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  • December 5, 2002 |

    The Gadget Factor

    Three years ago or so, in the heady days of the Internet, there was a brief period during which some law firm leaders thought that they could achieve better lawyering through technology. Exper

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  • March 26, 2001 | New York Law Journal

    Associates Pan NBC's 'First Years'

    Judging from the reactions of a group of young lawyers to "First Years," NBC's new television series about first-year associates at a San Francisco law firm, the network's executives need not

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  • December 4, 2006 | Alm

    Competition Has Firms Digging Deeper on Campus

    As law firms sought to bolster and diversify their summer associate programs during the fall recruiting season this year, some of them ventured beyond the list of law schools they usually visit or

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  • June 15, 2000 | New York Law Journal

    Lawyers Retool Tech Practices After Dot-Com Downturn

    Until this April's market crash, law firms were putting great stock in their own technology practices. Even firms with no particular history of representing start-ups began to develop and prom

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  • December 30, 2002 | Legal Times

    Port Authority

    Just before Thanksgiving, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association announced they had an agreement that would end the massive West Coast port

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  • April 26, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Insolvency Cases Plummet, But Firms Expect Upswing

    Bankruptcy filings plummeted last year, the first full year after the a major revision in the federal bankruptcy code. Filings in the federal bankruptcy courts dropped 70 percent natio

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  • August 20, 2003 | The Associated Press

    Enron Asks Judge to Get Tough on Deadbeat Customers

    Enron Corp.'s creditors will likely get a fraction of the billions they are due, but the bankrupt energy giant wants every penny from those who owe it money.Enron is asking a judge to

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  • June 17, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Greenberg Traurig Hires Maher for London Launch Greenberg Traurig is set to launch a London office with the addition of former Mayer Brown partner Paul Maher. Mr. Maher is joining

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  • September 2, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Alien Tort Action Survives Concerns of U.S., Canada

    The opposition of the U.S. State Department and the government of Canada to a lawsuit against a Canadian oil company over human rights abuses in the Sudan was not enough to convince a federal

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  • November 28, 2000 |

    The Managing Partner's Dilemma

    "No lawyer with a U.S. firm would dream of giving up his practice while being managing partner" says Kurt Wimmer.Wimmer recently relocated from the Washington headquarters of Covington

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