• September 21, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Boom Town

    CHICAGO-Major U.S. law firms looking to muscle up their national networks are eyeing Chicago for expansion, attracted by the city's corporate clientele and seasoned pool of attor

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  • July 14, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Pro Bono Report 2008: A Silver Lining to Economic Downturn?

    R. Bruce McLean still shakes his head when he thinks about how his firm, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, derailed its pro bono program in 2000. Firms across the country had increased associate

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  • June 1, 2004 |

    It was an extraordinary evening. Admittedly, it went on a bit long. But for nearly 700 lawyers and friends, our twenty-fifth anniversary dinner last month was an occasion to be reminded again

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  • August 19, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Dorsey, Loeb & Loeb Caught Up in Stadium Games

    Two Am Law 200 firms have found themselves in the middle of ongoing dramas over multimillion-dollar proposals to build new sports facilities in Minneapolis and Sacramento. One of th

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  • September 8, 2003 | Legal Times

    The A-List: Making the Grade

    Once there was an age, the old-timers say, when lawyers could tick off by rote the names of the nation's leading law firms. They were dotted across and like regional royalty. Within

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  • September 15, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Going beyond office furniture

    Name and title: Jon D. Botsford: senior vice president, secretary and chief legal officer.Age: 49Office Furniture King: With fiscal 2003 revenue of $

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  • October 26, 2012 | The Recorder

    Market for Tech Transactions Lawyers Is Heating Up

    SAN FRANCISCO — Technology transaction practices have hit the big time. And lawyers like Shearman & Sterling's Richard Hsu have the rise of multimillion-dollar patent deals an

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  • November 8, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Gains & Losses

    DEFYING GRAVITY In a year when most firms trimmed lawyers, a few posted big gains. How did they manage to beat the odds? img style="MARGIN: 2px 10px 0px 0px; FL

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  • February 4, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    No Growth in Partner Promotions at Many of N.Y.'s Largest Private Law Offices

    A glance at promotion figures from the top quarter of New York's largest law offices shows the percentage of New York attorneys making partner holding steady or declining, a trend that legal

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  • April 1, 2002 | The American Lawyer

    The Perfect Storm

    It's the start of a new decade, and deal work is in the dumpster. In Washington, President Bush is sending troops abroad, while Wall Street struggles to cope with a recession and a stagn

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