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  • March 20, 2012 | The Recorder

    Chevron Fails to Stall Enforcement

    In the latest U.S. chapter of the long and hard-fought battle over claims of pollution and adverse health effects from oil development in the Ecuadorean rain forest by Texaco (acquired by Che

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  • November 2, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Civil Actions

    The following cases were recently filed in the Washington-area district courts. This information is provided by the district courts' official online bulletins. U.S. DISTRIC

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  • February 8, 2006 | The Recorder

    Test Case Coming for Judicial Branch

    SACRAMENTO � First Amendment advocates sued the Riverside County Superior Court Tuesday to pry open a secret settlement struck with a former employee, creating a potential test case that could

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  • April 25, 2011 | The Recorder

    Banks Lawyer Up for Failed Mortgage Lawsuits

    LAST SPRING, the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco hit a whole mob of financial institutions with a lawsuit demanding money back for residential mortgage-backed bonds gone bad. In the summer,

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  • September 11, 2008 | The Recorder

    In price-fixing probes, all eyes on Samsung

    When the Justice Department dropped its price-fixing hammer on the computer memory market three years ago, Samsung Electronics got hit hardest. That was then. For more than a year, ant

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  • March 7, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Howrey to Vote on Dissolving This Week

    Amid a stream of departures, partners at Howrey are set to vote this week on whether to dissolve the law firm, according

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  • October 10, 2008 | International Edition

    Leaked document gives details of Heller debt, assets

    A leaked copy of Heller Ehrman's dissolution plan shows a firm that has a good chance of avoiding bankruptcy -- if it can collect unpaid bills and liquidate assets with the success promised o

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  • May 24, 2006 | The Recorder

    Expectations Clash in Date Suits

    Hoping to find a friend or a lover, two dating service customers say they instead discovered they'd been ripped off.And though they never dated each other, Glen Howells and Stephanie H

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  • October 24, 2006 | The Recorder

    Bingham Grabs Backdating Prosecutor

    Given the whirlwind of backdating allegations, Haywood Gilliam couldn't have picked a better time to change employers. Until last month, Gilliam headed up the securities fra

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  • January 30, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Salaries rise, so does debt

    Runaway costs for a legal education are threatening to trample any optimism among law school graduates created by recent associate salary increases at the nation's top law firms.

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