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  • May 31, 2006 | Legal Times

    Assessing the DLA Piper merger

    LAW FIRMS TYPICALLY advise Fortune 500 companies, not emulate them. But that's exactly what DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary did last November, when 47 lawyers on its leadership team met for a wee

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  • December 16, 1999 | The American Lawyer

    Y2K Challenge

    A Y2K meltdown is no excuse not to work. The wheels of legal commerce must keep turning. To handle worst-case scenarios, some law firms have devised some inventive emergency contingency plans.

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  • February 29, 2000 | New York Law Journal

    Joining a Dot-Com: The Pluses

    When Predictive Systems, a computer network company, went shopping for a general counsel, it went straight to the law firm that already was handling a good chunk of its business. The compan

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  • January 16, 2009 | The Recorder

    BAR-ometer

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  • November 1, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Patent Reform: The Second Act

    The America Invents Act, the historic 2011 law that reforms the U.S. patent system, saw its second phase take effect in September, creating new rules in the complex world of patents that in-h

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  • May 30, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    California Firms Want a Bite of the Big Apple

    In the race to expand in the New York market, the largest California law firms all share certain advantages over firms from elsewhere. Their large and wealthy home market supports highly

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  • February 8, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    'Samsung the Settler' Waves White Flag Again, This Time With Sharp

    Samsung Electronics has been one of the most reliable employers of IP legal talent in recent years. But it's a distinction the company doesn't seem interested in holding much longer. Last month, after

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  • October 29, 2009 | Daily Report Online

    Deal Watch: Suit tries to stall Allion's deal to go private

    As William Shakespeare noted, the course of true love never did run smooth. The same, it seems, could be said about going-private transactions. On Oct. 18, Allion Healthcare Inc., repr

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  • May 8, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Am Law 100 firms feel growing pains

    By Alison Frankel, The American Lawyer Since 1986, whe American Lawyer first published a list of the 100 highest-grossing firms in the United States, the total number of lawyers i

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  • September 12, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Being Part of the Solution

    The ability to serve the legal needs of poor and nearly poor New Yorkers remains, despite enormous effort, short of the mark. For the second year in a row, the Task Force to Expand Access to

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