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September 18, 2009 |

Law Firm Allows Full-Time Parenting in the Workplace

Roxanne B. Conlin and Associates, a Des Moines, Iowa-based plaintiffs firm, is one of only a handful of firms in the country that allows parents to bring their babies to the office. This is not on-site day care; it is full-time parenting in the workplace. In Roxanne Conlin's experience, parents are so happy to keep their kids nearby that they are motivated to perform at the top of their game. And because they aren't constantly worrying whether their child is being fed or changed, they are better able to focus.
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April 01, 2010 |

Columns

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May 03, 2000 |

Salaries vs. Profits: Salaries Are Winning

Just like the stock market, there seems to be no limit on the going rate for first-year associates. And just as few anticipated the Dow would ever break 10,000, most D.C. managing partners never expected to be paying starting salaries in the six figures. Well, it's happened.
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May 30, 2008 |

The A-List (51-200)

Lawyers like to lament the passing of their fabled past, when partners knew each other on sight, firms contented themselves to operating in one ZIP code and junior associates were not a menacing anonymous horde threatening to take out their frustrations via the blogosphere. As it happens, in the big-firm world those days aren't gone, they've just moved to the Am Law Second Hundred ranks, where firms are prosperous and growing steadily but retain the possibility of old-fashioned cohesion.
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April 19, 2010 |

The Efficiency equation

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December 23, 1999 |

Still the One

After a 50-year career in Congress and on the bench, one Washington D.C. veteran reflects on the allure of practicing law in the nation's capital. While the glitter of being an insider in the nation's capitol may have faded a little, it's still Broadway for a lot of young lawyers. Many of them may come for a year or two and stay for a career.
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April 04, 2011 |

Monthly Lateral Report

The latest lateral moves.
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November 09, 2009 |

Taking a Breather

A sabbatical can provide benefits to not only the lawyer taking it but the law firm as well.
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DOMA Ruling Looms over GlaxoSmithKline Appeal
Publication Date: 2013-08-15
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Attorneys for both Abbott Labs and GSK filed new briefs to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit this week on whether gays and lesbians can be excluded from juries via peremptory challenge.

Lawyers Square Off Ahead of Hearing on $7 Billion Credit Card Fee Settlement
Publication Date: 2012-11-04
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Ever since Visa and MasterCard reached a $7.2 billion agreement to resolve merchant claims over credit card "swipe fees," critics have been coming out of the woodwork. Now they've formally opposed the class action settlement in court, with the objector's lawyers at Constantine Cannon warning of "serious risks" if the deal is approved.

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