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  • May 23, 2013 | Daily Business Review

    Sources: Carlton Fields to Merge With 60-Lawyer Firm

    Partners at Carlton Fields are preparing to vote next week on a proposed merger with Jorden Burt that would create a 310-lawyer firm. Talks between the two firms have been ongoing for more th

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  • October 1, 2001 | The Recorder

    Midsize on the Rise

    Two years ago, traditional midsize firms were looking about as hip as a lime green leisure suit.But the lawyers who stuck it out at midsize firms may be having the last laugh. Firms wi

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  • January 25, 2000 | Legal Times

    Handle With Care

    Industry maturation, increasing competition, and globalization are all contributing to the consolidation of major industries. From a macro perspective, mergers are designed to provide opport

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  • May 6, 2011 | Bloomberg

    Berkshire's board treats Buffett to whitewash

    The resounding condemnation of David Sokol by Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is proving to be as strange as its initial pseudo-exoneration of him. Last week Berkshire released an 18-page rep

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  • June 6, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Firms Starting to Take Hard Line on Law Directories

    NEW YORK -- What is the single biggest marketing expense at many large law firms? Not hip, computer-animated television commercials. Not bold, full-page ads in The New York Times&l

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  • May 14, 2002 | The Recorder

    Brobeck's Snow Set to Jump to Clifford Chance, U.K. Paper Says

    Tower Snow Jr. and 10 other securities litigation partners at San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison were mum Monday about a British press report that they were set to leave Bro

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  • June 10, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Former Partner's Lawsuit Against Kasowitz Benson Prompts Talk of One-Man Firing Machines

    The recent lawsuit against Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman by its former head of intellectual property brings into the spotlight a practice that some lawyers might find unimaginable: At se

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  • February 18, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    Levi's sports skimpy outside firm roster

    How low can you go That's a question that Levi Strauss & Co. has asked not just about its jeans, but about its outside counsel roster. Last spring the clothing giant cut the number

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  • October 6, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Loeb & Loeb Is Latest L.A. Firm to Go Beyond Showbiz

    Loeb & Loeb has become the latest L.A. law firm to expand beyond its traditional practice of representing entertainment businesses and talent, such as Woody Allen and the Beastie Boys. T

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  • Beacon Residential Community Association v. Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP

    Publication Date: 2012-12-14
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2012-12-13
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Law Offices of Ann Rankin, Ann Rankin, Terry L. Wilkens; Katzoff & Riggs, Kenneth S. Katzoff, Robert R. Riggs, Sung E. Shim and Stephen G. Preonas for Plaintiff and Appellant. Berding & Weil and Matt J. Malone for Executive Council of Homeowners as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Robles, Castles & Meredith and Richard C. Young for Defendant and Respondent Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP. Schwartz & Janzen, Noel E. Macaulay and Steven H. Schwartz for Defendant and Respondent HKS, Inc.
    Case Number: No. A134542

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 13674BEACON RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff and Appellant,v.SKIDMORE, OWI