• January 26, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Bailout triggers exec pay worries

    Attorneys specializing in executive compensation are hearing from banking and finance executives forced to sign waivers of any right to challenge reductions in pay or benefits required when b

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  • November 17, 2003 | The Recorder

    On The Move

    San FranciscoTownsend and Townsend and Crew has added 11 associates and a technical adviser.Joining the San Francisco office are Leonard Augustine Jr/b

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  • June 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    A Chasm With Consequences

    Let's start with one fact: There is now a $1.1 million gap between the average profits per partner of the top 23 firms on The Am Law 200, as ranked by PPP, and the average of the next

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  • August 1, 2012 | International Edition

    LG Scores Role in Probe of Libor Rigging Scandal

    LG has picked up a lead role advising the British Bankers Association on an independent investigation into the Libor rigging scandal. The firm, which is fielding a team led by employme

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  • March 3, 2000 | New York Law Journal

    Lawyer Teaches from Kingston to Manhattan

    It was a daunting situation by almost anyone's standards. Just months removed from his college graduation in 1984, Jay Sullivan found himself living in Jamaica and playing a difficult dual r

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  • June 12, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Skadden, DLA Help Pfizer With Plans for Animal Health Unit

    Pfizer Inc. is shedding yet another nonpharmaceutical asset with its June 7 announcement that it plans to spin off its animal health business into a separate company to be called Zoeti

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  • January 4, 2005 | The Recorder

    News Briefs

    DECHERT GRABS 65 FROM SWIDLER'S N.Y. OFFICENEW YORK -- Dechert has recruited 65 lawyers from Washington, D.C.'s Swidler Berlin Shereff & Friedman, effectively acquiring its

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  • January 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Spain

    Not long ago, you could find people in Spain sporting blue bracelets similar to the yellow Lance Armstrong model with the words, "Endesa-put your heart into it." Bracelet wearers-mostly employ

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  • July 2, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    SIPC Reserves $231 Million For Victims of Madoff The court-appointed trustee charged with liquidating Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities announced yest

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  • May 3, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    VOLS Firms Meet Pro Bono 2012 Pledge

    The results of Volunteers of Legal Service's survey of pro bono efforts in rk City in 2012 are in. Forty-two law firms that take the VOLS Pro Bono Pledge reported that lawyers in their

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