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  • February 4, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    Make Wiser Lateral Moves

    About.com defines "cautionary tale" as "a traditional narrative, e.g., a fable, proverb, or urban legend with a moral message warning of the consequences of certain ac

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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • January 6, 2006 | Legal Times

    Five Questions Law 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. With t

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  • November 4, 2011 | Bloomberg

    Obeying the law is just too hard for Citigroup

    Five times since 2003 the Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Citigroup Inc.'s main broker-dealer subsidiary of securities fraud. On each occasion the company's SEC settlements hav

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