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The Boys of Whitewater

No one knows exactly how consequential the current scandal at the White House may prove to be, but that hasn't prevented top lawyers from finding plenty of Whitewater-related work. Will one of these men be the next Brendan Sullivan?

-- LAWYER: Richard I. Beattie, co-counsel

-- FIRM: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

-- CLIENT: Roger Altman, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury

-- NATURE OF PRACTICE: corporate; focus on mergers and acquisitions

-- OTHER CLIENT: Paramount

-- FAVORITE JOHN GRISHAM NOVEL: no comment

-- LAWYER: Robert S. Bennett

-- FIRM: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

-- CLIENT: Harold Ickes, White House deputy...

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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