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  • October 18, 2004 | Alm

    Culture Clash

    With a more-is-better philosophy, national practices increasingly want to lock arms with foreign law firms in mergers to create a global presence. If only it were that simple. b

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  • June 15, 2001 | The American Lawyer

    The New Nobility

    Corporate lawyers don't usually show up on the Forbes list of richest Americans, but they rank surprisingly high in Italy.On a list of the country's top 1,000 earners of 1998, r

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  • February 13, 2006 | The Recorder

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    SECURITIES CLASS ACTIONS DIP, BUT IT MAY NOT BE TRENDA dip in the number of securities fraud class actions filed between 2004 and 2005 has had the media buzzing over the reasons

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  • March 28, 2005 | Legal Times

    Gaining a Foothold in Guant�namo

    The U.S. military's detention of alleged enemy fighters at Guant�namo Bay, Cuba, is becoming increasingly burdened by ongoing litigation in the federal courts.Suddenly a cause

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  • February 27, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Two U.K. Firms Eye the U.S. Market and Its Business Models

    Two top U.K. firms with U.S. aspirations are getting serious about making headway in the American market -- and one is going so far as to re-evaluate the lockstep system of compensation.In D

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  • April 14, 2008 | The Recorder

    Former Partners Sued for Post-Brobeck Profits

    The trustee in the bankruptcy case of defunct firm Brobeck Phleger & Harrison is suing 10 former partners and the two firms they've joined for work they took with them after Brobeck dissol

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  • November 3, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Global 100: Top 20 in revenue

    The past year saw substantial revenue growth in the world's biggest law firms. The Global 100, a survey of the 100 largest law firms in the world by The American Lawyer, a sister

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  • May 22, 2006 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    UPDATESAtlanta-based Sutherland Asbill & Brennan has acquired Griffin Cochrane & Marshall, a 10-attorney construction law firm, also in Atlant

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  • January 18, 2008 | International Edition

    O2 Prepares to Kick Off First Post-Takeover Panel Review

    Mobile phone giant O2 is preparing for the first review of its legal advisers since its takeover by Spanish telecom behemoth Telefonica. The company, which counts Freshfields Bruckhaus Derin

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  • October 16, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Judge dismisses malpractice suit arising from dueling Holocaust claims

    A Manhattan federal judge has thrown out a legal malpractice suit arising out of competing Holocaust restitution claims.In 2005, a group of nieces and nephews of Jewish publisher and a

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