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  • October 3, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    How a Global 100 firm became a profit powerhouse

    IN ADDITION to purchasing an equity stake in their firm, most new partners at the English law firm Slaughter and May buy a napkin ring, too. After Slaughter partners finish their lunc

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  • April 11, 2003 |

    Sidley Austin Brown & Wood2613 $ 5,204 56 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett25215 10,476 17 Vinson & Elkins1838 3,112 1011 Hogan & Hartson17418 3,071 1116

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  • March 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Foreign Exchange

    London had barely recovered from its New Year's hangover when news broke that Sullivan & Cromwell had made its second U.K. corporate partner hire in less than a year. The Wall Street firm

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  • November 9, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Which Firms Are to Blame for Drop in Diversity?

    The ranks of women and minority attorneys at U.S. law firms declined last year, according to a number of recent surveys, but the numbers don't tell the full story

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  • January 4, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Judge Drops Securities Fraud Class Action Against Swiss Company

    A Swiss company that was sued after its former North American business unit experienced a "dramatic drop" after being taken public has convinced a federal judge to drop class action claims agai

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  • January 2, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Miracle Workers

    With just 27 partners, it's a minor miracle that the litigation group at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz even made it to the final round for Litigation Department of the Year. But

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  • June 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    For a Few Dollars Less

    Since they started arriving in London in droves in the mid-1990s, U.S. firms have used the lure of higher profits per partner and associate salaries as one of their most powerful recruiting to

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  • September 1, 2004 | The American Lawyer

    Wage Against the Machine

    Lawyers who earn hourly fees in the hundreds might not be presumed sympathetic to the living wage movement. Yet pro bono teams at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; Patterson, Belkn

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  • May 19, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

    Big Brains

    The "THINK" signs greet a visitor to IBM headquarters in Armonk, N.Y., at almost every turn, including at the restroom door in the leg

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  • May 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Behind the Numbers

    They may lament that they are the poor cousins of hedge fund managers and private equity stakeholders, but Am Law 100 partners are hardly suffering. In 2006, for the first time since The Ameri

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