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December 02, 2005 |

Accolades

For outstanding pro bono business counsel given to nonprofit organizations, the Lawyers Alliance for New York presented its annual Cornerstone Awards to Proskauer Rose and Shearman & Sterling, nine individual attorneys and a Columbia Law School professor during a reception last month at the Colgate-Palmolive headquarters on Park Avenue.
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July 10, 2006 |

The Good Fight

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May 25, 2006 |

Newsbriefs

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July 25, 2005 |

Among the Giants

The trend toward ever-larger law firms was supposed to squeeze out the little guys -- and though it's true that many GCs are still more comfortable sending big-ticket work to national firms, more companies are realizing smaller shops have their own allure: lower billing rates, more attention, leaner staffing and, often, deeper expertise. So while top-tier boutiques still compete for plum assignments, full-service midsize firms and smaller specialty shops are also finding a spot among the giants.
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October 24, 2005 |

In re Congoleum Corp. et al.

In this prepackaged Chapter 11 reorganization, evidence of prepetition conduct by a law firm is relevant to a review of a debtor's application to retain the firm as special insurance counsel; the bankruptcy judge should not have granted the application where the firm had acted as counsel for the debtor in negotiating a pre-petition settlement with asbestos injury claimants represented by attorneys with whom the firm had been co-counsel in insurance matters for those same claimants.
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May 11, 2007 |

The Culture Gap

So many countries, so many rules for attorneys to follow. The way attorneys exchange business cards or conduct meetings can differ from country to country. Globalization of the legal world has led more lawyers to travel overseas, so grasping another country's customs can make or break a lawyer's deal. And though a number of large law firms are adding cross-cultural training of some sort, others say there are more important ways to serve clients, and they simply try to practice cultural sensitivity.
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August 28, 2006 |

Prominent Corporate Lawyers Didn't Stop Shady Options Deals

A review by The Recorder of SEC filings for 17 companies that had prominent Silicon Valley lawyers serving as directors has uncovered questionable option grant dates for executives at five. While the grant patterns aren't necessarily evidence of wrongdoing, they do suggest that suspect pay practices at startups may be more commonplace than previously thought. They also raise new questions about what some name-brand lawyers knew, or should have known, in their roles as directors.
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Boies Schiller Price Discrimination Claims Tossed in 19-Year-Old Pharma Case
Publication Date: 2012-08-17
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After nearly two decades of litigation against some of the biggest drug companies in the country, we're betting the last thing a group of individual pharmacies wanted to hear was that their claims were small potatoes.

LTN Innovation Awards
Publication Date: 2011-02-15
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The LTN Innovation Awards recognize the efforts of individuals, firms, and law departments that are pushing boundaries of legal technology. Recently, Monica Bay, editor-in-chief of LTN magazine, spoke with each of the awardees, as well as judge David Whelan.

Court Puts New York Litigation on Hold in NYSE M&A Battle
Publication Date: 2013-03-19
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It will be up to Delaware Chancellor Leo Strine Jr., not New York Supreme Court Justice Shirley Kornreich, to preside over the crucial next two months of arguments in shareholder litigation over NYSE Euronext's $8.2 billion sale to IntercontinentalExchange.

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