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  • June 10, 2004 | Alm

    Law Firms Hope To Grow Clients At Biotech Conference

    It was tough to tell which group boasted the more overwhelming presence at the Bio 2004 conference Tuesday - the police or the lawyers. San Francisco's finest were out in force, a raw

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  • April 28, 2008 | Law.com Corporate

    Deal Market's Downshift

    The depressed number of mergers and acquisitions worldwide in the first quarter took a toll on California's biggest firms. Of the top 10 firms on the Cal Law 25, all but one

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  • June 18, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Can Pay-To-Place Model Work for Legal Recruiting Newcomers?

    When Lateral Link launched in the spring of 2006, traditional recruiters criticized the upstart firm for paying $10,000 to each associate it placed in a fi

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  • April 22, 2005 | National Law Journal

    11th Circuit to Review Use of Videotaped Testimony

    A good defense lawyer taking apart the government's star witness during cross-examination puts the "confront" in the Constitution's confrontation clause.Hard to imagine achieving the s

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  • February 20, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Associates Face Life After Layoffs

    For hundreds of law firm associates who have been dismissed during the past six months, jobs are scarce and competition for openings is fierce. "I've done everything right

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  • September 10, 2004 | The Recorder

    Termed Out

    Barry Levin may soon go back to litigating insurance cases. Or maybe he'll spend more time with his family.As chairman of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe for the past 5 1/2 years,

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  • November 12, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Masking true costs of war

    Five decades ago, Darrell Huff's best-seller How to Lie With Statistics showed how valid numbers can be manipulated to generate inaccurate or biased conclusions. In that vein, the

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  • September 1, 2003 | National Law Journal

    A win for computer code protection

    San Francisco-California courts can prevent Web sites from posting computer code revealing trade secrets without fear of trampling on basic free speech rights, the state Supreme Court ha

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  • February 7, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Agenda Unknown

    Ask lawyers to describe the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and they respond with three adjectives: enormous, powerful — and unknown. Slated to open on July 21, the reg

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  • March 2, 2004 | The Recorder

    Deja Vu on M&A

    If you went to sleep in 2000 and woke up today, you'd find virtually the same frenzied mergers and acquisition market of four years ago."Your initial reaction might be that very little

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