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August 31, 2005 | Law.com

All Compliance, All the Time

As compliance becomes a larger part of the in-house workload, many companies are creating posts devoted exclusively to the task. The newest all-compliance, all-the-time attorney is Elise Kirban, who in June became the chief ethics and compliance officer at Symbol Technologies Inc. Kirban says part of the reason for her career switch from law firm practice to in-house compliance officer was that she wanted to help guide a business rather than simply offer advice.
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November 02, 2005 | Law.com

Accounting Giant Wins $60M From Ex-Clients

A Georgia judge has added a $60 million bill to the woes faced by two former Safety-Kleen executives for their parts in the waste management company's accounting scandal five years ago. Accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers wanted Safety-Kleen's former chief executive officer, Kenneth W. Winger, and the company's former chief financial officer, Paul R. Humphreys, to contribute to its $87.5 million settlement with lenders who had sued over Safety-Kleen's financial meltdown.
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July 06, 2007 | New York Law Journal

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April 18, 2006 | Law.com

A Fresh Wind Blows Through Georgia-Pacific's Law Offices

Tye G. Darland, Georgia-Pacific Corp.'s new general counsel, is bringing a fresh breeze to the position he assumed after Koch Industries bought the paper products giant last year for $21 billion. As GC, Darland is charged not only with guiding Georgia-Pacific's legal affairs, but also with instilling in his 62 lawyers Koch's entrepreneurial, pay-for-performance approach. Darland has already created a sharper focus on compliance issues by assigning a dedicated staff to that area.
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September 03, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

More Lawyers and Firms Snared in Enron Trap RECEIVING END CROSSING BORDERS

Dozens of law firms have been roped into the ever-widening bankruptcy probe of the Enron Corp. as targets of an ambitious new discovery campaign launched by a court-appointed investigator.
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July 14, 2003 | National Law Journal

Law firm librarians on design, staffing, spending

Here are the results of the Second Annual AmLaw Tech library survey. (See box on next page)
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March 02, 2007 | Law.com

Top Law Firms Undergo a Rainbow Revolution

Am Law 200 firms are putting out the lavender welcome mat to gay attorneys, with perks that seemed radical just 10 years ago. "It used to be the love that dare not speak its name," says Morrison & Foerster managing partner Keith Wetmore about being gay at law firms. "Now it's the love that cannot keep its mouth shut." Wetmore, who joined MoFo as an openly gay associate in 1982, says being gay is neither a liability nor a novelty nowadays. "There are so many of us that we don't have to like each other."
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April 05, 2001 | Law.com

Richards & O'Neil and Bingham Dana to Merge

Winnowing by one the steadily dwindling ranks of midsize firms in Manhattan, the 75-lawyer general practice firm Richards & O'Neil said that it will merge with fast-growing Bingham Dana of Boston. The agreement, which takes effect May 1, will create a firm of about 500 lawyers and more than double the size of Bingham Dana's New York branch, to 125 attorneys.
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August 01, 2008 | New York Law Journal

The Rise of 'Equal Opportunity Abuse'

In the past few years, industry and academic researchers have noticed that workplace anger seethes beyond the old precincts of race, gender and sexual preference to include absolutely everyone. At one end of the problem, there is disrespect, bullying, loud and intemperate language, intimidation and garden-variety rudeness. At the more troubling end is physical violence, including murder, that increasingly ensues.
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September 24, 2003 | Law.com

Akin Gump, Shaw Pittman Eying each other for Possible Merger

Two of D.C.'s largest firms -- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Shaw Pittman -- have sent out feelers to evaluate each other as potential merger partners. The purpose of the talks has been to learn more about each other's firms, says Stephen Huttler, managing partner of 350-lawyer Shaw Pittman. But the leaders of both firms emphasize that they're hardly ready to tie the knot.
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