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  • June 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Nudge From the Judge

    At a recent hearing, class action king Melvyn Weiss was thrown a few fast pitches-and he whiffed. The scene was U.S. district court judge Shira Scheindlin's courtroom in Manhattan; the issue w

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  • January 16, 2001 | The American Lawyer

    France

    A flurry of aggressive French dealmaking in the last two years has allowed several U.S. and U.K. firms to make inroads into the country's legal market. But even as these outsiders aggressively

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  • March 15, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    ESPN Minimizes Losses In Dish Network Suit

    Dish Network LLC f/k/a Echostar Satellite LLC v. ESPN, Inc. and ESPN Classic Inc.: Dish Network sought $152 million from Bristol-based ESPN in a dispute alleging that the sports

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  • September 7, 2007 | International Edition

    Google In-House Lawyers Find Unusual Perks, Groundbreaking Work

    Launched from a garage by two students, Google has grown to become the Internet's biggest success story. Legal Week's Michelle Madsen talks to European general counsel Nigel Jones about t

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  • March 17, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Biotech Firm Wins Breach of Duty Motion

    Biosynexus, a biopharmaceutical company that has developed a technology that appears to prevent staph infections, has successfully moved to enjoin its joint-venture partner from transferring i

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  • July 8, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    WorldCom Pact Approved

    The largest penalty ever assessed against a U.S. company by the Securities and Exchange Commission received the green light on Monday, as U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the Southern Dist

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  • September 11, 2000 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    Seven-Year-Old MCA Shareholder Settlement Upheld

    Seven years after being approved by a Delaware Chancery Court judge, a settlement of shareholder suits against Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. over its $6.1 billion purchase of MCA Corp. ha

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  • March 30, 2006 | The Recorder

    Davis Lawyer Impressed with SEC Rules

    Corporate attorney Bruce Dallas, a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell, got a chance recently to try the revamped corporate securities rules introduced by the Securities and Exc

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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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  • June 4, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Lawyer: Martha Stewart Could Face Criminal ChargesMartha Stewart faces possible criminal charges, her company said yesterday, in an insider trading scandal that has tainted her

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