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  • January 1, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Real estate attorneys become deal makers

    Real estate attorneys, long known as "dirt lawyers," are adopting more of the deal-making skills of their corporate counterparts as they get pulled deeper into the real estate sector's s

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  • July 27, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    Inequitable Conductors: All Aboard the 'Therasense' Train

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has long been concerned with the implications of inequitable conduct. As early as 1984, the court stated that "inequitable conduct has been ov

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  • July 2, 2007 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    SAN FRANCISCOLarry Drumm was elected chair of the Northern California chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Drumm, a senior associate with Ber

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  • May 24, 2007 | The Recorder

    Bidding War Benefits Cooley Client

    At the beginning of April, Beckman Coulter Inc. was set to acquire Cooley Godward Kronish client Biosite Inc. f

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  • June 11, 2007 | The Recorder

    All's Not Sunny for San Diego Firms

    San Diego may seem like a sun-drenched beach town, but the legal climate there is anything but relaxed. "There are too many lawyers and too many law firms for the amount of work," said Jay d

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  • July 21, 2010 | The Associated Press

    Filibuster broken, jobless benefits may flow soon

    With a GOP filibuster safely broken, the Senate is poised to pass legislation restoring jobless benefits for millions of people unable to find work in the frail economic recovery. Wednesday'

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  • March 1, 2008 |

    Taking Secrets Back to Asia?

    Silicon Valley has always been a hot bed of trade secrets suits. But there's a new twist in an ongoing dispute between Applied Materials, Inc., the huge Santa Clara-based maker of semiconductor eq

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  • May 29, 2008 | The Recorder

    Silicon Scene

    With a volatile stock market, cash has been the preferred method for big acquisitions of late. But Sunnyvale's Finisar Corp. paid only in stock when it agreed to buy Optium

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  • May 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn

    All eyes were on President Barack Obama in March as he signed the health care ­reform law. Firms prepared for work that might trickle down from the legislation by pursuing laterals in the i

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  • August 16, 2013 | The Associated Press

    Woman Awarded $2M In Surgical Mesh Trial In W.Va.

    CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal jury in West Virginia has awarded a Georgia woman $2 million in damages in a lawsuit involving surgical mesh pelvic repair products.

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