• May 27, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

    Most Large Texas Firms Go Smaller on 2010 Summer Classes

    The summer associate class at Baker Botts in Texas is smaller this year than it was in 2009, and summer associate Rocio Mendoza says that's OK with her. Mendoza is coming back for a second summer a

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  • April 4, 2011 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    PROMOTIONS NIXON PEABODY: Scott O'Connell has been named leader of the firm's commercial litigation practice. He is based in the firm's Bos

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  • January 28, 2008 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    SAN FRANCISCOBAKER & MCKENZIE has promoted Irina Shestakova to partner. Shestakova, who joined the firm in 1997, is a member of the international commercial pr

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  • May 23, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS . . . George B. Brunt, previously general counsel at Alcatel Americas, has joined Greenberg Traurig's Dallas office as of counsel. He works in the firm's intellectual pro

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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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  • June 18, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS . . . The following have joined Looper Reed & McGraw's Dallas office: partners Vernon Howerton, construction and government contract law, Ralph Perry-Miller, real e

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  • August 19, 2010 | Daily Business Review

    Many Fla. GCs Collected More Last Year Than in 2008

    Many chief legal officers collected more compensation last year than in 2008 as their companies began to recover from the economic recession. A Daily Business Review surve

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  • December 1, 2008 |

    Bringing Brands Back

    The teetering economy is raising the risks of Gordon Brothers Retail Partners’s big bets on reviving brands. The Boston-based company made its name liquidating inventory, fixtures,

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  • March 5, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Big Bankruptcies' Big Fees Raising Questions

    The Chapter 11 cases of copper miner Asarco and casino operator Station Casinos have been a gold mine for bankruptcy lawyers. Baker Botts broke the $100 million billable mark in the five-year-old A

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  • September 29, 2008 | The Recorder

    Heller Starts Dissolution Process

    A day after telling employees that the firm would close its doors, Heller Ehrman has dissolution counsel and a dissolution committee in place, San Francisco Managing Partner Barry Levin

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