• August 2, 1999 | Legal Times

    Wising Up and Dressing Down

    When local law firm managers agreed recently to meet and share ideas, the plan was to talk to one another about issues ranging from sexual harassment to associate training to hiring and firing pers

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  • February 5, 2007 | The Recorder

    Latham and Gibson Dunn Raise N.Y. Salaries to $160,000

    California associates still dreaming of New York-sized salaries are in for a rude awakening. West Coast standard bearers Latham & Watkins and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher announced Friday

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  • April 27, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    The London Lawyer

    Our chief European correspondent reports on the latest buzz from London:Associate Pay ClimbsAs most U.K. firms approach the end of their current financial years o

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  • July 1, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

    He Should Have Listened to Me

    Did Paul Wolfowitz lose his job as president of The World Bank Group because he wouldn't listen to its top lawyer? Roberto Da�ino, the bank's former general counsel, thinks so. Da�ino

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  • November 13, 2004 | National Law Journal

    The NLJ 250: Call it growth — barely

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  • June 2, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Specter Proposes Jail Time for Lax Executives

    On March 10, as the Senate Judiciary Committee wrapped two hours of testimony on product liability reform, the chairman, Sen. Arlen Specter, buttonholed one of the witnesses, Victor Schwartz. "

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  • November 18, 2004 | The Recorder

    Winston Taps Thelen Refugee in S.F.

    Winston & Strawn announced this week the appointment of Charles Birenbaum to head the firm's San Francisco office.A labor and employment partner who joined the firm just over a yea

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  • February 22, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Bar Exam Program Faces Funding Crisis

    Free supplemental preparation for the New York state bar examination could soon become a thing of the past for minority candidates who have depended on a special program offered through a small non

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  • September 30, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

    Tom Swift Needed a GC

    While flipping through the book review pages of a magazine the other day, I came across something unforgettable: a paean to the old Nancy Drew mystery stories, all of which apparently are avai

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  • October 24, 2000 | Legal Times

    Covington: The Unlobbyists?

    In Washington lobbying, D.C.'s Covington & Burling stands out. But it stands out more for what it doesn't do than what it does.Among the District's largest home-grown law firms, Co

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