• June 25, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    Weil Gotshal Cuts Lawyers, Pay Citing Less Demand for Services

    Citing a drop in demand for premium legal services that he called the "new normal," Weil Gotshal & Manges executive partner Barry Wolf announced Monday that the firm is

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  • June 24, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Weil Slashes 60 Associates, 110 Staffers

    Citing a drop in demand for premium legal services that he called the "new normal," executive partner Barry Wolf announced Monday that the firm is trimming associate head c

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  • August 12, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    `Band of Angels` Lends Support To Post-Sept. 11 Pro Bono Effort

    JEAN A. O'HARE depends on the kindness of a band of "angels," the informal group of private firm lawyers and business executives she has formed that has worked behind the scenes since last year's t

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  • July 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    The Good Fight

    Is free legal work always pro bono? May a firm fairly include in its pro bono hours exemplary work for which it is paid? These are questions The American Lawyer has been discussing more than u

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  • August 3, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    City, State Hit With $30 Million Malicious Prosecution Suit A Brooklyn man who spent 15 years in prison before his murder conviction was thrown out in June by a federal

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  • April 14, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Decision of InterestJudge SweetThe Jordan (Bermuda) Investment Company, Ltd. v. Hunter Green Investments Ltd. -Plaintiff, the Jordan (Bermuda) Investment Company, Ltd. (

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  • June 21, 2013 | Focus Europe

    Herbert Smith Reboots in Germany

    Shaking off its failed bid for a full-fledged merger with Germany's Gleiss Lutz, Britain's Herbert Smith Freehills is taking another run at the German legal market. Af

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  • February 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Economy Model

    Daralyn Durie, Mark Lemley, Michael Page, and Ragesh Tangri started kicking the idea around almost 20 years ago, when all four were students at UC Berkeley School of Law. They’d start their o

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  • June 29, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Edifice Lex

    By May word had spread through New York's elite law firms: Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz was considering opening a branch office in Silicon Valley. Wachtell had even, it was said, talked

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  • February 15, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    How Low Can They Go?

    Last fall, Akiko Mikumo, the head of Weil, Gotshal & Manges's Hong Kong office, was contacted by a local company the firm had been pitching to represen

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