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  • March 7, 2000 | Vault.Com

    How Are They Treating You?

    Treatment of associates by partners is the stuff of urban legend. One particularly ghastly tale goes as follows: Once upon a time, a young associate and a partner at a large New York firm were work

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  • April 11, 2003 |

    A Thing For Ming

    Lawyers love to complain: The hours, the tedious work, the pressure to bill, and yes, even the meager salaries. Despite these familiar laments, how many lawyers have the gumption to quit? Not

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  • April 3, 2003 | The Recorder

    Steps Taken to Protect Lawyers in Asia From SARS Exposure

    As cases of a mysterious flu-like disease continue to multiply in Asia and across the globe, several U.S. law firms with offices in Asia have begun taking measures to protect their employees f

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  • October 13, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Sizing up BofA's Privilege Waiver

    It's official: Bank of America has waived its right to attorney-client privilege in federal and state investigations into the bank's conduct during its acquisition of a crippled Merrill Lynch l

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  • June 10, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Tyco Jury Indicates Verdicts Reached on Some Counts Jurors in the retrial of two former top executives of Tyco International Ltd. indicated in a note to a judge yesterday

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  • August 29, 2003 | The Recorder

    Mofo the Latest to See Shanghai's Allure

    Morrison & Foerster is opening an office in Shanghai, making it the latest in a growing group of firms looking to the Chinese metropolis as a hot spot for future growth.MoFo, which

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  • October 29, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Stewart Defense Continues for Fourth Day Accused lawyer Lynne Stewart continued to insist yesterday that her actions representing imprisoned Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman were

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  • September 25, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    How Much Disclosure Is Enough?

    When Manhattan U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff scuttled Bank of America Corp.'s $33 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, he didn't mince words. The settlement, Rakoff fume

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  • August 3, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    City, State Hit With $30 Million Malicious Prosecution Suit A Brooklyn man who spent 15 years in prison before his murder conviction was thrown out in June by a federal

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  • September 20, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Lawyers and Technology: Westlaw Goes Wireless

    The lawyer's love affair with book-based research officially ended about 15 years ago.That's when computer-based platforms such as Lexis and Westlaw started to take off at the nation's

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