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  • January 13, 2006 | Alm

    Attorneys' Bonuses Increase With Profits

    Associates at several big law firms across the country welcomed the new year with hefty bonuses that were moderately higher than the year before, a reflection of the legal industry's recent pr

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  • November 28, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Thacher Proffitt Warns Associates of Looming Layoffs Thacher Proffitt & Wood yesterday informed around 50 associates that their futures at the firm were uncertain because of

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  • July 21, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Settling on a Suitor

    Q: I'm a partner at a one-office firm in a major metropolitan area. Over the last six months we have received three to five inquiries a month from large, multioffice national firms that

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  • November 18, 2002 | National Law Journal

    Baker & McKenzie Is No. 1

    If Baker & Mckenzie needs a motto, this one might do: We're not tourists.The firm's chairwoman, Christine Lagarde, explains from her home in Paris. "When a plumber crosses the bord

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  • August 28, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Dewey and LeBoeuf to Merge

    NEW YORK � Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae have agreed to merge, creating a firm of more than 1,300 lawyers.Expected to become effective by October, subject to

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  • December 5, 2001 | New York Law Journal

    U.S. Securities Laws Meet Cross-Border M&A

    Because of the size and liquidity of the U.S. capital markets, many non-U.S. companies whose shares are traded principally outside the U.S. nonetheless also have shares traded in the U.S. or o

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  • December 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    No More Baby Steps

    Nothing was ordinary about the first civil trial stemming from Pfizer Inc's controversial epilepsy treatment, Neurontin. Both sides loudly complained about witness intimidation. Color

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  • November 13, 2012 | The Careerist

    Blame It on Big Law -- and Maybe Hubby

    For the text of this article, see Blame It on Big Law -- and Maybe Hubby from The Ca

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  • January 16, 2001 | Alm

    Spain

    Law firms have been discovering that there's far more to Spain than Iberian business stereotypes would suggest. Since a fiscally conservative government took power in 1996, the country has bee

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  • April 17, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    McDermott Sued for Role In Bankruptcy

    A bankruptcy trustee for Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers of New York has sued McDermott, Will & Emery for legal malpractice, charging that partners at the Chicago-based law firm "

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