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November 01, 2009 |

New Business

New work landed by major firms, including high-profile deals, lawsuits, and bankruptcies announced in September 2009.
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Docket 2013: Decisions to Watch
Publication Date: 2012-12-24
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The courts have largely ground to a halt for the holidays, though there's still time for few more decisions in 2012 that could ensure a happy or gloomy New Year for the litigators involved. In the meantime, here are some of the biggest rulings we're looking forward to in 2013.

July 22, 1999 |

Attorneys Seek Review of Investor Fund

A group of plaintiffs' attorneys, the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association, is calling for an investigation of the use of a fund created to reimburse investors if their brokerage firms go bankrupt. The lawyers claim that the fund's managing group, the Securities Investor Protection Corp. (SIPC), and its trustees arbitrarily prevent customers of insolvent brokerage firms from recouping their losses. They also charge that the decisions of SIPC trustees are not driven by investors.
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April 02, 2001 |

Follow the Money

Each year, Dewey Ballantine shows up in the background of dozens of big deals, supplying legal advice not to the principals, but to their bankers. The list of blockbuster transactions Dewey worked on last year reads like a murderer's row of the year's biggest deals: Time Warner-AOL, VoiceStream-Deutsche Telekom, SDL-JDS Uniphase, Honeywell-General Electric.
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July 07, 1999 |

War Stories

Palo Alto, Calif.'s Fenwick & West is one of several law firms whose fortunes have risen with the booming tech sector, and Apple Computer Inc. -- which in its nascent stages turned to Fenwick for advice -- has ripened into a billion-dollar concern in what is now the Silicon Valley. The Recorder talks with the firm's William Fenwick about Apple, the tension between rapid-fire technological changes and lawmakers' ability to keep up with them.
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November 13, 2004 |

The NLJ 250: Call it growth — barely

The NLJ's 27th annual survey of the nation's 250 largest law firms reveals that the number of attorneys grew by a mere 1.5% over the past year after a 1.6% rate the year before. Even more telling, the number of associates dipped by 3.5%. It was only they third time in the history of the survey that associate staffing dropped in consecutive years. View with free registration.
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May 13, 2013 |

Corporate Scorecard

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August 01, 1999 |

The New World Order

The inside story of what it took to put Clifford Chance and Rogers & Wells together: how major compensation differences were papered over, why the merged firm will be a formidable competitor, and what must happen now for it to score big.
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The Global Lawyer: How Not to Be an Evil Law Firm
Publication Date: 2011-12-06
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A new report on law firm social responsibility moves way beyond pro bono and asks firms to hew to international human rights principles--even if it means dropping clients.

June 14, 1999 |

ABA Report-What Now?

A select commission of the ABA spoke last week with a single and authoritative voice in making a revolutionary proposal: The time has come to let lawyers share fees with nonlawyers. The announcement was seen as the most significant step yet toward the time when firms will span law and other professions. Is it a whole new ballgame? Not so fast.
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