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	Imaginary Public Offering A game of what-if: how Am Law 100 stalwarts compare when traditional financial measures are used to calculate their book value. By David M. Barnard, Hugh N. Wrigley, and Andrea M. Selak SPECIAL REPORT: CANADA Calgary Stampede For a one-industry town, Calgary certainly keeps its homegrown lawyers busy with a diverse array of corporate work By Robert Lennon The Seven Sisters A primer on Canada's leading firms. By John Alexander Black
	The New Lifers As the business drought drags on, midlevel associates are getting back to basics: Job-hopping and bonus-lust are out. What matters now is getting real work to do with real client contact. By Laura Pearlman Read this story online. Firms that scored highest and lowest for quality of work More associates say their firms have laid off associates More associates expect to stay at their firms Firms that scored highest and lowest for the amount of responsibility they give associates The Secrets To Their Success Solid partner-associate relations pay off for firms at the top of this year's midlevel survey. By Matt Fleischer-Black Read this story online. On The Move Clifford Chance scored the biggest increase on this year's survey; Testa, Hurwitz had the biggest drop. By Amy Vincent Read this story online. Trade Secrets Of The Silver Bullet In an excerpt from his new book The Trial Lawyer: What It Takes To Win, a veteran Texas litigator coaches young lawyers on how to escape big firms' "culture of settlement." By David Berg How It's Done The survey's methodology The Best Places To Work National rankings Relatively Speaking Extra-Large Firms Large Firms Midsize Firms At The Local Level Results by city The Firms From A to Z Firm-by-firm summaries of the whys and wherefores of the survey responses. Akin Gump to Kramer Levin Latham & Watkins to Wolf Block
	HMO Postmortem It's easy to trumpet a class action as "the next tobacco"--and evidently just as easy to see the whole thing fizzle. Just ask the big guns who took on the managed health care industry. By Susan Beck Read this story online. Room At The Bankruptcy Feast The busiest bankruptcy firms and lawyers aren't just Weil, Gotshal and the Delaware gang, a survey by The Deal shows. CLE Troubadour Most public speakers use Powerpoint, and maybe some forensic skills. Michael Rubin of McGlinchey Stafford in Baton Rouge is different: He writes and performs songs when teaching about the law. By Carlyn Kolker Fair and Unbalanced Poor Dori Ann Hanswirth. Everyone but the Hogan & Hartson partner and her client seemed to get the joke about Fox News's case against author Al Franken. By Andrew Longstreth Still In the Shadows So far the poster child for alleged tax-shelter abuses has been Jenkens & Gilchrist. And that's just fine with Sidley Austin's R.J. Ruble. Plus, a Web special: The e-mail. By Paul Braverman Read this story online. The End of the Line Getting caught in a jam between two clients cost Perkins Coie hundreds of thousands in bankruptcy fees--and some testy moments with Wells Fargo. By Andrew Longstreth Life On Trial Arthur Bryant, the longtime executive director of Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, makes a long, slow comeback after a terrible car accident. By Douglas McCollam Troop Redeployment Just what Akin Gump needs: an arbitration claim by former partners of L.A.'s Troop Steuber, long after the benefits of the firms' merger have pretty much dissipated. By Laura Pearlman Shopping Expedition When Curtis, Mallet struck out in the Ninth Circuit in a tax case involving a religious exemption, it decided to keep pursuing the case anyway--but with new plaintiffs, in a new circuit. By Amy Vincent A Collection Problem What do Holland & Knight, Greenberg Traurig, and two other firms have in common? They got stiffed by a client who presents a rather daunting image: bankrupt boxer Mike Tyson. By Nathan Koppel Book of Business The month's top lateral moves and mergers. Multiround Bout Dallas's Gardere Wynne Sewell went two rounds with the SEC in a dispute that yielded a $2 million settlement. But now come the class action plaintiffs lawyers. By Nathan Koppel Quotable Weil, Gotshal's Ira Millstein, in 1977, warning that his report on New York's blackout might be forgotten until the next time (a good guess).
	In-House The story behind the stories. By Aric Press Read this story online. Big Deals ArvinMeritor/Dana Lehman Brothers/Neuberger Berman Hometown America/Chateau Communities Inside the Deal: The REIT Stuff Wachtell's winning combination. By David Marcus Big Suits Motorola and Nokia v. Uzan Reller v. Philip Morris Eolas and the Regents of the University of California v. Microsoft Top of the Docket: The Best Defense Is a Good Offense Latham's Beth Wilkinson and the Philip Morris victory. By Helen Coster Management: Branch Office Basics Now here's a concept: More firms lately are actually doing their homework before opening new branch offices. By Heather Smith IP Land: Schools Dazed Until a court shook things up last year, university research was considered safe from the long arm of commercial patent challenges. Now IP lawyers on both sides must eye each other more warily. By Matt Fleischer-Black Read this story online. Arguments: Weighing Poison Fruit Is this Miranda's last stand? Two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court will determine if the landmark decision is effectively defunct. By Yale Kamisar Read this story online. Supreme Advocacy: Like a Virgin The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat. Appellate advocates remember their first times in front of the Supreme Court. By Tony Mauro Books: Law School: Recollection X Another abbreviated legal career, another memoir with all the bloody details. Alas, Alex Wellen's Barman sounds like all the other disgruntled associates' musings. Review by Cameron Stracher Books: Smell The Roses Blame the clients if you will, but not enough of us know how to truly relax. In The Importance of Being Lazy, Al Gini shows why doing nothing is a virtue. Review by Heather Smith Dicta: Picking Your Fights Liberals should stop their knees from jerking long enough to ask the question: What really would be the harm of passing an amendment allowing a law against flag burning? By Steven Lubet
	Time Off: Art on the Beach Florida's Gulf Coast. By Heather Smith Read this story online. Motion: Suburban Sophisticate The BMW X5: a jacked-up, high-speed sports wagon. By Ronald Gordon Case of the Month: White Nectar The 2000 burgundy vintage. By John Anderson Escapees: Not Far From Heaven Mike Snyder of Prison Fellowship Ministries. By Vivia Chen

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