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  • September 23, 2008 | Bloomberg

    Treasury needs you just to believe

    Here's the truth why Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson wants $700 billion of your money to bail out stupid financial companies. It's not protecting you, the unwitting American. It's

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  • January 5, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Dechert to Pay Bonuses, Raise Salaries

    Dechert informed its U.S. associates Monday morning that bonuses would be paid for 2009 across the country and salaries would not be frozen or cut for 2010 in all but two of the firm's offices.

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  • August 9, 2010 | National Law Journal

    The Big Three are thrown on the defensive

    Indianapolis has long been dominated by three homegrown law firms: Baker & Daniels, Barnes & Thornburg and Ice Miller. Now newcomers to the city are making plays to knock them from the podi

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  • December 18, 2000 | The Recorder

    Justices Weigh in on Key Internet-Related Dispute

    The California Supreme Court has weighed in on the controversial debate over court jurisdiction in Internet-related disputes.The suit, DVD Copy Control Association v. McLauhglin

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  • December 17, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

    NYC Bar Establishes Diversity Office

    The Association of the Bar of the City of New York has announced the establishment of a full-time Office of Diversity as part of a broad initiative to increase the presence of minorities in th

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  • January 26, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

    Cutting the Power Supply: FERC vs. Bankruptcy Courts

    One of the most powerful weapons in a debtor's Chapter 11 arsenal is the power to reject burdensome executory contracts under �365 of the Bankruptcy Code. Upon filing a bankruptcy petition, th

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  • December 21, 2009 | The Associated Press

    Five lessons for next time banks come begging

    The last of America's largest, systemically dangerous banks are about to repay their government rescue money. And while the public's anger at bailing them out has only grown since last year,

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  • September 29, 2003 | The Recorder

    Federal Circuit tweaks 'Festo' decision again

    The Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that judges, not juries, are to decide whether a patent holder can use a key intellectual property protection in patent disputes.

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  • January 11, 2000 | Texas Lawyer

    New Year, New Salaries

    As Texas firms mull over what to do about Vinson & Elkins' late-year decision to hike associate salaries by an abundant 10 percent, a Silicon Valley firm with an office in Austin raised stakes

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  • June 5, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Sliding Dollar Hurts U.S. firms in U.K.

    Since they started arriving in London in droves in the mid-1990s, U.S. firms have used the lure of higher profits per partner and associate salaries as one of their most powerful recruiting to

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