• October 5, 2009 | National Law Journal

    THE PLAINTIFFS' HOT LIST

    BARROWAY TOPAZ KESSLER MELTZER & CHECK Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check is a 72-attorney plaintiffs' firm with active practices in shareholder, ER

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  • August 12, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    New York Midlevel Associates' Salary Lead Shrinks

    Finally, everyone's being paid like a New York lawyer. Thanks to an informal wage freeze in the United States' largest market, midlevels in other major cities caught up to the salaries of their New Yo

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  • June 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Houston, We Have an Arbitration

    The three Houston lawyers on our cover are not the buttoned-up Europeans that one would expect to dominate a survey of international arbitration. Mark Baker of Fulbright & Jaworski is no

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  • July 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Pro Bono Scorecard 2008: The Pros

    When Steven Schulman heard that Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic needed volunteers to help develop a case charging the former president of Bolivia with crimes again

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  • July 8, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Law Librarians: Secret Agents for Reaching Potential Clients

    The days when a law firm librarian simply managed a library budget, circulated the firm's subscription publications among its lawyers, filed periodic updates to loose-leaf services and o

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  • October 19, 2001 | New York Law Journal

    Minority Law Student Program Aids New York Firms Seeking Diversity

    As second-year law school students around New York City prepare for on-campus interviews for next year's summer associate classes, several minority students will be able to boast of havi

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  • July 1, 2013 | Focus Europe

    Big Deals

    The largest recent mergers and acquisitions, all worth at least $500 million, involving targets or acquirors from each of six European jurisdictions or regions: United Kingdom, Spain, Italy,

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  • November 15, 2011 | Daily Business Review

    Careers: One Wall Street firm does nothing about its gender bias

    Let's pretend you head a firm that has a woman problem—like trouble retaining female lawyers, poor record elevating them to partners, etc. And you hire a consultant to look into the

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  • February 1, 2001 | Vault.Com

    In an Alien Land

    Australian lawyer Hung Ta hungered to litigate cases where the stakes were higher, the pay better, and the pressure more intense than the work he tackled in Sydney.Upon finishing

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  • November 15, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Branch offices

    Adams and Reese: New Orleans (108); Birmingham, Ala. (50); Houston (36); Baton Rouge, La. (23); Jackson, Miss. (22); Mobile, Ala. (11); Washington (2) Akerman Senterfitt: Miami (150);

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