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August 01, 1999 |

The New World Order

The inside story of what it took to put Clifford Chance and Rogers & Wells together: how major compensation differences were papered over, why the merged firm will be a formidable competitor, and what must happen now for it to score big.
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May 04, 2000 |

Living Large In a Small NY Firm

The stampede of young lawyers into New York's largest firms is perhaps explained by the almost irresistible salaries and prestige offered by the firms. But for lawyers who might want to take a different path, there are some 450 firms in the city with between 10 and 50 attorneys that are worth a look. Many are stocked with big-firm refugees, still handling the type of sophisticated cases and transactions they cut their teeth on at brand-name firms.
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Canadian Firm's Ties to Milberg Figure in Fight for Sino-Forest Lead Counsel Role
Publication Date: 2012-01-10
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Ties to U.S. plaintiffs firms may be valuable to Canadian firms pressing securities class action claims north of the border, but such relationships may also carry risks. In a decision appointing firms to lead a shareholder class action against Sino-Forest Corp., a judge in Ontario explored whether the Toronto firm Kim Orr should be disqualified from the bidding because of the firm's prominent ties with Milberg.

January 17, 2007 |

Bush Official Apologizes for Slap at Lawyers for Gitmo Detainees

A U.S. Department of Defense lawyer apologized Wednesday for his broadcast comments suggesting that corporations boycott law firms that represent detainees at the Guant�namo Bay detention facility.
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December 26, 2005 |

Law Firm Leaders Bubbly About '06, Survey Shows

No doubt about it, leaders of Am Law 200 firms are upbeat about the future. Eighty-nine percent of respondents to The American Lawyer's annual firm leaders survey said they are optimistic about 2006.
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IP Litigation Roundup
Publication Date: 2012-09-23
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Overwhelmed by the pace of patent litigation news? Here's some of what you may have missed.

SEC Investigating Allegations that Khuzami Caved to Pressure from Citigroup, Spared Individual Defendants in Bank's Controversial $75 Million Settlement
Publication Date: 2011-01-11
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An anonymous tipster with apparent inside knowledge of the agency's negotiations with Citi raised the allegations in an unsigned fax to Sen. Charles Grassley. True or not, the fax makes for compelling reading--and we've got a link to it.

December 06, 1999 |

The Searcher

It took someone with both vision and practical sense to create Lexis-Nexis. That person is Jerome Rubin. Rubin was not a scholar along the lines of Brandeis or Cardozo. But in the daily practice of law, Rubin's creation has a greater footprint than any other computer tool, save possibly the word processor.
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July 22, 1999 |

Taking Stock

One way to get close to Internet clients is through the Silicon Valley venture capital community. Another is through Masayoshi Son and his voracious Softbank Corp. At least, it may turn out that way for Morrison & Foerster, whose Tokyo office scored the Japanese-based company as a client last year. Many of MoFo's deals involved companies backed by Softbank's prodigious investment arm. "It has helped validate our representation in the Internet and e-commerce areas," says MoFo's managing partner in Tokyo.
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Robert Khuzami of the Securities and Exchange Commission Enforcement Division
Publication Date: 2010-04-22
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The enforcement credibility of the beleaguered agency now depends on its success in the Goldman fraud suit--the regulatory equivalent of a bet-the-company case. Good thing Khuzami has a sense of humor. He's going to need it.

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