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  • November 1, 2007 | The Recorder

    Patent Rules Put on Hold by Va. Judge

    Patent lawyers started breathing again Wednesday, as the specter of new patent rules was chased away -- at least for a little while -- by a Virginia court. U.S. District Judge James Cacheris

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  • July 11, 2007 | The Recorder

    Are Big Firms Warming Up to Alternative Fee Deals?

    Looking down the barrel of a threatening patent infringement action from Sanyo, Chinese cell phone battery maker BYD wanted the IP heavyweights at Howrey -- but not their heavy rates. The A

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  • October 17, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Summer Associates Survey 2011: A Season In the Sun

    Law students who spent the past summer working at some of the nation's largest firms went into their jobs knowing the negative reputation that life at such firms can have. They ended

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  • April 6, 2007 | The Recorder

    Silicon Valley IP Lobby Goes to Washington

    Everyone agrees intellectual property is a powerful engine that drives innovation in Silicon Valley. And most everyone also agrees the United States' patent system needs fixing. What companies

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  • March 30, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Defenders Rack Up Wins in Nine High-Stakes Cases

    INTENSE DISCOVERY OFFSETS LATE ENTRY INTO CASE CASE TYPE: personal injury, products liability CASE CITE: Heber v. Walt Disney Co., No. 02-CC-11166, (Orange Co., C

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  • April 21, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    The Smoking Gub

    It's a prosecutor's worst nightmare. He learns, after a hard-won conviction, that key evidence was bogus. What's a civil servant to do? Come clean or take the conviction and run? The discovery

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  • April 19, 2000 | Alm

    Goodwin Hunting

    Boston's 400-lawyer powerhouse Goodwin, Procter & Hoar is on the verge of picking up a chunk of Roseland, N.J.'s Friedman Siegelbaum, which will prompt its dissolution, according to sources fam

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  • March 23, 2007 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    Four Del. Firms Raise First-Year Salaries to $145K

    Slightly less than one year after the last associate pay hike in Delaware, four Wilmington firms have raised their salaries again. Earlier this month, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell an

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  • December 13, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

    Bowling for Killers

    The final score: death penalty 2; states' rights 0. U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft is a staunch advocate of states' rights - except when deference to the states threatens something he's m

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  • April 25, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Wait for Ruling Irks British Firm

    John Mitchell is tired of waiting.And he's been waiting nearly a year for a ruling on his request for a preliminary injunction, after a judge predicted a "relatively" prompt decision.Mitchell

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