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  • May 15, 2007 | Alm

    How Small Firms Are Managing $160K Salaries

    In February, Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder partners invited their associates to discuss pay increases over lunch. It was a response to the first announcements rocking Silicon Valley tha

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  • December 14, 2006 | The Recorder

    Bingham Boosts Asia Presence With 22-Lawyer Tokyo Firm

    Just a month after announcing it will open a Hong Kong office, Bingham McCutchen is further expanding its Asia capacity with the addition of a 22-lawyer Tokyo firm. Firm leaders are banking

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  • January 2, 2007 | The Recorder

    San Francisco Boutique Jettisons Catch-All Approach

    After years of struggling with a pro bono image that partners say didn't match reality -- and a large number of disparate practice areas -- Minami Tamaki will enter the new year significantly trimm

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  • December 4, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Go Go Bono

    Guns don't kill lawyers; billable hours do. That's why, when it comes to pro bono, associates are dodging the bullet."It's pro bono or go home-o," says one New York associate.G

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  • January 18, 2010 | National Law Journal

    SEC rethinks it all

    Business as usual was simply not an option after revelations that the Securities and Exchange Commission — despite repeated opportunities — failed to uncover Bernard Madoff's $5

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  • September 19, 2002 | The Recorder

    News Briefs

    JURY CLEARS SIERRA CLUB MEMBERSA San Francisco jury Wednesday cleared the Sierra Club and two of its members of libel in a case brought by a woman who allegedly makes her living

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  • August 26, 2003 | The Recorder

    Some Securities Cases OK for State Court, Ruling Says

    In a decision that could encourage attempts to litigate private securities cases before state judges, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Monday kicked an unfair competition suit out of

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  • August 2, 2007 | The Recorder

    Federal Judge Tosses Mercury Securities Suit

    Time to throw another lawsuit on the pile of dismissed civil claims stemming from alleged stock option backdating by former executives at Mercury Interactive. The latest ruling came Monday,

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  • January 20, 2005 | The Recorder

    Trial Opens in Case Against McKesson CFO

    While some bench trials are derided as "slow guilty pleas," the securities fraud trial of former McKesson Corp. executive Richard Hawkins, which kicked off Wednesday, promises to be anything b

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  • January 31, 2005 | The Recorder

    Former McKesson Exec Faces Tough Defense Query

    Defense attorney Walter Brown Jr. launched his cross-examination of prosecutors' star witness in the Richard Hawkins trial with the one fact he wants U.S. District Judge Martin Jenkins to keep

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