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  • February 18, 2003 | The Recorder

    Insuring Their Future

    Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold's San Francisco office seems to scream "old-school law firm" with its dark wood paneling and thick carpeting.Veteran partners have computers, of

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  • December 8, 2004 | The Recorder

    Crowd Control

    Jocelyn Larkin is mad. She's been hearing reports for the past few months -- even from opposing counsel -- that lawyers around the country are soliciting clients in a discrimination clas

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  • August 29, 2012 | Litigation Daily

    Plaintiffs Win Class Cert in Antitrust Case Against DuPont, Pigment Cos.

    When antitrust lawyer Joseph Saveri left Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein earlier this year to found his own smal

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  • August 11, 2010 | The Recorder

    Wells Fargo Told to Pay $203 Million in Debit-Fee Suit

    U.S. District Judge William Alsup today ordered Wells Fargo to pay back an estimated $203 million in a class action that alleged the bank processed debit card overdrafts so as to maximize fees and

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  • November 30, 1999 | The Recorder

    Firms May Tussle Over Microsoft

    Two leading law firms with antitrust class actions against Microsoft Corp. are seeking to make San Francisco the venue for the handful of such cases pending in California courts, and may soon duke

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  • August 18, 2005 | Alm

    Calif. Reaches $450 Mil. Energy-Scam Settlement

    It may not have stopped pestilence, war, famine or death, but - if you believe California Attorney General Bill Lockyer - a settlement announced Monday between power users and energy company R

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  • July 8, 2003 | The Recorder

    Powerful Payday

    SACRAMENTO -- The latest settlement in litigation over California's energy crisis includes tens of millions of dollars in attorneys fees to be shared by a handful of politically savvy plaintif

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  • April 22, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

    Defense Big Guns Tell Court Subpoena Puts Companies at Risk

    THE AMERICAN Bar Association, the Washington Legal Foundation, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Chicago-based DRI - The Voice of the Defense Bar this week formally added their heavyweight voices

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  • October 5, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Advocates for 'braceros' wore opposition down

    A class action by Mexican "braceros" — laborers who legally came to the United States under 1940s-era guest worker programs — required some heavy lifting by the p

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  • August 19, 2004 | Alm

    Costco Latest in Wave of Gender Bias Suits

    California's Impact Fund has filed a second lawsuit against a major corporate chain store, this time a class action accusing Costco Wholesale Corp. of gender discrimination. Filed in

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