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  • August 19, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Coudert Breakup Voted After Merger Talks Fail

    Partners at pioneering international law firm Coudert Brothers have voted to let the firm break up after failing to reach a merger agreement with another firm. "After exploring variou

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  • January 23, 2006 | National Law Journal

    As Times Get Better, So Do the Bonuses

    Associates at several big law firms across the country welcomed the new year with hefty bonuses that were moderately higher than the year before, a reflection of the legal industry's recent prosper

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  • June 19, 2000 | Special To Law.Com

    Summer (Associate) Dreams

    Honeysuckle.Snaking up the brick latticework in the backyard of the Harlem brownstone. A single giant elm. Clay pots filled with impatiens. Citronella and wisteria. Pink tableclo

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  • November 5, 2007 | National Law Journal

    VOIR DIRE

    Bar Hopping Tom O'Neill has no problem telling his wife he's off to his second job, because when he's not practicing law, he's elbow-deep in hops and barley malt at the Th

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  • February 11, 2002 | Law.com

    Outside Counsel

    New Environmental Law Aimed to Spur EconomyOn Jan. 11, 2002, President Bush signed the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act (the Act) into law. The

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  • August 25, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Fortune 250's Go-To Firms

    When Joseph Ryan arrived at Marriott International Inc. back in December 1994 as its new general counsel, he inherited an Augean stable of well over 200 law firms. At the time, the bloated leg

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  • March 7, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Faraway Pay Day

    Has technology paid off at your firm? Here's the likely answer: probably not. In an ideal world, investment in technology would translate into larger revenues, lower costs, and high

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  • July 26, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Ex-Brokerage Assistant Fined $2,000 in Stewart Case A former brokerage assistant who helped Martha Stewart make her fateful stock trade and later became a government witness was

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  • April 30, 2007 | The Recorder

    Three Firm Leaders Come Out All-Stars in Peer Survey

    What's better than the Oscars and "American Idol" put together? A popularity contest of law firm leaders, of course. The consultants at Edge International took it upon themselves to poll law

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  • February 11, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Clearing the Way to Work Effectively With Outside Litigation Counsel

    Relations between in-house counsel and outside litigation counsel come in all varieties. Birds of a feather. Oil and water. Everybody obviously wants to avoid the latter. And in today's economic cl

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