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  • January 2, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Charter school dispute had a strategic angle

    The charter schools movement has been divisive for the past two decades, but an especially hard-fought dispute broke out in a New York City courtroom last spring and summer. Kirkland &

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  • May 27, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

    Most Large Texas Firms Go Smaller on 2010 Summer Classes

    The summer associate class at Baker Botts in Texas is smaller this year than it was in 2009, and summer associate Rocio Mendoza says that's OK with her. Mendoza is coming back for a second summer a

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  • May 17, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New partners Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory (Los Angeles): Three new partners have been chosen by the firm-David H. Blackwell, R.J. Comer and Peter N. Townsend. They

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  • July 5, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New partners Baker & McKenzie: Maria Sendra joins the firm's San Diego office as a partner in the regional and global corporate and securities practice groups. Arr

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  • October 31, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Big Texas firms turn up the heat on hiring

    Dallas-The numbers are in, and they look good. Big Texas law firms are employing a larger class of new associates this fall-a hefty 9.4% more-than in the fall of 2004. That amoun

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  • September 6, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Schmoozing is not just for the big guns

    Hosting parties at both political conventions was a natural thing for David Fitzgerald's old firm, the lobbying powerhouse Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, where Bob Dole

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  • August 4, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS . . . Michael A. McCabe has joined Munck Carter in Dallas as a shareholder. He will practice labor and employment

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  • December 1, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Oil man

    Name and title: Alan R. Crain Jr., senior vice president and general counsel Age: 57 Drilling for oil and gas:

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  • September 13, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200

    A former U.S. ambassador to Australia and Japan is now senior counsel at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. J. THOMAS

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  • August 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Midlevel Blues

    Ben Johnson III, the managing partner of Alston & Bird, tells a story about being a young partner at the firm in the early 1970s. He was sitting in on an interview between then-s

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