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  • November 2, 2007 | The Recorder

    McDermott Will to Add Lower-Paid Associates

    With soaring associate salaries, rising litigation costs and general counsel's resistance to it all, something has to give.While some firms quietly turn to contract attorneys or even ship gr

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  • March 1, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Communicator

    ON A QWEST Rich Baer is chief legal officer at Denver-based Qwest Communications International Inc., the nation's third-largest telecommunications company. Within Qwest's 14

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  • February 3, 2005 | The Recorder

    High Court Squints at Genentech Award

    Officials at Genentech Inc. can breathe again.The state Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to review a Second District Court of Appeal decision in which the South San Francisco biotech

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  • March 1, 2007 |

    Is Bankruptcy Guru Harvey Miller Resuming Legal Practice?

    The man widely considered to be the dean of bankruptcy attorneys, Harvey Miller, is thinking of leaving as vice chairman of investment bank Greenhill & Co. to make a return to the courtroom, ac

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  • June 27, 2000 |

    From Out of the Past

    A 1950s-era legal theory is drawing renewed interest since UAL Corp. announced its $11.6 billion acquisition of US Airways Group Inc. Known as the incipiency doctrine, it authorizes regulators to bloc

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  • October 4, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Bar Offers Input on Proposed FASB Changes, Comment Period Ends

    A proposed accounting rule that would require companies to disclose financial loss contingencies, including those from suits, is drawing criticism from the corporate defense bar. The Financi

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  • March 1, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    The New New Math

    Suddenly we're famous. I can't remember a time when newspapers paid more attention to the legal profession than they have in the past few weeks, as they covered the spike in associate salar

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  • July 18, 2012 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Use vs. Possession in Insider Trading Cases

    More than 10 years ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enacted Rule 10b5-1 as an attempt to resolve questions about the requisite knowledge necessary to impose liability for ins

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  • February 1, 2000 | Texas Lawyer

    Like Father, Like Son

    Fullenweider. Krist. Perdue. The names carry cachet in Texas legal circles. But three young Houston lawyers named Fullenweider, Krist and Perdue are making big names for themselves that are only p

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  • September 25, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Lawyers Wrangle Over N.J. Venue for Taiwan Magnate's $10 Billion Estate

    Lawyers are preparing for battle in Essex County over whether the $10 billion estate of Taiwanese industrialist Wang Yung-Ching, who died intestate last year in his Short Hills home, should be adm

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