• February 7, 2007 | The Recorder

    Associates React to Jones Day and Weil Gotshal Salary Raises

    Jones Day and Weil, Gotshal & Manges joined the list of firms paying California first-years $160,000 rather than the $145,000 embraced by most homegrown firms. But homegrown firms probably aren

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  • August 31, 2010 | The Recorder

    Public, Nonprofit Sectors Keep Real Estate Lawyers Busy

    In the mid-to-late 2000s, San Francisco experienced a boom in new skyscraper development, with hotel, residential and office towers sprouting up along Mission Street and the greater South of Market

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  • January 13, 2006 | Legaltech News

    Trial Tech: Teaching Rocket Science

    In 1998, Final Analysis Communication Services Inc. was a small Maryland-based company that won one of four coveted FCC licenses to launch 30 low-orbit satellites into space. The fledgling company

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  • 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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