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The Score: Covington Helps NFL Ink Billion-Dollar TV Extensions
Covington & Burling's sports practice kept up its hot streak this week, helping the NFL negotiate a nine-year extension on television contracts with three major networks that will bring the league billions per year. Plus: Bernie Madoff continues to plague the New York Mets, the L.A. Dodgers get the go-ahead in bankruptcy, and more on the sex abuse scandals at Penn State and Syracuse in our regular look at sports and the law.
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The Work
Over Trustee's Objections, Former Howrey Bankruptcy Counsel to Get Paid in Full
U.S. bankruptcy court judge Dennis Montali ruled this week that Wiley Rein can collect the balance of the $1 million in fees it hasn't already been paid for its work on the defunct firm's bankruptcy?though it could still face objections, or even malpractice claims, from the Howrey estate in the future.
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The Work
Deal Boomlet Signals Happy Holidays for Some Corporate Lawyers
Does Friday's flurry of transactions give deal lawyers reason to hope that business will pick up in 2012?
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The Churn
The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200
Thompson Hine announces new leadership, becoming one of only a handful of major law firms with a woman at the top; Curtis, Mallet-Prevost grabs a ten-person international trade group in D.C.; and Norton Rose loses a bankruptcy heavyweight in Canada. The Churn is constant. Please send all announcements to thechurn@alm.com.
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The Work
Five Firms Advise on Crown Castle's $1 Billion NextG Networks Buy
The lead legal advisers on the deal, which joins Crown Castle's dominant cellular tower business with NextG systems that will expand those towers' reach, include Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Kirkland & Ellis.
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The Work
Five Firms Grab Roles as United Rentals Buys RSC Holdings for $4.2 Billion
Sullivan & Cromwell is taking the lead for United Rentals, Paul, Weiss and Debevoise are advising RSC, and Weil and Davis Polk are acting as outside counsel to other parties involved in what is the biggest deal in United Rentals history
