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Oct 29 2008
Thelen LLP, a 400-attorney San Francisco firm founded in 1924, is poised to be the latest corporate-law firm forced out of business amid an industrywide slowdown....
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Sep 26 2008
The San Francisco law firm Heller Ehrman will formally vote Friday to dissolve, ending a legal partnership that survived the 1906 earthquake, a depression, wars and...
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Sep 24 2008
Heller Ehrman, a storied San Francisco law firm founded in 1890 that was considered one of the most solid and successful in the nation only a year ago, is now...
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Sep 11 2008
Between 2000 and 2006, King & Spalding more than doubled the number of lawyers in its New York and Houston offices, the American Lawyer reports.
Beginning with...
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Sep 03 2008
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP announced that Charles R. Jaeger has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner. Jaeger, formerly with Heller Ehrman, will...
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Jul 30 2008
For the second time in little more than a month, an Am Law 100 firm has agreed to a multimillion-dollar settlement with the city of San Diego stemming from a city...
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Jul 01 2008
Hunton & Williams is opening a San Francisco office with a trio of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld labor attorneys -- part of an eight-lawyer group that's also...
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Jun 11 2008
In a way, there's no longer any such thing as a big San Francisco law firm. When Heller Ehrman Chairman Matthew Larrabee moves to New York City this month, none of the...
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Mar 20 2008
Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner laid off 26 associates and 85 staff on Wednesday afternoon, the most dramatic step in a package of moves reacting to tough economic...
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Feb 08 2008
Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that 24 of the firm's senior counsel have been elected to partnership. This includes attorneys from the firm's Boston, Chicago, Los...
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Jan 11 2008
Despite the subprime mortgage crisis and resulting credit crunch, most of the eight Bay Area law firms that have released financial data so far showed solid increases...
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Nov 22 2007
The law firm that helped win $7.2 billion in settlements for Enron investors is seeking nearly $700 million in legal fees for itself and other attorneys who handled...
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Nov 14 2007
Sanofi-Aventis SA (SNY) faces a purported class-action lawsuit for allegedly making misleading statements regarding its Zimulti obesity drug, according to San...
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