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  • September 9, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Attorneys Fight Plaintiffs' Counsel Fee Request Objections have been filed to the $195 million fee request by plaintiffs' attorneys who achieved a $586 million settlemen

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  • February 13, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Wolf Block Reduces Salary, Not Headcount

    Attorney layoffs may just have been relegated to the backburner. Could the new trend be salary trimming instead of attorney cuts? Wolf Block confirmed Thursday that it instituted a 10 percen

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  • February 23, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    It Wasn't Al Gore?

    Who invented the Internet? Not Al Gore—and not the founder of Eolas Technologies Inc., according to a federal district court jury in Tyler, Texas. On February 9 the jury invalidated Eola

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  • November 6, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    New Deals

    CROWN CASTLE INTERNATIONAL INC. TO ACQUIRE GLOBAL SIGNAL INC. E. Blake Hawk, executive vice president and general counsel of Houston's Crown Castle International Inc., called on Cravat

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  • April 11, 2003 |

    Bottom-Line Index

    Measuring Stick What counts most when it's payday for the partners? A survey of more than 300 firms ranked the most important compensation factors: 1.Individual work done, meas

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  • June 1, 2006 | Alm

    Two California Firms, Caught Up in Wiretapping Probe, Raise Associate Pay

    Two Los Angeles law firms recently raised their first-year associate salaries while facing key partner departures and a federal criminal probe into whether lawyers engaged in illegal wiretappi

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  • October 20, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Unlikely coalition guides Iceland's recovery

    On Oct. 6, 2008, Iceland's then-prime minister, Geir Haarde, went on television to tell his countrymen the nation's financial system was on the verge of collapse. Haarde explained

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  • May 26, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Manhattan Democrats Skip D.A. Endorsement The Manhattan Democratic Party decided Thursday not to endorse any of the three candidates in the hotly contested

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  • August 15, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    For Hedge Fund Clients, Losing Is Personal

    Like most hedge fund managers, James McBride and Kevin Larson expected to make a tidy sum. By the fall of 2003, they seemed well on their way. The series of Veras funds they launched less than

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  • January 25, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Hollywood's Legal Dealmakers Stay Busy as Billionaire Burkle Snags Relativity Stake

    An investment vehicle controlled by billionaire Ronald Burkle announced Monday that it has purchased a "significant equity stake" in Relativity Media, the film production company behind such

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