• March 1, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Court Ruling Limits Tools for Combating Clinic Violence Ending nearly 20 years of litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday ruled that the federal Hobbs Act does not o

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  • November 27, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Some Venerable Firms Slid Off the List This Year

    The megafirms are growing by leaps and bounds, but more than one-fifth of the firms on the NLJ 250 lost lawyers last year -- 21.2 percent. In 1998 and 1999, only 14 percent of the

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  • July 19, 2002 | New York Law Journal

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    KENNETH R. Feinberg, the special master in charge of the federal program to compensate an estimated 3,200 families of people killed or physically injured in the Sept. 11 attacks, is expected to sen

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  • September 21, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    A Year After Lehman Collapse

    NEW YORK — One year after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed, the law firms that relied on it for significant billables are still adjusting to a new marketplace with one fewer player

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  • November 28, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Law Firms Face New Rules on Retirement

    With hordes of attorneys poised to assume senior status, achieving a consensus among partners to ditch mandatory retirement policies is just the first step -- and perhaps the easiest -- in switchin

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  • December 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    A Fresh Start

    The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles was filled with national political figures, including former vice president Al Gore, foreign dignitaries, and much of the sprawling metropo

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  • October 15, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Pro Bono

    Mentally Ill Gain Legal VoiceA federal class action on behalf of mentally ill residents at Oceanview Manor Home for Adults was filed late last month in the Eastern District by a

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  • October 9, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Cadwalader Slashes Billing Rates for Treasury Work

    Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft steeply discounted its billing rates for work on behalf of the

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  • April 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    In-house

    We present our Corporate Scorecard report this month, our annual review of high-l

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  • June 3, 2011 | Quinnipiac Times

    Report: Promotion of Women to Partnership Stalled in 2011

    At a time when associates are a target="_blank" href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nylj/PubArticleNY.jsp?id=1202476384004&Firms_Welcome_New_Partners_in__But_Take_Cautious_Approach_to_Class_Size&

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