• August 22, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Senior Partners Balking At Retirement Policies

    For decades, law firms have depended on the orderly retirement or slowing down of senior partners to make room in the hierarchy for rising stars. The mandatory retirement and similar p

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  • October 16, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Chicago firms eye the Big Apple for expansion

    CHICAGO-For firms with a major presence in Chicago, there's a recent urge to expand in the nation's financial capital, New York. Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw; Schiff Hardin; Seyfarth

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  • February 15, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Alternative Fees Are Not the Enemy

    A curious irony in the current discussion of the billable hour is that the popularity and widespread use of the hourly fee arrangement arose from increased client demand. Clients saw clarity, certa

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  • November 3, 2005 | The Recorder

    Taking Alumni Networks to the Next Level

    More than 500 former and current Latham & Watkins lawyers spent an evening getting acquainted and reacquainted while examining artifacts from King Tut's tomb this summer. The Los Angeles C

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  • January 1, 2011 | Focus Europe

    The French Empires

    Gide Loyrette Nouel is the pinot noir of law firms. The most exquisite of wine grapes, pinot grows in small quantities in many regions around the world, but sometimes fails to flourish, and always

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  • April 8, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

    On the Job: Moves

    To the Coal Face "Down in the (Megawatt) Valley" for the new top lawyer at the energy company. In North Yorkshire, England, along/span

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  • March 23, 2012 | Daily Business Review

    Spring bonuses for associates seem unlikely at this point

    By this time last year, Am Law 100 and Second Hundred firms were about halfway through what proved to be a spring bonus bonanza. Twenty-one firms had doled out extra cash payments to t

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  • November 7, 2005 | The Recorder

    Taking Alumni Networks to the Next Level

    More than 500 former and current Latham & Watkins lawyers spent an evening getting acquainted and reacquainted while examining artifacts from King Tut's tomb this summer. The Los Angeles C

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  • November 26, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS . . . James J. Doyle III has joined Cash Klemchuk Powers Taylor in Dallas as a commercial litigation associate. . . . Godwin Pappas Ronquillo has added the

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  • April 12, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Chase Bank USA, N.A. v. Staffenberg

    Chase Bank USA, N.A. v. Staffenberg, A-4488-09T3, Appellate Division; opinion by Sabatino, J.A.D.; decided and approved for publication April 11, 2011. Before Judges Lisa, Sabatino and Alvarez. On

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