• July 30, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Lawyers, Providers Split Over Internet Divorce Sites

    NEW YORK -- You might think a couple wanting a quick divorce would first stop at a lawyer's office -- or maybe two lawyers' offices, one for each.Not necessarily.Their first st

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  • October 5, 2009 | The Recorder

    Associate Salaries: War is Over

    SAN FRANCISCO — It goes without saying that the associate salary wars are over. Firms have responded to a drop in business and a glut of talent with salary freezes, salary cuts, or even a

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  • September 4, 2007 |

    Looking for Lawyers

    How do in-house counsel go about selecting new outside lawyers? And what factors help outside firms either hold onto or lose corporate client business? These questions were the focus of a recent i

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  • October 12, 2009 | Special To Law.Com

    EDD Providers Adapt to a Down Economy

    There's an unusual dichotomy in the e-discovery industry right now. Industry observers see scores of e-discovery companies that have folded or disappeared as part of an industry shakeout, but at th

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  • November 13, 2008 |

    Risky Business

    The subject of this column grew out of a panel discussion on the role of corporate boards of directors in financial and legal risk management that took place at Stanford Law School's ann

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  • September 27, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Firms Show '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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  • March 15, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Am Law 100 Trio Reap Benefits of NFL Legal Work

    Recent federal tax filings by the National Football League and its collective bargaining arm, the NFL Management Council, show that the league paid a total of at least $15 million in legal fe

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  • November 30, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

    GPS for GCs: Navigating Fee Transition

    While there are no reliable GPS devices to map the new topography of the post-recession legal landscape, all corporate counsel report one near-universal map coordinate: the injunction from their se

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  • April 18, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Detroit council OKs $3.4M Jones Day pact

    The Detroit City Council voted to approve a $3.35 million contract to hire Jones Day as the financially crippled city's restructuring counsel, but the vote came only after suspending the proc

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  • May 2, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Entering the Dragon

    While some of the areas largest firms are still looking for ways to navigate the onerous path to entering the Chinese legal market, two smaller firms have quietly found their place in the boom

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