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    ETHICS AND MANNERS APPLIED TO CLIENT ORIGINATION

    As  law firms have made more definitive transitions to operations as big businesses, they have become increasingly receptive to adopting a celebrity and worker bee mentality with much wider gap ...
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    MOROCCO BECKONS

    At the annual cornerstone meeting of the International Women’s Forum in Morocco last week, corporate, civic and political leaders from thirty countries convened to assess ...
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    TRADING ON THE TRAVAILS OF DEWEY & LEBOEUF

    More than 25 percent of the firms' New York partners (as of January 2012), have bolted from its ranks, many with hair-raising stories of a ...
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    LEGAL CAREERS: SKILL VS. CHANCE ARGUMENT

    Maximizing one's chances of landing a dream position requires plenty of skill and an undeniable element of good luck--for lawyers in any form of transition. ...
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    GOSSIP: THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE UGLY

    The fourth quarter of every year is invariably rife with gossip as to the anticipated year-end fortunes for law firms and the fate of their lawyers--up and ...
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    LAW DEPARTMENT ACCOUNTABILITY RISES

    With the onset of the 2008 recession came increased vigilance by companies on their outside legal fees. However, over the past three years our studies ...
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    A WINDFALL FOR GAMING LAWYERS

    Last April 15th, the US Department of Justice brought down the house of cards built by the three leading Internet-based poker companies serving United States ...
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