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  • November 19, 2001 | New York Law Journal

    Compensatory Damages Not Prerequisite to Punitive Damages, 2nd Circuit Rules

    Compensatory or nominal damages are not a prerequisite to an award of punitive damages in an employment discrimination action under federal civil rights law, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appe

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  • June 30, 1999 | The Recorder

    Silicon Valley Pioneer Folds Office

    Brown & Bain, once one of the Silicon Valley's leading intellectual property litigation firms, is closing its Palo Alto office at the end of July. The decision, which comes after years o

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  • Vann v. Kempthorne

    Publication Date: 2008-08-06
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    Date Filed: 2008-07-29
    Court: DC Cir.
    Judge: Griffith, Circuit Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For appellant: Garret Rasmussen, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Washington, D.C.
    for defendant: For appellees: Jonathan Velie, Velie & Velie, Norman, Okla.
    Case Number: 07-5024

    Argued May 6, 2008Before: TATEL, GARLAND, and GRIFFITH, Circuit Judges.Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge GRIFFITH.The issue on appeal is the extent to which sovereign immunity prot

  • November 30, 2007 | The Recorder

    All's Too Quiet on Bonus Front

    LOS ANGELES � Want to kill a conversation with a California law firm leader? Talk about bonuses. Weeks after top New York firms started announcing lavish specia

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  • October 5, 2009 | The Recorder

    Associate Salaries: War is Over

    SAN FRANCISCO — It goes without saying that the associate salary wars are over. Firms have responded to a drop in business and a glut of talent with salary freezes, salary cuts, or even a

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  • Kent v. The Papert Companies Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-09-25
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    Cross appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alan Saks, J.), entered July 22, 2002, which granted in part and denied in part defendants' motions for summary judgment dismissing t

  • April 23, 2007 | The Minority Law Journal

    Chart: Diversity Scorecard 2007

    Diversity Scorecard 2007

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  • March 1, 2008 |

    Using the U.S. Computer Fraud Statute in Trade Secret Cases

    For decades, employers have asserted a variety of state law claims against former employees who purloined important company information, including claims for breach of contract, trade secret misap

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  • August 6, 2008 | Special To Law.Com

    How to Get the Most From Today's Law Firm CMO

    While even the most successful law firms are feeling the pinch, if not the bite, of the down economy, many are still adding to or upgrading their marketing talent. Even as salaries have leveled off

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  • June 9, 2005 | National Law Journal

    French Firm to Beef Up Presence in U.S. Markets

    Amid mounting competition from globalized law firms based in the United States and London, France's largest independent firm is making a push -- though after some reluctance -- into North Amer

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