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  • June 15, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Is BigLaw Becoming a Socialist Fishbowl?

    Would you ever reject a job offer because the decor of the law firm wasn't up to snuff? Would you think twice about joining a firm where the partner's office was as d

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  • September 4, 2009 | The Recorder

    California Firms Cut Summer Offer Rates

    In another blow to the job prospects of top law students, summer associate offer rates are down significantly at many big California firms. While some firms are still compiling numbers, most

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  • March 19, 2008 | Legal Times

    Cisco GC Rallies Lawyers for Hillary

    Mark Chandler, the general counsel of Cisco Systems Inc., first met Hillary Clinton in January 2007 in W

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  • August 9, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    India Too Far? Call Fargo

    Piper Rudnick partner Karen McWilliams is not the first busy lawyer to ask an assistant to arrange a birthday party for her daughter. She may, however, be among the first to have

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  • January 11, 2011 | The Recorder

    Judges Not Likely to Undo Facebook-ConnectU Settlement

    SAN FRANCISCO — The Winklevoss twins went to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals today hoping to undo a settlement that makes them far richer than it did when they struck the deal w

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  • October 29, 2007 | National Law Journal

    IN BRIEF

    ABA to call for death penalty moratorium The American Bar Association will call for a nationwide moratorium on executions on Oct. 29 based on flawed death penalty systems

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  • July 1, 2011 | Focus Europe

    Uncivil Courts

    Multinational corporations are used to litigation, but all things being equal, they'd rather not be litigating in the courts of emerging nations, where precedent can be scanty, corruption

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  • March 20, 2006 | Alm

    Expansion-Minded Law Firms Look to Korea

    As a boy, Justin Chang remembers his attorney father advising Korean-based companies. Long before Hyundai and Samsung were household names here, Korean executives would visit Chang's home near

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  • September 26, 2008 | The Recorder

    Struggling Heller Calls it Quits

    After 118 years, San Francisco law firm Heller Ehrman will dissolve in a partnership vote today. In a firmwide "all hands" videoconference on Thursday afternoon, C

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  • July 9, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Milbank Partner Goes It Alone to Escape the 'Big Firm Profit Model'

    Gregory Evans, a litigation partner in the Los Angeles office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, has left to form his own firm, Integer Law Corp., citing the "unbearable tension" bet

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