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  • December 10, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Nothing Personal

    It's not personal. This is the current mantra of law firms with regards to their staff members, associates, and partners. "Sorry, first-year associate, you won't be starting

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  • April 22, 2004 | Special To Law.Com

    Low Visibility

    It's no secret that law firms are caste systems. In the early '80s, I worked my way through law school as a temp secretary at 18 of San Francisco's biggest firms, and quickly learned an import

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  • August 10, 2007 | Lawfirminc.

    Survey Says Librarians Like Their Jobs but Are Displeased With Vendors

    Refer to it as the library, and Sarah Nichols will quickly correct you, with just a bit of an edge in her voice. "We call it the Information Resource Center, or IRC," says Nichols, the global direc

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  • March 31, 2009 | Legal Times

    Whole Foods-Wild Oats Deal Leaves Controversial Legacy

    Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the roles of certain FTC lawyers in the case. As corporate mergers go, the purchase of

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  • July 8, 2013 | National Law Journal

    In-House Counsel Profile: LinkedIn's Erika Rottenberg

    COMPANY PROFILE Founded in 2003, LinkedIn Corp. is an online networking and social-media service used by more than 200 million professionals around the

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  • December 7, 2009 | Law.com Corporate

    Wilson Sonsini's Jackpot Pursuit

    When John Roos left Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in May to become U.S. ambassador to Japan, he was forced to leave behind his stake in the law firm's famed investment fund, WS Investment Co

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  • May 16, 2008 | Law.com Corporate

    Public Interest Projects

    Ten lawyers from Dewey & LeBoeuf were the first to receive worldwide news in which an international arbitration court on May 16 cleared the way for a double-amputee

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  • November 7, 2009 | National Law Journal

    The List, A-Z

    Adams and Reese 161 Adorno & Yoss 147 Akerman Senterfitt 83 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld 35 Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory& Natsis 174 Alst

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  • October 1, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Deals in Brief/Health Care

    This month's Big Deals column opens with Aetna Inc.'s $7.3 billion agreement to buy Coventry Health Care Inc. Before that deal was announced there was a burst of dealmaking in

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  • November 5, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Dewey chair positive of firm's future

    It's been a year since Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae joined forces to become Dewey & LeBoeuf, now one of the largest players on the New York legal scene.

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