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  • January 8, 2002 | The Recorder

    Going It Alone

    When Micah Jacobs got a pink slip from Cooley Godward last August, he could have used it as a ticket to depression.But instead of sitting on the couch eating Dove Bars and watchi

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  • November 20, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Firms rethink age-based retirement

    With hordes of attorneys poised to assume senior status, achieving a consensus among partners to ditch mandatory retirement policies is just the first step-and perhaps the easiest-in switchin

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  • January 2, 2012 | Bloomberg

    SEC's Fannie and Freddie lawsuits miss the enablers

    Let's boil down the Securities and Exchange Commission's claims against six former Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives to their essence. Every disclosure that the SEC says amounted to fraud

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  • April 24, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Arbitration v. Litigation: Nonsignatories, Parallel Proceedings

    In what situations may a nonsignatory to an arbitration agreement nonetheless be bound to arbitrate? Who � the court or the arbitrator � makes the decision of whether a nonsignatory should be

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  • November 22, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Teaching lawyers to be managers

    Lawyers are largely extremely bright and talented people, and yet few, if any, have formal training in the business of law-leadership, management, profitability and business development.

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  • September 11, 2003 | The Recorder

    Not-So-Great Expectations

    Even the greediest of associates has been humbled by the economic downturn.With so many lawyers looking for work, salary rarely comes up in job interviews -- a big change from the days

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  • April 14, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Attack on Pre-Arrest Action of State Judge Fails in U.S. Court

    A prisoner's claim that a state court judge had been improperly consulted by police officers before they arrested him has been rejected by a federal judge. Prisoner Alejandro Lopez tri

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  • October 9, 2007 | Legal Times

    Alston & Bird's losses to DLA highlight firms' opposite places on spectrum

    A FEW MONTHS AGO, William Cook found himself in India-New Delhi, to be exact-speaking with a manager for his firm's second-largest client. They were, thankfully, in an air-conditioned confere

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  • April 29, 2002 | Legal Times

    Rising Stock

    David Becker couldn't have picked a better time to look for a job.Thanks to the post-Enron boom in federal investigations of corporate America, the outgoing general counsel of the Securities

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  • April 8, 2011 | Bloomberg

    Warren 'Do-Right' Buffett gives errant kiss

    Long ago when I was a young reporter covering the Arkansas legislature for the local paper in Little Rock, there was a line I'd hear in the hallways periodically about the prevailing moral st

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