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  • July 14, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Pro Bono Report 2008: A Silver Lining to Economic Downturn?

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

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  • July 16, 2012 | The Recorder

    Managing Expectations in a Post-Facebook World

    SAN FRANCISCO — Every time the phone rings, Peter Buckland tells himself it could be the next Mark Zuckerberg. These days, Silicon Valley startup lawyers like Wilmer Cutler Picker

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  • September 1, 2005 | The American Lawyer

    Keeping Score

    Think the same old firms make The A-List year after year? Not quite. This year four new firms made it onto our list of the best of the best in U.S. law firms. Two of those, Weil, Gotshal &

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  • October 20, 2003 | The Recorder

    Sidebar

    THE BILLS ARE IN, AND COOLEY'S NEAL IS THE CHAMPLawyers are usually pretty mum about their billing rates.But those working on PG&E Corp.'s bankruptcy have had to lay

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  • September 1, 2004 | The American Lawyer

    Pro Bono, A Diverse Agenda

    In the past few years, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles has received an increasing number of complaints about its services. Some people have called the foundation to complain that they

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  • October 16, 2006 | The Recorder

    Charity Can Begin In-House

    In his years at Cooley Godward, and later at the Legal Strategies Group, Jeffrey Hyman did fair housing and consumer fraud litigation on the side. In one case, he defended and won a settlement

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  • November 19, 2001 | The Recorder

    State, Private Firms Team To Help Sept. 11 Victims

    California's lawyers are teaming with state government to help secure pro bono legal services for families of victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The public-private partne

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  • May 7, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Intellectual Property Hot List

    The National Law Journal introduces its first Intellectual Property Hot List. These 20 firms excel in providing patent, copyright and trademark legal services. They have demonstra

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  • September 20, 2004 | National Law Journal

    In Brief

    Fish & Neave flirts with Ropes & Gray Fish & Neave has sat on the porch and held hands with Ropes & Gray, but it has not yet decided to go to the altar. Tha

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  • January 30, 2002 | The Recorder

    Candidates for Bar GovernorAre Diverse

    If there were any concerns that Erica Yew's departure for the Santa Clara County bench would diminish the minority presence on the State Bar Board of Governors, they were quickly pu

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