• August 13, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Is Self-Help Discovery by Employees Protected Activity?

    It is increasingly common for employees pursuing claims against their employer to use their access to files and databases to gather, in blatant violation of company policy, confidential docum

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  • December 12, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Obituary: Herbert Kronish

    Herbert Kronish, a founding member of Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman and a human rights advocate, died yesterday of pancreatic cancer at Beth Israel Medical Center. He was 81. Mr. K

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  • January 16, 2001 | Legal Times

    Softening Economy: Hard Times Ahead?

    A pall has fallen over law practices in Northern Virginia's once-bullish technology corridor.Just a year ago, venture capital was flooding into the region, and scores of local companie

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  • August 28, 2000 | The Recorder

    The Dash for Cash

    The war began with a simple declaration delivered to Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian associates at a meeting just before Christmas. Gunderson Dettmer managers tol

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  • August 1, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Judge who graduated from accused law school declines to recuse

    Can a trial judge be impartial when his alma mater is being sued for fraud? Three attorneys behind a spate of fraud class actions targeting law schools don't think so. They argu

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  • May 30, 2007 | The Recorder

    Brocade Drops Wilson Sonsini

    On the advice of a federal judge, Brocade Communications has dropped Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as it defends a suit over misdated stock options."Out of respect for this cour

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  • June 28, 2011 | National Law Journal

    A Patent Defense Win for Vistaprint in Plaintiff-Friendly East Texas

    Despite failing to get its patent infringement case moved from the plaintiff-friendly Eas

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  • February 29, 2000 | Legal Times

    Chasing the Biotech Balloon

    Taking a bus tour around Montgomery County, Md., isn't the way most lawyers would choose to spend their day. But for Brent Rushforth, managing partner of the D.C. office of San Francisco's H

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  • September 5, 2000 | The Recorder

    Pool Party

    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Cooley Godward, both based in Palo Alto, Calif., are leading the way in creating venture capital-like investment pools for their legions of associates.

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  • June 25, 2001 | The American Lawyer

    Life on the Bubble

    James Burns Jr. gushed a bit when he talked about the numbers. And why shouldn't he? His firm, San Francisco's Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, posted mammoth gains last year. Its gross reve

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