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  • December 19, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Dreier Receiver Seeks Necessary Payments With an emergency hearing in Dreier LLP's bankruptcy set for this afternoon, attorneys yesterday a

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  • August 14, 2008 | The Recorder

    Checkbooks Come Out for Prop 8 Fight

    The multimillion-dollar fight over California's Proposition 8 heated up this week, with both sides reporting huge contribution totals fueled by wealthy individual donors, labor and corporate groups

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  • February 1, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

    Top Job

    RICH BAER, the former chief legal officer of UnitedHealth Group, has jumped to Liberty Interactive Corporation, where he is now general counsel, replacing C

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  • September 25, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Coudert Files for Bankruptcy Protection

    Defunct law firm Coudert Brothers has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In a petition filed Friday in Southern District of New York Bankruptcy Court, the firm, which broke up last

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  • November 15, 1999 | The Recorder

    Competitors Riled by Brobeck Ads

    In the world of big law firms, sometimes the battle for recognition resembles guerrilla warfare. Take, for instance, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and its advertising campaign on Vault.co

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  • November 8, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    A Jury Without Peer

    John Tom kept waiting for a smoking gun. A 63-year-old real estate agent and Army veteran, Tom had been sitting in a federal jury box in Alexandria, Va., for more than two months, listening to

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  • March 15, 2002 | The Recorder

    9th Circuit Sets Higher Hurdle in Accounting Fraud Suits

    Allegations of accounting mischief are subject to the same high pleading standards applied to other securities fraud cases, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday.In

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  • September 12, 2003 | The Recorder

    Corrections

    William Bedsworth's July 6 column about student lawsuits should have placed Sissonville High School in West Virginia,

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  • December 22, 2009 | National Law Journal

    For Associates, a Decade of Thrills and Chills

    It was a wild ride for associates at big law firms during the first decade of the century. In the end, most everyone was a little queasy from the experience. Between 2000 and 2009, law firms

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  • October 5, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    State Statute Does Not Cover Securities Deception, U.S. Judge Concludes

    New York state's consumer fraud statute does not allow a claim for allegedly deceptive sales of securities, a federal judge has determined. Section 11a of the federal Securities Act governs

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