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  • February 7, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    Are Fiduciary Duties An Obsolete Nuisance?

    Every lawyer knows that, in a law partnership, the partners owe one another fiduciary obligations. As law firms have evolved from small, personal business associations to conglomerations of thousan

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  • November 1, 2006 | The Minority Law Journal

    Fixing the Holes

    On a sizzling day in August, 64 eighth graders from Harlem and Brooklyn fill an elegant art deco courtroom in Brooklyn on the last day of a two-day mock trial. Two New York state judges in black robes

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  • May 7, 2007 | Legal Times

    Big Year, Big Questions for Wiley Rein

    It's a running joke at Wiley Rein's annual partnership meeting. Every session begins with the equity partners gathered in an off-campus conference room, waiting casually for their chief

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  • November 3, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    High Court Clerk Ranks Continue to Diversify

    Five years after the lack of diversity among the U.S. Supreme Court's law clerks became an issue, diversity seems to have taken hold and become more commonplace in their ranks � and not just r

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  • July 25, 2002 | Legal Times

    Making a Difference, Firm by Firm: Part II

    JONES, DAY, REAVIS & POGUEJones Day attorneys recently won asylum for a Haitian refugee after a year-long effort.The client had been detained since he arrived in t

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  • January 10, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    New Directors Appointed For Character Committees Fred T. Santucci, who left the bench under mandatory retirement rules at the end of last year, is the n

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  • April 11, 2003 |

    The Debt Markets Take A Fall

    It should be a no-brainer: Equity markets were anemic in 2002, and interest rates were tantalizingly low, so when corporate America needs cash, logic insists that it turn to the debt market. S

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  • November 3, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Counting the Clerks: A Diverse Look at This Year's Crop

    Five years after the lack of diversity among the U.S. Supreme Court's law clerks became an issue, diversity seems to have taken hold and become more commonplace in their ranks -- and not just

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  • May 19, 2005 | Alm

    Expanding Firms Learn to Deal With Growing Pains

    The test of success for many regional law firms has been their ability to expand nationally. But facing challenges such as the ho-hum morale of some partners, the integration of firm cultures

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  • March 1, 2004 | Legal Times

    Inadmissible: Gay Marriage Battle; D.C. Water Litigation; and More

    GAY-MARRIAGE FORCES MARSHAL THEIR TROOPS A proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage may not even have the congressional backing to make it to a vote, but that

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