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  • May 8, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Beating the Spread

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton Managing Partner Mark Walker is old-school when it comes to partner compensation. He sees no reason to change Cleary's seniority-based lockstep scheme, in

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  • July 18, 2005 | Legal Times

    Bringing US Airways In for a Landing

    It was a Saturday in late March 2004 and Brian Leitch was in a favorite place: a glittering curve of the southern Caribbean called Petit Byahaut, on the southwestern side of St. Vincent. He ha

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  • December 6, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    S&C, Weil Latest to Match Cravath's Associate Bonuses

    Sullivan & Cromwell and Weil, Gotshal & Manges joined the stampede Thursday to announce associate year-end bonuses. According to our reporting, Sullivan's scale is identical to

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  • July 31, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Health Law

    Consider these scenarios. You take your car to a mechanic for an oil change. You return later in the day to find that the oil hasn't been changed, but your car's radiator has been replac

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  • July 16, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Law Firm Roundup

    Report Finds Merger Market Tepid During Second Quarter The law firm merger market cooled significantly during the second quarter of 2009, according to reports by a numbe

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  • September 21, 2007 | International Edition

    U.S. firms in London say they're more merger-minded

    London's growing band of U.S. law firms are once again in the market for serious expansion. Legal Week's annual survey of U.S. firms in London reveals 47 percent of respondents would c

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  • December 29, 2008 | Legal Times

    Associate Assault

    Goodbye, job security. After three consecutive years of raises and big bonuses, associates faced layoffs, salary freezes—and at a few firms, a full-on assault on lockstep comp

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  • August 9, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Pfizer Agrees to $15 Mil. Settlement In FCPA Prosecution

    A subsidiary of Pfizer Inc. that paid out millions of dollars in bribes for nearly a decade has agreed to a $15 million settlement with the U.S. Justice Department in a Foreign Corrupt Practi

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  • February 13, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Ex-Counsel to Public Administrator Relieved of All Duties Louis R. Rosenthal, former counsel to the public administrator in Brooklyn, has been relieved of his remaining d

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  • January 15, 2009 | National Law Journal

    The South emerged as the hot merger region in 2008

    The South was a desirable destination for law firms looking to merge and expand in 2008, according to Altman Weil's latest MergerLine report. Of the mergers announced last year, 44% invol

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