• December 21, 2009 | Daily Business Review

    13 attorneys in $1,000-an-hour club

    A handful of U.S.-based partners at major law firms have inched above the $1,000 rate barrier, making bankruptcy work as lucrative as it was plentiful in 2008 and 2009, a review of billing rates in

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  • February 28, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New partners Zuckerman Spaeder (Washington): Francis Carter joins as partner in the firm's home office. Most recently a solo practitioner, he is a former director

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  • June 17, 2002 | Alm

    The Incredible Shrinking Law Library

    Law is a learned profession. Judges and clerks read case reporters. Law students lug around treatises that look thicker than they are long. Litigators flip through codes, digests, legal e

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  • July 25, 2005 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    SAN FRANCISCOSan Francisco Superior Court Judge Donna Hitchens, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman partner Richard Odgers and Peter Reid of Stanford Law School

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  • July 18, 2011 | The Recorder

    Mozilla's Harvey Anderson Seeks Privacy in an Open Source World

    Begun as an open source project at Netscape in 1998, Mozilla's downloadable products have become among the most-used browsers in

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  • October 2, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Judge Declines to Hold Former British Gambling Executive A Queens judge on Friday cleared a former British betting-company executive to return to London after Governor George E.

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  • August 17, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Associate Moves Up to Senior Counsel by Moving Over to New Firm, Launches 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 bankr

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  • April 16, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS . . . The following have joined Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold in Austin practicing commercial law: partner Mike Shaunessy, associate Deborah Loomis and special c

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  • December 13, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Westchester Judge Tapped For Second Department Governor David A. Paterson last week appointed Jeffrey A. Cohen to the Appellate Division, Second Department. A graduate o

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  • April 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Compromised Counsel

    When lawyers are struggling, they often turn to the bar. Sometimes to casinos. Or drugs. Lawyers have double the national average for substance abuse, according to the American Ba

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