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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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  • April 15, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Bad Job Market Aside, Law Students Seeking To Change Big Firms' Ways

    A decimated job market has turned the tables on top law graduates, who not long ago were in high demand at big law firms. But a group of students from some of the best schools in the country sees p

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  • January 1, 2009 | Focus Europe

    La Dolce Vita?

    Italian lawyers have a history of finding international law firms as unpalatable as a drop of cream in their afternoon coffee. Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Linklaters, McDermott W

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  • May 2, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Sidebar

    Philly v. Jersey: You might say that Douglas Eakeley, a commercial litigation partner at Roseland, N.J.'s 150-lawyer Lowenstein Sandler, has made a career out of unpopular causes. As chairma

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  • December 1, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    N.Y. Firms Pledge Lawyers Will Log 50 Pro Bono Hours Annually

    Thirty of the 55 large Manhattan law firms asked by the New York City Bar Association to endorse its aspirational "Statement of Pro Bono Principles" did so Tuesday. Included in the statement is

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  • October 24, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Accolades

    Two hundred lawyers representing 40 private firms and corporate law offices were honored earlier this month by MFY Legal Services for their volunteer counsel to indigent

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  • April 20, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    It's Not Just What You Earn. Really.

    We discuss at great length in this issue how much lawyers and law firms are earning. But in some ways the more interesting question is what you're doing with the money. I'm brought to

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  • May 3, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Pro Bono Digest

    City Bar Pro Bono Society FormedCity Bar Pro Bono Society FormedEarly this year, Evan A. Davis, President of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York

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  • May 9, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Helping Inmate Mothers Keep Their Children

    STACEY A. SHORTALL says even a polite foreigner such as herself can see to the Dickensian quick of a blemish on the criminal justice system of New York."Women are quite easily losing their c

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  • August 11, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Creating Second Acts in Legal Careers

    When, at age 57, Warren Kaplan was forced to decide his future as a lawyer, his initial reaction was to join another firm or start his own. It was 1993, and his Washington, D.C., firm

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