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May 09, 2000 |

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Newspapers like truth, but lawyer Joseph M. Alioto believes that the Hearst Co. retaliates against witnesses who speak it. This comes in the nervy antitrust case that Alioto filed, challenging the Hearst handover of the low-circulation San Francisco Examiner (with a $66 million sweetener) to a local publisher connected to mayor Willie Brown.
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October 19, 2010 |

In-House at Large Public Companies

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September 28, 2001 |

2001 Associates Survey: From Akin Gump to Kramer Levin

Summary of 2001 Associates Survey results, firm by firm.
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May 29, 2003 |

Quinn's Quest

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges has a reputation for tackling high-stakes litigation, particularly when a case is headed to trial. Focused solely on business litigation, the Los Angeles-based firm has built a record of significant wins that has attracted clients and prominent laterals. But as the firm grows and extends its reputation as a litigation dynamo, a few internal tensions are beginning to surface.
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October 02, 2007 |

D.C. Firms Assess Price of Keeping Up With Next Round of Associate Raises

Eight months after Simpson Thacher raised starting salaries for first-year associates to $160,000, salaries for first-years at most of the 200 largest firms nationwide remain bunched at that rate. What New York firms had hoped was a raise too rich for out-of-town competitors with more pedestrian profits instead looks to be a failed attempt to segment the market. And now firms are bracing for another round of raises, probably ignited by a New York corporate firm looking to up the bidding war for talent.
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February 20, 2003 |

A Daring Venture

Conventional wisdom would say this is the worst time for Reed Smith Crosby Heafey to roll out a venture capital and technology group. Venture capital funding has dwindled, the economy is wheezing and the dust from technology firm Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's collapse still hangs in the air. But to Gregory Beattie, who heads Reed Smith's recently formed 20-attorney group, it's all a matter of perspective.
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January 24, 2006 |

Long Wait, Big Payday

There can be hidden costs associated with taking on contingency fee cases, but Townsend and Townsend and Crew Chairman James Gilliland Jr., for one, believes they're worth it.
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January 26, 2006 |

Contingency Work: Long Wait, Big Payday

Townsend and Townsend and Crew's contingency work has paid handsomely of late, with two cases garnering in the ballpark of $30 million each for the firm. Townsend isn't the only firm trying to weigh the risks of contingency with the potential tremendous rewards. At medium-sized firms, contingency provides an opportunity to juice revenues and attract the attention of potential lateral partners. Even large firms, traditionally more conservative, are starting to take on more risk in their fee arrangements.
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May 19, 2003 |

Quinn's Quest

Quinn Emanuel has a reputation for tackling high-stakes litigation, particularly when a case is headed to trial. The Los Angeles-based firm has built a record of significant wins that has attracted clients and prominent laterals. The firm also has gained a toehold in the Bay Area market. Charles Verhoeven, managing partner of the S.F. and Redwood Shores offices, said the firm has taken the same approach it did when it first started in L.A., building up its business by winning cases.
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March 12, 2001 |

New York Firms Sit Out 'Salary War'

Call it the salary war that wasn't. When San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison boosted its first-year associate salary to $135,000 in January, New York's big firm associates waited for what had become a predictable response. But with the economy now struggling and legal business slowing, the reaction from New York law firms so far is silence.
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