• March 6, 2008 | The Recorder

    Associate Salary Spikes Pinch Partner Profits

    As California law firms continue to post their 2007 financial results, their leaders say back-to-back associate salary increases bit into partner profits."The fact is that we only pass

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  • May 10, 2007 | The Recorder

    Steefel Loses Another Five Lawyers

    Steefel, Levitt & Weiss has shed another partner and four associates from its San Francisco land use practice, sparking concern over the health of the firm's core businesses.Partne

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  • September 26, 2011 | National Law Journal

    New tool fights foreign crime

    A new law that gave judges broader power to freeze foreign assets is facing a key constitutional test in a Washington federal court. The U.S. Department of Justice swiftly sought the c

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  • March 15, 2010 | The Recorder

    New Partners 2010: The List

    David Ach Jorgenson, Siegel, McClure & Flegel UC-Davis School of Law, 1977 Sophie Akins Best Best & Krieger Hasting

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  • February 14, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Video Game Bar Association Launched

    A worldwide association for lawyers specializing in video game law has been launched in Los Angeles. The Video Game Bar Association, founded on Feb. 8, is devoted to attorneys who practice in the v

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  • July 30, 2002 | The Recorder

    Upping the Ante

    Four years ago, when the economy was running at full throttle, Geraldine Ann Freeman probably felt a little lonely. A bankruptcy attorney, she watched as many of her under-worked fellow

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  • October 31, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    Sports Law

    Losing Games Benjamin R. Mulcahy, a partner at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, discusses strikes and

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  • February 12, 2003 | The Recorder

    News Briefs

    NOSSAMAN NAMES FOUR NEW PARTNERSNossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott looked north and south for its latest partner class, elevating a total of four people between its Sa

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  • October 4, 2004 | National Law Journal

    High court to revisit sentencing guidelines

    Washington-The U.S. Supreme Court this week will take up two cases with the potential to revolutionize federal sentencing. The justices will hear an unusual two-hour argument in

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  • September 12, 2011 | The Recorder

    Joanne Garvey, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton

    When Congress this year threatened severe cutbacks to the Legal Services Corp., it was déjà vu for Joanne Garvey. The longtime bar activist had just been appointed to a

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