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  • February 6, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Secured Transactions

    The events of Sept. 11 brought into stark focus the need for secured lenders to assess their borrowers' insurance programs carefully. If collateral is destroyed, casualty insurance may be the only

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  • December 10, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

    What's Hot & Not in the Legal Profession

    As most regular readers of The Legal Intelligencer know, when Christmas lights and wreaths are added to the normal d�cor, and people pack into the malls like sardines, it can only mean

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  • December 7, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Morrison & Foerster Chairman Plans Move to Manhattan

    In a sign of the legal profession's growing convergence on New York, the chairman of Morrison & Foerster, San Francisco's largest law firm, has announced plans to relocate to Manhattan. Keit

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  • June 16, 2000 | National Law Journal

    The Antitrust Trial That's No Microsoft II

    Three long days have passed in the Manhattan courtroom of U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones, who is presiding over the trial of charges that Visa and MasterCard, the two largest credit card ne

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  • May 19, 2000 | Legal Times

    Merger Talks Take a Toll

    Like debutantes at the start of the social season, law firm managing partners are spending more and more time meeting with suitors and assessing their prospects.At some of the more eli

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  • October 8, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Hogan & Hartson in Talks to Merge With U.K.'s Lovells

    Hogan & Hartson's chairman, J. Warren Gorrell Jr., has never sounded like a fan of big law firm mergers. Three years ago

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  • January 23, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Madoff Investment Trustee Asks for More Time on Assets Irving H. Picard, the trustee over the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, has as

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  • December 4, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Sweatshop? Moi?

    New York associates who gripe about the long hours at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft might be surprised to find that the firm is luring laterals in London with promises that recruits will p

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  • December 6, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Huge IPO Case Hits Big Snag at 2nd Circuit

    A federal appeals court Tuesday vacated class certification in six key cases in the massive litigation over dot-com era initial public offerings -- a potentially devastating setback for plaintiffs

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  • October 1, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

    All Take and No Give

    Tensions are mounting at London law firms as banks press their outside legal counsel to provide more secondees. A number of partners at top ten London firms claim that banks are putting them under

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