I was born in Far Rockaway, New York, to immigrants from the Philippines. Although my parents have been U.S. citizens for decades now, they did not have
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Last July, in my analysis of the 2025 Am Law 200 rankings, I pointed out something unusual: the firms that The American Lawyer refers to as the “Second Hundred,” the nation’s #101 to #200 firms…
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Portions of this article originally appeared on Bloomberg Law, part of Bloomberg Industry Group, Inc. (800-372-1033), and are reproduced here with permission. The footnotes—which contain material that didn’t appear in my Bloomberg Law column, including…