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  • October 19, 2005 | The Associated Press

    Current Disputes a Watershed Moment for Unions

    The outlook for organized labor seems to grow worse by the day in this year of turmoil for unions. Auto supplier Delphi Corp. filed for bankruptcy last week, putting thousands of union jobs at r

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  • May 23, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Pitfalls of law firm retirement

    Even as Sidley Austin Brown & Wood and the government battle over whether 31 attorneys should get damages resulting from the firm's mandatory retirement program, many law firms are stick

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  • June 27, 2011 | National Law Journal

    JAY EPSTIEN

    Publisher BNA Inc. faced a problem in the mid-2000s when looking to relocate from Washington to Crystal City, Va. The company that owns the majority of office space in Crystal City nea

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  • September 9, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Attorneys Fight Plaintiffs' Counsel Fee Request Objections have been filed to the $195 million fee request by plaintiffs' attorneys who achieved a $586 million settlemen

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  • February 13, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Wolf Block Reduces Salary, Not Headcount

    Attorney layoffs may just have been relegated to the backburner. Could the new trend be salary trimming instead of attorney cuts? Wolf Block confirmed Thursday that it instituted a 10 percen

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  • February 23, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    It Wasn't Al Gore?

    Who invented the Internet? Not Al Gore—and not the founder of Eolas Technologies Inc., according to a federal district court jury in Tyler, Texas. On February 9 the jury invalidated Eola

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  • November 6, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    New Deals

    CROWN CASTLE INTERNATIONAL INC. TO ACQUIRE GLOBAL SIGNAL INC. E. Blake Hawk, executive vice president and general counsel of Houston's Crown Castle International Inc., called on Cravat

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  • April 11, 2003 |

    Bottom-Line Index

    Measuring Stick What counts most when it's payday for the partners? A survey of more than 300 firms ranked the most important compensation factors: 1.Individual work done, meas

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  • June 1, 2006 | Alm

    Two California Firms, Caught Up in Wiretapping Probe, Raise Associate Pay

    Two Los Angeles law firms recently raised their first-year associate salaries while facing key partner departures and a federal criminal probe into whether lawyers engaged in illegal wiretappi

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  • October 20, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Unlikely coalition guides Iceland's recovery

    On Oct. 6, 2008, Iceland's then-prime minister, Geir Haarde, went on television to tell his countrymen the nation's financial system was on the verge of collapse. Haarde explained

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