• August 15, 2005 | Legal Times

    Behind the Legend of Roberts' 9-0 Loss

    The 1994 Supreme Court decision Digital Equipment Corp. v. Desktop Direct is complex, obscure, and easily forgotten. But stealthily, it has entered the growing body of Joh

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  • November 24, 2004 | The Recorder

    Brobeck Trustee Ready to Settle with Ex-Partners

    Nearly two years after Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's demise, former partners will have a chance to get together again.But it won't be a typical reunion.Brobeck's bankruptcy

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  • November 16, 2009 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    NEW ARRIVALS HISCOCK & BARCLAY (Syracuse, N.Y.): Richard Romanchik joins the firm's intellectual property and technology

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  • August 16, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    The Right of Publicity Goes Digital

    Infringement of an intellectual property right typically occurs where there has been an unpermitted use of some creative or beneficial work.1 But what happens when that right is not a co

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  • May 9, 2005 | Legal Times

    Sharp Rise In Big Suits Against Firms

    It's getting more expensive for corporate lawyers to defend themselves. A soon-to-be-released study by the American Bar Association shows that the number of big-ticket suits � th

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  • September 22, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Back for More in Ecuador

    On Friday, Ecuadorian judge Leonardo Ordonez, who currently presides over the case where indigenous plaintiffs seek to hold Chevron Corporation liable for pollution of the Amazon river basin, close

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  • August 18, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    Laterals Baker & Hostetler (Cleveland): James A. Mercadante and Steven H. Goldberg have joined as partners, resident in New York. The business transactions attorneys arriv

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  • September 14, 2005 | Legal Times

    Jurors, Watch the Screen

    For most of the history of jurisprudence, pens, paper and law books were the tools of the lawyer's trade. That's all changed. Of course, lawyers have been using computers for legal writing and

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  • December 23, 2011 | The Recorder

    Digital Sharing Gets More Protection From 9th Circuit

    As digital sharing via Facebook, Twitter, and other services takes deep root in everyday life, a ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals offers yet more protection for the intermediaries

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  • October 14, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Judgment and Strategic Decisions in Legal Malpractice

    One of the more interesting principles of legal malpractice is the question of "judgment" or strategic decisions. Deriving from the 19th century, this is a lasting, bedrock rul

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