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August 14, 2003 | Law.com

These days, it pays to be low tech. That seems to be the mantra among California's top law firms, judging from The Recorder's 2nd annual California 40 report on the state's top-grossing law firms.

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February 06, 2003 | Law.com

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius has reached an agreement to bring in 50 partners from Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and simultaneously open new offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto and Irvine. Morgan, Lewis Chairman Francis Milone announced in a press release that the group includes partners from Brobeck's litigation, business and technology, labor, tax, employee benefits and intellectual property groups.

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January 07, 2005 | The Recorder

The Bay Area's 10 highest grossing firms continued their upward climb in 2004, as the rebound of capital markets returned corporate work to Silicon Valley. Nine of 10 firms posted revenue gains and increases in profits per partner. Though most were in the single digits, the first-place finisher saw a 10 percent gain in revenue and an 11 percent hike in profits per equity partner.

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January 12, 2004 | National Law Journal

Leaner and with a tighter focus on more profitable practice areas, the San Francisco Bay Area's 10 highest-grossing law firms hauled themselves out of the recession in 2003, with all but one posting a boost in revenues.

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January 04, 2002 | Law.com

San Francisco-area firms where wingtips never went out of vogue rode recession-proof practices to record returns last year just as their once-hot tech law competitors saw profits pounded by a poor economy, The Recorder's annual survey of law firm finances shows. Mainstay firms like Morrison & Foerster capitalized on diverse practices to avoid the drop in revenues of their tech-reliant neighboring firms.

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January 14, 2003 | Law.com

Weakened by an anemic tech sector and fighting each other for precious litigation work, the San Francisco Bay Area's biggest law firms scored sallow returns in 2002 with only a few managing to post significant growth in profits or revenue, The Recorder's annual survey of firm finances shows. The best that most could hope for was single-digit revenue increases -- and few achieved even that.

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