• October 25, 2004 | The Recorder

    Sidebar

    LAWYERS SOUGHT TO MAKE ELECTION DAY GO SMOOTHERWanted: a few good multilingual attorneys to save the presidential election from fraud or error.Several hundred Bay Area l

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  • February 1, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

    Enron Mess Gives a Boost to MDP Foes

    The controversy over Arthur Andersen's handling of Enron Corp.'s books may not only stain the accounting giant's reputation but also could be a fatal blow to an often talked-about marriage of the a

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  • January 17, 2006 | The Recorder

    Keker Matches Associate Salary Hikes

    Days after two big L.A. firms hiked base salaries for associates, San Francisco's Keker & Van Nest announced it was matching the raise.Keker partner Christopher Kearney said last week that t

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  • December 19, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Business Is More His Calling Than Law

    IN-HOUSE COUNSEL: Francis X. Frantz, Alltel Corp., Little Rock, Ark.TITLE: Executive vice president of external affairs, general counsel and secretaryAGE:

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  • June 27, 2000 | The Recorder

    Privacy Patrol

    Already bedeviled by legislators and consumer advocates about their privacy policies, Internet companies now have a new foe to contend with: the class action bar. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes &

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  • August 15, 2003 | The Recorder

    Zapped by Outage, Firms Scramble to Cope

    One of the problems with going global is that when disaster occurs in some far-flung locale, every corner of the law firm is affected.Take Thursday's massive blackout on the East Coast

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  • October 1, 2009 | National Law Journal

    DOJ: Proposed Settlement Reached in State Secrets Suit in D.C.

    A tentative settlement has been reached in a long-running suit that alleges a former intelligence agent and a State Department official unlawfully eavesdropped on a DEA agent, potentially bringing

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  • February 21, 2006 | The Recorder

    Cherry-Picking Talent

    Norman Cruz was stuck at a big firm with no place to grow.After nine years as a real estate associate with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the 36-year-old Boalt Hall School of La

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  • August 12, 2002 | The Recorder

    IP Firm Lyon & Lyon Closes Up Shop

    After several years of losing partners and big-ticket litigation work to general practice firms, Los Angeles-based Lyon & Lyon announced Thursday that it is closing its doors at the end of

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  • January 27, 2000 | Legal Times

    Double Trouble

    "Get Alan Fisch," Robert Ruyak said to his secretary as he hung up the phone. Ruyak, managing partner of D.C.'s Howrey Simon Arnold & White, had just finished a conference call with a pr

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