• March 24, 2003 | Ip Magazine

    Warning: Research Dollars at Risk!

    Before the clinical trials are run, before the Food and Drug Administration approves, before hope is held out to millions of patients, new drugs start with scientists asking elemental qu

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  • May 12, 2003 | Legal Times

    Asset Freezes Hindering Legal Defense

    Indicted D.C. businessman C. Gregory Earls is in a pinch. He has four days to find a lawyer.The chief of U.S. Technologies Inc. is facing federal criminal charges that he defraud

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  • October 21, 2008 | The Corporate Counselor

    Don't Jump the Gun: Antitrust Limits on M&A Pre-Closing Conduct

    In track, a runner "false starts" or "jumps the gun" when he or she begins running before the gun has sounded. A similar concept occurs when two competing firms that have agreed

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  • April 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    False Positive?

    Jane Kober is no stranger to the disclosure requirements for public companies. In her seven years as general counsel of Biopure Corporation, a small Massachusetts-based drug company, she's reg

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  • March 26, 2007 | Legal Times

    On the Move

    BRACEWELL & GIULIANIJason Hutt, 34, was named partner in Bracewell & Giuliani's D.C. office. Hutt practices environmental law and advises clients on environmental l

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  • August 21, 2008 | Legal Times

    Economy, Exits Hurt Buchanan Ingersoll

    Barely a quarter of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney's 500 lawyers have hit their targeted billable hours this year. Average associate hours have fallen below 1,650. And as of May, the firm was $10.

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  • September 23, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Former Irell & Manella Partners' New Firm Thrives

    The timing was right for a change. Richard Kendall's clients -- mostly major Hollywood studios and media companies -- were increasingly chafing at the rates he and his colleagues charged at

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  • May 9, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    LATERALS Dewey Ballantine (New York): J. Anthony Terrell, Catherine C. Hood and Michael F. Fitzpatrick Jr., formerly of Thelen Reid & Priest, have joined the corporate de

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  • May 20, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Federal Circuit Establishes Rule for 'Product-by-Process' Claims

    Any court opinion that contains the phrase "Crystalline 7-[2-(2-aminothiazol-4-yl)-2-hydroxyiminoacetamido]-3-vinyl-3-cephem.-4-carboxylic acid," doesn't exactly put us in our comfort zon

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  • October 15, 2007 | The Recorder

    China's IP Syndrome

    Like its unprecedented economic growth, the landscape of intellectual property protection in China is rapidly changing. The enormous region-wide disparities complicate the uneven development o

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