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  • August 8, 2009 | The Recorder

    Joint Defense in Patent Cases May Leave One Player Out in the Cold

    In a series of conference calls, three sets of lawyers for six defendants planned for trial against patent infringement claims by Honeywell International. They divided up the witnesses, voir dire a

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  • January 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    Mr. & Mrs. Smith

    Kathy Surace-Smith faced a difficult decision in 1996. She was a lawyer in Paris, enjoying the good life in a city she loved. But her husband, also an expat American attorney, had a job offer

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  • June 6, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Device Maker Sues FDA Over Rescinded Approval for Implant

    Bankrupt medical device maker ReGen Biologics Inc. has sued the Food and Drug Administration, claiming that the agency overstepped its authority when it reclassified the company's knee implan

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  • December 3, 2010 | The Recorder

    SEC Proposals Under Dodd-Frank Leave VC Firms Uneasy

    SAN FRANCISCO — Silicon Valley lawyers are reassuring anxious venture capitalists that their worst fears have not been realized. Venture capital funds will not have to give government reg

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  • February 29, 2008 | The Recorder

    GC's Derivative Suit Settles for $7M

    Covad Communications and its ex-general counsel have finally laid to rest a sordid, six-year saga of allegations of self-dealing directors, sexual harassment and retaliatory firing.Cov

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  • November 5, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Lawyer Faces Bribery Charge Over Breathalyzer Test A Long Island attorney is facing bribery charges after attempting to bribe an officer administering a bre

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  • January 29, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    East Coast Law Firms Opening L.A. Offices

    Los Angeles has morphed into a hotbed of recruiting in the past eight months as several midsized firms from the East Coast aggressively open offices. At least seven law firms have open

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  • July 16, 2007 | The Minority Law Journal

    Mixing It Up

    When Solomon Watson IV joined Boston's Bingham Dana & Gould in 1971, he was the firm's first African-American lawyer. "It was not much of an issue," Watson says. "My s

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  • August 1, 2007 | Alm

    Firm Resolves Dispute in KPMG Tax Probe

    A lawyer in Irvine, Calif., and his former firm have reached an agreement with federal agents who are seeking documents related to the criminal investigation of fraudulent tax shelters sold by

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  • August 17, 2006 | Alm

    Real Estate Practice Gains New Ground With Top Firms

    Centro Watt's purchase of Heritage Property Investment Trust: $3.2 billion. GE Real Estate's acquisition of Arden Realty: $4.8 billion. Kimco Realty Corp. and Pan Pacific Retail Properties mer

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