• February 11, 2002 | Law.com

    Outside Counsel

    New Environmental Law Aimed to Spur EconomyOn Jan. 11, 2002, President Bush signed the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act (the Act) into law. The

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  • August 25, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Fortune 250's Go-To Firms

    When Joseph Ryan arrived at Marriott International Inc. back in December 1994 as its new general counsel, he inherited an Augean stable of well over 200 law firms. At the time, the bloated leg

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  • March 7, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Faraway Pay Day

    Has technology paid off at your firm? Here's the likely answer: probably not. In an ideal world, investment in technology would translate into larger revenues, lower costs, and high

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  • July 26, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Ex-Brokerage Assistant Fined $2,000 in Stewart Case A former brokerage assistant who helped Martha Stewart make her fateful stock trade and later became a government witness was

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  • April 30, 2007 | The Recorder

    Three Firm Leaders Come Out All-Stars in Peer Survey

    What's better than the Oscars and "American Idol" put together? A popularity contest of law firm leaders, of course. The consultants at Edge International took it upon themselves to poll law

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  • December 22, 2004 | Daily Report Online

    Lawyer, Hospitals Join to Make Poor Kids Well

    Meredith Hobbs [email protected] An unusual partnership to put lawyers in hospitals is making progress. The Health Law Partnership is a joint effort by Children's Healthca

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  • September 6, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Computer Voir Dire

    A new computer software program that helps weed out biased jurors is raising a dilemma for lawyers: Should they go with their gut instinct when picking jurors, or listen to a computer?Do

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  • January 30, 2001 | New York Law Journal

    Career Development Makes Partners

    In today's highly competitive talent market, an evolutionary change to career development is currently underway.Instead of working for years at the same law firm waiting to be chosen p

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  • August 25, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Biotech Boom Creating Demand for Specialty Lawyers

    The increasing use of genetics in everything from investigating crimes to improving food is keeping biotech lawyers busy.There's only one problem: Scientific discoveries are invading t

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  • December 9, 2005 | Legal Times

    Bingham McCutchen to Acquire Swidler Berlin

    Boston-based Bingham McCutchen plans to acquire the ailing Washington, D.C., law firm Swidler Berlin by the beginning of next year, a Bingham spokesman confirmed Thursday.The deal awai

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