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  • July 31, 2009 | The Recorder

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    CUTS — CRUEL AND KINDAs a part of our annual midlevel survey, we asked associates whether their firms had conducted layoffs. We also asked them to assess--on a 1-to-5 scale, with 5

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  • September 4, 2007 | The Recorder

    O'Melveny's Dreyfus Goes to Wilson

    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has lured corporate partner Karen Dreyfus away from O'Melveny & Myers.In 2001, Dreyfus was a founding partner of O'Melveny's Menlo Park office.

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  • November 17, 2003 | Legal Times

    On the Record: Robert Stern

    Robert Stern is senior vice president and general counsel of Sodexho Inc. He supervises about 15 attorneys in the law depar as well as two attorneys in the government affairs depar

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  • February 6, 2007 | Alm

    Latham, Gibson Raise N.Y. Salaries to $160K

    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 F

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  • October 4, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Exoneration as a cottage industry

    The number of "innocence projects" has mushroomed to 35 nationally-nearly half formed in the last four years-triggering a movement that has steadily altered criminal procedures in dozens

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  • December 23, 2003 | The Recorder

    California Death Spiral

    When it comes to death sentences, the Alameda County, Calif., district attorney's office had a rough year. Prosecutors pursued five capital cases but only got the death penalty in o

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  • May 14, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Defense Claims Refco Officials Lied to Lawyer About Fraud

    Mayer Brown partner Joseph P. Collins was kept out of the loop on hidden debt and sham transactions at Refco Inc. and should not be sitting in the defendant's chair, his attorney claimed

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  • August 3, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Rumble in the Alley

    When it came time for Silicon Alley-based MaxManager Corp., an online shopping organizer, to hire an outside law firm, chief executive Mordechai Beizer knew who he wanted. "Our very short list

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  • May 4, 2011 | The Recorder

    Obama Taps Gonzalez Rogers for Walker's Seat

    SAN FRANCISCO — President Obama today formally nominated Alameda County Superior Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers for the district court seat vacated earlier this year by Vaughn Walker. ./p

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  • October 22, 2004 | The Recorder

    Commander in Chief, Esq.

    America's Lawyer-PresidentsFrom Law Office to Oval OfficeNorman Gross (ed.)Northwestern University Press and ABA Museum of Law/$39.95I'll never forget th

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