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  • February 23, 2006 | The Recorder

    Securities Class Actions Dip, but It May Not Be Trend

    A dip in the number of securities fraud class actions filed between 2004 and 2005 has had the media buzzing over the reasons and implications. According to findings by Stanford University an

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  • April 23, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    State Reaches Tentative Contract With Some Court Workers The Unified Court System and the union representing about 5,200 attorneys, court reporters, officers and staffers reache

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  • April 9, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    GE Shakes Up Its Outside Counsel Roster

    Just two years after some 200 law firms endured the ultimate test of strength and patience for a shot at one of the 140 coveted preferred-provider positions at General Electric Co., the large

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  • July 23, 2001 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Teacher's Libel Suit Rejected in Aftermath of 'Taxman' Race Case

    A decade ago, black Piscataway, N.J., schoolteacher Debra Williams endured a dubious national renown as the beneficiary of an affirmative action policy that sacrificed an equally qualified white teach

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  • December 29, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Public Interest Projects

    In an unusual application before the Department of Homeland Security, a pro bono team from Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel won political asylum this month for a woman from Ivory Coa

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  • November 8, 2002 | The Recorder

    Plenty of Possibilities for Replacing Pitt

    Harvey Pitt had a tough run as SEC chief. From the very first day of his appointment, his critics called him a walking conflict of interest -- a high-powered corporate lawyer regulating the sa

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  • January 13, 2003 | Legal Times

    Corporate-Style Risks

    Many law firms have embraced a more businesslike approach to management. Corporate-style governance is viewed as having many benefits over the traditional, consensus-driven decision-making pro

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  • December 5, 2002 | The Recorder

    The New Refrain at Brobeck? Accentuate the Positive

    San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, wracked by a year of partner defections and continued decline in corporate work, is attempting to take the offensive to keep remaining part

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  • December 5, 2001 | The American Lawyer

    Up Periscope

    Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson is not yet in the big leagues of antitrust firms. But it's at least in the game now, as witnessed by its recent win against General Dynamics Corpor

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  • October 22, 2002 | Corporate Counsel

    Abe Lincoln Slept Here profile First Do No Harm

    Celebrity encounters have been disappointingly few for Scott Packman since he went to work for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. as senior vice president and deputy GC this summer. But the atto

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