• April 19, 2010 |

    The Efficiency equation

    The profitability index looks at a firm's ability to convert revenue into profits. This metric seeks to demonstrate which firms best balance leverage and profit margin for the highest possible prof

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  • July 29, 2012 | Litigation Daily

    Tablet Takedown: Apple-Samsung Patent Battle Heads to Trial

    This story was originally published by The Recorder, an American Lawyer affiliate. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan's reputation as one of the toughest firms to be

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  • August 30, 1999 | The Recorder

    Into Thin Air

    Move over Los Angeles, here comes Silicon Valley.While Southern California law firms used to take the lead in setting associate salaries statewide, their northern counterparts are now settin

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  • June 21, 1999 | The Recorder

    Searching for a Holy Legal Grail in Israel

    Where high-tech communities flourish, law firms follow. And that means U.S. lawyers are on their way to Israel, which now ranks as the second fastest-growing high-tech region in the world.Bo

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  • October 31, 2000 | The Standard

    Napster Still Not Out of the Woods

    Bertelsmann's decision to work with Napster is good news for the wildly popular but besieged music-sharing service. Still, its supporters might think twice before breaking out the champagne.

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  • June 21, 1999 | National Law Journal

    Arbitration is No Simple Matter

    The arbitration clause in Rafael Crespo's employment contract was just that-a clause, short and sweet. And that was its undoing.Mr. Crespo was a building supervisor on New York's West Side u

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  • January 24, 2005 | Legal Times

    A Capital Idea

    Pillsbury Winthrop is poised to make its most ambitious attempt yet to crack the D.C. market by swallowing Shaw Pittman -- a move that could instantly transform the San Francisco-based firm in

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  • June 10, 1999 | The Recorder

    Nice Guys Finish First

    Fenwick & West is so nice it hurts. At least Intuit Inc.'s Scott Cook seemed to think so at a "thank you" bash the firm threw for about 100 of its top clients earlier this spring. As Fen

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  • February 1, 1999 | The Recorder

    Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back

    Alfred Moore laughs as he recounts the time opposing counsel, stalled in settlement talks, brought in a black lawyer to deal with him. "What is he going to do?" Moore mused to himself. "Tal

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  • September 13, 1999 | The Recorder

    L.A. Firms' Dirty Little Secret: Hourly Rates

    The big firms are getting used to announcing gross revenues that have become, well, gross. They're begrudgingly willing to talk about partner draws that are moving to the million-dollar neighborho

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