• March 22, 2007 |

    Silicon Valley IP Lawyers Are Cleaning Up With Clean-Tech Clients

    When Morrison & Foerster's veteran intellectual property law partner Thomas Ciotti sat down at the MoFo energy group's annual partners meeting in late October, it raised some eyebrows. "Everyon

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  • September 30, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Two former Mintz Levin lawyers form IP boutique

    A patent litigator and patent prosecutor have jumped from Boston's Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo to form intellectual property boutique Gilman Clark. Bob Gil

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  • November 7, 2002 | The Recorder

    $185 Million Deal Marries Pair of Software Companies

    Scotts Valley-based Borland Software Corp., a maker of applications used by software designers, has acquired TogetherSoft Corp., a Raleigh, N.C., designer of software development tools.

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  • December 8, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Law school establishing branch in Savannah

    Savannah, Ga. is getting a law school. Atlanta's John Marshall Law School announced on Dec. 8 that is has received American Bar Association approval to open a Savannah branch campus

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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
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    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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