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  • May 7, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    What Law Students Aren't Learning, and Why It Matters

    I'm 58 years old. I'm a nice guy and a great lawyer. I have scores of trial victories. I don't understand the problem. Where's the business?We really heard this. Verbatim. The truth is

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  • March 28, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    'Outside in-house counsels' growing

    AS GENERAL COUNSEL and director of financial investigations at New York-based Arkin Group, Justin Paul Caulfield not only learned the ins and outs of the intelligence and security business, h

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  • 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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