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  • June 21, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    Microsoft / Skype Silver Lake Partners, L.P., is about to make a huge profit on the largest investment it's ever made. The private equity shop agreed on May 1

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  • January 19, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

    When Your Patent Work Goes to India

    Martin Shively directs the worldwide IP operations of Microsoft Corp. But he doesn’t commute to the company’s campus in Redmond, Wash., every day. The associate GC work

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  • April 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Dealmakers of the Year

    You won't find our dealmakers of the year wearing suspenders and shoulder pads, but otherwise, you'd be forgiven for thinking you'd drifted back to the eighties. Not since the buyout of RJR N

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  • January 13, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Asia Watch

    Hong Kong IPO Boon Propels Move Toward 'One-Stop' Firms Shearman & Sterling's announcement last week that it has acquired a Hong Kong law practice again is spotlighting

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  • February 23, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    Backing away from the cliff

    WHEN A HIGHLY RESPECTED law firm managing partner tells the press, "we're all lemmings running headlong toward the cliff," every lawyer should pay close attention. Something important is goin

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  • December 29, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Firms retain interest in expanding to Korea

    The death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il threatens instability in the region just when many U.S. law firms are expressing interest in opening offices in South Korea. Meanwhile, immigratio

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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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  • December 15, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    New York Court of Appeals Roundup

    This month we discuss three recent decisions of the Court of Appeals. In Nicolson v. Scoppetta, the Court rejected a presumption of child neglect and removal from the home whenever a pa

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  • January 21, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Law Firms Raise $2 Million in Aid

    Major financial contributions from New York law firms to the international tsunami relief effort continue to pour in, now pushing the total support raised to $2 million. Newly announce

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  • April 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Corporate Scorecard 2010 Corporate Debt: Isn't It Romantic?

    Wall Street fell back in love with debt last year—head over heels. High-yield offerings rose more than 200 percent in 2009, to 381, just a year after they plummeted 67 perc

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