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  • March 6, 2013 | The Recorder

    A Wave of Class Actions for the 'Food Court'

    Across the Bay Area, corporate attorneys with degrees from top law schools are considering the nutritional content of corn chips. And in their chambers, federal judges are in deep contemplati

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  • March 4, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Departure of London Tax Group Doesn't Faze Dorsey's Leadership

    UPDATE: 3/5/13, 7:00 p.m. EDT. Barnes & Thornburg has hire

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  • May 1, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    Ninth Circuit Makes CAFA Jurisdiction Stick

    On April 21, 2010, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed that a putative class action removed to federal court under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) does not lose federal jurisdic

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  • March 1, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    Comcast/NBC Comcast Corporation announced December 3 that it had ag

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  • September 24, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

    2010 Ineligible List

    Attorney Ineligibility Order Pursuant to Rule 1:28-2(a) SUPREME COURT OF NEW JERSEY Pursuant to Rule 1:28-2, the Trustees of the New Jersey Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection (Fund)

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  • December 29, 1999 | The Recorder

    A Thread-Count Approach to Rainmaking

    Look, it's a lawyer in leopard-spotted slippers. And that one over there is wearing a striped velour leisure suit? Say, those Doc Martens lace-up boots go great with the cargo pants. OK, so

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  • July 20, 2000 | The Recorder

    The Urge to Merge

    Last November, John Pritchard attended a meeting focusing on law firm mergers. The chairman of New York's Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts listened intently as the meeting's facilitator

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  • October 16, 2003 | The American Lawyer

    Troop Redeployment

    As if taking on a dying firm's millions of dollars in debt, poor morale and plummeting practices wasn't bad enough. Two years after Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld's tumultuous merger with

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  • February 20, 2003 | The Recorder

    Insuring Their Future

    Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold's San Francisco office seems to scream "old-school law firm" with its dark wood paneling and thick carpeting.Veteran partners have computers, of co

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  • June 8, 2000 | The Recorder

    Silicon by the Sea

    A new electrified sign just off Interstate 5 blaring one word -- Brobeck -- stands as an enticing advertisement of the new-economy revolution sweeping through San Diego's legal community.

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