • February 20, 2003 | The Recorder

    Insuring Their Future

    Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold's San Francisco office seems to scream "old-school law firm" with its dark wood paneling and thick carpeting.Veteran partners have computers, of co

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