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  • October 13, 2003 | The Recorder

    Cisco Systems Says Fees Don't Compute

    In an effort to pare down its legal bills, Silicon Valley giant Cisco Systems Inc. is seeking to replace hourly billing rates from outside counsel with more creative -- and cheaper -- fee arra

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  • April 6, 2005 | The Recorder

    Playing Hard to Get

    Ask law firm leaders or consultants for a Northern California merger wish list and some of the same names pop up.Hildebrandt International consultant Blane Prescott includes Keker &

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  • September 6, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Computer Voir Dire

    A new computer software program that helps weed out biased jurors is raising a dilemma for lawyers: Should they go with their gut instinct when picking jurors, or listen to a computer?Do

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  • May 6, 2004 | The Recorder

    AMD Relocates GC to Texas -- Will Work Go Too?

    Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the Sunnyvale chip maker that waged some of Silicon Valley's most storied court battles, has quietly based its new top legal officer in Austin, Texas

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  • August 23, 2004 | Alm

    Clifford Chance's Snow Falls Again

    Is Tower Snow Jr.'s trajectory complete? After getting booted out of Brobeck Phleger & Harrison in 2002, the firm's former chairman seemed to land well at Clifford Chance. Snow, who brough

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  • October 18, 2013 | The Recorder

    Santa Clara Law Makes High Tech Mark

    A throng of Silicon Valley law firm partners, in-house lawyers and judges crowded into a conference room in the Benson Center at Santa Clara University on a sunny May morning. On the

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  • February 7, 2000 | The Recorder

    DOJ Antitrust Guru Jumps to Gibson, Dunn

    Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher is the big winner in the lottery to land internationally renowned Department of Justice antitrust guru Gary Spratling. The San Francisco native built a peerless r

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  • December 21, 2004 | The Recorder

    Collaring the White-Collar Trade

    When Matthew Jacobs was ready to leave the Northern District U.S. attorney's office, he wouldn't accept just any law firm job that came along.Like many federal prosecutors shifting to

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  • October 7, 2009 | The Recorder

    Bingham McCutchen Adopts 'Merit Lockstep' Compensation System

    Bingham McCutchen has joined the ranks of firms that are tweaking their compensation systems, saying Monday it is moving to a "merit lockstep" system that will keep base pay on lockstep b

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  • May 23, 2005 | The Recorder

    9th Circuit: Defendant's Presence Optional in Conflict-of-Interest Talks

    A defendant does not have a due process right to be present when his attorney discusses a potential conflict of interest with the prosecutor and judge, a divided en banc panel of the 9th U.S.

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