• September 15, 2003 | Legal Times

    We've Been There, Done That (Part 2)

    Sept. 28, 1987WITH $62M, COVINGTON LEADS IN REVENUESThe D.C. offices of two New York megafirms � Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Mea

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  • December 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Gray Matters

    Getting old has never been so good. If you're healthy and productive and eager to keep working, there's a law firm out there that wants you. Need work/life balance? No problem. Fancy setting y

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  • March 5, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Orrick Does Not Hide Its Name Under Bushel

    INMIDTOWN Manhattan, the names of most major law firms can usually be found discreetly etched, embossed or carved somewhere in the lobby. But few so far have ventured beyond into the realm of

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  • April 21, 2003 | The Recorder

    The Last Days of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison

    On the afternoon of Feb. 2, a Sunday, some 50 partners squeezed into Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's San Francisco conference room to hear Stephen Snyder's plan to salvage the

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  • January 3, 2003 | The American Lawyer

    Debt Collectors

    It started with a seismic event. The Kobe earthquake of January 1995 sent the Japanese stock market tumbling just when Nick Leeson, a 28-year-old trader at Barings plc, bet that it would climb

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  • January 1, 2011 | Focus Europe

    The French Empires

    Gide Loyrette Nouel is the pinot noir of law firms. The most exquisite of wine grapes, pinot grows in small quantities in many regions around the world, but sometimes fails to flourish, and always

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  • September 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    Getting Into the Ring

    More than any of its neighbors, Spain is Western Europe's start-up � the Old World country with a newfound energy. In the three decades since the death of Franco (and with it, the repressive r

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  • January 1, 2013 | International

    What's a Mid-Tier Firm to Do?

    The recent spate of megamergers that has transformed the top of the Australian legal market has posed a tough question for mid-tier firms: Should they link up too? So far, most are saying no.

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  • February 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    The Lateral Report: China From the Inside

    The American Lawyer has expanded its coverage of the Asian legal market with the launch of The Asian Lawyer, a new weekly e-newsletter reporting on law firm news, corpo

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  • April 11, 2003 | The Recorder

    The Last Days of Brobeck

    On the afternoon of Feb. 2, a Sunday, some 50 partners squeezed into Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's San Francisco conference room to hear Stephen Snyder's plan to salvage the firm

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