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  • May 12, 2006 | The Recorder

    Six Days, Six Lawyers, $24 Billion

    Golden West Financial Corp. General Counsel Michael Roster used to tell outside lawyers in speeches that there were certain firms he would call in to do a major transaction, or ("God forbid") a maj

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  • July 22, 2003 | The Recorder

    Thinking Small

    Michele Ballard Miller was tired of seeing the mommy track treated like a case of the mumps.By the time she quit big-firm life in 1998, she'd become an equity partner at then-Crosby, H

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  • December 12, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Fried Frank Set to Open Office in Hong Kong

    Four years ago, it was the law firm merger everybody was talking about. Then it didn't happen. The proposed combination between New York's Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson and Lo

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  • May 23, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Canadian Firms Promise Kinder, Gentler Practice

    But Few Have Offices in New York, and Moving There Has Its DownsidesHEY LOOK like us, they speak our language and have been observing us at close range for many years. They blend

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  • July 30, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    ABA Panel Concludes Law School Rankings Have Negative Effect, but Little Can Be Done

    The American Bar Association caused a minor stir in February when its House of Delegates voted to investigate U.S. News & World Report's law schools rankings and the magazine's new push t

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  • February 5, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Outside Counsel

    Litigating Against the EEOC After 'Waffle House'If an employee has agreed to arbitrate work-related claims against his employer, can the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (

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  • October 7, 2003 | The Recorder

    In Camera

    CORBETT'S SEXUAL HARASSMENT BILL CATCHES THE A-TRAINRecall opponents weren't the only ones to get mileage out of a story published in the Los Angeles Times

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  • December 4, 2000 | The Recorder

    Exit Strategy

    At a work force reorganization seminar in Oakland, Fenwick & West associate Raymond Hixson Jr. was taken aback when nearly three-fourths of approximately 80 clients in the audience raised

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  • August 19, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Huge Blackout Closed Courts, Firms Made Do

    As darkness descended on the Midtown Manhattan offices of White & Case Thursday night, stranded lawyers and other staff members gathered in the firm's word processing center around a clust

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  • February 10, 2003 | The Recorder

    Brobeck Valley Team Heading to O'Melveny

    After months of negotiations, O'Melveny & Myers has signed Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison corporate rainmaker Warren Lazarow along with four other partners, a counsel and 12 associates fr

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