• April 29, 2002 | Legal Times

    Upside-Downside

    On the theory that the best questions are the simplest ones, I asked a wide variety of attorneys in private practice, "What are the advantages and disadvantages of being a lawyer?" Everyone laughed

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  • September 26, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Akin Gump to Open Beijing Office

    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld is planning to open an office in Beijing within the next 60 to 90 days, according to the firm's chairman, R. Bruce McLean. The office would be the first in

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  • September 27, 2007 | The Recorder

    SunPower GC's Practice Is Solar Charged

    Fueled by investment dollars and increased interest from lawmakers, the alternative energy market is surging. And from SunPower Corp.'s high-ceilinged and noisy Berkeley, Calif., offices -- decorat

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  • July 15, 2005 | Alm

    Loss Causation Pleadings Standard in 2nd Circuit Defined

    The pleading standard for loss causation in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals requires plaintiffs in a securities fraud case to allege a concealment of risk and to show that this concealme

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  • Nixon Peabody v. Taylor Wessing, 10374/08

    Publication Date: 2008-09-23
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2008-09-16
    Court:
    Judge: Kenneth Fisher
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 10374/08

    Justice Kenneth R. Fisher MONROE COUNTY Supreme Court For Plaintiff (Nixon Peabody): Michael R. Wolford, Esq., of counsel The Wolford Law Fir

  • January 7, 2002 | Legal Times

    Divide and Conquer

    About a year ago, a young woman from a domestic violence shelter in Alexandria walked into the Fairfax office of Legal Services of Northern Virginia. An illegal immigrant who spoke no English, the

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  • February 26, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Venturing Overseas for Software Services

    Software Issues HE RECESSION and events of last fall may have caused a slowdown in the U.S. economy, but they have not derailed the growing trend of U.S. corporations to reach be

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  • October 29, 2002 |

    Split Vote for New SEC Audit Panel Chief

    William Webster, the Securities and Exchange Commission's choice to lead its new accounting oversight panel, is expected to be long on enforcement but short on accounting expertise. Th

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  • October 15, 2004 | National Law Journal

    The Urge to Merge

    With a more-is-better philosophy, national practices increasingly want to lock arms with foreign law firms in mergers to create a global presence.If only it were that simple.Wh

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  • February 27, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    The Growing Pains of an IP Practice

    When Morgan, Lewis & Bockius scooped up Dennis Mondolino's 35-lawyer patent boutique in 2001, it was supposed to be a feather in the cap for the firm and its intellectual property practice. The

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