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  • November 8, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Fusion, Not Confusion

    The idea of a merger is an irresistible temptation for a growing number of law firms lured by fantasies of serving more clients in more cities for more money.But turning that vis

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  • May 9, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

    Texas' Top Deals of 2010

    The following deals were announced in 2010: SCHLUMBERGER LTD. Merger with SMITH INTERNATIONAL INC. Description: Schlumberger Ltd., which has offices

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  • October 1, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    Into The Fire At MCI

    When we last checked in with Anastasia Kelly, she'd just resigned as GC of Sears, Roebuck & Company [May 2003, "The Anastasia Mystery, Solved"]. In August, after a whirlwind recruit

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  • May 5, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Costs of Compliance Soar After Sarbanes-Oxley

    A new study reveals that companies are paying a high price to stay public in the wake of a sweeping set of changes to federal securities law.Conducted by the law firm Foley & Lardn

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  • January 4, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Small Law Firm Woos Clients With Monthly Subscription Fees

    SAN FRANCISCO - When Todd Smithline and Raj Jha negotiate terms with a new client, they never bring up the billable hour. For the last two years, their five-lawyer San Francisco firm, Smithline Jha, h

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  • January 2, 2002 | The American Lawyer

    Global Defense

    On June 20, 2001, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue litigation partner Sydney McDole was in a courtroom in Jefferson County, Colo., watching senior associate Robert Faxon conduct his first-ever

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  • December 3, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Corporations Not Going To Take It Anymore

    The appalling increase in starting salaries for first-year associates at major big-city law firms - now up to $160,000 - makes in-house general counsel want to shout out the window like the f

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  • May 10, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Cravath Adds a Bankruptcy Practice

    Cravath, Swaine & Moore apparently sees what a lot of firms see: growth in restructuring work. The firm announced Wednesday that it is starting a bankruptcy practice that will be headed up by R

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  • June 24, 1999 | The American Lawyer

    Welcome to the Valley

    New York's Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett and Davis Polk & Wardwell are eyeing a bigger chunk of Northern California's Gold Rush. Both firms are planning to open Silicon Valley offices in comi

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  • June 14, 2001 | Law.com

    Survey Says: Extranets -- Either Love Them or Hate Them

    Last year at this time, revolution was in the air. Don Murray and John Henry II were about to "revolutionize" the relationship between general counsel and outside lawyers. Chris Kruse wa

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