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  • November 30, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Stop Me Before I Raise Again

    Just when you thought it was safe to look at your firm's income statement, the associate recruiting wars are back. Shock waves from the early-year salary increase were just subsiding thi

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  • February 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200

    Leading off The Churn today is a set of government-to-firm moves. Ballard Spahr announced on Jan. 24 that EDWARD RENDELL w

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  • February 28, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

    Lawyers Feel TRAPped When 1st Court Strikes Motions Based on Technicalities

    At the 1st Court of Appeals, little things mean a lot. The Houston court once routinely approved unopposed first motions for extension of time to file a brief. But a 1st Court justice

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  • November 1, 2005 | Corporate Counsel

    Mr. Clean

    It was a festive day for Sven Erik Holmes. Family, friends, and colleagues surrounded him in the Tulsa federal courthouse last March as his official portrait was unveiled. It was the las

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  • June 21, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    Microsoft / Skype Silver Lake Partners, L.P., is about to make a huge profit on the largest investment it's ever made. The private equity shop agreed on May 1

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  • September 24, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    The Global 100: Most Revenues Order the Electronic 2008 Global 1

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  • March 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Second Acts

    November 5, 2009, was a good day for the Securities and Exchange Commission. At a press conference with the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan, new SEC enforcement dir

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  • May 13, 2002 | Legal Times

    New Approaches to Training

    By Greta OstrovitzLegal TimesAnother upgrade. Another program change. Forget the old way of doing things. Now, there are more new features to learn, although your attorneys and staff

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  • November 9, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

    CCA Says Yates Gets a New Trial

    Andrea P. Yates, the mentally unstable Clear Lake woman who drowned her five children in a bathtub in 2001, will get a new trial.On Nov. 9, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals declined

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  • June 3, 2009 |

    What Went Wrong at Defunct IP Boutique Morgan & Finnegan?

    From the outside, Morgan & Finnegan's future looked bright. It was January 2004, and the venerable IP firm had just signed a 20-year lease to take over the twentieth and twenty-first flo

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