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January 27, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Good health at any cost

9 minute read
September 29, 2000 | Law.com

Take the Money and Run

Associates are doing a cost-benefit analysis of their own careers -- and large law firms are losing. As firms continue to struggle with associate attrition, what associates say carries weight. Raises may not be the turnkey solution, but firms that doled out less than competitive raises bungled big-time. Those few midlevels in The American Lawyer's "Midlevel Associate Survey" who didn't benefit from the nationwide salary boon did not take it lightly.
9 minute read
August 20, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

The Usual Suspects

This year's Who Represents America's Biggest Companies survey used state and federal records to see which law firms corporations were using when it came to commercial law and contracts litigation, corporate transactions, employment and labor litigation, and IP litigation and patent prosecution. Familiar faces dominate our listings. Kirkland & Ellis tops the commercial law and contracts litigation chart, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom led the corporate transaction pack again this year.
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May 08, 2002 | New York Law Journal

Employment Law Issues

T he events of Sept. 11 caused companies to reevaluate their programs for crisis management in the United States. That crisis`s resultant dislocation of workers (and worse) were extreme, but other kind of crises with substantial negative results also confront employers. In the employment arena, these may include class action discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuits, initiated by groups of employees, former employees, applicants for employment, or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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April 24, 2001 | Law.com

Big Tobacco Can't Use 'Pass-On' Defense in RICO Suit

Tobacco companies accused of lying about the dangers of smoking by Empire Blue Cross & Blue Shield of New York cannot claim as a defense that increased health costs have been passed on to consumers, a federal judge ruled. The judge told lawyers that a "pass-on" defense -- minimizing a plaintiff's damages by showing that a third party absorbed the increased cost -- is not available in a fraud action brought under RICO.
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October 01, 2010 | The American Lawyer

New Business

New work landed by major firms, including high-profile deals, �lawsuits, and other matters announced in August 2010.
9 minute read
July 13, 2004 | New York Law Journal

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June 02, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

With End of Bush Era, Civil Rights Veterans Return to the Fold

Some of the lawyers who left the U.S. Depart�ment of Justice's Civil Rights Division during George W. Bush's presidency and complained they were the target of ideological warfare have returned during the past two years as part of a wave of hiring.
8 minute read
November 05, 1999 | Law.com

Here's Johnnie

Plaintiffs bar star Johnnie Cochran, Jr., and his new partners have a warning for defense lawyers: "We're coming after you." Having recently ditched his Court TV television gig, the superdapper ex-O.J. lawyer is now on a nationwide drive to franchise his brand name. His L.A.-based firm recently merged with New York's Schneider, Kleinick, Weitz, Damashek & Shoot. The combined firm boasts a total of 64 lawyers in New York, California, Alabama, and Georgia -- and that's just the beginning.
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November 21, 2006 | Law.com

Firms Losing Top Talent to Clients

Law firms that have watched attorneys move to in-house jobs with their clients traditionally viewed departures as an endorsement of their services and a way to re-enforce connections with clients. But with talent in high demand, law firms aren't so eager to say goodbye. "Even if it's to a client, you still don't want to lose your top talent," says Sonnenschein's Kara Baysinger. But going in-house is attractive to outside counsel who perceive in-house positions as offering a work-life balance.
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