• February 20, 2003 | The Recorder

    A Daring Venture

    Conventional wisdom would say this is the worst time for Reed Smith Crosby Heafey to roll out a venture capital and technology group.Venture capital funding has dwindled, the economy i

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  • March 20, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Simpson Thacher, Wilson Sonsini Advise on Law360's Sale to LexisNexis

    In another deal that accelerates the consolidation of the legal news and information business, legal research service LexisNexis announced Tuesday that is will acquire Portfolio Media, the pa

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  • July 7, 2003 | Legal Times

    Arent Fox Looks in the Mirror

    Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn is looking for answers.A longtime fixture of Washington's legal scene, Arent Fox today is beleaguered by flat revenue and a stream of partner

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  • July 1, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Updating Antitrust

    The 12 members of the U.S. Antitrust Modernization Commission, who were appointed nearly three years after Congress created the body to review and update antitrust law, is gearing up for its f

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  • April 6, 2009 | National Law Journal

    General Counsel Pressuring Firms Amid Recession

    The squeeze is on. Trying to pare their law department budgets amid the economic crisis, general counsel have cranked up the pressure on their outside law firms, demanding slashed fees, predictable

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  • January 28, 2002 | Legal Times

    Keeping Firm in a Soft Economy

    It was the late 1990s. America was getting drunk on the "new economy." Lawyers were eyeing a kind of wealth that law school had never promised. And Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld was

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  • February 29, 2000 | Legal Times

    Chasing the Biotech Balloon

    Taking a bus tour around Montgomery County, Md., isn't the way most lawyers would choose to spend their day. But for Brent Rushforth, managing partner of the D.C. office of San Francisco's H

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  • August 3, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

    DLA Piper opens in Munich

    DLA Piper has continued its international expansion, opening up its fourth office in Germany.The firm opened a Munich office Wednesday that will initially focus on the technology, media and

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  • February 13, 2003 | The Recorder

    A Daring Venture

    Conventional wisdom would say this is the worst time for Reed Smith Crosby Heafey to roll out a venture capital and technology group.Venture capital funding has dwindled, the economy i

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  • December 1, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    Their Worst Nightmare

    He's a general counsel's worst nightmare. Dimitrios Biller was hired to come in-house and help manage Toyota's litigation, and he wound up turning those skills on his own company. Toyota paid him $

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