• May 1, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Mind the Gap

    It’s no secret that the spread in p compensation across The Am Law 200 has grown over the years, but more recently that gap has turned into a chasm at some firms. To quantify the p

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  • December 26, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Law Firm Leaders Bubbly About '06, Survey Shows

    No doubt about it, leaders of Am Law 200 firms are upbeat about the future. Eighty-nine percent of respondents to The American Lawyer's annual firm leaders survey said they are optimist

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  • June 14, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Small-Firm Administrators Fill Varied and Diverse Roles

    Everyone has those days where a well-intentioned to-do list remains only partially done, and it seems as though the day was spent putting out fires. But talk to small- or midsize-firm administrator

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  • January 18, 2000 | New York Law Journal

    'Boom-Year' Bonuses Become Routine

    The boom-year bonus has evolved from a surprise dividend to an expected part of associate compensation. The dilemma for law firms seems to be whether to hand out bonuses -- for an aggregate

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  • April 1, 2011 | Bloomberg

    Dirty little secret outed in Bermuda blunder

    One of the long-standing raps on the auditing profession is that too many of its practitioners suffer from a check-the-box mentality, where rigid adherence to mindless rules obscures their ab

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  • March 31, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Arbitration's Glamorous International Side

    When Ghana Telecom was privatized eight years ago, Telekom Malaysia seized the opportunity to expand. TM purchased a third of the African telecommunications company for $38 million, and a smaller s

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  • March 24, 2008 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Stagnant Salaries?

    Like a high-stakes game of poker, law firms continued to raise the pot last year when it came to anteing up huge sums of money to rookie lawyers. Starting salaries ran up to $160,000 in many

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  • April 29, 2002 | Legal Times

    Rising Stock

    David Becker couldn't have picked a better time to look for a job.Thanks to the post-Enron boom in federal investigations of corporate America, the outgoing general counsel of the Securities

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  • April 8, 2011 | Bloomberg

    Warren 'Do-Right' Buffett gives errant kiss

    Long ago when I was a young reporter covering the Arkansas legislature for the local paper in Little Rock, there was a line I'd hear in the hallways periodically about the prevailing moral st

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  • March 21, 2002 | The Recorder

    To Merge or Not to Merge

    Last month, the grapevine at Cooley Godward buzzed with one big rumor: that the firm was about to merge with L.A.'s O'Melveny & Myers in an effort to boost the Palo Alto, Calif., firm's

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