• January 24, 2007 | Legal Times

    Lessons From a Failed Merger

    WASHINGTON � Calling off an engagement is always messy. Two weeks after New York's Dewey Ballantine and San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe broke off talks that would have led t

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  • May 17, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    The rise and fall of the nation's largest firms

    By the numbers, Joseph Tate may be the luckiest lateral of the past 25 years. When Tate moved to Dechert from Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis in 1991, he was moving from one top-fi

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  • October 24, 2000 | Special To Law.Com

    Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Find Me a Client

    Step right up and get your legal services, folks! Today only on the Web, IPOs are a flat rate of $20,000, whole trials start at $8000, and the special of the week is incorporation, for t

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  • September 6, 2001 | The Recorder

    Back in Style

    Two years ago, when many top San Francisco Bay Area firms were raking it in from the tech sector, Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe looked like an old fogy.But now its old-economy

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  • December 6, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Government Probes Stoke Law Firms' Internal Investigations Practices

    Corporations cringe at the thought of hiring them, but internal investigation attorneys are becoming a dreaded necessity for a growing number of public companies, where suspected foul play can

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  • March 1, 2002 | Law.com

    Investors: Idealab Broke Securities Law

    Frustrated Idealab investors filed an amended complaint against the once high-flying West Coast incubator late Thursday, charging founder Bill Gross and other company officials with self

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  • April 21, 2008 | National Law Journal

    New Firm Mantra: Cut, Redeploy

    Dechert Chairman Barton Winokur remembers the 1970s."That was the longest decade in history. It lasted for 14 years," he said./

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  • August 11, 2006 | Legal Times

    Why Lawyers Should Take on Pro Bono Work

    At Appleseed, one of the nation's largest pro bono networks, we work in partnership with some of the largest corporate law firms in the country. We depend on the pro bono efforts of these firms to

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  • September 16, 2003 | Alm

    Discharged Matrimonial Lawyer Cannot Bill Opposing Spouse

    A discharged attorney in a matrimonial matter does not have the right to apply in his or her own name for retroactive fees against the adversary spouse, a sharply divided appellate court ruled

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  • August 11, 2006 | Legal Times

    Why Lawyers Should Take on Pro Bono Work

    At Appleseed, one of the nation's largest pro bono networks, we work in partnership with some of the largest corporate law firms in the country. We depend on the pro bono efforts of these firms to

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