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  • February 5, 2007 | The Recorder

    Pillsbury Pursues Stable Growth

    Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has been dogged by inconsistent growth, sluggish profits and controversial mergers in recent years � and the question keeps being asked, can the firm turn its f

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  • December 23, 2009 | Bloomberg

    Firms slash year-end associate bonuses

    Law firms including Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom cut year-end bonuses for first-year lawyers by as much as 71 percent, part of a bid to keep client

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  • September 11, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Dismissed Partner Sues Holland & Knight for Fraud, Age Bias

    The end of John K. Weir's career at Holland & Knight arrived on his Connecticut doorstep the Saturday morning of Nov. 16, 2002, in an express mail envelope. The enclosed memo from firm G

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  • March 15, 2004 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    San FranciscoOn April 17, the California Bar Association will induct Kurt Melchior and Ephraim Margolin into the Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame.Mel

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  • July 14, 2003 | Legal Times

    On the Move

    BUCHANAN INGERSOLLChristopher Schwartz has joined Buchanan Ingersoll as a pa in the firm's commercial litigation practice. Schwartz, 49, was most recently a pa

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  • November 20, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Memory chip probe sparks suits

    An ongoing antitrust probe by the U.S. Department of Justice has sparked a wave of lawsuits against another segment of the computer memory chip industry. Cases against companies

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  • March 24, 2008 | The Recorder

    Foley Lawsuit Sparks Discovery Tiff

    Plaintiffs in employment suits might suspect their former bosses are hiding documents in discovery, but they can't always prove it. Charles Wisch, who represents a fired Foley & Lardner le

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  • June 18, 2008 | The Recorder

    New derivative deal approved in Zoran backdating settlement

    Northern District of California Judge William Alsup's displeasure with paying the attorneys and not the company in a stock option backdating settlement has been assuaged. Lawyers in a

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  • May 15, 2006 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    UPDATESDorsey & Whitney has named Marianne Short as managing partner of the 638-attorney firm. Short, a trial attorney, joined Dorsey & Whitne

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  • March 6, 2009 | Law.com Corporate

    BigLaw Firm Axes 55 Lawyers, 100 Staffers

    SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman laid off 55 lawyers and 100 staff on Thursday, finalizing a move revealed by an indiscreet partner on an Amtrak train last month. The cuts include

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