Lauren Gard

February 04, 2000 | Law.com

Start spreading the news -- first-year associates in New York's Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom's offices coast to coast will now be pocketing base salaries of $140,000. First-years at Skadden previously earned a base of $107,000.

By Lauren Gard

2 minute read

January 13, 2000 | Law.com

By Lauren Gard

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March 07, 2000 | Law.com

Farella Braun & Martel and Graham & James are two of the latest San Francisco firms to head into the trenches of associate salary warfare.

By Lauren Gard

2 minute read

May 18, 2000 | Law.com

McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen lawyers scored a landmark victory when the American Arbitration Association handed down a judgment granting the firm's client, Covad Communications Group, $27.2 million in damages in a battle with San Antonio-based SBC Communications, parent company of Pacific Bell. The case is the first under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to result in a damage award.

By Lauren Gard

2 minute read

April 01, 2002 | Law.com

Mary McDonald spent the early days of her career pounding the keys of an Underwood manual typewriter. Thirty-one years later, the Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe legal secretary is trying to stay on top of the 100th e-mail of the day. Indeed, as law firms and lawyers have become increasingly tech savvy, many legal secretaries are experiencing a noticeable shift in their duties and responsibilities.

By Lauren Gard

10 minute read

November 17, 1999 | Law.com

Jaime Marquart, Robert Byrnes and Aaron Craig think they're on to something big -- and they're pushing the idea with cocky copy and flashy photos on their Web site. The three litigation associates at Los Angeles' Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges are using the site to advertise a book they hope to write in the next six to eight months. The subject matter? Their lazy, hazy law school days at Harvard, Stanford and Yale. Marquart, Byrnes and Craig claim law school was a breeze.

By Lauren Gard

4 minute read

November 30, 1999 | Law.com

Inspired by an article in Golf Digest entitled "The Joy of Office Golf", Tobin & Tobin partner Paul Gaspari convinced his golf-giddy colleagues to throw together an event they tagged "Take Your Putter To Work" day. More than a dozen attorneys and staff at the San Francisco firm participated in the swing session -- which offered not only a welcome break from the everyday routine but some unexpected challenges as well.

By Lauren Gard

3 minute read

September 27, 1999 | Law.com

Boalt Hall School of Law student Katie Fleet and a team of students and professors from Boalt's International Human Rights Clinic, an Organization of American States committee, used its injunction powers for the first time to uphold the rights of a child to an education. At issue is a policy excluding some children from the Dominican Republic school system based on their parents' birthplace.

By Lauren Gard

4 minute read

June 26, 2000 | Law.com

Tattoos and shaved heads aren't the norm at Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, but the Palo Alto, Calif., law firm chose a punk rock theme for its latest ad campaign. San Francisco-headquartered Morrison & Foerster uses ads featuring a surfer riding a blue background. The ads reflect the efforts of some successful Silicon Valley corporate firms to shake off the "conservative" label and gain name recognition in the tech industry.

By Lauren Gard

4 minute read

March 15, 2000 | Law.com

Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe's Susan Johnson may have schmoozed with President Clinton during his recent visit to San Francisco, but she isn't a deep-pocketed attorney. Johnson is a legal secretary who has worked the night shift at Heller for 20 years and recently received a certificate of commendation by the U.S. Senate for her volunteer work.

By Lauren Gard

3 minute read