• October 5, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Treasury Lines Up Law Firms to Help Run TARP

    In one of the federal government's biggest legal services contracts ever, the Treasury Department has hired 13 law firms to help run the Troubled Assets Relief Program at a cost to taxpayers of up

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  • September 8, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Bad Good News: Slowdown in Filings Fuels Competition for Bankruptcy Cases

    Something new is facing New York's bankruptcy bar -- a slowdown in business. Just two years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., the number of businesses filing for Chapter 1

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  • February 24, 2005 | Alm

    Group Mentality: Lawyers Moving En Masse

    As the legal market undergoes a tectonic shift due to law firm megamergers, one of the reverberations is an apparent surge in the number of law firms picking off clusters of attorneys from riv

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  • March 31, 2008 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    SAN FRANCISCO Sara Brody has been named chair of Heller Ehrman's securities litigation practice group. Brody, who joined the firm in 2004, graduated from Emory Uni

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  • July 1, 2004 | Corporate Counsel

    Fine Balance, With Sunny Overtones

    For most general counsel, their workload doesn't depend on whether or not it's harvest season. But for Jack Owens, the executive vice president and general counsel of Modesto, California�based

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  • May 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    �ber Popular

    Germany is the place to be right now. Ask any of a half-dozen law firms. In the last 12 months, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has opened in Munich; Norton Rose in Hamburg; fellow U.K. firm F

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  • January 23, 2002 | The Recorder

    Enron Mess Gives a Boost To MDP Foes

    The controversy over Arthur Andersen's handling of Enron Corp.'s books may not only stain the accounting giant's reputation, but could be a fatal blow to a marriage between the acco

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  • June 16, 2010 | Daily Business Review

    The law firm as socialist fishbowl

    Would you ever reject a job offer because the decor of the law firm wasn't up to snuff? Would you think twice about joining a firm where the partner's office was as dinky as that of a lowly a

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  • December 18, 2008 | The Recorder

    Latham's Salary Freeze May Launch Trend

    Latham & Watkins said Tuesday it will freeze associate salaries in response to "challenging economic times," a move that could signal the rest of the industry to follow suit, observer

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  • August 4, 2006 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    SAN FRANCISCOMaria Anastas and Aaron Roblan have joined Davis Wright Tremaine's national employment and labor law practice. Both come to the firm from Jacks

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