• January 7, 2008 | Bloomberg

    N.Y. firm leads in deal advise despite slow year all around

    Sullivan & Cromwell, hired to advise on six of the 10 biggest deals in 2007, led all law firms in mergers and acquisitions for the fourth year in a row. The New York-based law fir

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  • April 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Equities: Back in the Running

    The highly anticipated "great recovery"of the American economy in 2010 turned into the humdrum recovery of 2010. Key indicators, such as unemployment, which stubbornly averaged 9.6

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  • January 15, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    Applying Two Laws Passed After 9/11 Attacks

    Pending the governor's action in filling the vacancy caused by Judge Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick's retirement from the Court of Appeals, the court—as can be seen if you visit its "live

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  • Gearren v. McGraw-Hill Cos., Inc., 10-792-cv (L)

    Publication Date: 2011-10-21
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Walker, Cabranes, and Straub, C. JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Appellants: Edwin J. Mills, Stull, Stull & Brody, New York, NY (Michael J., Klein, Stull, Stull & Brody, New, York, NY; Francis A. Bottini, Jr., Albert Y. Chang, Johnson Bottini, LLP, San Diego, CA, on the brief),
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellees: Myron D. Rumeld, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY (Russell L. Hirschhorn, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY; Howard Shapiro, Proskauer Rose LLP, New Orleans, LA; Floyd Abrams, Susan Buckley, Tammy L. Roy, Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, New York, NY, on the brief)

    Case Number: 10-792-cv (L)

    Cite as: Gearren v. McGraw-Hill Cos., Inc., 10-792-cv (L), NYLJ 1202519591199, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided October 19, 2011)Before: Walker, Cabranes, and Stra

  • January 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Global Cooling

    London: A Bitter Brew The outlook for the United Kingdom is as gloomy as that for any of the world's major economies. Bankruptcies are up--13 percent in the

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  • January 25, 2007 | The Recorder

    Quinn Matches Salary Hike, Others Hedge

    LOS ANGELES � After two days of watching New York, the first California-based firms made their moves Wednesday, charting two separate paths for associate compensation. Los A

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  • October 27, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Largest Mergers and Acquisitions

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  • April 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Suddenly, Last Summer

    Dealmaking in 2007 had a distinctly Jekyll-and-Hyde feel. Up to mid-summer, the deal environment was as crowded and frothy as the morning rush at a Times Square Starbucks. Private equity buyer

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  • June 3, 2004 | Alm

    Award Vacated for Lawyer's Misbehavior Reinstated

    A New York appeals court has reinstated a $16 million medical malpractice verdict that was set aside last year because of what a state judge called "reprehensible" conduct by the plaintiff's a

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  • March 7, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    Panel Explores Reasons for Lack of Women Commercial Litigators

    For the past year, the seven women on the bench of the Appellate Division, First Department, kept coming back to the question: Where are the woman litigators? "We noticed that there are

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