• June 18, 2010 | The Recorder

    Ex-CEO of KLA Settles Most SEC Charges

    SAN FRANCISCO — One of the longest-running fights waged by the Securities and Exchange Commission over stock option backdating has settled. Former KLA-Tencor CEO Kenneth Schroeder agree

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  • June 21, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Duane Morris Enters Latin America With Mexico City Alliance

    When Duane Morris partner Eduardo Ramos-Gómez finished helping his firm ink the final version of a joint venture agreement with Singapore-based Selvam to form Duane Morris & Selvam J

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  • August 1, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

    The Associated Press Gets It Wrong

    Nimble at covering breaking news across the globe, with reporters in 97 countries, the Associated Press trips over its own feet when it comes to the twenty-first-century task of handling bloggers.

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  • May 9, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

    PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

    Events Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts, the League of Women Voters and the Committee of Seventy will sponsor an educational program for Philadelphians titl

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  • February 27, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    An Arm and a Leg?

    In 2006 Dechert was facing a potentially budget-busting task: During the next 18 months, it would need to relocate its three largest offices. Capital expenses were

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  • December 13, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Free!: The NYLJ 100

    A few years ago, they seemed like the also-rans among out-of-town firms expanding in New York. Boston's Ropes & Gray, Philadelphia's Dechert and London's Linklaters we

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  • March 10, 2010 | The Recorder

    After Delays, KLA Backdating Suit Settles

    It's the not-so-little settlement that could. Former KLA-Tencor Corp. executives have agreed to settle a lawsuit over stock option backdating after four years of torturous litigation, a cl

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  • May 6, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Firms Facing Tougher Loan Terms

    Law firms needing extra capital from banks to weather the rough economy are finding that the times -- and the terms -- have changed. Many law firms are seeing a slowdown in work and a lengt

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  • December 14, 2012 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    SAN FRANCISCO Bankruptcy litigation firm Macdonald Fernandez has added Matthew Olson as an associate. Olson previously served as law clerk to U.S

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  • August 6, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Happy Associates Are Found Where Layoffs Are Not

    When news of layoffs started to become almost a daily event late last year, Gibbons made a point of telling associates that it was committed to avoiding staff or attorney cuts and so far management

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