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  • July 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    THE A-LIST 2011 Upheaval in the Ranks

    Some firms moved down. But they all moved. None of the firms on the 2010 A-List returned to the same spot this year. Whether it was a result of a firm's spike in its associate satisfaction score,

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  • July 25, 2006 | The Recorder

    Justices Pan Students' Exit Strategy

    Near the end of arguments Tuesday over the validity of the state's high school exit exam, Justice Ignazio Ruvolo gave some insight into his own thoughts by quoting a 35-year-old U.S. Supreme C

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  • July 17, 2000 | Texas Lawyer

    Soaring Associate Salaries are a Sore Spot

    Law firms need a reality check, say support staffers who believe there is a huge disparity between the pay raises they received last year and those that have been handed to associates.

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  • February 6, 2004 | The Recorder

    Regulatory Clash Over Prop 65

    For years, nicotine gums and patches designed to wean smokers off cigarettes have carried warnings advising expectant mothers that the over-the-counter products could increase the heart rates

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  • April 22, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Courts Urged to Accept Videoconferencing

    A good defense lawyer taking apart the government's star witness during cross-examination puts the "confront" in the Constitution's confrontation clause.Hard to imagine achieving the s

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  • January 3, 2005 | Alm

    East Coast Firms Boost Bonuses, Some Doubling Last Year's Rates

    In tabulating bonuses for 2004, it appears that associates at East Coast firms may have had the jolliest holidays of all. Bonuses for new and senior associates in 2004 at many East Co

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  • January 28, 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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  • November 7, 2000 | The Recorder

    The Learning Curve

    New to the firm, fresh out of law school, and alone in his office finishing work late one night, a young associate at a large firm received a phone call from his supervising partner, who had j

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  • February 6, 2004 | The Recorder

    Sarbanes Provisions Pulling Litigators Into Investigations

    The vast rewrite of corporate governance law that gave rise to a new practice specialty for corporate lawyers in 2003 is doing the same for some litigators. In the wake of the Sarbanes

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  • May 12, 2006 | The Recorder

    Six Days, Six Lawyers, $24 Billion

    Golden West Financial Corp. General Counsel Michael Roster used to tell outside lawyers in speeches that there were certain firms he would call in to do a major transaction, or ("God forbid") a maj

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