• June 9, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200

    Blank Rome is combining with Abrams Scott & Bickley to strengthen the firm's Houston

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  • February 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Litigation Dogfight

    In legal thrillers, there's usually a late-night scene in which the good guys pore through cardboard boxes for the crucial document that will save the day. But in real life, lawyers are just a

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  • October 1, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Continuous Representation Requires Tolling, Panel Finds A Manhattan appeals panel has upheld the dismissal of fraud and legal malpractice claims brought against a promin

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  • April 3, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New partners Arent Fox (Washington): Baruch Weiss joins the litigation and white-collar defense groups as partner in the firm's Washington and New York offices. A former

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  • May 10, 2010 | Daily Business Review

    Holy nonequity partners!

    Last year, as law firms struggled with the brutal realities of the recession, many managing partners took the tried-and-true approach to cutting costs--layoffs. At The Am Law 100, the hardest

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  • January 25, 2002 | Law.com

    The XX Factor

    This is a story about women, but it begins with a man named Leslie. Back in 1980, S. Leslie Misrock knew biotechnology was going to be big. The U.S. Supreme Court had just decided that l

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  • April 2, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn: Lateral Moves in The Am Law 200

    Ballard Spahr welcomes JOHN SADLER, a commercial litigator who focuses on the representation of commercial lenders in recruiting matters. The new of counsel will be working f

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  • December 5, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Justices ponder printer ink case

    Washington-When the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments last week in a Goliath v. David battle over printer ink, the justices sat not only at the intersection of patent and antitrust law

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  • May 30, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Am Law Firms Look to Land Clients on the Ground Floor

    Courtney New, an immigration associate at Nixon Peabody, describes her sometime office at the Cambridge Innovation Center as a double-wide phone booth. "Thi

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  • May 18, 2007 | Lawfirminc.

    The Data Boom: Can Law Firms Profit?

    In the fall of 2005, a small Israeli technology startup came to San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster with a lawsuit -- and, soon enough, a problem. The company had been mired in a contrac

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