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Corporate

Apr. 22, 2003

Adaptations

After riding the Vegas-like euphoria of the boom years, corporate shops such as Gunderson Dettmer and Venture Law Group have retrenched to survive the lean conditions of the downturn, laying off attorneys and staff and dipping into investment funds to eliminate debt.


By Joel Rosenblatt
        There are three dates to remember when discussing the state of affairs at Silicon Valley's leading corporate boutiques.
        Naturally, there are the heady days of the mid-1990s, when some upstart lawyers left the Valley's leading law firms with a notion to capitalize on the boom in corporat...

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