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  • May 16, 2003 | The Recorder

    Jones Day Making its SF Debut

    Jones Day formally announced the opening of its San Francisco office on Thursday after months of slowly assembling a team of lateral partners. The new office, Jones Da

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  • June 14, 2005 | The Recorder

    Coudert Shutters Long-Standing S.F. Office

    After more than 30 years in San Francisco, Coudert Brothers is closing up shop.The firm told its attorneys and staff Monday that it is shuttering the 12-lawyer office. The closure

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  • 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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