• June 29, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

    New Additions Langer & Grogan has announced that Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. had become of counsel to the firm. Hazard is trustee professor of law at the University

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  • June 18, 2012 | The Recorder

    Firms Find New Ways to Groom Young Recruits

    SAN FRANCISCO — Law firm leaders talk about the tectonic changes reshaping the legal job market, but when it comes to summer associate programs, surprisingly little has changed. W

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  • May 24, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Buchanan Ingersoll in merger talks with Klett Rooney

    Two of the larger law firms in Pennsylvania - and two giants in the Pittsburgh legal community - are far along in merger talks with the possibility of an agreement coming "sooner rather

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  • March 30, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Are College Professors and Librarians Digital Pirates?

    First it was online music sharing. Next came video uploads and digitized books. Now a new copyright battle over digitized content is raging, this time with an unlikely set of alleged pirates:

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  • November 21, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Closed Club

    When Joseph Ryan arrived at Marriott International Inc. in December 1994 as its new general counsel, he inherited an Augean stable of well over 200 law firms. At the time, the bloated legal Ro

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  • November 9, 2009 | National Law Journal

    So long, farewell

    The nation's largest law firms this year suffered the deepest cuts in their attorney numbers since The National Law Journal began tracking their census figures more than 30 years

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  • July 1, 2009 | Focus Europe

    Arbitration Scorecard: Contracts

    AMOUNT IN CONTROVERSY: $28 billion (including $9 billion counterclaim) DISPUTE: OJSC Yukos Oil Company (Russian Federation) v. Kravin Investments Ltd., White P

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  • November 18, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    BigLaw Braces for a Future With Fewer Lawyers, Greater Client Expectations

    PHILADELPHIA - Hildebrandt Baker Robbins consultant Lisa R. Smith predicted in a blog post in September that the legal industry could shed 17,500 non-partner lawyer positions

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  • Marvel Characters v. Kirby, 11-3333-cv

    Publication Date: 2013-08-09
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Cabranes, Sack, and Carney, CJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellees and Counter-Defendants-Appellees: James W. Quinn, Randi W. Singer, Gregory Silbert, on the brief, R. Bruce Rich Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, New York; David Fleischer, Haynes and Boone, LLP, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Appellants: Marc Toberoff, Toberoff & Associates, P.C., Malibu, California.

    Case Number: 11-3333-cv

    Cite as: Marvel Characters v. Kirby, 11-3333-cv, NYLJ 1202614635496, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided August 8, 2013) 11-3333-cv Before: Cabranes, Sack, an

  • January 16, 2001 | Alm

    Spain

    Law firms have been discovering that there's far more to Spain than Iberian business stereotypes would suggest. Since a fiscally conservative government took power in 1996, the country has bee

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