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    A Seat at the Table

    By Dana Olsen | September 1, 2011

    Harry Truman once quipped that the job of the vice president is to "go to weddings and funerals." But that no-heavy-lifting approach went out the window when Walter Mondale t

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    Big Deals

    By Rebecca Geiger | July 1, 2011

    The largest recent transactions, all worth at least $500 million, involving targets or acquirors from each of six Asian jurisdictions or regions: China/Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, India, Austr

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    A Modern Tragedy in Five Acts

    By Steven Harper | November 23, 2011

    The American Lawyer's November cover story tells the sad tale of Jonathan Bristol. One of Bristol's clients, Ken Starr, was a high-profile financial adviser to celebrities. (Starr is no relat

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    Law School Debt Bubble, Part II: Data Show Feds Will Lend $54.3 Billion to U.S. Law Schools by 2020

    By Matt Leichter | December 6, 2011

    Two weeks ago, I used U.S. News and Official Guide data to show that in 2010, 44,245 ABA law school graduates took on $3.6 billion in student loans, a sum that increased from $3.1 billion in

  • New York Law Journal

    Schiff Hardin Partner Fined For Post-Public Service Contact

    By Joel Stashenko | January 18, 2013

     Peter Kiernan, counsel to David Paterson during his brief term as governor from 2008 to 2010, has reluctantly agreed to pay a $3,500 fine for engaging in prohibited contact with state a

  • The American Lawyer

    Harboring Doubts

    By Amy Kolz | December 1, 2008

    At 3 p.m. on Friday, September 5, as the Washington, D.C., region was bracing itself for Tropical Storm Hanna, Fannie Mae general counsel Beth Wilkinson was meeting with the country's th

  • The American Lawyer

    Pardon My Cynicism

    By Steven J. Harper | March 29, 2013

    A friend sent me a letter that he received recently from Wake Forest University, where his son is a sophomore. Actually, it came from the university's law school, which was "excited t

  • The American Lawyer

    Scott Rothstein Says Firm Was Hotbed of Pot, Ponzi, and Prostitutes

    By Brian Baxter | January 5, 2012

    Just when The Am Law Daily thought the legal news out of South Florida-where strippers allegedly pose as paralegals to entertain drug barons incarcerated in downtown Miami's Federal Detention

  • The American Lawyer

    THE FALL OF HOWREY

    By By Julie Triedman | June 1, 2011

    In the end it would take Howrey CEO, managing partner, and chair Robert Ruyak two tries to deliver the bad news to his partners. Inside a conference center in suburban Virginia on the aftern

  • The American Lawyer

    A New Civil War

    By David Bario | February 1, 2008

    By the time this magazine is published, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg may have entered the 2008 presidential race. If so, he shouldn't count on any support from South Carolina pawnshop owne

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