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  • November 19, 2004 | The Recorder

    Power Play

    California's energy crisis, with its skyrocketing utility bills, rolling blackouts and bankruptcies -- not to mention a little mess called Enron -- seemed like an easy plaintiffs' case.

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  • February 2, 2004 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    San FranciscoPiper Rudnick has elevated 16 to partner, including Rachel Matteo-Boehm in San Francisco. Matteo-Boehm's practice focuses on media law and inte

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  • January 3, 2000 | The Recorder

    Are Milberg Weiss' Glory Days Over?

    In a move laden with symbolism, Alan Schulman -- former managing partner of the San Diego office of Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach -- today will open the San Diego office of Bernstein Lit

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  • November 29, 2007 | The Recorder

    San Francisco Bar Association Lists Ways to Keep LGBT Lawyers

    Citing a study (.pdf) that indicates nearly 60 percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender law stud

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  • April 21, 2003 | The Recorder

    Foreign Fallout

    On Sept. 22, 1997, 67-year-old Rudy Rosenberg sat down in front of a group of state insurance commissioners and told the following story:In March or April of 1942, a pair of insurance

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  • September 2, 2005 | Alm

    Alien Tort Action Survives Concerns of U.S., Canada

    The opposition of the U.S. State Department and the government of Canada to a lawsuit against a Canadian oil company over human rights abuses in the Sudan was not enough to convince a federal

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  • August 9, 2002 | The Recorder

    Alsup Turning Up the Heat in Securities Fraud Suits

    If you're a corporate executive, U.S. District Judge William Alsup may be your worst nightmare.Through a series of increasingly striking orders, Alsup has made it known that he is hell

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  • February 28, 2001 | The American Lawyer

    Schlictmann's Docket

    In the years since Jonathan Harr's "A Civil Action" made him the John Travolta of the toxic torts bar, Jan Schlictmann has received "literally countless phone calls, faxes, letters" from plain

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  • October 12, 2005 | The Recorder

    E-Discovery Tops List of In-House Worries

    Corporate legal counsel surveyed in Fulbright & Jaworski's annual study of in-house trends named electronic discovery the newest wrinkle in the brow. The 2005 litigation trends survey found

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  • October 27, 2005 | The Recorder

    Gas Companies Handed Sweet Settlement

    Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante isn't about to let a bunch of out-of-state energy companies sashay into California and bilk consumers. Nope, he wants to make them pay a price.A small price.

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