• July 1, 2004 | Corporate Counsel

    Resigned to His Fate

    Like many college graduates, Deval Patrick says that when he got out of school in 1978, he wanted to keep his options open. That's why he carried a law school application in his backpack while

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  • March 29, 2010 | National Law Journal

    The Decade's Most Influential Lawyers

    These are the lawyers who've defined a decade. For our annual Most Influential Lawyers special report, the editors of The National Law Journal have selected 40 attorney

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  • July 14, 2006 | The Recorder

    GCs Turn Up Heat on Diversity

    Wal-Mart Store Inc.'s General Counsel Thomas Mars doesn't kid around when it comes to diversity: He said he fired two law firms outright last year for not taking the company's diversity initia

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  • February 24, 2000 | Legal Times

    The Roundabout

    As associate salaries skyrocket and the legal market booms, law firms in the District have an ace in the hole -- the federal government. Far and away the largest single employer of lawyers

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  • October 23, 2006 | Legal Times

    Firm With Ties To Weldon In Cross Hairs

    When Karen Weldon and her business partner, Charles Sexton Jr., set up their lobby and consulting shop in 2002, they had a connection no money could buy: Weldon's father, Rep. Curt Weldon (R-P

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  • November 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Market Makers

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett just had the kind of summer that private equity lawyers dream about. The New York firm's two top private equity clients, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Th

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  • September 26, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

    2005 Ineligible List

    Foreign Countries ADCOCK, HENRY ALAN, 1999, ROUSE & CO, ROOM 2927 2938, SHANGHAI CENTRAL PLAZA 29TH FLOOR, 381 HUAIHAI ZHONG LU, SHANGHAI ANISE, OLABOMI T O, 1999, 6

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  • November 15, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Private Equity Companies Get Close to Simpson Thacher

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett just had the kind of summer that private equity lawyers dream about. The New York firm's two top private equity clients, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and The

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  • August 20, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    The Spanish in the New World

    In Latin America, the biggest Spanish firms—Garrigues, Uría Menéndez, and Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira—had what amounts to a head start./di

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