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December 01, 2006 | The American Lawyer

Property Law

JoSEph Dilg spends up to two weeks a month working in Manhattan, and even 24-hour room service isn't enough to entice the Houston-based Vinson & Elkins managing partner to sleep in a hotel. Instead, he rents a spacious one-bedroom apartment with a view of Central Park. "It's a wonderful way to experience New York," he says. "It gives me the convenience of having clothes here and the ability to entertain." Even better: "Several of our clients live nearby."
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October 28, 2008 | Law.com

Live From the 2008 Masters Conference

In its third year, the Masters Conference has undoubtedly matured into a resourceful and reflective assembly to discuss, in detail, e-discovery challenges with experts. According to consultant Brett Burney, this year's conference was a solid success in both substance and attendance.
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October 13, 2004 | Law.com

AMD's Texas Two-Step

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March 03, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

In Securities Cases, Justices Confront International Competition Issue

In late November 2006, the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation published a report warning that the United States was losing its position as the world's foremost public equity capital market.
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July 31, 2008 | Law.com

Associates Survey 2008

Smaller firms often outscore larger ones on our annual survey of midlevel job satisfaction. It may be because a more intimate atmosphere breeds happiness. Maybe it's because associates have more responsibility. Perhaps it's because they have a better chance of making partner. In these charts, firms are grouped roughly according to size. In the first category are firms whose annual gross revenues are too low to qualify for the Am Law 200. These are the smallest firms that took part in our survey. In the second category are Am Law Second Hundred firms?numbers 101-200 on the most recent Am Law 200 survey (July.) In the final category are firms that appear on our most recent Am Law 100 (May) or Global 100 (October 2007) survey. For a full methodology, click here.
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February 17, 2010 | The American Lawyer

THE AM LAW 100 2010: A WORK IN PROGRESS Latham's Profits Bounce Back

The firm released its FY 2009 financials Wednesday. Revenue decreased 5 percent while PPP inched up by the same percentage. Firm chairman Bob Dell (photo at left) points to improved market conditions throughout the second half of 2009 in explaining Latham's profitability.
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September 13, 1999 | Law.com

L.A. Firms' Dirty Little Secret: Hourly Rates

The big firms are getting used to announcing gross revenues that have become, well, gross. They're begrudgingly willing to talk about partner draws that are moving to the million-dollar neighborhood. What the big law firms are still downright shy about are the building blocks of all that filthy lucre: billing rates. Los Angeles insiders don't want to go on the record about charging $500 for partners. Why? "When you start raising rates, you change the way lawyers view each other," says one recruiter.
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January 12, 2007 | Law.com

For White & Case, Global Expansion Was the Easy Part

Boasting almost 40 offices worldwide, White & Case has a global network that many firms are trying to emulate through their own international expansion. But the 2,000-lawyer firm has found that expanding across the globe is the easy part. Now, it's wrestling with how to best integrate and utilize the vast network it has acquired over the past three decades. How the firm will be managed going forward will be a major topic this weekend as White & Case partners meet in Prague for their annual retreat.
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East Texas Judges Test Joinder Limits in Patent Reform's Wake
Publication Date: 2012-08-19
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Both Congress and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit have clamped down on multi-defendant patent suits, but the changes haven't had much practical effect for defendants already ensnared in East Texas patent litigation.

June 17, 2004 | Law.com

Media Weighs In On Web Libel Appeal

The state's largest newspapers have filed an amicus curiae brief in a libel case on behalf of two former employees sued by Varian Medical Systems Inc. At issue in the upcoming California Supreme Court arguments is whether legal action against the workers should have been halted while they appealed the denial, by Judge Jack Komar, of their anti-SLAPP motion to the Sixth District Court of Appeal. The newspapers say that the case is crucial to maintaining a free press.
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