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  • November 6, 2001 | National Law Journal

    Global Firms Face Unique Hiring Needs

    In recent years, global law firms have made their mark, circling the earth with offices. A firm that was once a distinctly British entity may now have more than half its attorneys practicing o

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  • July 1, 2003 | The American Lawyer

    How We Research and Report Our Information

    A majority of Am Law 100 firms provide their numbers "officially" -- that is, with the acquiescence of the firm's partnership or management committee. Sometimes that cooperation comes at the o

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  • June 26, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    An Online General Counsel Imagines a School for GCs

    If London-based general counsel Brett Farrell could be dean of a School for General Counsel, he would name the first class in the curriculum something like Mythbusters 101. Farr

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  • July 20, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Weil Gotshal Delays Start Of Some Summers Until '12 Weil, Gotshal & Manges will defer start dates for some of its summer associates to 2012, according to a memo dist

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  • July 22, 2010 | The Recorder

    People v. Anderson

    Cal.Sup.Ct. S170778 The California Supreme Court affirmed a court of appeal judgment. The court held that the trial court did not exceed its authority in ordering a defendant, as a cond

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  • November 10, 2010 | Bloomberg

    People should open up about their incomes

    We are no longer embarrassed when talking about sex. Death, disease and depression are discussed openly. And there isn't a single bodily function that a comedian can't make a joke about on te

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  • March 23, 2010 | The Recorder

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    ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTIONMarch 23San FranciscoBest Arbitration Practices. 1 hour. Registration at 11:30 a.m., program/brown ba

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  • December 20, 2011 | Daily Report Online

    Panelists discuss impact of 9/11 fund

    After the 2001 terrorist attacks, families of the victims were pushed to participate in the nation's largest experiment in mediation, the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. Famil

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  • May 27, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    Seat of His Pants Guy Loses His Shirt: NY Lawyer's $515,000 Fee Tossed for Not Recording Hours

    A federal judge in Manhattan should not have awarded attorney Thomas P. Puccio more than $500,000 for handling an employment suit against New York City because Mr. Puccio did not k

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  • Haile v. Holder

    Publication Date: 2010-01-11
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2010-01-06
    Court: 7th Cir.
    Judge: Posner, Circuit Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 08-4187

    ARGUED NOVEMBER 6, 2009Before POSNER, KANNE, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.The petitioner was born in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, in 1976. His parents were of Eritrean origin, but at the