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  • July 12, 2005 | Alm

    Firms Lend Out Lawyers to Gain Trial Experience

    Just three blocks separate the cushy confines of Fulbright & Jaworski's suites in Washington, D.C., from the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, but for Wendy Butl

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  • January 24, 2007 | Legal Times

    Lessons From a Failed Merger

    WASHINGTON � Calling off an engagement is always messy. Two weeks after New York's Dewey Ballantine and San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe broke off talks that would have led t

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  • November 29, 2001 |

    Enron Reels as Dynegy Walks

    After several desperate days of renegotiations, Houston energy merchant Dynegy Inc. said Nov. 28 it was walking away from its $9 billion acquisition of ailing cross-town rival Enron Corp., cit

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  • November 30, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Buyer Beware: Firms Look Closely at Legal Liabilities of Merger Partners

    Former Gardner Carton & Douglas partner Steven L. Loren, who pleaded guilty to a criminal felony act over the representation of a firm client, left the firm in advance of its merger with Drinke

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  • July 19, 2010 | Daily Report Online

    Davis, Schaeffer lead in COA funds

    While partisan campaigns are peaking toward Tuesday's primary, hopefuls for statewide judicial posts have been quietly collecting contributions for their November contests. Two candida

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  • February 27, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Closed Club

    When Joseph Ryan arrived at Marriott International Inc. in December 1994 as its new general counsel, he inherited an Augean stable of well over 200 law firms. At the time, the bloated legal Ro

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  • August 11, 2008 | Daily Report Online

    Court mutes audio access

    In May, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals began putting audio recordings of oral arguments on its Web site. Next month, the 1st Circuit plans to join that court and four other federal cou

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  • January 30, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    DLA Piper Raises First-Year Pay to $125K

    DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary has increased its associate salaries in Philadelphia to among the highest in the city. First-year associates will now make $125,000 per year in Philadelphia, which will

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  • January 11, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    What Clients Want, and How to Give It to Them

    During almost 30 years of practice, I have run the circuit from law firm partner to in-house and back to private practice. This has given me a perspective on what clients want — both in-h

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  • April 21, 2008 | National Law Journal

    New Firm Mantra: Cut, Redeploy

    Dechert Chairman Barton Winokur remembers the 1970s."That was the longest decade in history. It lasted for 14 years," he said./

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