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September 18, 2000 |

The Space Race

San Francisco Bay Area firms are looking for a makeover. Struggling to cope with skyrocketing rents, many firms are redesigning their offices to fit more people into less space. As a result, partner offices are shrinking, libraries are contracting, and office sharing schemes are under consideration -- even for partners.
3 minute read
December 20, 2000 |

The Texas Firm That Stepped it Up

Faced with mounting market pressure from East Coast and West Coast firms, large Texas firms gave their associates mind-boggling raises in 2000. It was a free-for-all of riches that may not have occurred without Howard T. Ayers, managing partner of Houstons Andrews & Kurth, which raised first-year salaries to $104,000 form $86,000. But sometimes it takes a little gumption to take the first step.
4 minute read
April 21, 2000 |

Tech Lawyers on a Coaster Ride

"There's this game that's been played among the CEOs, and that is, 'I'll pretend that your company is worth $100 million if you pretend my company is worth $1 billion,'" says high-tech lawyer Jim Verdonik. As many tech stocks have retreated, the primary change for lawyers has been to adjust the price of transactions, he says. "But the deals will get done, and they'll need lawyers," he concludes.
5 minute read
January 06, 2010 |

The Art of Seduction: Wooing Clients With Subscriptions

When San Francisco lawyers Todd Smithline and Raj Jha negotiate terms with a new client, they never bring up the billable hour anymore. For the last two years, their five-lawyer San Francisco firm, Smithline Jha, has made an almost complete switch from traditional billing to a monthly subscription model.
6 minute read
February 10, 2000 |

For Law or Money?

After 15 years of solving complex business problems as a lawyer, J. Stephan Dolezalek began to see only one major difference between himself and the clients across his desk at San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. The clients were making millions. So Dolezalek joined the select but swelling migration of lawyers who are chucking their chosen field to become high-tech deal-doers.
6 minute read
April 28, 2000 |

Salary Slight?

Law firm staffers are saying staff morale at elite firms has taken a blow lately, crushed between the twin pressures of the skyrocketing cost of living and associate raises in excess of 40 percent. A secretary in the San Francisco office of a New York-based firm put it mildly but simply: "It'd be nice if we got the same raises as the associates."
7 minute read
December 21, 2009 |

Holiday Gifts for the Silicon Valley Stars

Going Public: Not sure what to get for the Menlo Park power broker who has everything? If an ambassadorship is out of your price range, we list a few movers and shakers and what they need.
3 minute read
December 26, 2002 |

Long Aldridge Merges; Blackstock Leaves PoGo

Julia D. [email protected] Highlights for the city's law firms in 2002 included a big merger and name change for Long Aldridge Norman. And while the usual array of lawyers switched firms in 2002, one move stood above the rest: veteran litigator Jerry B. Blackstock left Powell, Goldstein, Frazer Murphy.Long Aldridge merged with Washington-based McKenna Cuneo, creating a 376-lawyer firm with eight offices.
24 minute read
April 07, 2000 |

Passing the Bigger Buck

3 minute read
August 15, 2001 |

Cooley Godward Rated Best Law Firm to Work for

For the second year in a row, Vault Inc. has ranked Cooley Godward as the best law firm in the country to work for. Based on a survey of 9,000 associates at 120 firms, Vault determined the best 20 law firms to work for as well as the top 100 most prestigious firms. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Cooley snagged top billing in several quality of life categories.
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