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  • June 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    The Am Law Second Hundred-2008: The Law Firm Investor's Guide

    The prospect of taking law firms public is back on the agenda of the profession's chattering class. Georgetown's law school held a recent conference; Bruce MacEwen, writing as Adam Smith, blogged o

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  • September 27, 2005 | The Recorder

    Headhunting heats up in China market

    Earlier this year, New York-based recruiter Henry Lipschutz persuaded Kurt Berney, a prized partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, to join O'Melveny & Myers' China practice.

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  • September 4, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    N.J. Mergers & Acquisitions

    NRG Completes $239M Sale of Australian Power Station NRG Energy of Princeton, a developer and maintainer of power generation facilities, announced last Wednesday the com

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  • October 12, 2007 | The Recorder

    Marriage Amici Signal Turning Point

    In what is likely to be one of the most heavily briefed cases in the history of the California Supreme Court, the best and brightest of California's legal eagles have stepped forward to suppor

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  • September 29, 2008 | The Recorder

    Heller Ehrman Partners Vote on Dissolution

    After 118 years, San Francisco law firm Heller Ehrman put dissolution of the firm to a partnership vote last week. The votes were still being counted as Legal Times went t

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  • January 27, 2006 | The Recorder

    Pillsbury's Cranston Set to Step Down

    Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman Chair Mary Cranston announced Thursday that she will not run again after her third term ends in December. The firm's managing partner, Marina Park, said she too

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  • July 1, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

    The 2011 Diversity Scorecard

    Each firm's diversity score was calculated by adding its percentage of minority U.S. lawyers to its percentage of minority U.S. partners. For an explanation of our methodology, a list of nonrespond

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  • November 1, 2006 | The Minority Law Journal

    Diversity of Opinion

    There's no one-size-fits-all solution for making law firms more inclusive. Different ethnic groups have different concerns and perceptions. That's the lesson from our second Minority Ex

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  • September 9, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Law Firm Hopes to Turn Scientists Into Lawyers

    There are plenty of patent attorneys in Silicon Valley, but there aren't enough like Alexander Shvarts. The Ropes & Gray associate possesses a combination of science and communication s

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  • May 25, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Some Firms Bucking Big-Firm Tradition

    As far as Mark Harris is concerned, the recent round of pay hikes for first-year associates at some of the nation's biggest law firms is the equivalent of applying a Band-Aid to a head w

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