• June 16, 2006 | Alm

    Short Supply Moves Associate Salary War Into Midwest

    The associate salary war has spread from the coasts to the middle of the United States, with law firms boosting starting pay to stay competitive in a legal market where demand is mountin

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  • June 7, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New partners Greenberg Traurig: Richard Leher, former executive and head of business affairs for DreamWorks Records, joins the firm's Los Angeles office. A music i

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  • October 29, 2009 | The Recorder

    Heller Creditors Seek $150M, Detail Firm's Failings

    SAN FRANCISCO — The stakes have gone up. Heller Ehrman's creditors now want $150 million from former partners, contending in a confidential mediation brief that the firm fraudulen

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  • December 1, 2011 | International

    Asia Deal Digest: December 1, 2011

    China/Hong Kong Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Hong Kong partners Teresa Ko, Grace Huang, and Calvin Lai are leading a team advising Hong Kong jewelry retailer Chow

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  • February 10, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Baker & McKenzie, Wachtell Handle $7.3 Billion Offshore Drilling Deal Ensco plc has agreed to a $7.3 billion merger with Pride International Inc. in a deal that will

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  • October 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    Insecurity Complex

    One of the biggest data breaches yet may have cost a GC his job. In May a computer belonging to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs that contained 26.5 million personal records was stolen.

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  • May 25, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

    Charts: Summer Associates at Large Texas Firms

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  • September 8, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Top firms failing women attorneys, report says

    Dozens of the nation's top law firms are failing their women attorneys when it comes to advancement, training, work-life balance and more, according to a report released by members of th

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  • October 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    The Global Issue: The Future Is Now

    When Simpson Thacher & Bartlett offered a job to Brazilian asso­ciate Thiago Spercel in 2008, Simpson partner S. Todd Crider engaged in some high-level diplomacy with Spercel's firm. S

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  • May 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Measuring a Lawyer's Value

    Value per lawyer ranks firms by how efficiently they generate profits. For the third year in a row, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz tops the list, with a value per lawyer of $1.585 mil

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