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  • November 12, 2010 | Bloomberg

    Stupidest lawsuit ever has us suing ourselves

    Of all the absurdities to emerge from the government's never-ending bailout of the U.S. financial system, here's a new one that's hard to top: The government, through Freddie Mac, in effect i

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  • April 30, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    How Did New York Firms Fare in the AmLaw 100?

    What has the world come to when Cravath, Swaine & Moore has a terrible year? The firm that has served for decades as the touchstone for prestige in the profession last year suffered

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  • January 10, 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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  • February 6, 2003 | The Recorder

    Brobeck: Most Will Be Gone by End of Month

    San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison is telling its associates, of counsel and staff they will most likely be out of work by Feb. 28.In an internal memo issued Tuesday b

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  • April 14, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Hiring more deeply into top schools

    A bigger percentage of students graduating from top law schools in 2007 took jobs at NLJ 250 law firms than those graduating in 2006. Columbia Law School landed in the No.

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  • January 14, 2005 | The Recorder

    SEC Says Google's Lawyers Goofed

    Google and its general counsel, David Drummond, reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday in connection with the company's failure to register more than $80 mil

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  • May 26, 2006 | Alm

    Diversity Lacking Among High Court Clerks

    The intense competition for Supreme Court clerkships has been compared more than once to a market that responds to economic forces. If the analogy works, then it has been a very bulli

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  • June 30, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Firms spread out to West Coast, Chicago

    Troutman Sanders' chief Robert W. Webb Jr. said last week that a primary factor in his firm's merger with Washington-based Ross, Dixon & Bell was to gain offices on the West Coast.

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  • October 27, 2008 | Bloomberg

    Regions Financial must think we're all stoned

    You have to wonder who the people running Regions Financial Corp. think they're kidding. So far this year, the Birmingham, Ala.-based regional bank says it has earned $622.5 million,

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  • February 18, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    Levi's sports skimpy outside firm roster

    How low can you go That's a question that Levi Strauss & Co. has asked not just about its jeans, but about its outside counsel roster. Last spring the clothing giant cut the number

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