• July 14, 2008 | National Law Journal

    A new game plan for retaining women at firms

    The National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) will urge law firms to compensate senior attorneys for promoting diversity, monitor how credit for business development is meted ou

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  • June 2, 2003 | Legal Times

    Law High School Relies on D.C. Firms

    Each Tuesday evening, a yellow bus chugs down K Street amid the first wave of rush-hour traffic. Through the windows you can hear the teasing and laughter of nearly 15 Southeast high sch

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  • August 28, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Firms muscling up on bankruptcy

    DESPITE WHAT'S EXPECTED to be a 12-year low in bankruptcy filings this year, major U.S. law firms are starting to beef up their ranks of restructuring attorneys in anticipation of heavier cas

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  • April 5, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New partners McGlinchey Stafford (New Orleans): The firm has named six new members-M. Lucille Anderson (commercial litigation/Houston); Andrew J. Harrison Jr. (environmen

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  • June 16, 2003 | Legal Times

    WorldCom: An Uneasy Role

    "The significance of the role of lawyers may not be as great at WorldCom as in some other companies. It's probably one reason why we're as successful as we've been."That was P. B

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  • March 17, 2011 | New York Lawyer

    NY Attorneys Breeze Through Senate Hearings on Way to Federal Bench

    The Senate Judiciary Committee had few questions today for two of President Barack Obama's nominees for the Southern District bench, signaling a potentially easy path to confirmation in the months

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  • October 6, 2008 | National Law Journal

    High court's busy new term just got busier

    WASHINGTON — From speedy trial rights to plea agreements breached by prosecutors to counsel for indigent defendants, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its first orders list of the n

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  • August 13, 2007 | Legal Times

    Reading the Roberts Court

    The first full term of the Roberts Supreme Court was a blockbuster, with major rulings on abortion rights, school integration, and campaign finance reform.The Court's conserva

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  • January 10, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Sullivan Joins Holland & Knight Former Justice Joseph P. Sullivan has joined the New York office of Holland & Knight as of counsel. Mr. Sullivan, who stepped down as an

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  • November 23, 2009 | National Law Journal

    D.C. Honors

    AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION Diane Fuchs, a partner in Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice's Washington office, has been elected president of the American

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