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  • June 20, 2007 |

    Biz Group Takes Aim at Short-Term Investors

    A coalition of U.S. chief executives, business groups and labor unions wants corporate America to stop providing quarterly earnings guidance to Wall Street in an attempt to limit the influence of h

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  • June 1, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

    N.J. Firms Boost Summer Clerk Pay

    New Jersey's bellwether firms are willing to pay more than last year for summer clerks who may ripen into permanent hires. It's not as if the firms have a choice. With first-year assoc

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  • May 14, 2010 | Bloomberg

    Traders at too-big-to-fail firms keep making killing

    Score another triumph for the rigged-market theory. In a feat that would seem to defy the odds, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America this week each said its trading desk

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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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