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  • February 8, 2006 | The Recorder

    MoFo Conflict Keeps Pooley in Limbo

    An overlooked conflict-of-interest issue has delayed the much-publicized move of patent litigator James Pooley to Morrison & Foerster.Pooley, whose departure from Milbank, Tweed, H

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  • February 1, 2007 |

    ON THE HORIZON

    Some recent developments in Washington, D.C., could put a crimp in Acacia's licensing business. The U.S. Supreme Court's 2006 ruling in eBay v. MercExchange makes it nearly impossible for licensing

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  • May 3, 2005 | Alm

    Comparative Advertising a Growing Trend Among Firms

    When Marvin Spivak wanted an advertising campaign that would set his intellectual property litigation team apart from the competition, he decided to make a bold move. Bold, that is, in the typ

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  • February 5, 2007 | Legal Times

    Associates Call and Law Firms Respond

    The early days of the associate-salary war resembled the frenetic call-and-response often found at a D.C. go-go concert. (Hogan, let me hear you!).And so, too, did the hea

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  • January 3, 2008 | The Recorder

    Diversity funding targets first-year law students

    The diversity pipeline just got another feed.The California Bar Foundation announced last month that it would begin a class="linelink" href="http://www.calbarfoundation.org/news/newsr

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  • December 20, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Dickstein Shapiro Knocks Out $85 Million Infringement Award Against Arthrex in Suit over Surgical Patent

    For proof of how fleeting jury trial wins in patent cases can be, look no further than Smith & Nephew's infringement litigation against rival medical device company Arthrex. Late last week, w

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  • May 1, 2009 |

    ITC Annual Survey: A Gatekeeper's Power Persists

    In a year that ended dismally for many law firms, one subsection of intellectual property litigation continued to provide steady—and profitable—work: the patent disputes heard by t

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  • April 30, 2010 | The Recorder

    Hearsay

    Don't let the prospect of a million-woman march faze you 'If the employer had 500 female employees, I doubt that any of my colleagues would question the certification of such a clas

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  • July 11, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    New Positions . . . Michael Brito has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Dallas as a partner in the corporate practice. . . . span class="pers

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  • April 26, 2010 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    San Francisco Stein & Lubin has added Laurie Gustafson as an of counsel. Gustafson, who was previously with Dorsey &

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