• June 25, 2007 | National Law Journal

    IN BRIEF

    Survey forecasts uptick for corporate counsel Chief legal officers plan to expand their in-house staff and spend more on outside legal counsel during the next 12 months, a

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  • August 16, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Corporations Gain Clout With E-Billing

    Lawyers working for corporate clients can no longer expect to get paid by simply stuffing their bill in an envelope and gluing on a stamp. More and more legal departments are only payi

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  • October 18, 2010 | Daily Business Review

    Foreclosure fiasco trail leads to Washington

    What were banking regulators doing while some of the biggest U.S. lenders routinely filed false foreclosure documents in local courthouses around the country? In the case of IndyMa

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  • July 1, 2009 | Focus Europe

    Arbitration Scorecard: Contracts

    AMOUNT IN CONTROVERSY: $28 billion (including $9 billion counterclaim) DISPUTE: OJSC Yukos Oil Company (Russian Federation) v. Kravin Investments Ltd., White P

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  • January 11, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Largest 2007 Transactions

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  • June 30, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

    Healing From the Holocaust

    Above all, you have to take it slow. That's what retired Houston businessman Larry Steinfeld has learned from interviewing countless survivors of the Holocaust. He first doc

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  • September 11, 2003 | The Recorder

    Few and Far Between

    The Gemstar patent brawl was so intense that lawyers filled eight counsel tables in a Washington, D.C., courtroom and took up most of the public seating to boot.Like most patent

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  • May 10, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

    Charging More in 2004

    Every big decision isn't made in a firm's boardroom.At Susman Godfrey, a decision that could affect the firm financially was made in a partner's living room.Some firms have an

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  • September 27, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Corporate Law Departments Hiring More and Spending More

    For years, it seems, corporate law departments have been discussing offering alternative fee arrangements and curbing overall spending. But, according to a survey of law department spend

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  • October 4, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Employment Law

    Employers who discipline employees for violating attendance policies or who condition employee benefits on perfect attendance often are faced with claims that such actions violate the Family a

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