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  • April 6, 2012 | The Recorder

    Policing Social Media

    With the rapid rise of social media (as of today, there are 845 million active users of Facebook, nearly half a billion users of Twitter and 150 million LinkedIn members, with numbers growing

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  • October 17, 2011 | International

    Singapore Joint Ventures Make a Comeback

    For most of the past decade, the Singapore joint law venture (JLV) program, which required international firms to pair with local firms to practice Singapore law, has been seen as an unmitigated di

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  • November 22, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Video games may use real-life traits

    LOS ANGELES-In a ruling with major implications for those who wish to limit the use of their name and likeness in games, a California appellate court has upheld the right of three

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  • January 12, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Firms Line Up for Heller Bankruptcy

    About 30 law firms have been identified as possible creditors, or as legal counsel for creditors, of the defunct law firm Heller Ehrman, according to court documents filed in the law firm's bankrup

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  • December 1, 2003 | The Recorder

    On The Move

    San FranciscoThe International Trademark Association has recognized J. Thomas McCarthy as a leader in intellectual property with the 2003 INTA President's Award. M

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  • November 30, 2007 | International Edition

    Private Client Work Goes Global

    It would appear that the perks associated with advising the world's super-rich do not extend to regular trips on private jets. That, at least, was the impression gleaned from an informal survey of

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  • February 18, 2008 | National Law Journal

    B2B takes on a whole new meaning

    While big business and many legislators have painted the courts in the popular imagination as handing out gigantic verdicts in class actions, medical malpractice and products li

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  • March 3, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Japan Sees Glut of Lawyers, But No Layoffs

    The once-vaunted tradition of lifetime employment in Japan is not much in evidence these days. Already worn down during the nation's prolonged 1990s recession, job security is being hammered ever m

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  • December 21, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Opening Up Their Ranks

    The central London headquarters of Linklaters is a scant 15 minutes' walk from the working class borough of Hackney. But for Chaimaa Elazrak, 15, who lives in Hackney with her Moroccan immigrant pa

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  • May 4, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

    What Was the Legal Basis for the Bin Laden Strike?

    The killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is engaging some of the thorniest questions of the United States' post-Sept. 11 campaign against terrorism, including the government's legal justifica

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