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August 19, 2013 |

Dorsey, Loeb & Loeb Caught Up in Stadium Games

A pair of Am Law 200 firms are in the middle of ongoing dramas involving multimillion-dollar plans to build new sports facilities, with Dorsey & Whitney serving as due diligence counsel on the construction of a new home for the NFL's Minnesota Vikings, and Loeb & Loeb tangled in a tug-of-war over where the NBA's Sacramento Kings will play.
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December 19, 2006 |

Edging up again

The National Law Journal asked the respondents to its 2006 survey of the nation's 250 largest law firms to provide a range of hourly billing rates for partners and associates. The firms that supplied this information-including some firms that are not in the NLJ 250-are listed below in alphabetical order. We also asked firms to provide average and median billing rates; several firms provided this information as well.
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September 13, 2012 |

Jones Day, Dykema Help Rust Belt Banks Seal Merger Deal

In the second major M&A transaction involving regional banks in less than a month, Akron-based FirstMerit Corporation said Thursday it has agreed to acquire Flint, Michigan-based Citizens Republic Bancorp Inc. in a stock-for-stock deal valued at just under $1 billion.
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September 11, 2000 |

Franchisees Win Landmark Internet Arbitration Ruling

In what may be the first ruling on whether a company may use its Web site to compete with its franchisees, an arbitration panel stopped Drug Emporium from selling to its franchisees' customers via the Internet. The arbitrators asked whether a virtual drug store is a drug store for purposes of a franchise agreement. The answer, apparently, is yes.
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August 25, 2000 |

Dual Control

John Fredericksen was well prepared for going in-house at Mesaba Airlines. He was a Navy pilot before he was a lawyer. After graduating from law school, he went straight to the Federal Aviation Administration, and from there to a trade association for regional airlines. In 1992 Fredericksen moved to Mesaba. "What I did really not expect was the real intensity of the day-to-day airline business," he says.
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April 27, 2000 |

Names Behind the News

Who's coming and going at firms across the country.
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October 16, 2012 |

July 2012 Bar Exam Results Announced

The Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners has announced the results of the bar examination given on July 24 and 25, 2012. Of the 2,077 applicants who took the exam, 1,606 passed (the overall pass rate 77%). The names of the successful applicants follow.
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September 20, 2002 |

GE's General Counsel Incubator

There's no such thing as a GC graduate school, but General Electric Co.'s law department comes close with at least four graduates now heading law departments at Fortune 1000 companies. What makes GE such an excellent GC incubator? The answer seems to be a combination of hiring, training, corporate culture and the leadership of renowned GC Benjamin Heineman Jr.
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November 17, 2006 |

Dorsey & Whitney Faces Malpractice Allegations Over Indian Casino Deal

A legal battle over a bungled finance deal for an Indian casino in upstate New York has Dorsey & Whitney scrambling to deflect a multimillion-dollar hit for legal malpractice. Dorsey & Whitney has already filed an appeal to a judgment of about $1 million from a decision in Minnesota bankruptcy court. At the same time, it's fighting a recommendation from the same bankruptcy court that calls for the firm to pay $2.8 million for its part in the failed casino deal.
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