• August 5, 2002 | Corporate Counsel

    The Books of Summer

    Who better to give advice about beach reading than in-house lawyers with access to the hottest books?Corporate Counsel asked general counsel at two leading publishing hous

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  • January 23, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Bonus Blues

    In December 1999, Dechert announced a special retention bonus program for its associates in which the firm's policy committee set aside $50,000 of its investment in high-flying client Internet

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  • January 11, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Patent Defendants Find Strength in Numbers

    When California video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. learned it was one of nearly two dozen companies sued for allegedly infringing a Web site design patent, the company didn't want to fly sol

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  • December 15, 2004 | Law.com

    Winning Plays

    In nearly three decades as an IP litigator, Irell & Manella partner Morgan Chu has racked up dozens of court victories, and he's learned a thing or two about presenting a persuasive (and

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  • December 15, 2005 | National Law Journal

    SEC use of private counsel is 'pandemic'

    For at least 30 years, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has relied on private lawyers for some corporate misconduct investigations and for protection of the assets of firms al

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  • July 29, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Martindale-Hubbell Gets a Makeover

    Hit hard in recent years by the rise of Google, the evolution of law firm Web sites, and the e

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  • July 18, 2007 |

    Courting a Jury

    For all of the hype these days over enormous jury verdicts -- including the record $1.5 billion judgement against Microsoft Corp. in March -- few juries ever decide a patent dispute. The huge stake

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  • June 8, 2005 | The Recorder

    News Briefs

    JURY DECIDES CISCO DIDN'T INFRINGE PATENTA San Francisco jury on Tuesday found that Cisco Systems Inc. did not infringe a patent held by Storage Technology Corp. and that the pa

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  • December 3, 2007 | The Recorder

    All's Too Quiet on West Coast Bonus Front

    Want to kill a conversation with a California law firm leader?Talk about bonuses.Weeks after top New York firms started a

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  • April 11, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Gary Kennedy

    American Airlines Inc. and its holding company, AMR Corp., employ approximately 81,000 people and, as of its most recent yearly report, brought in $25 billion in revenue. Even so, chronic fin

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