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  • August 24, 2004 | The Recorder

    Making It in the Big Apple

    San Francisco Bay Area law firms have tried just about everything to make it in New York."You don't compete on a national stage unless you compete in New York, and clients know that,"

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  • May 19, 2006 |

    First Bill, Now Steve

    Richard Lang just cashed a $60 million check from Microsoft Corp., yet he is holed up in a tiny cubicle in a cramped Santa Rosa, Calif., office composing a mammoth list of his enemies. It's unexpec

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  • June 21, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

    GSC Partners CDO Fund et al v. Washington et al

    U.S. Third Circuit No. 03-2347; Third Circuit; opinion by Cudahy, U.S.C.J.; filed May 17, 2004. Before Judges Roth, McKee and Cudahy, Circuit Judge, sitting by designation. On

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  • November 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    What's Behind the Drop in Corporate Fraud Indictments?

    In his summer of discontent, there were few days of undiluted glory for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and July 17 was no exception. Just six weeks before he resigned, Gonzales stood before hun

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  • May 1, 1999 | The American Lawyer

    The Handbag Wars

    A tense, court-imposed cease-fire seemed to be holding between Gucci Group N.V. and LVMH Mo't Hennessy Louis Vuitton S.A. in mid-March. After LVMH, the French luxury goods house, had snatched up 34

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  • September 1, 2005 | The Recorder

    Mmmmmmm, Chocolate

    Imagine landing Willy Wonka as a client.While Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe attorneys didn't see any Oompa Loompas or glide down a chocolate river, they had fun representin

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  • October 24, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Accolades

    Two hundred lawyers representing 40 private firms and corporate law offices were honored earlier this month by MFY Legal Services for their volunteer counsel to indigent

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  • February 1, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Akin Gump, Goodwin Procter Advise $6.6 Billion Hotel Purchase In a deal totaling $6.6 billion, including debt, Morgan Stanley Real Estate and Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc. hav

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  • May 24, 1999 | New York Law Journal

    Coudert Joins Forces with Australian Firm

    Coudert Brothers will merge with the 70-lawyer Australian firm Norton Smith & Co., in part to benefit from that firm's stronghold in Asia. While British and American law firms have taken

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  • September 28, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Supreme Advocates

    June 26 began auspiciously for Carter Phillips, with word of a victory in a case that he had argued before the U.S. Supreme Court -- his third win of the term. And then the day got better.

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