• June 30, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Transactional Bad, Litigation Good

    Like the hot, humid air hanging over most of Texas this time of year, there's one word that best describes growth at Texas' largest 100 firms: stagnant. This year firms on Texas Lawyer'

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  • December 17, 2001 | The Recorder

    Intel Strikes Out With Patent Cases

    The world's largest computer chipmaker struck out twice last week on a pair of patent cases that could have meant big trouble for their competitors. Intel Corp. claimed in separate cases that

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  • January 16, 2007 |

    The Patent Office: Getting Wiki With It

    In August, when the Patent and Trademark Office acknowledged that it had taken Wikipedia off its list of acceptable research sources, the surprise was not that the Web site had been banished, but t

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  • March 8, 2012 | New Jersey Law Journal

    New Partners Yearbook 2012

    Like water seeking its own level, new partnerships rose this year to 150 — their prerecession average. It was as strong a resurgence as the earlier fall-off was precipitous. Ou

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  • May 11, 2006 |

    Associate's IP Blog Is Patently Good Publicity

    Dennis Crouch just may be the best-known third-year associate in patent law. Whether anyone realizes he's a third-year associate is another matter. From his blog,

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  • March 21, 2005 | Legal Times

    Justice Deferred: DOJ Gets Companies to Turn Snitch

    The Department of Justice last week scored a major victory with the conviction of ex-WorldCom chief Bernard Ebbers for lying to investors and government regulators in an effort to cover up his

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  • August 6, 2001 | Texas Lawyer

    Erosion of Reporter Privilege in Texas Case Troubles Legal Observers

    The incarceration of a writer in Houston because she won't give federal prosecutors notes from her research of a 1997 murder troubles a former U.S. Attorney in Dallas.Paul Coggins, who

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  • February 13, 2007 |

    Google's Patent Search Party

    The Patent and Trademark Office had better watch out. There's a new patent search engine in town.In December, Mountain View, Calif.-based Google Inc. debuted its newest search tool, Google P

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  • February 3, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Preservation Helps Companies Prevail in Court

    Students of American political history generally agree now -- some 30 years later -- that the Nixon presidency didn't have to end with Watergate. Yes, it was a scandal. Yes, it was embarrassin

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  • October 20, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Corporate liability key in Chevron case

    SAN FRANCISCO — An epic legal battle going to trial in federal court in San Francisco this week, will ask jurors to decide whether oil giant Chevron Corp. sanctioned human r

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