• February 1, 2010 | The Recorder

    5 YEARS AGO 10 YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO

    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed that retired judges carve up the state's legislative districts, saying they would do a better job of creating competition. More competitive districts would let h

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  • July 15, 2009 | The Recorder

    Morgan Lewis Kills 2010 Summer Associate Program

    Morgan, Lewis & Bockius canceled its 2010 summer associate program on Tuesday, the first big firm to publicly do so.

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  • July 28, 2010 | The Recorder

    Mark Cochran

    McAfee Inc. of Santa Clara sells anti-virus, security and encryption software for home computers and businesses. McAfee has 6,150 employees and annual revenues of about $2 billion. The compan

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  • October 21, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Minority-Owned Transactional Boutique Lures Big-Firm Refugees

    This year has been a tough one for Big Law. Not only are profits down, layoffs up and morale low, but some big-firm lawyers have fled altogether, choosing to go it alone. In January, Seth Br

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  • October 20, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Startup Draws Big Law Refugees

    This year has been a tough one for Big Law. Not only are profits down, layoffs up and morale low, but some big-firm lawyers have fled altogether, choosing to go it alone. In January, Seth B

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  • July 2, 2007 | The Recorder

    This Week in Recorder History

    FIVE YEARS AGOO'Melveny & Myers bolstered its New York corporate practice by swallowing private equity boutique O'Sullivan. "We early on had identified the private equity ar

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  • May 21, 2007 | National Law Journal

    The rise of the new model firm

    As far as Mark Harris is concerned, the recent round of pay hikes for first-year associates at some of the nation's biggest law firms is the equivalent of applying a Band-Aid to a head w

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  • November 5, 2008 | The Recorder

    Lessons Learned

    Within the past six weeks, two of San Francisco's oldest, most venerable firms, Heller Ehrman and Thelen, announced that they will dissolve. As a former Thelen partner who chaired that firm fro

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  • January 23, 2002 | The Recorder

    Enron Accounting Scandal Seen as Damaging to MDPs

    THE CONTROVERSY over Arthur Andersen's handling of Enron Corp.'s books may not only stain the accounting giant's reputation, but could be a fatal blow to a marriage between the accounting industry

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  • December 14, 2009 | The Recorder

    Making Adjustments

    Over the course of the past two years, aggregate demand by companies for legal services has declined. Companies, too, are pushing back on paying ever higher hourly rates for attorney services, part

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