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  • February 19, 2007 | Legal Times

    Docket Watch: Upcoming Arguments at the Supreme Court

    Below are cases coming before the Supreme Court in the coming weeks and the lawyers who will argue them. "Docket Watch" appears at the beginning of each two-week argument cycle when t

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  • October 17, 2005 | Legal Times

    Drying Up in D.C.

    When telecommunications partner Brad Mutschelknaus was recruited to Kelley Drye & Warren in 1996, the New York-based law firm charged him with the formidable task of turning its nine

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  • June 18, 2007 | Legal Times

    Keeping Score

    Credit CheckVisa was on the receiving end of a judicial curbing when attorneys at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett won a huge, three-year-long battle for their client Mas

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  • February 8, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Gauging the Reach of Patent Law

    Two corporate titans, one in the software world, the other in the world of telecommunications, will do battle in the U.S. Supreme Court this month over the reach of domestic patent law beyond t

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  • August 24, 2007 | Special To Law.Com

    How much will 'Best Law Firms for Women' list influence attorneys?

    Female law students entering the recruiting season now have another weapon for their interviewing arsenal: a list of the 50 U.S. firms deemed most woman friendly. The inaugural 2007 Be

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  • July 18, 2007 | Legal Times

    At the High Court, Sometimes It's Personal

    The timbre of Donald Verrilli Jr.'s voice changes when he argues a pro bono case to the U.S. Supreme Court. For his paying clients at Jenner & Block, Verrilli, always soft-spoken and measured,

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  • June 20, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    High Court Revives Lawsuit By Laid Off Older Workers

    Older workers who say they were fired from the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in upstate New York because of their age have had a long legal struggle. Yesterday, 13 years in

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  • August 15, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    10 N.Y. Firms Listed as Best for Women

    Roughly half of the law students across the country presently involved in on-campus interviews have a personal stake in this question: Exactly which large firms are best for women?

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  • February 23, 2007 | Legal Times

    Leaving Your Legal Career Far Behind

    Why do the women keep leaving? Sure, we all know the statistics -- just 17 percent of law firm partners are women, a figure that's been stuck in the same place for years. And we know that in

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  • October 5, 2007 | The Recorder

    How Managing Partners Manage to Survive

    Being in charge of an office full of lawyers may be about as close to thanklessness as a job gets."It's not truly a thankless job, because everybody says, 'Thank God you're doing that,'" Jon

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