• November 9, 2001 | National Law Journal

    Living on the Edge

    Despite the softening economy, associates at some of the nation's largest law firms last year remained firmly ensconced in the driver's seat.Some were able to entertain better jo

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  • February 28, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Higher and Higher

    Law firms showed healthy increases in billing rates in 2004, with boosts reported for fees charged by associates and partners alike at firms that participated in an annual survey conducted by

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  • November 27, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Input From Client Surveys Worth the Bother

    As attorney Martin A. Clayman sees it, a client's experience with a law firm is akin to dining at a fine restaurant -- either it's compliments to the chef, or there was a fly in the soup. And the e

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  • August 6, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Drug Makers' New Ethics Code Could Create Work for Lawyers

    Lawyers say a trade group's new sales and marketing code of ethics for pharmaceutical companies that's designed to help companies avoid government investigations and prosecutions will trigger extensiv

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  • May 25, 2007 | Legal Times

    Smaller Law Firms Mull Associate Salary Hikes

    In the first weeks after a couple of local stalwarts raised their starting salaries for first-year associates to $160,000, Washington, D.C.'s largest firms are in a holding pattern, all nervously e

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  • July 7, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Keys to Successful Cross-Border Joint Ventures

    Companies enter into cross-border joint ventures for a variety of reasons: to make a partial entry into a geographic area or product market, to enjoy increased flexibility in accommodating dif

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  • June 29, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Hitting the Wall

    Even with another record year of profits, it doesn't take a cynic to wonder whether the legal market has peaked.Perhaps it's a reporter's cynicism, but it's been hard to look at this y

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  • June 13, 2000 | Legal Times

    It's a Law Firm, Stupid

    Summer programs provide both student and law firm with a unique opportunity -- the chance to determine whether or not the two are a match as employee and employer. The last few years have seen

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  • November 11, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

    A Firm Win?

    Despite disappointing early election results rolling in from the rest of the nation, U.S. Senate candidate Ron Kirk wasn't ready to call it quits yet. "It's really early, let's just take a dee

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  • November 9, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    Writers' strike confronts new legal issue

    AS HOLLYWOOD'S WRITERS hoisted picket signs this week, attorney Anthony Segall's days got even longer. "My existence is pretty schizophrenic," said Segall, an attorney with L.A.'s Rot

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