• March 9, 2000 | Corporate Counsel

    Hey, Big Spender

    If the early 90s were good for anything, it was that general counsel were able to hire talented in-house help on the cheap and wrangle big discounts from outside counsel. But the economic boom has

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  • January 16, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Five Questions Firms Face in 2006

    Mergers. Firm dissolutions. Associate salary hikes. Last year was anything but docile in the legal market. With ever-increasing competition among firms, 2006 looks to be equally challenging. W

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  • Nordwind v. Rowland, 04-9725

    Publication Date: 2007-10-18
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2007-10-10
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District
    Judge: Donald Pogue
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 04-9725

    Judge Donald C. Pogue1 U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Judge Pogue OPINION This action involves claims of legal malp

  • February 26, 2010 | Bloomberg

    Suing Wall Street banks never looked so shady

    Next time you see some company complain its "mark-to-market" losses aren't real, remember this name: the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle. It used to claim that, too. And it couldn't have be

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  • August 8, 2000 | Corporate Counsel

    DuPont and the Cult Of the Six Sigma Samurai

    About a year and a half ago, Thomas Sager was sent with a group of other DuPont executives to a golf club and conference center in Scottsdale, Ariz., for five days of immersion in the teaching

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  • November 24, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Firm Growth Slowed in 2003 And Associate Ranks Declined

    Still showing the impact of the poor economy, the country's 250 largest law firms grew by only 1.6 percent in the past year � the lowest rate since 1994. The number of associates they employed

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  • July 18, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

    How Fast-Food Jobs Helped Lawyers Think Outside the Box

    Recognize hard work. Pay attention to detail. Treat everyone with respect. These are some of the tenets Alex Gonzales follows every day in his role as the managing shareholder of a href="h

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  • October 8, 1999 | New York Law Journal

    NYS Home Care Not Discriminatory

    New York State does not discriminateby failing to include safety monitoring when it evaluates what home-careservices to provide people with mental disabilities under Medicaid, theSecond Circuit has

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  • October 9, 2006 | The Recorder

    Inside the Hollywood Shuffle

    LOS ANGELES � A law student posted the question on an online message board last month: "Anything going wrong with Alschuler these days?"The well-regarded shop had dropped out of his sc

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  • September 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Under Pressure

    Midlevel associates put their noses to the grindstone last year, and they didn’t like it one bit. While demand for legal services rose in the last year, staffing at the country’s bigges

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