• March 29, 2007 | The Recorder

    Options Morass Deepens at Wilson Sonsini

    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has spent the past year trying to back away from the metastasizing stock option backdating mess, but an internal e-mail now in regulators' hands is making it di

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  • February 15, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    A Tale of Two Trials: Lessons to Learn From the Scrushy Story

    It is a warm fall morning in Birmingham, and Donald Watkins is in town for a meeting. The hotel-like condition of his office in the back of a bank he founded suggests that this a rare occurrenc

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  • June 24, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Very Quietly--and Without Filing Suit--Intellectual Ventures Makes a Licensing Deal

    When voracious patent aggregator Intellectual Ventures began its acquisition spree early this decade, observers worried that the IP world was witnessing the birth of its most fearsome patent troll. Bu

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  • July 12, 1999 | The Recorder

    Top Firms Find N.Y. Is Still the Apple of Their Eyes

    Like pirates scouting for buried treasure, managing partners at California law firms have focused their binoculars on beachheads in Seattle, Austin, Texas, the greater D.C. area and the Pacific Rim

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  • Building Industry Association of Central California v. County of Stanislaus

    Publication Date: 2010-11-30
    Practice Area:
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    Date Filed: 2010-11-29
    Court: C.A. 5th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Law Offices of Donald B. Mooney, Donald B. Mooney and Marsha A. Burch; Christian C. Scheuring and Jack L. Rice for Interveners and Appellants. Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, David P. Lanferman and James G. Higgins for Plaintiff and Respondent. Christopher M. Whitcomb; Cox, Castle & Nicholson and Kenneth B. Bley for National Association of Home Builders as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger, Matthew D. Zinn and Mary J. Reichert; John P. Doering, County Counsel, and Thomas E. Boze, Deputy County Counsel, for Defendants and Appellants. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Bradford C. O?Brien and Dominique C. Alepin for California Council of Land Trusts as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants. Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Karen Johnson-McKewan and Matthew Tolve for The Sierra Club, The Planning and Conservation League and Greenbelt Alliance as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants. Burke, Williams & Sorensen and Thomas B. Brown; Hanson Bridgett, Thomas B. Brown and Sophia B. Belloli for The League of California Cities and the California State Association of Counties as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

    Case Number: No. F058826

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 14834BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. COUN

  • November 1, 2004 | The Recorder

    Sidebar

    REP. PELOSI'S LAWYER-OPPONENT SEEKS MINOR MIRACLEJennifer DePalma, an associate in Shearman & Sterling's San Francisco office, takes on political heavyweight Nancy Pelosi on

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  • January 4, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Second Circuit Calls for State Court Assist in Refco Trustee Suit Against Mayer Brown and Auditors

    In pari delicto is one of the bedrock principles of common law: You can't blame someone else for wrongdoing if you're equally at fault. On th

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  • September 29, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Countrywide Wins Dismissal of Mortgage-Backed Securities Case

    Countrywide has dished out hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements (see a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/tal/digestTAL.jsp?id=1202457925599&am

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  • December 15, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Apple to Pare Its Outside Counsel Roster

    Apple is clicking and dragging some of its outside firms to the trash, according to The Recorder. In an effort to boost effic

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  • February 28, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    In re �Agent Orange� Product Liability Litigation

    Decided Feb. 22, 2008Before Miner, Sack, and Hall, C.JJ.Appeals from final judgments of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Jack B. Weinstein, Ju

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