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The Work

The Score: DOJ Puts Brakes on Lance Armstrong Investigation

In a big victory for the cycling star and his peloton of lawyers from Keker & Van Nest, Patton Boggs, and Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles announced late Friday that it has closed a two-year criminal probe into the seven-time Tour de France winner and members of his former U.S. Postal Service team without bringing charges against the targets.

Posted by Brian Baxter | Comments

The Work

Energy Clients Continue to Keep Am Law Corporate Lawyers Busy

League tables for 2011 showed that M&A and transactional work continued to stay hot in the energy, mining, power, and utility sectors. The trend has continued into 2012 as lawyers from Covington, Cravath, Debevoise, Dykema, Gibson Dunn, Hogan Lovells, Miller Canfield, Simpson Thacher, Vinson & Elkins, and two Magic Circle firms are advising on the latest round of big deals in the natural resources industry.

Posted by Brian Baxter | Comments

The Score

The Am Law 100, the Early Numbers: Weil's Profits Jump 8 percent

After seeing revenues and profits slip in 2010, the firm enjoyed moderate growth in 2011, with all financial metrics ahead of where they were in 2009, according to The American Lawyer's reporting.

Posted by Scott Graham | Comments

The Talent

Dealmaker of the Week: Waajid Siddiqui of Hogan Lovells

Siddiqui led the Hogan Lovells team advising ExxonMobil in the sale of nearly all of its Japanese refining and marketing business to TonenGeneral Sekiyu for $3.9 billion, which also reduces the oil and gas giant's own stake in TonenGeneral.

Posted by Tom Huddleston Jr. | Comments

The Work

Oneida Suit Over Nixon Peabody Payments to NYS Government Lawyer to Proceed

Two Oneida Indian Nation employees can continue to press their case against a Rochester-area county attorney over allegedly improper payments he received via Nixon Peabody for state-funded work he and the firm did involving an upstate land dispute, a New York state judge has ruled.

Posted by Tom Huddleston Jr. | Comments

The Talent

The Careerist: Boston's Serial (Man) Killer, Comedy Central's Law Profs, and the Dayton Seduction

News rounding, including more juicy tidbits on that Edwards Wildman partnership lawsuit.

Posted by Vivia Chen | Comments