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  • October 12, 2006 | The Recorder

    CNET General Counsel Steps Down Over Stock Options Probe

    It's not clear whether the latest lawyer to go down because of stock option backdating was involved in the actual decision to award suspect options. But a Recorder review of SEC filin

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  • April 30, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Muntaqim v. Coombe

    Decided April 23, 2004Before Meskill, Cardamone and Cabranes, C.JJ. Appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Norman A

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  • October 22, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Dewey & LeBoeuf Skirts Issue of London Management

    Almost three weeks after the merger that created Dewey & LeBoeuf became official, the newly merged firm has decided not to appoint a London head. Steven Davis, settling in as chairman of the re

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  • January 14, 2005 | The Recorder

    SEC Says Google's Lawyers Goofed

    Google and its general counsel, David Drummond, reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday in connection with the company's failure to register more than $80 mil

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  • December 18, 2001 | The Recorder

    Suit Accuses Oracle of Age Discrimination

    Oracle Corp. and its CEO Larry Ellison are back in court, this time accused of age discrimination and denying $20 million in stock options to an executive. Randy Baker was hired

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  • December 28, 2004 | The Recorder

    Options Crackdown a Likely Boon for Compensation Bar

    A new accounting rule that has tech companies cringing looks like good news for their lawyers.The Federal Accounting Standards Board announced recently that companies must deduct the v

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  • March 6, 2007 | The Recorder

    Religious-School Bonds Squeak By Court

    California Supreme Court Justice Joyce Kennard has defeated Associate Justice Ming Chin in a showdown over public funding for religious schools.Kennard's prize: the majority opinion in

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  • January 29, 2002 | The American Lawyer

    How Bleak Was the Valley?

    Call it the Icarus year. After a period of sensational growth, Silicon Valley's highest fliers crashed to earth in 2001. All of the largest tech-focused firms saw profits per equity part

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  • February 26, 2003 | The Recorder

    New Partners, Class of 2003

    A roster of the partnership classes at the Bay Area's top firms. For this listing of the law firm partner class of 2003, The Recorder collected the names of those attorneys who were elevated to

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  • November 1, 2004 | The Recorder

    Judge Was Right to Boot Rains, Panel Rules

    A federal judge properly disqualified noted cop lawyer Michael Rains from a high-profile prison guard trial because he had represented other officers in the same case, the Ninth Circuit U.S. C

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