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  • October 13, 2003 | Ip Magazine

    Verdicts & Settlements

    TRADE SECRETSAT&T took plaintiff's data-mining technologyOn its misappropriation-of-trade-secrets claim against AT&T, a technology firm was awarded $12

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  • March 5, 2007 | Legal Times

    Samaritan Snare: Federal Lawsuit Filed in Good Samaritan Shooting

    Being a Good Samaritan almost got Alphonso Williams killed when a D.C. police officer shot him in the head while he was lying handcuffed on the ground, according to a federal lawsuit seeking $

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  • October 4, 2013 | The Recorder

    As Troll Debate Rages, Firms Pressed to Pick Sides

    SAN FRANCISCO — As the rhetoric over patent trolling reaches a fevered pitch, litigation clients — on both sides — are demanding greater allegiance from their o

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  • December 9, 2009 | The Associated Press

    LA council set to vote on pot ordinance

    LOS ANGELES AP - The Los Angeles city council could vote on a much-anticipated medical marijuana ordinance Wednesday, ending a bottleneck that resulted in hundreds of pot dispensaries croppin

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  • October 1, 2008 | The Recorder

    Former GC's Fate in Jury's Hands

    The stock option backdating case against Kent Roberts went to the jury Tuesday after the defense rested without calling any witnesses. Instead, Cooley Godward Kronish partn

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  • August 28, 2002 | The Recorder

    The Litigation Equation

    Hiring litigators and bagging clients with big-ticket disputes is about all tech law firm managers have been talking about for the past year.But a look at the number of litigators at S

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  • May 31, 2006 | The Recorder

    Capital Cases: VCs Dragged Into Court

    Lawsuits rarely ever happened in Silicon Valley's venture capital community. The notoriously clubby circle of high-net-worth individuals who helped fuel the Internet boom of the '90s has for y

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  • October 9, 2001 | The Recorder

    Skjerven Cuts 11 Associates to Trim Costs

    Skjerven Morrill MacPherson has become the third Silicon Valley firm to lay off associates as a result of the collapsing economy. Effective Oct. 15, the firm will cut 11 of its 9

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  • June 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Did Affirmative Action Really Hinder Clarence Thomas?

    Why couldn't Clarence Thomas get a job with a big-city law firm when he graduated from Yale in 1974? It's not an idle question. That "time of dashed hopes and expectations," as Thomas once d

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  • December 14, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Hourly Rates Rise Across the Board

    It's a good time to be a lawyer.Billing rates for law firm attorneys jumped last year, with partners and associates raking in more dollars per hour than ever before. And at least one p

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