• November 29, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Vioxx Litigation Goes Federal

    Fresh from a win in New Jersey state court, Merck & Co. returns to Texas this week for the first federal trial of a Vioxx case, just 45 miles north of where a Texas state court jury handed

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  • February 1, 2001 | The Recorder

    Leases Key as Dot-Coms Expire

    With many dot-coms and technology businesses in distress, the San Francisco Bay Area's bankruptcy lawyers are seeing the busiest workloads in years.But with flailing click-and-mo

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  • July 24, 2003 | The Recorder

    Tech's Lost Luster Hurts Firms' Prestige

    Technology is still in the doghouse, at least among law firm associates who were asked to name the most prestigious law firms in the United States and Europe.The four Silicon Valley-ba

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  • May 20, 1999 | Law News Network

    Rising: The Price of (Donovan) Leisure Suits

    A dispute over a retirement agreement has prompted a former managing parter at New York's now-defunct Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine to sue 30 of his former partners. Gordon Osmond, a onetime

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  • January 8, 2013 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Leading M&A Transactions — Target or Acquirer Based in N.J. — 2012

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  • May 26, 2004 | Legal Times

    Selling Law Firms on the S-Word

    Two years ago, Shaw Pittman decided to go where few law firms dare to venture -- the world of professional sales.It hired Jos� Cunningham. He wasn't a lawyer. He was a salesman. And a

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  • September 12, 2003 | The Recorder

    Jury Rejects Bias Suit by Muslim Executive

    A federal jury returned a defense verdict Thursday in a wrongful termination suit filed by a Lebanese-American executive who said his bosses pressured him to quit in the wake of the Sept. 11 t

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  • October 11, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Albany Muslims Convicted After Terror Sting Two Muslim men arrested in a terror-related sting were convicted yesterday of federal money laundering charges. Yassin Aref, imam at

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  • December 7, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Morrison & Foerster Chairman Plans Move to Manhattan

    In a sign of the legal profession's growing convergence on New York, the chairman of Morrison & Foerster, San Francisco's largest law firm, has announced plans to relocate to Manhattan. Keit

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  • February 9, 2004 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    SAN FRANCISCOMichael Brill Newman has joined Holland & Knight as a partner focusing on alcohol beverage law. Newman joins the firm from Buchman & O'Brien,

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