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  • November 4, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Cravath Announces Reduced Bonuses For Junior Lawyers

    Cravath Swaine & Moore on Monday announced year-end associate bonuses that for the most junior lawyers were at best half of what they received last year. Second-year associates will rece

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  • July 25, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Milberg Named Co-Counsel in Options Case

    NEW YORK � A New York judge has given a boost to Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman by appointing the embattled law firm co-lead counsel in a consolidated suit over stock options backdating.

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  • August 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    BLACKROCK/BARCLAYS BlackRock, Inc., announced on June 11 that it had agreed to pay Barclays plc $13.5 billion in cash and st

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  • July 5, 2012 | The Recorder

    Vincent Maffeo

    If you wanted to build an impenetrable space shield capable of destroying flocks of incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles, who would you call? You might try Scientific Applications Int

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  • October 6, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Public Interest Projects

    A pledge of 5,000 hours of legal work on behalf of low-income children facing suspension from public schools and federal funding cuts for Head Start programs has been made by DLA Piper US

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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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  • May 3, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    In Defense of Reasons

    Arbitration bodies and the arbitrators who work for them have the same basic goal: to render efficient and enforceable decisions.But they can have quite different ways of doing it.

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  • May 10, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Immigration Proof Allowed; Dominatrix Mention Denied

    A jury that will decide the back wages claim of a Brazilian nanny will not be allowed to hear that her allegedly stingy boss is a dominatrix. Southern District Judge Laura Taylor Swain

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  • January 8, 2004 | The Recorder

    IPO Market Sags Again in 2003

    It doesn't take much these days to be a leading player among law firms that handle initial public offerings. During the Internet boom, a firm had to handle as many as 100 IPOs to be co

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  • August 2, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Partner Named to Federal Evidence Rules Committee Paul Shechtman, a partner with litigation boutique Stillman, Friedman & Shechtman, has been named one of two privat

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