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  • March 18, 2010 | The Recorder

    Microsoft Hit With Another Multimillion-Dollar Loss in Texas

    After being hit with a $290 million trial loss last year, Microsoft Corp. and decorated patent lawyer

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  • March 11, 2010 | National Law Journal

    DLA Piper sued over alleged discovery snafu by associate

    What may have been a case of oversharing on the part of a DLA Piper associate has dragged the firm into court to defend a legal malpractice lawsuit. A former client claimed in a c

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  • July 13, 2007 |

    IP Litigation: Poised for Takeoff?

    Patent litigation held steady in 2006, but was it the calm before the storm? The top firms in our seventh annual patent litigation survey showed only a slight bump up in work last year. In 2006 to

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  • May 23, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

    Litigator of the Week: Do-Over More Than Doubles Award

    For Scott Cole, a principal in the Austin office of McKool Smith, the second time was the charm for client Versata Software Inc. On May 13, a federal jury in Marshall found that SAP America

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  • June 4, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Law Firm Roundup

    Baker & McKenzie Taps Brazil Partner as Next Firm Chair Baker & McKenzie has elected São Paulo partner Eduardo Leite the next chairman of the firm's e

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  • January 31, 2005 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    San FranciscoPreston Gates & Ellis has hired a partner and two associates, boosting its Asia practice.Partner L. Howard Chen will work to cont

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  • April 12, 2007 | The Recorder

    Where associates' money goes

    KATHRYN COLE, a 25-year-old who earned her law degree last year from the University of Michigan Law School, accepted a position at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges in Silicon Valley

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  • March 12, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Boston Firms Respond To NYC Pay Hikes

    The race to raise first-year associate salaries has opened a chasm in Boston between firms matching New York's top rate of $160,000 and firms offering a $145,000 starting salary. Sever

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  • May 1, 2008 |

    Brian Siff, 42

    Some IP lawyers live for the courtroom, but Brian Siff has a reputation as someone more interested in helping clients with their problems than cutting notches on his belt. Says Mark Seidenfeld, cou

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  • April 3, 2008 | The Recorder

    Judge Strikes Down Patent Office's New Rules

    IP lawyers rejoiced Tuesday as a federal judge rejected new rules for streamlining the patent process that had applicants apoplectic. Eastern Virginia U.S. District Judge James Cacheri

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