• August 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Taking Stock

    "If this gets into the U.S., it'll be the end of law as a profession." That was the comment by "Anonymous" on The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog the day after Australian law firm Slate

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  • February 1, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    The Whole World Is Hiring

    The anxiety over the slowdown in new matters that began last summer continues at the nation's big law firms. But the work has only slowed, it hasn't stopped—small comfort

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  • September 7, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Outside Investment in Law Firms

    "If this gets into the U.S., it'll be the end of law as a profession." That was the comment by "Anonymous" on The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog the day after Australian law fir

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  • June 1, 2007 | Legaltech News

    Editor's Note

    As law firms move toward a corporate model of operation, they must rethink how they acquire — and keep — clients. Today's corporations expect to collaborate, and demand that tec

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  • September 1, 2004 | The American Lawyer

    Why Washington?

    Washington, D.C.'s Legal Aid Society is located in the city's downtown business district, nearly swallowed by the bland postmodern office buildings that are proliferating in the area like obje

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  • November 14, 2006 | National Law Journal

    New chief a conservative, but he's not an ideologue

    Adopting the Gilbert & Sullivan style he enjoys, Dennis G. Jacobs, the new chief judge of the 2d U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, can be described as the very model of a modern major circu

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  • August 15, 2006 | Legal Times

    England poised to reform legal market

    PICTURE LAWYERS idling away potentially billable hours tracking their firm's stock price rather than poring over their firm's profits-per-partner rankings or the results of the latest associa

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  • December 15, 1999 | Legal Times

    Laying a New Foundation

    For two decades, the D.C. Bar Foundation has quietly funneled money to pro bono legal shops that represent Washington's poorest residents. The foundation last year dished out $550,000 to 16 groups

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  • November 13, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Survey Shows Growth Spurt for Law Firms

    The nation's largest law firms expanded by a robust 5.6 percent in 2007, a year that demonstrated growth well ahead of 2006's gains and one that for the first time knocked a long-reigning lead

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  • October 19, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

    In-House at Large Public Companies

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