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They examined the movement of patent attorneys between 123 US law firms and 109 Fortune 500 companies from a variety of industries.
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In accompanying filings it said the firm created by the 2007 merger of Dewey Ballantine and LeBouef, Lamb Greene and MacCrae was once one of the largest law firms on earth, with 1, 300 attorneys in 12 nations and more than 5, 000 clients.
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This verified members-only online community gives lawyers a better way to present themselves to prospective clients, share their expertise with other attorneys, and share deeper profiles of themselves and their law firms.
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Critics of outside-counsel arrangements say they give elected attorneys general and public pension officials a way to send lucrative work to law firms that in turn support them in the next election.
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Some attorneys and law students worry that paying corporate attorneys to work in public interest firms may displace those who actually wanted to work in the public sector in the first place.
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Anyone who has litigated against the SEC knows that the SEC, like private law firms, has some truly great, really hardworking attorneys, and others who merely punch the clock.
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Law firms once shunned contract attorneys but now many firms use them, on the defense and plaintiff side.
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