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  • August 28, 2007 | Alm

    Dewey, LeBoeuf Announce Plans to Merge

    Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae have agreed to merge, creating a firm of over 1,300 lawyers. Expected to become effective by October, subject to partner approval,

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  • January 16, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    Court Sides With Inmate in Disability Case

    In its first major federalism ruling since John Roberts Jr. became chief justice, the Supreme Court on Jan. 10 unanimo

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  • January 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    An Ugly End

    A look inside the death of a firm isn't pretty, a dictum never more true than at Heller Ehrman, where the last stages were marked by spin from firm leaders that may hav

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  • March 26, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Law Firm Partnership Law

    Springtime is the time of year when law firm partners often take flight and "spring" for a new home. Of course, it's not merely the nice weather that urges these reluctant creatures to ch

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  • March 2, 2000 | Alm

    U of Chicago Defends Its New First-Year Requirements

    Administrators at the University of Chicago Law School found out recently how sensitive some faculty, students and alumni can be to even minor changes in the prominent school's vaunted curriculum.

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  • July 25, 2005 | Legal Times

    Roberts Not a Sore Loser at the Supreme Court

    The 1994 Supreme Court decision Digital Equipment Corp. v. Desktop Direct is complex, obscure and easily forgotten.But stealthlike, it has entered the growing body of John Rober

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  • May 15, 2000 | Legal Times

    The Price of Admission

    Siobhan RothEighteen years after he took the California bar exam, Cooley Godward partner Daniel Westerman spent three weeks last summer locked in a hotel room with prep tapes studying

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  • February 7, 2002 | Law.com

    Lawyers Who Got the Last Laugh

    INA L. KAUFMAN felt something was missing - a little something to spice up her life, something that might even help her on the job at the law firm Paltrowitz & Kaufman. "So I started goi

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  • January 5, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    U.S. Court Seeks Clarification on Refco Trustee's Right to Sue

    The New York Court of Appeals has been asked to clarify the law on when the misconduct of corporate insiders can be imputed to the corporation in suits by a bankruptcy trustee against third parties

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  • February 22, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Infomercial Star Fined After E-Mail Blitz Targeted Judge

    Some things you learn the hard way. Ask infomercial star Kevin Trudeau, who tried to get off the hook in a civil contempt proceeding by exhorting supporters to e-mail the court and explain "ho

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