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  • March 11, 2013 | The Recorder

    Montali OKs Clawbacks from Firms That Hired Heller Partners

    SAN FRANCISCO — Four firms' efforts to overturn a contentious and problematic bankruptcy doctrine hit a roadblock Monday.U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali sided with the He

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  • October 27, 2010 | National Law Journal

    PTO, European Patent Office Team Up on Classification System

    The latest U.S. Patent and Trademark Office innovation is a deal to work with the European Patent Office on a joint patent classification system aligned with global standards. In a

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  • February 6, 2006 | Legal Times

    Honors and Appointments

    COMMITTEE TO SUPPORT U.S. TRADE LAWSThe Committee to Support U.S. Trade Laws appointed Laurence Lasoff as chairman of the Customs Committee. The CSUSTL is an organi

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  • February 23, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Qui Tam Action Survives Disclosure of FOIA Requests

    For understandable reasons, the False Claims Act restricts qui tam whistleblowers from bringing fraud claims crafted out of information that has already been publicly disclosed. The U.S. Supr

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  • June 20, 2011 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    LATERALS Debevoise & Plimpton (New York): Ethan James joins the firm's insurance industry practice as partner in the New York off

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  • April 25, 2011 | National Law Journal

    For firm, a battle over gay rights

    UPDATE: King & Spalding has pulled out of the case and Paul Clement has resigned from the firm. See stories a href="http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2011/04/king-spaldi

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  • February 21, 2012 | The Recorder

    Ioana Petrou

    COURT: Alameda County Superior ASSIGNMENT: Family law APPOINTED: 2010 by Governor Schwarzenegger LAW SCHOOL: Berkeley Law School PRE

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  • April 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    Aiming Lower

    Until recently, federal prosecutors have almost always gone after the general counsel when they've charged an in-house lawyer with corporate fraud. But for the second time in the past six mont

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  • August 11, 2008 | Legal Times

    On the Move

    BINGHAM MCCUTCHEN Four lawyers have joined the international securities practice in Bingham McCutchen’s Washington office.

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  • September 4, 2006 | National Law Journal

    No happy ending for Net renters

    A legal clash between Blockbuster Inc. and Netflix Inc. has triggered a patent debate over who has the right to offer DVD-rental services over the Internet. The litigation presen

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