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January 23, 2006 |

N.J. Firms Make Biggest Dent Yet in Major Merger and Acquisition Work

New Jersey firms advised corporations in five of the state's top 65 public transactions in 2005 -- the best showing by home-grown practices in years and a salute to the power of long-term relationships in getting securities work. Otherwise, the list of lawyers in the state's $50.9 billion market of mergers and acquisitions for the past year looks familiar: a sea of national firms dotted by the occasional local operation.
5 minute read
May 03, 1999 |

FEC Tackles Web Politics

The 2000 presidential campaign is already engaged, but the Federal Elections Commission is months away from completing regulations to govern an exploding new area of political fund raising -- cyberspace. At the urging of Commissioner David Mason, the FEC voted unanimously on April 21 to open an official inquiry into political activities on the Internet that may require regulation and to study whether existing rules require a second look.
6 minute read
October 06, 2000 |

Owens Corning Files Chapter 11

Inspector Clouseau couldn't nab the Pink Panther, but $5 billion to settle asbestos claims chased his benefactor, Owens Corning, into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Battered by limited access to debt and equity markets and sagging, cyclical demand for building materials, the Toledo, Ohio-based company found growing demands on cash flow due to the asbestos-related costs were too much.
4 minute read
January 21, 2004 |

Real Estate Marketplace

Manhattan real estate lawyers are keeping busy. Check out which attorneys made our weekly scorecard on the landlord-tenant mating dance.
2 minute read
October 01, 2002 |

Lessons From 10 Firms

They're working a bit less and enjoying it a bit more. They're more anxious, deeper in debt, and, in their own words, thankful to be so well employed. Taken as a whole, responses to The American Lawyer's annual survey of midlevel associates show overwhelming agreement about what they like and don't like about their jobs. In a sea of superlatives, some firms singled themselves out. Here's how they did it.
15 minute read
October 11, 1999 |

The Inner View on Campus Interviews

Law students may still be a bit clumsy in the ways of the legal world, but their unique perspective on the annual recruiting dance winding down on campuses across Southern California can be instructive. Law students and career counselors taking part in the interview process at two schools recently made it clear that though firms have been interviewing as long as there have been law schools, everyone involved can still learn a thing or two.
5 minute read
March 19, 2007 |

Ala. Insurance Document Lawsuit Affects Miss. Katrina Settlement Negotiations

An unusual contract case in Alabama federal court could be affecting a possible global settlement of Hurricane Katrina insurance claims in Mississippi. Insurance adjuster E.A. Renfroe, a State Farm contractor, sued two former employees, seeking the return of 15,000 documents the adjusters took without permission. Court documents indicate that Richard Scruggs, plaintiffs class counsel in the Mississippi negotiations with State Farm, has been pressuring State Farm to get Renfroe to drop the Alabama suit.
2 minute read
December 21, 2006 |

For a High Court Battle, Two Words: Get Carter

When eBay needed a Supreme Court advocate who could persuade the justices to adopt its view of a patent infringement challenge, one name appeared on every recommendations list: Carter G. Phillips of Sidley Austin. Phillips won the eBay challenge in May, one of an extraordinary six arguments before the high court last term. Although he didn't win them all, the number of cases, the range of law and the complexity of issues reflect his stature within the small, but highly skilled, Supreme Court bar.
3 minute read

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