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  • December 9, 2011 | The Recorder

    Why Howard Rice Changed Its Mind on Merging

    SAN FRANCISCO — Soon after the financial crisis hit, the retreats and focus groups started. Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, a fiercely independent firm that has prided it

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  • May 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Measuring a Lawyer's Value

    Value per lawyer ranks firms by how efficiently they generate profits. For the third year in a row, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz tops the list, with a value per lawyer of $1.585 mil

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  • August 11, 2000 | The Recorder

    Brand Name Heavies

    There's a new picture on big law firms' most-wanted posters.The sought-after professionals are rewarded with salaries higher than most associates. If they can't stand the position of a

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  • March 3, 2009 | Legal Pad

    Thank-You Note Goes Very Wrong

    Legal Pad: One of Horror’s many faces. Read the latest posts on the main page, or sample a la carte: a href="h

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  • Swarthout v. Superior Court (Culver City Police Department)

    Publication Date: 2012-08-17
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    Date Filed: 2012-08-16
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Jennifer A. Neill, Assistant Attorney General, Julie A. Malone and Nikhil D. Cooper, Deputy Attorneys General, for Petitioner.
    for defendant: No appearance for Respondent. Carol A. Schwab, City Attorney and Lisa A. Vidra, Deputy City Attorney; Law Offices of E. Thomas Dunn, Jr. and E. Thomas Dunn Jr.; for Real Party in Interest, City of Culver City. Steve Cooley, District Attorney, Irene T. Wakabayashi, Head Deputy, and Phyllis C. Asayama, Deputy District Attorney, for the People of the State of California.
    Case Number: No. B241132

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 9441 GARY SWARTHOUT, as Warden, etc., Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES

  • July 22, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Bay Area Firm Regroups After Recent Troubles

    Gordon Davidson isn't ready to hit the panic button just yet - even though the San Francisco Bay Area law firm Fenwick & West is showing all of the standard signs of trouble.In rec

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  • January 30, 2013 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    Report Shows New Securities Class Actions Down in 2012

    Securities plaintiffs lawyers are a resourceful breed, and a new report suggests that their hardiness is being put to the test. Federal securities class-action filings dropped by 20 percent i

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  • January 24, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Cravath, Cooley on Proposed Sale of Genoptix to Novartis

    Swiss drug giant Novartis AG announced Monday that it’s buying cancer diagnostics lab Genop

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  • May 18, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Stop the presses: California plaintiffs' attorneys prefer Democrats

    Plaintiffs' lawyers in California gave nearly $600,000 to statewide election campaigns during the first 10 weeks of 2010, according to the Civil Justice Association of California, a Sacramento-

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  • October 16, 2006 | The Recorder

    Welcome to California

    When an Indiana newspaper editorial writer named John B.L. Soule offered up his famous advice, "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country," he most certainly did not have intellectual p

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