• September 27, 2004 | The Recorder

    Market Days

    BRANDING, BUDGETING AND OTHER CHALLENGES CONFRONT LAW FIRM MARKETERSDavid Read's job description at Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers sounds a little bit like that of a movie s

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  • October 8, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Freshfields' Restructuring Marks a Break With the Past

    In July, London's Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer faced an unwelcome milestone in its 264-year history: getting sued by a former partner, for the first time ever. In an employment claim, Peter Bloxh

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  • December 5, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    Advisers expensive, but worth the cost

    WHEN THE MANAGEMENT of AHL Services Inc. agreed in August 2003 to be acquired by an Atlanta private equity fund for about $118 million, the marketing company decided it needed a second opinio

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  • July 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Pro Bono Scorecard 2008: The Pros

    When Steven Schulman heard that Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic needed volunteers to help develop a case charging the former president of Bolivia with crimes again

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  • April 12, 2000 |

    If You've Got a Pulse, You've Got a Job

    Law firms want you. Dot-coms want you. Blue chips want you.Consulting firms want you. And, more than ever, they're willing to do whatever it takes to get you in the door. How do you decide?No

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  • December 21, 2009 | Daily Business Review

    13 attorneys in $1,000-an-hour club

    A handful of U.S.-based partners at major law firms have inched above the $1,000 rate barrier, making bankruptcy work as lucrative as it was plentiful in 2008 and 2009, a review of billing rates in

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  • October 4, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    International Arbitration Law

    One's view of the relationship between international arbitration and national legal systems determines the response to such fundamental questions as the respective role of the arbitral tribuna

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  • February 25, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Top Litigator Bids Farewell to Pennie & Edmonds

    If any two partners can be said to symbolize a firm, S. Leslie Misrock and Jonathan A. Marshall symbolized New York's Pennie & Edmonds. Both top trial lawyers in the field of intellectua

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  • April 26, 2001 | The American Lawyer

    The Court That Came in From the Cold

    When Deutsche Telekom AG wooed Telecom Italia S.p.A. in 1999, France Telecom threw a fit. France T. dropped out of its Italian joint venture with Deutsche T., and filed arbitration claim

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  • February 9, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Forced combinations prop up the market

    Crisis combinations of banks and financial services companies propped up last year's weak U.S. mergers and acquisitions market, which was battered by volatile stocks markets, the credit cris

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