• August 12, 2005 | Alm

    Lawyers Resist Firms' 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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  • March 12, 2007 | Legal Times

    Brownstein Jumps

    With a couple of surprises and several regular chart-toppers, D.C. law firms once again are cashing in on the world of lobbying. They continued to rack up lobbying work last year —

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  • May 22, 2007 | The Recorder

    How to Wear Two Hats

    The number of lawyers serving in the California Legislature may be a href="http://calbar.ca.gov/state/calbar/calbar_cbj.jsp?sCategoryPath=/Home/Attorney%20Resources/California%20Bar%20Journal/Octo

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  • August 18, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Thorp Reed Opens Delaware Office

    Pittsburgh-based Thorp Reed & Armstrong has bolstered its mid-Atlantic presence with the opening of a Wilmington, Del., office. The firm said Monday it added bankruptcy attorney Karen M.

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  • August 23, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Manatt Looks Beyond the Stones

    LOS ANGELES � Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, a Los Angeles-based firm with about 300 lawyers, has expanded its health care and entertainment practices in a recent effort to bolster its financi

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  • August 8, 2011 | Daily Business Review

    Private judges offer quick justice at a price

    When some of South Florida's most influential legal professionals gathered around a conference refreshment table to discuss doomsday scenarios for the state judicial branch, one jurist stood apart

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  • January 26, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Chadbourne, Ex-Partner Settle Suit Over Fee Chadbourne & Parke has struck a deal to settle a fee dispute with an ex-partner. Last year, Chadbourne sued Charles F. Gi

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  • February 2, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New partners Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld: Fifteen attorneys have achieved partnership status-Fred I. Williams (Austin, Texas); Jeffrey Goldfarb (Dallas); Kristen O.

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  • August 24, 2006 | Daily Business Review

    Small Litigation Shops Produce Big Results

    Six years ago, when Ed Giedgowd served as general counsel for a West Coast dot-com startup known as E-loan, he learned that bigger is not necessarily better when it comes to legal representation.

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  • May 2, 2005 | The Recorder

    A Lawyer's Journey To Graceland

    Jay Cooper began his legal career helping out his musician friends after they'd been arrested for drugs. Today, he's more intent on protecting their intellectual property rights.Earlie

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