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  • February 26, 2001 | New York Law Journal

    Eliminate Lockstep Model and Reward Performance, Not Time Served

    The past 15 months have seen a remarkable repricing of associate labor among large U.S. law firms.Beginning at the end of 1999, the firms began accelerating the rate at which the

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  • May 13, 2013 | The Recorder

    Fenwick Sets Course for China

    SAN FRANCISCO — Fenwick & West has hired a corporate partner to lay the groundwork for an office in China — the firm's first overseas.With the help of Eva Wang fr

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  • January 31, 2005 | The Recorder

    Sidebar

    FROM DISTANT GUAM COMES CROSS-OCEAN PARTNERSHIPThey met at a beauty contest in Guam nine years ago.Kathleen Fisher, then a partner at Morrison & Foerster, persuaded

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  • November 13, 2006 | National Law Journal

    'NLJ 250' Shows Strong Law Firm Growth Continuing

    The nation's largest 250 law firms grew by 4 percent in 2006, a figure that was just shy of last year's gains but still reflected a sound legal economy.The results of the 2006 NLJ 250, Th

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  • September 6, 2001 | New York Law Journal

    Are Associate Layoffs Heading East?

    In an iffy economy, and in the wake of recent layoffs at two major California law firm, many New York City associates have been asking nervously: Is it going to happen here?While there

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  • June 13, 2002 | Legal Times

    'Unsexy' D.C. Firms on the Make

    Thelen Reid & Priest. Chadbourne & Parke. Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky. Ropes & Gray.A few years ago, these firms were anything but sexy. Back then, partners and counsel lo

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  • October 31, 2012 | Daily Report Online

    Weather Channel GC oversees legal business in midst of Sandy

    George Callard was named executive vice president and general counsel of The Weather Channel Companies in June. He joined the company in 2011 as senior vice president of legal and business af

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  • September 21, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Judge Details N.Y. Bar Admission Pro Bono Mandate

    Details of the new 50-hour pro bono requirement for applicants to the New York bar were unveiled yesterday by Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman. Specifics of the program announced in May we

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  • February 10, 2000 | Legal Times

    High Stakes

    It's a wonder D.C. lawyers got any work done last week. Across town, partners and associates alike were grabbing colleagues in the corridors, calling emergency meetings, and swapping gossip by phon

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  • February 21, 2013 | The Recorder

    Hooman Shahlavi

    Sofinnova Ventures Inc. is a marquee Sand Hill Road firm. Founded in 1974 and on its eighth fund, it manages approximately $1.4 billion in active client assets. In 2011 the company raised about $44

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