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  • September 27, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Law Firm Leaders Express 'Guarded Optimism' About Business Outlook for 2011

    When managing partners of law firms large and small gathered in the same room last week at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, the inevitable question arose: Will business get any better? A

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  • September 2, 2004 | The Associated Press

    Do New Overtime Rules Mean More Money but Less Status?

    The complaints began even before University of Missouri administrators e-mailed more than 400 employees to confirm what might seem a harmless change -- soon, the memo said, they'd be eligible

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  • February 16, 2011 | National Law Journal

    E-Mail: Hunton & Williams expected 'huge gains'

    Hunton & Williams stood to be the channel for $2 million in monthly subcontractor payments as part of a plan to discredit anti-corporate critics, according to e-mails that are drawing int

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  • June 21, 2001 |

    Lonely at the Top

    Work can get you down, not to mention out, especially if you're in charge of technology at a large firm. The average life expectancy is about three years, according to AmLaw Tech's informal su

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  • September 28, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Firm leaders express 'guarded optimism' for '11

    A straw poll conducted at the meeting revealed "guarded optimism," according to a New York State Bar Association task force. Of the 21 law firm leaders who participated in the survey, only tw

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  • March 7, 2005 | Alm

    Law Firms Mull the 'Gen Y' Equation

    Some call them slackers. Others are more diplomatic. But whatever the moniker, "Generation Y" associates are getting a bad rap for what some say is a flabby work ethic and an off-putting sense

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  • August 27, 2003 | Legal Times

    Energy Clients Scramble for Counsel in Aftermath of Blackout

    WASHINGTON -- As a congressional committee and a joint U.S.-Canadian governmental task force kick off fast-track probes of the massive Aug. 14 electrical blackout, electric utilities and other

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  • October 24, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Defending Against 'At-Issue' Privilege Waiver

    Many commentators have written, with some alarm, about the gradual erosion of the attorney-client and work product privileges, particularly in the corporate context. For exa

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  • June 1, 2005 | The Minority Law Journal

    Turning Point

    In 1995, when William Cook, Jr., became Arnold & Porter's third African American partner, he noticed something odd. His promotion left Arnold & Porter with exactly zero African American associ

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  • March 16, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Activist: Diversity efforts discriminate

    ATTEMPTS BY FORTUNE 500 legal departments to force outside counsel to hire more minorities and women may tempt law firms to violate federal antidiscrimination laws, an affirmative action foe

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