• February 22, 2000 | Legal Times

    Bar Going Nowhere Fast On MDPs

    The American Bar Association may be debating itself into irrelevance over the rise of multidisciplinary practices. While a special commission listens to endless testimony and the state bar g

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  • July 18, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    The 2012 GC Compensation Survey

    What a difference a year makes. This time last year, Charles Kalil was in the number 12 spot on our annual list of the hi

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  • February 6, 2006 | The Recorder

    Private Eye's Case Could Trigger Indictments of Entertainment Lawyers

    Celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano anticipates being charged today in a wiretap case that's widely expected to trigger indictments of other prominent Hollywood figures, including entertainment

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  • January 11, 2000 | Texas Lawyer

    New Year, New Salaries

    As Texas firms mull over what to do about Vinson & Elkins' late-year decision to hike associate salaries by an abundant 10 percent, a Silicon Valley firm with an office in Austin raised stakes

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  • October 15, 2004 | Legaltech News

    Glum Times for Electronic Billing?

    Four years into the century, and verbs beginning with e-remain hot. Electronic billing, or e-billing, has been a commonplace amongbusinesses outside the legal profession for some

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  • July 1, 2005 | The Recorder

    Patent Lawyers Push Whyte for Federal Circuit

    Members of the patent bar are lobbying to get U.S. District Judge Ronald Whyte of San Jose, Calif., appointed to the next opening on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which ha

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  • October 5, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    U.S. Seeks Immunity In 9/11 Detention Case

    The personal liability of high-ranking officials for the mistreatment of Muslim men swept up after Sept. 11, 2001, and segregated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn was sharply c

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  • February 1, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Sealing Divorce Documents Not Lawful

    A recent state appellate court ruling in the divorce of a Los Angeles billionaire has declared a California statute unconstitutional because it allows spouses to seal entire documents from public v

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  • June 5, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Sliding Dollar Hurts U.S. firms in U.K.

    Since they started arriving in London in droves in the mid-1990s, U.S. firms have used the lure of higher profits per partner and associate salaries as one of their most powerful recruiting to

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  • February 13, 2003 | The Recorder

    Suing Over Suits

    A law firm that has made millions of dollars enforcing patents has been sued for allegedly filing "baseless, sham" patent infringement suits.In a complaint filed in Wisconsin federal c

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