The American Lawyer September 2012
Cover Story
The Associates Survey
The complete results of our survey of 5,543 third-, fourth-, and fifth-year associates at 129 law firms, including a collection of interactive charts ranking the firms by size, by city, and from A to Z.
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Contents
Features
2012 Lifetime Achievers
Our ninth annual awards honor outstanding professional success and a devotion to public service.
Holding Pattern
As the economic crisis drags on, firms in Spain reshape their practices.
Bar Talk
Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!
Akin Gump partner Patricia Millett has appeared before the Supreme Court more times than any female lawyer.
Backfield in Motion
As the National Football League kicks off a new season, The American Lawyer takes a behind-the-scenes look at the legal wrangling that helped bring last year's lockout to an end.
Good Guy Law
How one North Dakota firm is capitalizing on the state's oil boom.
Eastward Ho!
Pillsbury moves its back office operations to Nashville.
Rock the Vote
A Jones Day partner is the GOP's go-to-guy for voting rights cases.
Dewey's Dead File Conundrum
Lawyers grapple with reams of unclaimed client records.
The Work
Big Suits
U.S. v. GSK; USA et al. v. Barclays; In Re Rail Freight Fuel Surcharge Antitrust Litigation; Facciola et al. v. Greenberg Traurig et al.
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Big Deals
AB InBev/Modelo; Bristol-Myers Squibb/Amylin; Walgreen/Alliance Boots; Alibaba/Yahoo
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Canadian Big Deals
Petronas / Progress, Couche-Tard / Statoil, Ivanhoe / Oyu Tolgoi, TransGlobe / Starlight
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Columns
Am Law Tech
No Glitz, No Glamour
In a year when firms made few flashy technological advances, midlevel satisfaction stalls.
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In-House
Running in Place
Women have been in the senior associate and partnership pipeline for decades now, and yet their equity partner numbers have barely budged. Why aren't the statistics better?
