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  • February 9, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

    Headcount Drops at Large Texas Firms

    When it comes to law firms, everything isn't bigger in Texas. Between Jan. 1, 2009, and Jan. 1, 2010, lawyer headcounts at 25 of the 26 largest firms in Texas declined by 5.7 percent overall

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  • January 24, 2008 | Legal Times

    Subprime Suits Fuel a Boom for Some Large Firms

    A litigation army is massing at major law firms to fight the wave of investigations, class actions and bankruptcies that are expected in the coming months -- and years -- in the wake of the sub

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  • September 20, 2005 | Alm

    Big-Firm Associates' Drudgery Belies Rosy Recruitment Spin

    Part of today's recruiting pitch from big law firms competing for top graduates to fill their associate ranks is the promise of meaningful and important work once lawyers-to-be sign on. But th

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  • June 18, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Catching Air

    COMPANY PROFILEYou might say that The Burton Corp. is to snowboarding what Google Inc. is to Internet searches. Company founder Jake Burton Carpenter may

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  • September 30, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Arthur Andersen LLP v. Federal Insurance Co.

    Arthur Andersen LLP v. Federal Insurance Co., A-2155-08T1; Appellate Division; opinion by Espinosa, J.A.D.; decided and approved for publication September 30, 2010. Before Judges Fisher, Sapp-Peter

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  • July 23, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

    2008 GC compensation survey: party like it's 2001

    Give Gary Lynch credit for making a dramatic entrance. The chief legal officer for New York-based Morgan Stanley debuted on Corporate Counsel's annual survey of general counsel compe

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  • March 16, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Wachtell Lipton, Cleary Gottlieb Counsel $14.6 Billion Bank Deal North Fork Bancorporation Inc., the Melville, N.Y.-based bank that serves the New York metropolitan area

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  • December 7, 2005 | The Recorder

    China on the Cheap

    LOS ANGELES � China has become a buyer's market for legal services. Earlier this year, lawyers there were trading tales about a Western law firm that had agreed to handle an IPO for $100,000 �

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  • October 3, 2007 | International Edition

    BLP Downgrades Alliance With Kramer Levin

    Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has downgraded its formal alliance with New York ally Kramer Levin after a five-year relationship. The top 20 firm had operated an exclusive referral relationsh

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  • October 31, 2007 | The Recorder

    Is Fighting Your Patent Case in Public Really a Good Idea?

    The millions of blogs littering the Internet prove that everyone has an opinion. But you won't often find the general counsel of a major tech company shooting his mouth off about ongoing patent lit

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