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November 23, 2005 |

Is the Magic Circle Becoming the Tragic Circle?

From 1998 through 2001, U.K.-headquartered law firms had astonishingly high growth rates. The last three years have been less kind, and firms are trying to hold on to these gains by the skin of their teeth. The largest and most lucrative mergers and acquisitions deals in Europe are being cherry-picked by U.S. firms, and Europe has seen neither a rise in U.S.-style litigation nor the volume of corporate meltdowns handled by their American counterparts. Partha Bose analyzes who will survive -- and how.
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January 20, 1999 |

High Rollers

New York's Cravath, Swaine & Moore has a $35 million bet riding on the success of the AOL-Time Warner merger in a contingency-fee gamble that is unusually large and risky. As lead outside counsel to longtime client Time Warner in the largest merger in history, Cravath agreed to a fee structure that could net the firm $35 million if the merger closes. But if the deal falls apart, Cravath's lawyers could go home empty-handed.
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MBIA, Morgan Stanley Reach Accord in Multibillion-Dollar Credit Crisis Showdown
Publication Date: 2011-12-13
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After months of cutting quiet deals with banks in the high-stakes Manhattan state court litigation challenging its 2009 restructuring, MBIA Inc. reached a major settlement with Morgan Stanley on Tuesday. But for some of MBIA's Wall Street adversaries, the notion that MBIA had to rely on a loan to fund part of the settlement vindicates their claims that the insurer's restructuring was a fraud.

July 01, 2011 |

THE A-LIST 2011 Upheaval in the Ranks

None of the firms on last year's A-List returned to the same spot this year. Whether it was a result of a firm's spike in its associate satisfaction score, or a drop in its revenue per lawyer, the 2011 A-List was all about volatility.
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Matter of OxyContin II, 700000/07
Publication Date: 2010-09-27
Practice Area: Products Liability
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Court: Appellate Division, Second Department
Judge: Before: Prudenti, P.J., Fisher, Roman, Sgroi, JJ.
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For plaintiff: Chadbourne & Parke LLP, New York, N.Y. (Donald I. Strauber, Mary T. Yelenick, Phoebe A. Wilkinson, and Alexandra A. Nellos of counsel), and Harold Siegel, Staten Island, N.Y., for appellants (one brief filed).
For defendant: Sanders Viener Grossman, LLC, Mineola, N.Y. (Douglas H. Sanders, Melissa C. Ingrassia, Aybike Donuk, and Michael Ihrig of counsel), for respondents.
Case number: 700000/07

Cite as: Matter of OxyContin II, 700000/07, NYLJ 1202472518491, at *1 (App. Div. 2nd, Decided September 21, 2010)Before: Prudenti, P.J., Fisher, Roman, Sgroi, J

Federal Circuit Vacates $63 Million Verdict Against Cisco
Publication Date: 2013-06-25
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Cisco has gotten a reprieve on a verdict in a trial that came about because one of its lawyers made allegedly anti-Semitic remarks in an earlier trial. On Tuesday, the Federal Circuit panel vacated the verdict, which came in an infringement suit brought by a small patent holding company named Commil.

January 10, 2005 |

N.J. Dealmaking Skyrockets in '04 But Local Firms Stay Grounded

The value of New Jersey mergers and acquisitions in 2004 more than doubled over the year before, courtesy of some high-ticket transactions, but little of the work trickled down to local lawyers.
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May 01, 2010 |

Big Deals

AIG Asset Sales; Coca-Cola/Coca-Cola Enterprises; Merck/Millipore
11 minute read
May 04, 2000 |

10 Survival Tips For First-Year Associates

Fresh out of school, armed with a law degree and a passing grade on the bar exam, first year associates don't have a clue when it comes to practicing law. These 10 survival tips come straight from the source: junior partners and senior associates, all of whom started their practice in top-notch law firms.
5 minute read
February 07, 2007 |

Associates React to Jones Day and Weil Gotshal Salary Raises

Jones Day and Weil, Gotshal & Manges have joined the list of law firms paying California first-year associates $160,000 rather than the $145,000 embraced by most homegrown firms. And now California's associate messageboards are crammed with anonymous young lawyers carping about their firms' failure to match the higher New York scale. But many associates accept the idea that New York and California are distinct markets -- and some would like to keep it that way.
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