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April 07, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

Inadmissible

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September 15, 2004 | Law.com

Being Dan Webb

Winston & Strawn partner Dan Webb, dubbed a "superlawyer" by The New York Times, is used to handling companies' high-profile legal matters -- ranging from Wyeth's fen-phen woes to a Microsoft trademark beef -- but even he calls an upcoming federal proceeding "the mother of all trials." Webb is the lead lawyer for Philip Morris USA Inc., the nation's biggest cigarette maker and currently at the center of a $280 billion racketeering suit that the DOJ has filed against the tobacco industry.
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DOJ Files Civil Suit Against BP and Other Oil Spill Defendants; Plaintiffs Lawyers Welcome Feds to New Orleans MDL
Publication Date: 2010-12-15
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The Justice Department suit alleges billions of dollars of exposure for each of the defendants.

Barry Ostrager of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Publication Date: 2011-07-28
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Take Ostrager, the king of Jordan's half-brother, a Palm Beach billionaire, U.S. defense contracts to supply troops in Iraq, $50 million in suspect payments, and what have you got? One hell of a breach of contract trial.

October 28, 2002 | National Law Journal

Chart: The Legal Times 100

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July 01, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Arbitration Scorecard: Treaties

A listing of investment treaty arbitrations active in 2007-2008 in which at least $100 million was in controversy. Expanded for the Web.
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January 01, 2010 | The American Lawyer

Class Acts

These 24 firms stood out for the sterling results they obtained for clients in 2008 and 2009.
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November 18, 2002 | Law.com

The Aftermath of Mergers Can Be Layoffs, Departures

No law firm merger is pure heaven, but firms joining forces sometimes can expect to see some hell. Even the best-planned union has fallout. Several of the firms on this year's NLJ 250 are feeling aftershocks -- ranging from culture clash to litigation. Here, a closer look at the issues some newlywed firms encountered after the honeymoon was over.
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June 21, 2007 | Law.com

Some Firms May Be Rethinking Retirement Policies

Mandatory retirement policies at law firms are a hot topic both because the baby boom generation of lawyers will soon hit retirement age and because of the ongoing federal age discrimination suit against Sidley Austin Brown & Wood. Currently, some firms with a mandatory retirement age already allow individual attorneys to negotiate exceptions. And as retirement-age attorneys continue to show their worth, there are predictions that firms in general will move away from mandatory retirement policies.
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August 16, 1999 | Law.com

Conflicts Confound Mega-Merger

In the end, it wasn't the retirement issue or the cultural philosophy issue, but plain, old conflicts - and maybe cold, hard cash - that killed the promising engagement between Houston's Fulbright & Jaworski and Dallas' Hughes & Luce.
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