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  • November 18, 2004 |

    Kmart-Sears to Face FTC's Glare

    Two prominent U.S. senators demanded Wednesday that the Federal Trade Commission scrutinize Kmart Holding Corp.'s $11 billion acquisition of Sears, Roebuck and Co."This merger will imp

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  • August 30, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    D&O Insurance Not a Sure Thing

    Membership on a company's board of directors used to seem like a real plum -- little work, lavish pay, hobnobbing with the chief executive, flying around to fancy golf clubs in the corporate j

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  • May 3, 2004 | The Recorder

    Surprise, Surprise: Wilson Sonsini Lands Google IPO

    Local lawyers may be jealous that Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is representing Google Inc. in the mega IPO it filed papers for Thursday, but few are surprised.The firm has been

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  • February 7, 2002 | Law.com

    New York Court of Appeals Roundup

    Roy L. ReardonMary Elizabeth McGarryThe Court of Appeals declined to give full faith and credit to a sister state's with-prejudice dismissal, a rare result that drew a reaction from t

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  • August 28, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Dewey and LeBoeuf to Merge

    NEW YORK � Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae have agreed to merge, creating a firm of more than 1,300 lawyers.Expected to become effective by October, subject to

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  • April 14, 2004 | Alm

    Calif. Companies Switching to New York Firms

    In 1996, Yahoo! Inc. used Silicon Valley-based Venture Law Group to handle its sizzling-hot IPO. But this year, when Yahoo! bought France's bargain-hunting Web site Kelkoo for $575 million, it

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  • March 3, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Class Action Reaction

    For the plaintiff's bar, it could be d�j� vu all over again. The recently enacted Class Action Fairness Act aimed at curbing the plaintiffs' bar may not turn out as planned for its pr

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  • May 16, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Can the 'Jewish Law Firm' Success Story Be Duplicated?

    To many, perhaps most, observers of today's legal scene, a "white shoe" law firm is nothing more than a large, prominent firm serving a primarily corporate clientele. But those who entered t

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  • September 29, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    World Trade Center Insurance Case Heads for Trial

    The defeat suffered by World Trade Center leaseholder Larry Silverstein in a federal appeals court places his bid to collect almost $7 billion in insurance money for the destruction of the twi

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  • August 11, 1999 | New York Law Journal

    A Little Comedy Relief

    When Simpson Thacher &Bartlett held its annual outing in June, the firm's attorneys and summerassociates were joined at dinner by a distinguished-looking gentleman introducedas an international

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