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    Four Firms Take Off With United-Continental Merger

    By Brian Baxter | April 30, 2010

    Update, 5/2/2010 at 10 p.m. - The New York Times and other news sources reported Sunday afternoon that the a href="http://www

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    Latham, Gardere Grab Roles on BP's Gulf of Mexico Asset Sale

    By Brian Baxter | September 10, 2012

    London-based energy giant BP has agreed to sell some of its deepwater oil and gas assets in the Gulf of Mexico to Houston-based Plains Exploration and Production in a a href="http://www.la

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    Hot Properties

    By Amy Kolz | April 1, 2007

    Two minutes before the Super Bowl kickoff in February, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett's Brian Stadler noticed an e-mailed press release on his BlackBerry. It wasn't good news. His client The B

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    Strange bedfellows

    By Susan Beck | December 1, 2007

    Now that William Lerach is going to prison for funneling kickbacks to lead plaintiffs, and Melvyn Weiss and his firm are fighting similar criminal charges, there's some room at the top of the

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    Asia Deal Digest: October 20, 2011

    By Ben Lewis | October 20, 2011

    Japan Debevoise & Plimpton has advised Japanese trading company Mitsui & Co. Ltd. on a $6.75 billion loan to Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile (Co

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    Golden Parachute

    By Victor Li | October 1, 2012

    When Clint Eastwood wasn't yelling at an empty chair and debating an invisible President Barack Obama during his recent tour de force at the Republican National Convention in August, he was t

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    Friends in High Places

    By Susan Beck | March 28, 2012

    Call it reverse accountability. In the wake of the financial crisis, the Securities and Exchange Commission has often been criticized for failing to charge any top executives whe

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    Former Dewey Partner's Fraud Suit Moved from California to New York

    By Sara Randazzo | November 2, 2012

    A fraud suit launched in California state court by former Dewey & LeBoeuf partner Henry Bunsow against several former leaders of the defunct law firm is headed to New York, a judge ruled

  • The American Lawyer

    "Something Worthwhile"

    By Drew Combs | September 1, 2011

    In January 2008 Bet Tzedek Legal Services approached Manatt, Phelps & Phillips about creating a national network of volunteers to help Holocaust survivors fill out reparation applications. The

  • International

    Fukushima: The Legal Aftershocks

    By Ben Lewis | January 23, 2012

    To observers from more litigious societies, the fact that the catastrophe at Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant has yet to spawn a massive lawsuit has been well-nigh impossible to compr

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