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  • August 6, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Amid The Debate, J.D.'s True Value Gets Lost

    Today, those considering attending law school hear a constant refrain: The job prospects for law graduates are not strong enough to justify the cost of pursuing a legal education. Yet a rece

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  • February 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    France

    Each year Paris-based legal magazine D�cideurs collects financial information for more than 300 firms, using reported data and in some cases estimates, to produce a list of France's lar

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  • October 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Stranded In Paradise

    For an international fugitive, Viktor Kozeny seems to have it pretty good. It's not quite the life of a decade ago, when

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  • September 30, 2013 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    LATERALS Day Pitney: Eric Fader joins the firm's life sciences and health care practice group as counsel to the New Yo

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  • April 19, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Clifford Chance Partner Moves to Sonnenschein Clifford Chance partner Shepherd Melzer has left the firm's New York office to join the New York office of Chicago-based Son

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  • July 22, 2013 | International

    Foreign Firms Stumble Going Local in Japan

    When foreign law firms in Japan were finally allowed to directly hire locally qualified lawyers, or bengoshi, in 2005, many leaped at the chance. “I think a lot of

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  • August 12, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Veteran Prosecutor to Join Paul Hastings

    U.S. Attorney Thomas O'Brien has taken on international drug cartels, some of the West Coast's toughest street gangs, and human smuggling rings. But now he has to do something that may be even more

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  • July 28, 2009 | Bloomberg

    Plaintiffs face tough case on Pfizer suicide

    Pfizer Inc., the world's biggest drugmaker, began trial Monday on claims its epilepsy medication Neurontin increases the risk of suicide, in a case the judge called "very tough" for the plain

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  • October 16, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Report: Law Firms Losing Edge in Office Space Race

    The business of negotiating law firm office leases is in flux, with firms losing their edge over landlords for the first time in seven years, according to the latest edition of real estate s

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  • October 9, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Hogan in talks to merge with U.K.'s Lovells

    Hogan & Hartson's chairman, J. Warren Gorrell Jr., has never sounded like a fan of big law firm mergers. Three years ago, he told The American Lawyer, a Daily Report affiliate, the

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