• March 8, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn: Lateral Moves in The Am Law 200

    Venable has opened a new office in Wilmington, Delaware, its seventh on the East Coast and eighth nationwide. The firm announced Tuesday that is has hired JAMIE EDMONSON, a l

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  • February 8, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Busy time in Boston

    Boston law firms are seeing a pickup in lateral partner moves, with a few top practice group heads leading the way. Aside from several notable moves in the past couple of months, there's be

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  • June 19, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Jones Day's Nager on Back Nine as USGA Head

    Last week was filled with 18-hour days for Glen Nager. But he wasn't complaining. After all, the reason he was so busy was that the annual U.S. Open Championship golf tournament was

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  • December 16, 2004 | The Recorder

    'Relationships are what is important in Menlo Park'

    Don't let the "neo" fool you. Latham & Watkins partner Alan Mendelson drew on longtime ties in Silicon Valley to land the job of handling funding for pharmaceutical venture N

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  • October 17, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Counterfeits: Beyond the Knock-Off

    Counterfeiting is an enormous problem for businesses, consumers and law enforcement. The federal government estimates that counterfeit goods account for approximately $500 billion in sales each

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  • March 1, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Chain Reaction

    The anxiety in Ronald Beard's voice was hard to miss. Beard, the chairman of Los Angeles's Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, was hearing daily -- hourly even -- from associates with news of all of our

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  • November 30, 2010 | The Recorder

    Privacy Class Actions Lag Behind the Online World

    Plaintiffs attorney Scott Kamber is a privacy watchdog for consumers in the online world. Over the years, he's filed many class actions against companies over various security breaches of online in

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  • May 27, 2004 | The Recorder

    Secret Service

    After pulling a merger or launching an IPO, transactional lawyers often get to brag.But there's one kind of work that's usually hush-hush: inking outsourcing agreements.Given t

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  • June 27, 2001 | The American Lawyer

    Crash Landing

    Now that the new economy has sputtered to a halt, the big question facing San Francisco-area law firms is whether their record growth in profits and revenues will do the same.For

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  • August 23, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    SEC Hands Out First Whistleblower Payment, Hints at More To Come

    The significance of the first whistleblower payment from the Securities and Exchange Commission this week wasn’t the size of the payout—a paltry $50,000—but rather the clear me

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