• October 1, 2004 | The American Lawyer

    The Inflation Temptation

    Like surfing the Internet during a conference call, bill padding is the sort of activity that many lawyers do, but few will admit to.In this year's Midlevel Associates Survey, however,

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  • July 24, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    Inadmissible

    Trade Secrets SuitDue to a high-low agreement negotiated during jury deliberations, a jury that returned a $251.7 million actual damages verdict in a trade-secrets suit in 333rd

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  • July 6, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Pens and Paper Clips, With a Dash of Dot-Com

    In-House Counsel Jack A. VanWoerkom, Staples Inc.TITLE: Senior vice president, general counsel and secretaryAGE: 46THE COMPANY: Incorporated

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  • November 20, 2000 | Law.com

    Movers & Shakers

    NEW HIRESPalo Alto, Calif.'s Cooley Godward has hired Adam J. Ruttenberg, 33, as a partner in the firm's business department in Reston, Va. He was previously the vice president

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  • October 22, 2007 | International Edition

    UBS GC Speaks Out on Law Firm Fees

    Some of London's leading figures gathered earlier this month to hear three of commercial law's leading figures discuss the state of the legal profession at a Legal Week event. Outgoin

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  • July 28, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Social Media: Who's Looking at You, Kid?

    Online communities boast more than 400 million users worldwide, composing more than 160 million groups, spending upwards of 500 billion minutes per month discussing celebrity gossip, and oh, yeah &

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  • October 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    The Great Game

    Soon after Simon Davies took over as Linklaters's managing partner in the fall of 2007, he brought together a gr

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  • March 24, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Law's Not Like the Sports World

    Everywhere you turn these days, even if you aren't a golf fan, it's Annika, Annika, Annika. Annika Sorenstam, the most famous golfer in the world not named Tiger, is scheduled to tee-off in the Coloni

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  • May 12, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    $3 Mil. Settlement Reached In Listeria Food-Poisoning Case

    Settlements have been reached in three of the four lawsuits filed by the victims of a deadly food-poisoning outbreak in 2002 that was traced to two turkey processing plants operated by Pilgrim

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  • May 30, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Gulf War Vet Suit to Expand

    Nine years after filing a lawsuit on behalf of 5,000 sick Gulf War veterans, a Texas attorney plans to take his legal battle against companies that allegedly helped arm Iraq to New York, with

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