• October 20, 2003 | The Recorder

    Texas Partner Fires Back in Brobeck Fight

    The squabbling among former Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison partners has intensified, as five from San Diego are demanding that their one-time colleagues fork over $14.5 million to cover "inju

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  • January 17, 2006 | Special To Law.Com

    Do Blawgs Burn as Brightly as Surveys Suggest?

    You've probably driven by a refinery and seen flames burning atop many a tower. Does that remind you of your law firm?Hold on -- this is not about a stench. Refineries start production with

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  • November 26, 2003 | The Recorder

    Winner Pays All

    LOS ANGELES -- It's a familiar situation: Your litigation opponent is completely unreasonable. He is out for blood, demands his day in court and does not care how much it costs. Both sides kno

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  • January 12, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Summary Judgment Papers Found Accessible by Media

    Summary judgment documents filed under seal are "judicial documents" to which news organizations have a presumptive right of access under common law and the First Amendment, a federal appeals

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  • March 28, 2005 | Daily Report Online

    Hourly Rates Still Climbing

    Leigh Jones [email protected] NEW YORK-Law firms showed healthy increases in billing rates last year, with the vast majority of those participating in The National Law Journal's an

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  • October 29, 2012 | International

    British Firms Ponder Korea Without Koreans

    Last year, when the European Union beat the United States in ratifying a free trade agreement with South Korea, the betting was that British firms, ever eager to plant their flags, would be

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  • June 12, 2007 | The Recorder

    Dickstein Shapiro Boosts L.A. Presence With Lawyers From Thelen Reid

    Dickstein Shapiro, based in Washington, D.C., has brought on four attorneys from Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner's shrinking Los Angeles office, which has seen more than a dozen departures

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  • November 15, 2005 | The Recorder

    Stoel Rives Seeks Fresh Start in S.F.

    Sandi Nichols knows a thing or two about hanging in there when the going gets tough.In the space of a few months earlier this year, the managing partner of Stoel Rives' small San Franc

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  • August 10, 2007 | The Recorder

    Words v. Deeds

    Just about every young lawyer working on a difficult research project will eventually say it. After scouring various databases looking for something useful to support an argument, the diligent

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  • April 12, 1999 | The Recorder

    Librarians Warn of Fines as Firms Shelve Books

    If law firm librarians think the walls are closing in around them -- and plenty do -- it's not because they're hallucinating. Thanks to rising real estate costs and the replacement of books with el

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