• August 27, 1999 | New York Law Journal

    Dismissal of Employees on Extended Sick Leave

    When employees take extended sick leaves, employers often have no choice but to fill their positions with permanent replacements and thereafter to inform them that they will not be reinstated

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  • August 9, 2006 | The Recorder

    Middle East Sands Don't Swallow SanDisk

    Robert Stein of Stein & Lubin knows just enough Thai to get around Bangkok, and to close Epicurean International's $97 million sale to McCormick & Co.SanDisk Corp.'s $1.55 bill

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  • December 2, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Greenberg Traurig to Add Council Member as Partner Melinda Katz, a New York City Council member from Queens who lost September's Democratic primary for city comptroller,

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  • September 25, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    The Slowdown in Associate Hours as Seen From the Inside

    Every summer I look forward to squirreling away a few hours to read the open-ended questions on our Midlevel Associates Su

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  • February 1, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    BP Asset SalesBP p.l.c. has been on a selling spree. In October the company struck a deal to sell its 50 percent stake in TNK–BP, Russia's third

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  • July 28, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Benefits of Being Diverse

    Corporations across the country have begun to extend benefits to their employees' same-sex partners over the past decade, and Texas' top firms have slowly begun to follow suit.Fifteen

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  • September 13, 1999 | Texas Lawyer

    Texas Firms Slow First-Year Hiring Pace

    Unfortunately for the hopeful Class of 1999, 1998 was an aberration - most first-year associates won't be receiving a raise over the typical $90,100 starting salary the new kids got last year.

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  • August 20, 2010 | Law.com

    Stop Making Sense: Hire! Fire! Hire Again!

    Some people find silver linings in life's misfortunes. Me--I tend to find dark linings even when the news seems bright and cheery. Recently, there's been a flow of upbeat stories about how

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  • June 7, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

    New Deals

    TXU SELLING TXU AUSTRALIA AND TXU FUEL TXU executive vice president and general counsel Eric Peterson is using lawyers from Baker & McKenzie and Hunton & Williams for tw

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  • May 9, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Number of General Counsel On the Rise With Law Firms

    Lawyers helping lawyers? Well, at least for an old friend and a few bucks.As law firms become more like the companies they serve, they are hiring designated general counsel, often from

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