• April 1, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

    IP Boutiques Play Defense as Competition Heats Up

    Intellectual property law firms have been around for more than a century. And during most of that time, they had the pick of the litter in terms of cases and clients.But over the last

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  • May 16, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Destination: New York

    By most measures, these are not the best of times for the New York City economy.That economy has lost more than 100,000 jobs since last summer. While the rest of the nation talks

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  • August 1, 2010 | Legaltech News

    Slow Growth

    Listen in on any gathering of IT directors and after the usual stories of budget battles, who's moving to the cloud, and maybe a lament about not following mom's advice to study medicine, the conve

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  • July 25, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    The 2012 GC Compensation Survey

    What a difference a year makes. This time last year, Charles Kalil was in the number 12 spot on our annual list of the hi

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  • September 21, 2004 | Alm

    Piper Rudnick in Early Merger Talks With Gray Cary

    Piper Rudnick has opened discussions with California-based Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich about a merger between the two firms. Law firm consultant Peter Zeughauser confirmed that the firms

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  • May 15, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    It Pays to Focus on Employees' Attitudes

    N THE UNITED STATES, as well as in many other parts of the world, many law firms face an uncertain future. Part of this uncertainty is short term. In North America, many firms are still trying to c

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  • January 1, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    Hobson's Choice Revisited

    Patent lawyers have long chafed under rules that require them to relinquish attorney-client privilege in certain patent cases. But that may change soon. The U.S. Court of Appeals for t

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  • October 15, 2001 | The Legal Intelligencer

    This Isn't My Office!

    Anxiety grips many first-year associates as they pass the threshold of their new law firm. With crossed fingers and held breath, they are led to their new office in, say, the bankruptcy depart

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  • June 13, 2002 | National Law Journal

    Clifford Chance's Move West

    Two large mergers late last month were additional evidence of the law firm consolidation juggernaut. But a simultaneous move of potentially far greater significance, according to three l

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  • April 18, 2001 | National Law Journal

    PeopleFirst's Counsel is Repo Man and Then Some

    Alan J. Amico, unlike many of the general counsels hired at Internet companies the last few years, still has a job at a thriving concern. As GC at PeopleFirst.com, the largest Internet provide

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