• April 21, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Deal of the Week

    Chase Manhattan Corp. has hired New York's Simpson Thacher & Bartlett as U.S. counsel, and London's Clifford Chance as United Kingdom counsel, for its $7.7 billion purchase of Robert Fleming Ho

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  • November 29, 2010 | Alm Media

    Crash, Layoffs, Defections Trigger Shakeup in Firm Leadership

    ATLANTA - After a quarter-century as managing partner of Ruden McClosky, Carl Schuster will step down next year, to be succeeded by his second-in-command, Michael Krul. S

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  • December 12, 2007 | The Recorder

    Top Firms Break Pro Bono ICE

    Undocumented Bay Area immigrants are receiving an early holiday gift this season: potential representation from nearly 60 attorneys from 15 firms in challenging the constitutionality of Immigr

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  • June 9, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

    News in Brief

    Fen-Phen Plaintiffs Settle Before Jury awards $6 Mil. Verdict A Philadelphia jury yesterday was poised to award a total of $6 million in potential damages to three Arizona women

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  • November 18, 2010 | The Careerist

    Meet The Lawyer Behind the YouTube Hit

    Who says you can't be a hardwork

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  • May 3, 2000 | The Legal Intelligencer

    The Ever-Changing World of Lateral Hires

    When Cathy Abelson started her career as a legal recruiter in the early 1980s, the phrase "lateral hire" was a foreign one to law firm managers. "We had to explain what we meant when we said

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  • November 16, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Ten Years After

    David B. Pudlin and William T. Hangley both vividly remember the day they realized they would no longer be able to practice law with their longtime colleagues at Hangley Connolly Epstein Chicc

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  • March 16, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Summer Hiring Is Heating Up

    Several of the nation's top law firms are hiring more summer associates for the upcoming season, with a few bringing aboard significantly greater numbers of would-be lawyers than in years past.

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  • December 20, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

    PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

    Announcement The Jenkins Law Library will be closed from Saturday through Monday, Dec. 24-26, for the Christmas holiday. It will reopen Tuesday, Dec. 27, and resume normal busin

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  • September 7, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Slowdown in Filings Fuels Competition for Bankruptcy Cases

    Something new is facing New York's bankruptcy bar—a slowdown in business. Just two years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., the number of businesses filing for Ch

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