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  • April 12, 2000 |

    If You've Got a Pulse, You've Got a Job

    Law firms want you. Dot-coms want you. Blue chips want you.Consulting firms want you. And, more than ever, they're willing to do whatever it takes to get you in the door. How do you decide?No

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  • April 27, 2006 | Law.com

    Improve Productivity Without Micromanaging

    A partner's away on vacation, so his secretary is kicking back a bit: arriving late and taking extended lunch breaks. But is working at a leisurely pace bad? Or is there a better way to m

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  • August 9, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Dewey Estate Sues Over $5.7 Million Spent as Firm Faded

    Update, 8/12/13, 12:10 p.m. EDT: The eighth paragraph of this story has been updated to say that the suit against Lankler Siffert & Wohl has been closed.

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  • January 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Browsing the Paris Boutiques

    Bredin Prat has an evocative address: 130 rue du Faubourg St. Honor� in Paris's eighth arrondissement, a district that suggests haute couture and the tasteful exclusivity of Michelin three-sta

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  • January 26, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Dechert Associates, Don't Spend the $15 all in one Place

    PHILADELPHIA -- In December 1999, Dechert announced a special retention bonus program for its associates in which the firm's policy committee set aside $50,000 of its investment in high-flying

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  • July 23, 2007 | Legal Times

    Technology May Reduce Associate Attrition

    Associate attrition at top U.S. law firms has reached critical levels. According to a recent survey by the National Association for Law Placement, 78 percent of associates leave their firms by

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  • December 20, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS . . . Maria Lourdes Costilla and Leandra Costilla Ortiz have joined the Law Office of Frank Costilla in Brownsville as civil practice associates. .

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  • September 18, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Firms fall in and out of love

    It's a given that many law firm mergers flame out before they ever get off the ground, but reports of unsuccessful pairings have been particularly prominent in recent weeks. Some of th

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  • April 8, 2003 | The American Lawyer

    The Brobeck Exodus

    Several firms -- notably Clifford Chance, Dewey Ballantine, and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld -- skimmed talent liberally from the foundering Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison before its co

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  • July 24, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    N.J. Mergers & Acquisitions

    Church & Dwight Buys Orange Glo Church & Dwight, a personal-care and household-products maker in Princeton, announced last Monday that it would acquire Orange Glo Int

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