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September 11, 2009 |

SEC Attacked for 'Colossal Failure' Over Madoff

Inexperience. Incompetence. Laziness. All were cited as reasons behind the Securities and Exchange Commission's failure to detect Bernard Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme at a packed hearing Thursday before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. SEC Inspector General H. David Kotz, who recently released a 477-page report detailing the agency's shortcomings, appeared before the committee to summarize his findings. "It seemed relatively easy to uncover this, and it wasn't done," Kotz said.
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August 21, 2000 |

Dechert Boosting Salaries to Lure Best and Brightest Law Graduates

In the battle for top-drawer associates in New Jersey, the firm long known as Dechert, Price & Rhoads has raised starting pay and bonus in its Princeton office by $20,000 and has borrowed an idea from military recruiters: Join Dechert and see the world. Thanks to last month's merger with Britain's Titmuss Sainer, the firm is offering associates a chance to work in the London office.
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April 04, 2006 |

In California push, Mintz Levin acquires Reed IP Law Group

Boston-based Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo wants to make a big push into California, and it is getting started with the acquisition of the Palo Alto-based Reed Intellectual Property Law Group.
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May 03, 2000 |

Big-Firm Associates Hang Out Shingle

Christopher Parnagian and Robert O'Hare did not leave big firms because they had to. They left because they thought they could make a start-up firm a success. Six months later they have no regrets and much advice for associates who are willing to keep up the hard work but want to do so on their own terms.If you are not forced out and do not hate big firm culture and you are interested in starting your own firm, you cannot wait too long to leave," O'Hare said.
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December 06, 2011 |

How to kill the holiday party fun

With so many rules, and so little fun the Carriest wonders what happened to the raucous holiday party?
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July 02, 2012 |

Madoff's Brother Pleads Guilty, Faces 10-Year Sentence

An emotional Peter Madoff pleaded guilty on Friday to charges he doctored documents, but insisted he knew nothing about his brother's historic fraud. "My family was torn apart as a result of my brother's atrocious conduct," he said. "I was reviled by strangers as well as friends who assumed that I knew about the Ponzi scheme."
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May 10, 2006 |

Norris McLaughlin Acquires Manhattan Real Estate Boutique

Norris McLaughlin & Marcus doubled the size of its Manhattan presence to 14 lawyers on Tuesday with the acquisition of Szold & Brandwen, an 86-year-old real estate firm with an emphasis on work for co-op apartment boards. The merger makes Norris McLaughlin a 102-lawyer firm and will give Szold & Brandwen real estate lawyers opportunities to keep work they used to refer out, Norris McLaughlin managing partner John Eagan said.
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November 01, 2009 |

Editor's Note

As we began to plan the 2009 edition of our annual litigation supplement, it wasn't hard to decide what to write about: the economy.
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October 04, 2004 |

'We Treat Them Like Adults'

Arent Fox trusts its associates to balance the world of gardening, Hebrew classes, and martial arts with the world of work. In other words, they're treated like adults.
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