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  • February 13, 2009 | The Recorder

    800 Law Firm Jobs Lost in One Day

    Almost 800 associates and legal staff nationwide returned home jobless Thursday after eight firms conducted mass layoffs, citing an unprecedented downturn in demand. And the bloodlet

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  • August 4, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Doing Good in Hard Times

    When he thinks about how his firm, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, derailed its pro bono program in 2000, R. Bruce McLean still shakes his head. Firms across the country had in

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  • May 25, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Coudert Client Matters Are Assets of Bankrupt Firm, Court Decides

    Bankrupt Coudert Brothers continued to have a property interest in client matters on and after the date the firm was dissolved, Southern District Judge Colleen McMahon (a target="new" href="

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  • April 23, 2007 | The Recorder

    Going Green

    When Thomas Ciotti, a veteran intellectual property partner at Morrison & Foerster, took a seat last fall at a meeting of the firm's energy group partners, it raised some eyebrows in

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  • November 30, 2009 | Legaltech News

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    Can 2009 be almost over? It seems impossible! But yes, we are already starting to buzz about LegalTech New York, so winter is around the corner. And yes, thank you very much, I'm still aglow about

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  • April 1, 2002 | The Recorder

    Take a Letter ... Not!

    Mary McDonald spent the early days of her career pounding the keys of an Underwood manual typewriter and hoping that whomever wound up squinting at the last carbon copy would be able to

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  • May 9, 2007 | The Recorder

    Corporate Clients Take Note as More Firms Announce Associate Raises

    The latest round of associate salary raises is spreading like a virus through the state's biggest firms -- and it has some corporate counsel feeling a little queasy. Just days after three b

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  • December 8, 2008 | The Recorder

    Pulling Up the Ladder

    New partner announcements are starting to come in, and things aren't looking so good. Thirteen Am Law 200 firms in California have announced new partners so far, and eight of those firmw

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  • February 5, 2009 | Daily Report Online

    Four Atlanta firms confirm layoffs

    The pace of law firm layoffs accelerated drastically nationwide in January, but Atlanta's largest firms do not yet appear to be caught up in large-scale terminations of attorneys and s

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  • July 19, 2011 | The Recorder

    Lawyers See Crisis in S.F. Civil Court Closures

    San Francisco attorneys stunned by the court's plans to shut down most of its c

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