• March 22, 2007 | Legal Times

    Law Firms' Diversity Goals Could Face Legal Attack

    They're trying. You can say that much.Large law firms have their fancy, well-designed Web sites with the word "diversity" prominently displayed. They have their diversity committees, diversi

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  • March 14, 2005 | Legal Times

    Inadmissible: Rare Lateral for Cravath; New Defense in $200M Tax Case; and More

    CRAVATH ADDS FIRST LATERAL IN 60 YEARSCravath, Swaine & Moore has elected a lateral partner, its first in more than six decades. Andrew Needham, a tax partn

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  • February 28, 2012 | The Recorder

    Firms See Rays of Hope in Outlook for California Corporate Practices

    As the corporate practice enters its fourth consecutive humdrum year nationally, a number of law firms are homing in on California's bright spots. Technology-related M&A deal work,

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  • June 20, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Panel Rebuffs Firm's Bid for Discovery of Privileged Material A Manhattan appeals court has narrowed the scope of discovery Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Fe

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  • February 24, 2012 | The Recorder

    Firms See Rays of Hope in Outlook for California Corporate Practices

    SAN FRANCISCO — As the corporate practice enters its fourth consecutive humdrum year nationally, a number of law firms are homing in on California's bright spots. Technology-rela

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  • March 6, 2006 | National Law Journal

    IN BRIEF

    Seward & Kissel sued on advice to hedge fund Seward & Kissel, a New York law firm, is facing legal malpractice claims over its role as advisor to failed hedge fund Wood Ri

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  • May 30, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

    Keeping a Lid on Legal Costs

    Executives often leave the task of reviewing outside lawyers' bills to the general counsel or, if their company doesn't have a GC, to the comptroller. But if outside law firm fees consistently

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  • March 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    Rick's Place

    The perks bestowed by lobbyists on lawmakers are much loved and, lately, well documented: expensive dinners, golf trips, junkets to tropical locales. But now members of Congress are trying to

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  • April 1, 2008 |

    Under the Heel of a Malpractice Suit

    Qualcomm is unlikely to sue its outside lawyers for malpractice, say both law school professors who study legal ethics and plaintiff lawyers specializing in professional negligence: It probably has

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  • April 1, 2008 |

    Under the Heel of a Malpractice Suit

    Qualcomm is unlikely to sue its outside lawyers for malpractice, say both law school professors who study legal ethics and plaintiff lawyers specializing in professional negligence: It probably has

    1 minute read