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  • July 13, 2001 | Legal Times

    Downsizing Dilemmas

    We pause for a moment to remember the law firm "showplace library" -- that big, beautiful, marble-and-maple sanctuary filled with endless aisles of legal tomes. In the grandeur of their archit

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  • October 31, 2001 | The American Lawyer

    Lessons From the Global 100

    Now the business is getting serious. Collectively, the firms that comprise The Global 100, a joint project of The American Lawyer and Legal Business, the London monthly, gr

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  • October 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Metal Heads

    Never mind that Rio Tinto plc didn't want BHP Billiton to take it over. The $164 billion hostile bid itself signaled that something was changing in the mining sector. The bid is more tha

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  • July 29, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Outside, Looking In

    Big-firm l may think they have all the answers, but some of the biggest innovations affecting large firms have originated outside the large-firm world, with in-house counsel and nonl

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  • June 2, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Public Interest Projects

    DLA Makes Headway on Asylum After nearly three years of legal proceedings and postponements involving a twice-rescheduled trial, political asylum was granted late last month to

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  • March 21, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    In The Trenches: Helping Georgia's juvenile code grow up

    MORE THAN 130 LAWYERS from 10 Atlanta firms attended a training session Monday that is part of a major volunteer effort to overhaul the Georgia Juvenile Code, enacted in 1971 as O.C.G.A. �&se

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  • August 26, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Orrick Gets Bulk of Coudert in China

    NEW YORK � Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has agreed to acquire most of Coudert Brothers' China practice, in the first such move to follow Coudert's announcement last week that it is disba

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  • July 5, 2012 | Daily Report Online

    Why Dewey died: A rule barring nonlawyers from investing is key to law firm implosions

    When a rich and powerful law firm like Dewey & LeBoeuf collapses, the inevitable post-mortem focuses on the particular events that led to the firm's downfall. We are told that the firm fo

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  • November 28, 2001 | Texas Lawyer

    Sisters in Law

    Who were our sisters in law who paved the way, blazed the trail? What motivated them to take those giant leaps into untested waters? What were the circumstances, and where did they get t

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  • February 12, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn: Lateral Moves in The Am Law 200

    Corporate and securities attorney TRAVIS LEACH has joined Ballard Spahr's mergers and acquisitions and private equity groups. Leach joins as a partner in the firm's Phoenix o

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