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  • May 25, 2007 | Legal Times

    Smaller law firms mull associate salary hikes

    In the first weeks after a couple of local stalwarts raised their starting salaries for first-year associates to $160,000, Washington, D.C.'s largest firms are in a holding pattern, all nervo

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  • July 5, 2004 | Legal Times

    Inadmissible: Majoras' Nomination Held Up; No Orrick-Swidler Merger; and More

    FTC NOMINEE LOCKED IN SENATE LIMBOIt's not personal. If there is a message for President George W. Bush's nominee to head the Federal Trade Commission from

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  • May 27, 2005 | The Recorder

    Making a Play for Private Equity

    Leveraged buyouts are back -- and they're bigger than at any time since the 1980s.Consider the recent string of private equity purchases: $6.6 billion for Toys 'R' Us, $5.1 billion for

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  • January 8, 2009 | The Recorder

    2009 M&A DOA?

    Last year was an unusual combination of deal doldrums and bare-knuckled lawyering for Silicon Valley deal makers. The new year could be even worse, unless swooning share prices can bring buyers bac

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  • May 6, 2005 | Alm

    Ousted Brobeck Leader Finally Breaks Silence

    Tower Snow Jr., the former chairman of Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, is finally telling his story of the firm's collapse. In a court document filed with the San Francisco bankruptcy

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  • April 26, 2010 | The Recorder

    Aglow with IPOs

    SAN FRANCISCO — Getting the call to do an IPO is "like finally getting a date with the cute girl in class," as one veteran corporate lawyer puts it. This year, Silicon V

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  • November 10, 2003 | The Recorder

    Sidebar

    SHE'S GOT GAME � EVEN IF HER SKYHOOK STILL NEEDS WORKMicki Singer matched Magic Johnson shot for shot -- that is until the ex-Laker slammed a wicked skyhook and sent her back to

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  • October 26, 2012 | The Recorder

    Market for Tech Transactions Lawyers Is Heating Up

    SAN FRANCISCO — Technology transaction practices have hit the big time. And lawyers like Shearman & Sterling's Richard Hsu have the rise of multimillion-dollar patent deals an

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  • October 17, 2005 | Legal Times

    On the Move

    BALLARD SPAHR ANDREWS INGERSOLL Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll brought in a four-attorney trademark group to its D.C. office from Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovs

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  • September 6, 2001 | The Recorder

    Back in Style

    Two years ago, when many top San Francisco Bay Area firms were raking it in from the tech sector, Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe looked like an old fogy.But now its old-economy

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