• November 5, 2002 | Legal Times

    Pitt's Future Clouded by Latest Furor

    Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey Pitt and the new Public Company Accounting Oversight Board both took a punishing blow last week. The new board will likely endure. Pitt may n

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  • May 20, 2002 | Alm

    Don`t Cut Attorney Training, Just Reduce the Cost FINDING THE BALANCE

    Training programs are often the first fatality in a tight economy. They are big-ticket expenses, considered to be luxury items aimed primarily at enhancing recruitment and retention strategies. Giv

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  • April 18, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Pro Bono Publico

    An 18th century British author once said that "money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and . . . the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use

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  • September 27, 2007 | The Recorder

    SunPower GC's Practice Is Solar Charged

    Fueled by investment dollars and increased interest from lawmakers, the alternative energy market is surging. And from SunPower Corp.'s high-ceilinged and noisy Berkeley, Calif., offices -- decorat

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  • February 16, 2001 | Law.com

    Movers & Shakers

    NEW HIRESPeter Coppelman has joined the San Francisco office of Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton as of counsel in the land use group. He was previously the p

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  • March 3, 2005 | The Recorder

    9th Circuit KO's Arbitration Rules

    Federal judges cut in front of the California Supreme Court on Tuesday by ruling that the state's stringent ethics rules for neutral arbitrators are trumped by federally sanctioned standards -

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  • August 20, 2010 | Law.com

    Stop Making Sense: Hire! Fire! Hire Again!

    Some people find silver linings in life's misfortunes. Me--I tend to find dark linings even when the news seems bright and cheery. Recently, there's been a flow of upbeat stories about how firms

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  • June 16, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Starting Salaries Keep Growing at Big N.J. Firms

    First-year associate salaries at New Jersey firms continue to climb, with six major firms announcing increases in recent weeks. The latest hikes push this fall's entry-level salaries to an a

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  • May 8, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    First-Year Pay Pushed Up 7 Percent, Spurred by Out-of-State Hikes

    New Jersey's big firms bumped up their first-year associate salaries markedly this year to keep pace with - or at least within sight of - soaring increases by Philadelphia and New York firms.

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  • April 20, 2001 | National Law Journal

    In the Frying Pan

    IN-HOUSE COUNSEL: David E. Bamberger, Inamed Corp.TITLE: Senior vice president and general counselAGE: 44COMPANY: Inamed Corp. manufactures

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