• June 13, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Ex-Dewey Partner Bunsow Sues Former Leaders for Misrepresenting Firm's Finances

    UPDATE, 6/13/2012, 7 p.m. EDT: The sixth paragraph of this story has been updated to include a statement from Jeffrey Kessler. In a bombshell lawsuit filed Tu

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  • July 18, 2007 |

    Courting a Jury

    For all of the hype these days over enormous jury verdicts -- including the record $1.5 billion judgement against Microsoft Corp. in March -- few juries ever decide a patent dispute. The huge stake

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  • April 16, 2012 | National Law Journal

    THE NLJ 250

    Our latest annual survey of the biggest U.S. firms by headcount, shows that, on the whole, large firms added attorneys again last year. But the increases weren't universal. In fact, 109 firms

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  • March 12, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    In-House: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young U.S

    NAME AND TITLE: David J. Zarfes, executive vice president and general counsel.AGE: 42ORGANIZATION: Paris-based Cap Gemini Ernst & Young is the third-la

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  • August 29, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

    Law Department COOs Draw on the Power of Networking

    Audrey Rubin is feeling pretty popular. As chief operating officer of Aon Service Corporation's legal department, she has now been invited to join three networking groups for people

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  • June 8, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Creditworthy

    FINANCIAL SERVICES EMPIRE Discover Financial Services LLC is a credit card issuer and electronic payment services company. It offers the Discover Card, student and per

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  • February 22, 2007 | The Recorder

    Nossaman Finds DeVries Replacement

    Los Angeles litigator Michael Heumann will take the helm at Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott after the abrupt departure of the firm's managing partner, Scott DeVries, late last month. The f

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  • October 24, 2011 | Law.com Corporate

    Judge Trims False Advertising Suit over 'Corn Sugar'; Table Sugar Plaintiffs Sweeten Legal Team with Mark Lanier

    Friday was a bittersweet day for both sides in a false advertising suit pitting the makers of table sugar against the producers of high fructose corn syrup. Los Angeles federal district judge Co

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  • Dicon Fiberoptics, Inc. v. Franchise Tax Board

    Publication Date: 2012-04-26
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2012-04-26
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, Drooks & Lincenberg, Thomas R. Freeman, Paul S. Chan; Dakessian Law Firm, Akerman Senterfitt, Reed Smith, Mardiros H. Dakessian; The California Credits Group, LaShelle T. Wilson and Mark Danscecs for Plaintiff and Appellant. Winston & Strawn, Charles J. Moll III, Krista M. Enns and Linda T. Coberly for California Taxpayers? Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant. Silverstein & Pomerantz, Amy L. Silverstein and Edwin P. Antolin for Deluxe Corp. as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Edmund G. Brown, Jr., and Kamala D. Harris, Attorneys General, David S. Chaney and Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Gordon Burns, State Deputy Solicitor General, Paul D. Gifford and Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorneys General, W. Dean Freeman, Felix E. Leatherwood, Mark P. Richelson and Ronald N. Ito, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendant and Respondent.

    Case Number: No. S173860

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 4569 DICON FIBEROPTICS, INC. Plaintiff and Appellant, v. FRANCHISE TAX BOARD, Defendan

  • May 26, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Federal Circuit Takes Another Look at Hotly Contested Hatch-Waxman Case

    As Hatch-Waxman Act cases go, they don't get much more interesting than Novo Nordisk v. Caraco Pharmaceutical. When the Federal Circuit last month a href="http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/10-100

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