• August 25, 2003 | Legal Times

    Inadmissible

    POST PAID JUDGE $30K OVER ARTICLES ON DEFENDANT'S DEATHThreatened with a libel suit, The Washington Post paid $30,000 to settle a complaint lodged

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  • September 21, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Coudert Bros. Won't Always Have Paris

    Dechert yesterday announced that, effective Oct. 1, it would acquire 32 attorneys from the Paris office of the disbanding Coudert Brothers. The addition more than quadruples the size of Decher

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  • November 27, 2006 | Alm

    Bankruptcy Lawyers Adjust to Drought

    An improving economy isn't good news for everyone. With fewer businesses going broke, the pace of traditional work for bankruptcy lawyers has slowed considerably � for now.Industry exp

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  • September 6, 2007 | The Recorder

    Orrick Attorney Puts Activism on Hold to Make Partner

    Virginia Pearcy ran away from home and started college at age 14. She was accepted to law school just four years later. Along with her career as a big-firm associate, she's been at the cente

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  • September 5, 2007 | The Recorder

    The Governor's Go-To Guys

    SACRAMENTO — Quick, name the Sacramento firm whose past and present clients include Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Johnny Cash and Smith Barney.Try M

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  • February 22, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Deferred Associate Compares Public Interest and Law Firm Work Environments

    On a recent Friday afternoon, with the weekend looming large, I rolled up my sleeves and took on a new assignment. Ducking into the kitchenette in the corner of the a target="new" href="http://www

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  • November 1, 2006 | Legal Times

    California Firms Expand in D.C.

    WASHINGTON � For those in Washington feeling like the ugly stepsister in the face of two New York-California law firm couples at the altar, there's good news. California does care about the D.

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  • August 31, 2007 | The Recorder

    Pursuing Runaway Success

    Virginia Pearcy ran away from home and started college at age 14. She was accepted to law school just four years later.Along with her career as a big-firm associate, she's been at the

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  • May 31, 2005 | The Recorder

    3 More Coudert Partners Leave for Other Firms

    Even as Coudert Brothers considered taking legal action against Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe last week over the poaching of lawyers in London and Moscow, Coudert watched its San Francisc

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  • February 2, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    The Accidental Laterals

    Anne Pitter practiced with the same group of corporate attorneys for 15 years. They stayed together even as the name on the door changed: Baer Marks & Upham merged into Brown Raysman Millstein

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