• December 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Storm Warnings

    Sooner or later, it was bound to happen. After six years of keeping expenses down-largely through eschewing the associate salary wars of the late 1990s and dramatic ramp-ups in head count-law

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  • June 28, 2012 | Litigation Daily

    Litigator of the Week: Michael Calhoon of Baker Botts

    Shortly before the start of the jury trial in Liberty Media Corp's decade-old contract suit against Vivendi Universal SA, the judge overseeing the case forced Vivendi to stipulate to certain

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  • June 30, 1999 | The Recorder

    Silicon Valley Pioneer Folds Office

    Brown & Bain, once one of the Silicon Valley's leading intellectual property litigation firms, is closing its Palo Alto office at the end of July. The decision, which comes after years o

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  • July 21, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    Watts at Stake: AEP Powers Up With a New Top Lawyer in the Socket

    When you're dealing with power, it always pays to have a backup plan. This philosophy came in handy for American Electric Power Company, Inc., in April, when its general cou

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  • January 9, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

    N.J. Merger Activity Up in '06

    New Jersey mergers and acquisitions enjoyed a rebound in 2006, following a fall-off in the prior year.Deal statistics culled by Thomson Financial of New York, which tracks publicly trade

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  • August 6, 2008 | Special To Law.Com

    How to Get the Most From Today's Law Firm CMO

    While even the most successful law firms are feeling the pinch, if not the bite, of the down economy, many are still adding to or upgrading their marketing talent. Even as salaries have leveled off

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  • September 26, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

    Nancy Drew and the Lack of Lawyer Protagonists

    While flipping through the book review pages of a magazine the other day, I came across something unforgettable: a paean to the old Nancy Drew mystery stories, all of which apparently are avai

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  • June 27, 2001 | National Law Journal

    Taking Names (off the Door)

    They call it branding. It's the law firm marketing director's quest to make the firm's name a household word to all the in-houses. It's shooting to become the Coke or Ford of the new law busin

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  • July 31, 2008 | Law.com

    Associates Survey 2008

    Ranking The Firms: National Rank

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  • April 17, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    AmBase Corp., plaintiff-appellantv. City Investing Co. Liquidating Trust, defendants-appellees Decided April 3, 2003 Before Walker, C.J.; Oakes and Miner, C.JJ., Appeal from ju

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