• May 21, 2012 | International

    Trading House Rules

    General trading companies, or sogo shosha, play a unique role in Japan’s economy.  As their name implies, they trade, going

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  • July 21, 1999 | Corporate Counsel

    Power And Women

    What is power? How do you know when you've got it in today's legal profession? How do top-ranking women lawyers view their jobs, lives, and young female colleagues? To find out, Corporate Counsel s

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  • August 29, 2001 | The Recorder

    Firms Calm Nerves in Cooley's Wake

    Even law firms that didn't lay off associates were doing damage control in the wake of Cooley Godward's cuts.Morrison & Foerster, Pillsbury Winthrop and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &am

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  • July 26, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Bad Times for Big Banks Mean Good Ones for Their Outside Counsel

    While Barclays, HSBC, and JPMorgan Chase have been working through some difficult regulatory and compliance issues recently, their lawyers from several major Am Law 100 and international fi

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  • June 26, 2008 | Legal Pad

    Kennard: 'I Could've Been the Maid'

    Legal Pad was once an idealistic journalism student. Read the latest posts on the main page, or sample a la carte:

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  • August 15, 2007 | The Recorder

    SEC is preparing option to charge former GC of KLA

    BY THE TIME its fiscal year ends on Sept. 30, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's San Francisco office plans to have civil charges against another Silicon Valley lawyer under its b

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  • January 23, 2013 | New Jersey Law Journal

    2012 Innovation Awards from Law Technology News

    The 2012 Law Technology News (LTN) Innovation Award winners reflect a diversity of creative projects and leadership, from legal education to e-discovery. The innovators among us are cr

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  • October 30, 2007 | The Associated Press

    Black Lawyers Still Rare at U.S. Supreme Court

    As of Monday, when Drew Days III argued a case on behalf of a shuttered brokerage firm that is seeking to recover $4.5 million in losses, more than a year had passed since a black lawyer in private

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  • April 2, 2010 | The Recorder

    BAR-ometer

    Oakland attorney Jon Eisenberg (up)After four years of bitter and sometimes bizarre litigation, he gets the judgment

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  • September 10, 2010 | The Recorder

    New NetApp GC Hails From JDS

    When NetApp, Inc. needed a new top lawyer to replace Andy Kryder, who retired after serving as general counsel for 10 years, it

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