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  • October 31, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Survival Tips For Law Firms

    So, how will the law firm of the future survive? Here are a few tips: Be willing to discount fees or use "success fees," and embrace other other creative arrangements over large hourly bi

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  • July 20, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Tweet Surrender

    There was a time when big, respectable law firms would never use silly words like Tweet, Twitter and Twitterverse, but that seems to be changing, at least for some firms. In January

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  • February 13, 2012 | International Edition

    Allen & Overy Abolishes Mandatory Retirement Age as Top U.K. Law Firms Review Policies

    Allen & Overy is abolishing its mandatory partner retirement age of 60 as a growing number of major London law firms move away from compulsory retirement dates for partners in the

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  • July 6, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    LATERALS DICKINSON WRIGHT (Detroit): Katheryne L. Zelenock joins the firm's real estate practice group as partner in the Bloomfield Hills

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  • April 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Schoolhouse Rock

    When David Schizer was a first-year associate at New York's Davis Polk & Wardwell, he remembers being asked to mark up a stock purchase agreement. "I said I was happy to do it," he recal

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  • November 28, 2005 | The American Lawyer

    The Billable Hour: Are Its Days Numbered?

    For about 50 years now the billable hour has been the dominant feature of the legal profession. And for just as long lawyers have been trying to kill it. A group of litigators who usually coul

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  • July 1, 2010 | Focus Europe

    Opening Statements: United Kingdom

    Only a short grace period remains for foreign companies with operations in Britain to get their houses in order before a tough new Bribery Act goes into effect that is even more far-reaching than i

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  • April 7, 2009 | National Law Journal

    A Sparring Match Over Flex-Time, Part-Time

    CHICAGO — Law firm leaders and corporate general counsel at a recent meeting took each other to task over what each side can do to better support flex-time and part-time policies that adv

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  • May 28, 2007 | Legal Times

    Full Disclosure

    Something Fishy?With former Bush administration official Julie MacDonald facing increasing scrutiny regarding her tenure at the Interior Department, lobbyists may b

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  • February 21, 2005 | Legal Times

    On the Move

    AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELDAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has elected 16 partners, two in the firm's D.C. office.Michael Fitzpatrick, 39, formerly counse

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