• June 24, 1999 | The American Lawyer

    Welcome to the Valley

    New York's Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett and Davis Polk & Wardwell are eyeing a bigger chunk of Northern California's Gold Rush. Both firms are planning to open Silicon Valley offices in comi

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  • June 14, 2001 | Law.com

    Survey Says: Extranets -- Either Love Them or Hate Them

    Last year at this time, revolution was in the air. Don Murray and John Henry II were about to "revolutionize" the relationship between general counsel and outside lawyers. Chris Kruse wa

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  • September 3, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Midsize, and Loving It

    Michael Napoli had to get honest with himself. As a partner in the Dallas office of K&L Gates, he was representing mainly midtier clients in commercial and securities litigation. "If

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  • May 18, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    Local lawyers watching new round of pay hikes

    THE ASSOCIATE SALARY WAVE is rolling again, this time in Washington where some big firms have raised pay for first-year lawyers from $145,000 to $160,000 a year. That is the amount big New Yo

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  • May 14, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Locke Lord v. Dewey & LeBoeuf: A Tale of Two Mergers

    What a difference five years make. The merger between Texas firm Locke Liddell & Sapp and Chicago's Lord, Bissell & Brook became official on October 2, 2007. But the tie-

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  • October 1, 2004 | Corporate Counsel

    DEALS AND SUITS

    Wachovia SouthTrust Like kudzu and Nascar, bank mergers are thriving in the South. On June 21 Charlotte-based Wachovia Corporation announced that it would spend $14.3 bi

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  • September 27, 2013 | The Recorder

    Wave of Patent Cases Hits the Bay Area

    SAN FRANCISCO — The map of patent litigation is shifting, and the Northern District of California is gaining ground. A confluence of legislative reform and new case law has

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  • May 18, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Losing Lockstep, Piling on Partner Pressures

    Editor's Note: This is the second part in a weekly series examining the lasting effects of the current economy on the legal industry. Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll Chairman

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  • Cottonwood Duplexes, LLC v. Barlow

    Publication Date: 2012-11-13
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2012-11-13
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Arthofer & Tonkin Law Offices and Kenneth B. Arthofer for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Wells, Small, Fleharty & Weil and Tyler Maize Lalaguna for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. C069564

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 12664 COTTONWOOD DUPLEXES, LLC, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. SETH BARLOW, Defendant an

  • March 19, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    Clean SOX

    The Sarbanes-Oxley Act sounded like a good idea last summer � it was an essential first step toward rebuilding trust in America's corporations. In the ensuing months, the general succumbed to

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