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September 28, 2007 | Daily Report Online

Lawyers help wind up pitches for Cubs

AS BIDDERS LINE UP to make an offer for the Chicago Cubs, baseball's lovable losers who have been transformed into a playoff contender, attorneys are bringing together investors, readying financing packages and helping craft clients' pitches. There are at least six attorneys, or teams of lawyers, working to position their clients for a winning bid.
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August 12, 2008 | Law.com

Another Law Firm Drops Summer Associate Program

Arnstein & Lehr is the latest Chicago law firm to say it will abandon its summer associate program next year, explaining that the difficulty of estimating its hiring needs two years in advance so it can extend some of those associates job offers is more trouble than the program is worth. The news follows Barnes & Thornburg's recent announcement that it would cease its summer associate program in Chicago.
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July 19, 2013 | Law.com

Am Law Firms, Local Shops in Drive for Detroit Work

With Thursday's Chapter 9 filing, the hard-pressed Motor City took its first legal step toward what will be the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history—and set off a scramble among a bevy of firms eager to land roles on a record-setting case.
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October 29, 2010 | The American Lawyer

The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200

Three new partners join DLA Piper in New Jersey; a former U.S. undersecretary of Commerce lands at Fried Frank; and two partners are added to Greenberg Traurig's litigation practice.
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November 20, 2006 | Law.com

State Bars Push Back on Privilege Waivers

State bar associations are jumping into the roiling debate over the attorney-client privilege-waiver issue triggered by the U.S. Department of Justice's Thompson Memorandum. Several states have recently convened task forces to fight the 2003 directive, which, among other things, instructs prosecutors to trade leniency for waivers of the attorney-client privilege during corporate investigations. One litigator said it's part of the legal community's pushback against a perceived "culture of waiver."
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November 23, 2011 | Daily Report Online

Court denies FedEx's petition against judicial panel

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a mandamus petition brought by FedEx against the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. At issue was the panel's remand to their original courts of a dozen cases brought by FedEx drivers seeking to be classified as employees. On Nov. 17, a unanimous panel in FedEx Ground Package System Inc.
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August 30, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

Chicago Is GC's Kind of Town

Getting bored isn't something that Mara S. Georges has to worry about in her job as corporation counsel, the top lawyer for the city of Chicago. Her legal duties mirror the city's concerns -- helping with the 2016 Olympics bid, defending litigation against the police department, even helping to raise revenue. Georges is responsible for running the city's Department of Law and provides legal advice to the mayor, city council, city commissions and city agencies.
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November 20, 2006 | National Law Journal

State Bars Push Back on Privilege Waivers

State bar associations are jumping into the roiling debate over the attorney-client privilege-waiver issue triggered by the U.S. Department of Justice's Thompson Memorandum. Several states have recently convened task forces to fight the 2003 directive, which, among other things, instructs prosecutors to trade leniency for waivers of the attorney-client privilege during corporate investigations. One litigator said it's part of the legal community's pushback against a perceived "culture of waiver."
3 minute read
November 05, 2010 | The American Lawyer

The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200

Five lawyers migrate from Morgan Lewis to Greenberg Traurig; Jones Day expands its Hong Kong office; and Katten Muchin adds a real estate partner in Washington, D.C.
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October 23, 2003 | New York Law Journal

Lawyers on Major Transactions

Which New York firm worked on a European technology deal worth more than $9 billion? And which Gotham partnership helped seal a deal worth more than $200 million for a plastics manufacturer? Find out in this week's column from the Corporate Update page.
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