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March 01, 2008 | The American Lawyer

Shut Out

George Mitchell and his team at DLA Piper lavished two years, 25 lawyers, and millions of dollars on its steroids investigation.
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March 01, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Big Suits

United States et al. v. Siemens; Alcatel-Lucent v. Microsoft; In Re Epogen & Aranesp Off-Label Marketing Litigation; In Re Medtronic Implantable Defibrillators Product Liability Litigation; Micron v. Rambus; Racepoint Partners v. JPMorgan Chase
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June 01, 2004 | The American Lawyer

Tapping Big-Firm Talent Breaking the Marriage Barrier

red truck flying American flags slowly circled San Francisco City Hall, passing a long line of same-sex couples waiting to get married. "Stop the Insanity"-"Shame on America"-"Marriage Is One Man, One Woman," the signs on the truck proclaimed. Across the street, inside San Francisco's superior court, chief deputy city attorney Therese Stewart faced a throng of cameras and reporters from around the nation. "This is not just about San Francisco, it's about the whole country," said Stewart, the city's top liti
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June 01, 2004 | The American Lawyer

Pickett et al. v. Tyson Fresh Meats Swedish Match North America, Inc., v. U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company R4 Holdings v. Tickets.

A group of cattle ranchers upset over corporate control of the meat market received a blue-ribbon antitrust jury verdict in February-only to have a judge sitting in Alabama decide that the jury had given the ranchers a bum steer. In April, U.S. district court judge Lyle Strom threw out a $1.28 billion verdict against one of the country's biggest beef packagers, Dakota Dunes, South Dakota-based Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc. The amount covered only actual damages.
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October 01, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Canadian Big Suits

Nortel Restructuring; Morrow v. Zhang; Marcotte v. Bank of Montreal et al.; Fresco v. CIBC
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June 01, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Canadian Big Deals

Agrium / CF; IPIC / Nova Chemicals; ING Canada Offerings
8 minute read
September 30, 2009 | The American Lawyer

2009 A-Z Summer Associate Rankings

A weekly report of lawyer moves and law firm changes. Keep abreast of where movers and shakers are going and what they're doing.
113 minute read
November 01, 2006 | The American Lawyer

Market Makers

In a year dominated by private equity deals, no firm fared better than Simpson Thacher. That's the reward for three decades of s
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April 01, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Big Deals

Pfizer/Wyeth; Abbott Labs/Advanced Medical/Optics; Grupo Bimbo/George Weston
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February 02, 2011 | The American Lawyer

Groundhog Day Deal Roundup: Transactions Heat Up Ahead of Spring Thaw

Punxsutawney Phil and Staten Island Chuck are in agreement: spring is just around the corner. (We certainly hope they're right.) But will the dealmaking environment also heat up? The Am Law Daily has a rundown of the latest deals to cross our desk and the outside legal advisers who worked on them.
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