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The Firms

Headcount Drops at Texas Firms

A year after Texas firms's habit of keeping quiet about layoffs attracted attention, sibling publication Texas Lawyer delivers some hard numbers about just how much shrinkage the Lone Star state's largest firms have experienced.

The Work

Michael Jackson's Doctor Hires More Lawyers

Conrad Murray's attorneys are already receiving a huge level of media attention.

The Life

Faegre & Benson Partner Dies in Air Crash

Robert Matthews, a commercial litigation partner in the firm?s Boulder office, died Saturday when a small plane he was piloting collided in midair with another plane some 8,000 feet over the Colorado city.

The Work

Discovering a New (Old) Constitution

Remember that story about a lawyer/researcher who found a previously undiscovered draft of the U.S. Constitution? It turns out that the discovery represents the final link in a chain of events that started when an Am Law partner's son decided a school research project was boring.

The Score

THE AM LAW 100: Revenue, Profits Down at Schulte

The New York firm, best known for its investment funds practice, reported a drop in gross revenue and profits in 2009. But Schulte isn't offering any apologies for the numbers. "We view last year--given what happened to the world and what happened to a lot of our clients--as an extremely strong year," says partner Alan Waldenberg.

The Work

Rakoff Chides SEC Lawyer at Hearing on BofA Settlement

Judge Jed Rakoff put a Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer on the defensive Monday over a proposed settlement that would resolve civil charges that Bank of America misled investors when it acquired Merrill Lynch. 

Featuring the winners and finalists from our fifth biennial competition. Hear from each of the finalist firms about their most high-profile cases of 2008-09 in our exclusive Web videos.

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