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February 15, 2000 |

Keeping Pace

Recent spurts in starting salaries at New York and Silicon Valley firms are forcing some New Jersey firms to consider recalibrating their first-year associates' paychecks. Porzio, Bromberg & Newman and Roseland's Lowenstein Sandler have increased salaries. McCarter & English in Newark, are still monitoring the increases.
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June 09, 2000 |

Lower Pay, Shorter Hours for Long Island Associates

While the highest first-year associate salaries on Long Island, N.Y., are a full 50 percent lower than New York City numbers, Long Island-based firms contend it's a Big Apple-to-oranges comparison. The quality of life and of practice the Island affords is alluring. In addition to more relaxed billable hour requirements, Long Island firms hire associates anticipating they will make partner.
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April 07, 2000 |

Choppy Water in Equity Pool

James Fulton Jr. is one of the few associates in his class of fifth-years at Cooley Godward who has not succumbed to the stock option temptation offered by Silicon Valley. To encourage Fulton and others like him to stay, Cooley is planning to cut its 300 or so associates into the firm's client investment pool. The idea is not without complications. The 420-lawyer San Francisco firm must first prepare an appeal to the Securities and Exchange Commission to avoid jumping through a host of regulatory hoops.
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June 09, 2003 |

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April 07, 2000 |

Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

For many lawyers, money alone is not enough to change their minds about about the kind of job they seek. But for others, lucre's lure is hard to ignore.
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November 08, 2001 |

Brobeck and Snow Bracing for Layoffs

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January 07, 2002 |

Lessons of the Last Recession

Law firms suffered through the nation`s recession a decade ago. What lessons did they learn?
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December 10, 1999 |

A Delicate Dance With the SEC

Disclosing that a company may have broken a federal securities law is not something most lawyers want to write into initial public offering documents. But under increasing pressure from venture capitalists -- who are demanding shares in the IPOs of the companies they fund -- some lawyers are finding they're stuck doing just that.
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February 14, 2001 |

Thinning the Herd

Corporate associates can forget about looking for greener pastures. With a drop in public offerings, venture capital funding, and a decline in associate attrition, San Francisco's biggest firms are no longer looking to build their ranks. For the most part, firms have halted associate hiring in corporate departments. This stands in stark contrast to a year ago when firms couldn't hire enough attorneys.
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May 19, 2010 |

Bringing Genome Technology to the Masses

As the top lawyer at venture-backed Pacific Biosciences, Matthew Murphy is helping commercialize a complex DNA sequencing product.
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