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  • October 14, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Applicants for federal law jobs find competition

    If Richard Feinstein, who heads the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission, were applying for an entry-level position as a lawyer with the agency today, he said, "I probably co

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  • November 8, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Fusion, Not Confusion

    The idea of a merger is an irresistible temptation for a growing number of law firms lured by fantasies of serving more clients in more cities for more money.But turning that vis

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  • May 9, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

    Texas' Top Deals of 2010

    The following deals were announced in 2010: SCHLUMBERGER LTD. Merger with SMITH INTERNATIONAL INC. Description: Schlumberger Ltd., which has offices

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  • October 1, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    Into The Fire At MCI

    When we last checked in with Anastasia Kelly, she'd just resigned as GC of Sears, Roebuck & Company [May 2003, "The Anastasia Mystery, Solved"]. In August, after a whirlwind recruit

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  • May 5, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Costs of Compliance Soar After Sarbanes-Oxley

    A new study reveals that companies are paying a high price to stay public in the wake of a sweeping set of changes to federal securities law.Conducted by the law firm Foley & Lardn

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  • January 4, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Small Law Firm Woos Clients With Monthly Subscription Fees

    SAN FRANCISCO - When Todd Smithline and Raj Jha negotiate terms with a new client, they never bring up the billable hour. For the last two years, their five-lawyer San Francisco firm, Smithline Jha, h

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  • January 2, 2002 | The American Lawyer

    Global Defense

    On June 20, 2001, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue litigation partner Sydney McDole was in a courtroom in Jefferson County, Colo., watching senior associate Robert Faxon conduct his first-ever

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  • December 3, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Corporations Not Going To Take It Anymore

    The appalling increase in starting salaries for first-year associates at major big-city law firms - now up to $160,000 - makes in-house general counsel want to shout out the window like the f

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  • May 10, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Cravath Adds a Bankruptcy Practice

    Cravath, Swaine & Moore apparently sees what a lot of firms see: growth in restructuring work. The firm announced Wednesday that it is starting a bankruptcy practice that will be headed up by R

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  • June 24, 1999 | The American Lawyer

    Welcome to the Valley

    New York's Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett and Davis Polk & Wardwell are eyeing a bigger chunk of Northern California's Gold Rush. Both firms are planning to open Silicon Valley offices in comi

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