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  • October 27, 2008 | The Recorder

    Seismic Changes

    SAN FRANCISCO — In May, the California Supreme Court struck down a ban on same-sex marriage. Thousands

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  • January 30, 2009 | The Recorder

    BAR-ometer

    (down arrow) Bay Area associates and staffWith layoffs at MoFo, Wilson Sonsini and Cooley, it must feel like

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  • February 1, 2000 | The Recorder

    Steps Forward

    Law firms are making progress -- slow progress, but progress nevertheless -- when it comes to boosting women and attorneys of color to partner. Nationally, from 1991 to 1998, the proportio

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  • June 19, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    NY BigLaw Partner Takes Stand to Deny He Played Role in Client's $2.4 Billion Fraud

    Attorney Joseph Collins said on the witness stand yesterday that he would have resigned from representing Refco Inc. had he known its top executives were engaged in sham tran

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  • April 11, 2005 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    San FranciscoCooley Godward has appointed litigation partner Thomas Friel Jr., a resident of the firm's Palo Alto and San Francisco offices, to head i

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  • February 12, 2007 | The Recorder

    Grading the Californians

    Two homegrown California firms � San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster and Los Angeles' Latham & Watkins � have landed on a recent in-house survey of top outside firms. So did two other

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  • December 8, 2005 |

    Biometrics Deal Settles Suits

    Biometrics developer Pay by Touch has acquired smaller rival BioPay LLC of Herndon, Va., for $82 million in stock and cash, it announced Tuesday, ending a protracted patent battle that resulte

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  • July 11, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    Cuomo's Top Aide, Former BigLaw Partner, Returning to Private Sector

    Steven M. Cohen, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's top aide, is leaving his post to look for work in the private sector, the governor's office announced Friday. Mr

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  • August 7, 2006 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    UPDATESRonald S. Cooper has left his post as a partner with Washington-based Steptoe & Johnson to become general counsel of the U.S. Equal Emp

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  • March 31, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Gibson, Dunn Latest Target in Refco Fallout

    Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher is the latest law firm to be named in a suit stemming from the breakdown of the commodities firm a c

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