• May 16, 2007 | The Recorder

    Wilmer Cutler Associate Goes From Securities to Immigrants

    Jennifer Lee is giving up an active securities practice at a major firm in Silicon Valley. Why would a young associate want to do that? Because Lee, who works in Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale

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  • November 6, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Clifford Chance Lays Off Six Structured Finance Associates

    In one of the first clear signs that slumping credit markets are causing economic pain at law firms, Clifford Chance on Monday laid off a group of associates in the structured finance area.J

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  • July 1, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

    The 2011 Diversity Scorecard

    Each firm's diversity score was calculated by adding its percentage of minority U.S. lawyers to its percentage of minority U.S. partners. For an explanation of our methodology, a list of nonrespond

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  • April 6, 2000 | The Recorder

    With Final Numbers in, Wilson's Profits Skyrocket

    For partners at Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, it turns out last year was a far better year than many had believed.The firm's 121 partners shared profits of $101 million f

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  • February 18, 2011 | The Recorder

    Reviving Competition

    In late November 2006, The Committee on Capital Markets Regulation (known as the Paulson Committee) published a report warning that the United States was losing its position as the world's foremost

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  • November 19, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Commentary: Firm free thinkers owe a credit to Craig Johnson

    All Craig Johnson wanted to talk about was the acorn. It was in November 2004, just after the upstart Venture Law Group that he had started a decade earlier had merged with Heller, Ehrman, Wh

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  • April 15, 2002 | National Law Journal

    Milberg Weiss Guns for Enron's Lawyers

    The irony is inescapable.In 1994, Congress was putting the final touches on legislation aimed at reining in a securities class action bar led by New York-based Milberg Weiss Bers

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  • March 31, 2005 | The Recorder

    Book Ends?

    Are you ready for special goggles that would enable you to read every legal document ever written? How about glass screens displaying documents that can be manipulated by a digitally enhanced

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  • February 23, 2004 | The Recorder

    Roundtable: Employment Lines

    In-House California recently invited a group of in-house counsel from Bay Area companies to participate in a roundtable discussion focusing on labor and employment issues. The roundt

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  • January 22, 2003 | The Recorder

    News Briefs

    LOCKYER SCOLDED IN APPELLATE RULING A San Francisco court of appeal justice has sharply reprimanded Attorney General Bill Lockyer, saying he tried to use an amicus curiae

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