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  • May 10, 2010 | Daily Business Review

    Holy nonequity partners!

    Last year, as law firms struggled with the brutal realities of the recession, many managing partners took the tried-and-true approach to cutting costs--layoffs. At The Am Law 100, the hardest

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  • June 29, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Partner Profits at Elite Firms Hit $2 Million Mark

    Among the nation's largest law firms, $1 million in profits per partner used to be the benchmark that separated the elite from everybody else. Judging from this year's AmLaw 100 Survey, that m

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  • March 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Fear Factor

    Ryan Rettmann left Thacher Proffitt & Wood in the nick of time. Last March, not long before the subprime crash paralyzed the debt markets, the first-year structured finance associate moved

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  • December 29, 2008 | Legal Times

    Burning Down the House

    It’s official: 2008 is the year the Big Law boom came to a screeching halt. Deal flow is dead, hundreds of lawyers and staff were pink-slipped, and some major Am

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  • May 6, 2009 | National Law Journal

    ASSOCIATE MOVERS

    ASSOCIATE PROMOTIONS TO PARTNER Bowman and Brooke (Minneapolis): Scott Paxton has been promoted to partnership. Paxton will practice in the aut

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  • November 19, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Firms face new rules for retirement

    With hordes of attorneys poised to assume senior status, achieving a consensus among partners to ditch mandatory retirement policies is just the first step � and perhaps the easiest � in

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  • January 20, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Patent Suit Filings Take a Dive

    New federal court filings of patent infringement lawsuits, often considered an area of law relatively immune from a recession, dropped significantly in the last five months of 2008. La

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  • July 19, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    First Victims` Fund Letters Expected

    To date, 605 families have started the application process. It is estimated that by the time the process is finished, the fund will have paid out more than $4 billion to the families of the 2,

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  • July 1, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

    ITC Survey: The Slugfest Continues

    The array of high-tech goods on the International Trade Commission's docket in 2010 would make any gadget fan drool. Flat-screen TVs, GPS and video game systems, digital cameras, smart

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  • August 1, 2008 | The Recorder

    Real Estate Lawyers Mixing It Up

    If Michael Greene hadn't diversified his real estate practice two years ago, he'd be a lot less busy these days. At the height of the real estate boom, the Walnut Creek sol

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