• May 1, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

    Cut on the Bias

    Most economic statistics are down, but there's one number that's up: employment discrimination claims. Complaints of job bias and retaliatory firings were on the rise even before last fa

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  • October 5, 2010 | The Recorder

    Mintz, Levin Loses Office MP to Arnold & Porter

    SAN FRANCISCO — Mintz's small Silicon Valley office has just gone down another size. Robert Taylor, the Palo Alto office managing partner at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky an

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  • October 21, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Minority-Owned Transactional Boutique Lures Big-Firm Refugees

    This year has been a tough one for Big Law. Not only are profits down, layoffs up and morale low, but some big-firm lawyers have fled altogether, choosing to go it alone. In January, Seth Br

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  • November 15, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Skadden Expands in Europe Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has opened an office in Munich with two partners. Walter Henle and Bernd Mayer, ex-partners at Baker &a

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  • October 11, 2004 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    San FranciscoHanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rudy has hired two litigators -- Merton Howard as a partner and Paul Sanner as of couns

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  • December 22, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Wiretap civil suits a new cottage industry

    LOS ANGELES — The criminal wiretapping convictions of private investigator Anthony Pellicano and lawyer Terry Christensen have re-energized related civil lawsuits filed against five

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  • January 8, 2007 | Legal Times

    Docket Watch: Upcoming Arguments at the Supreme Court

    Below are cases coming before the Supreme Court in the coming weeks and the lawyers who will argue them. "Docket Watch" appears at the beginning of each two-week argument cycle when t

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  • August 1, 2007 | Legaltech News

    LegalTech West Coast

    LegalTech West Coast, June 20-21, had a lot of "firsts" as LTN's news editor Claire Duffett, Law.com's new technology editor Sean Doherty, and I kept busy with vendor meetings and demos, seminar pa

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  • March 1, 2003 | Legaltech News

    How Secure Are Your Keystrokes?

    If you're wired at home, do you realize that you are probably broadcasting your keystrokes, incoming e-mail and documents (not to mention your choice of Internet sites) to your entire neighborhood? Co

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  • January 31, 2002 | The Recorder

    Stormy Weather

    Intellectual property firms seemed to be nestled in a safe harbor as the economic storm began to lash Silicon Valley.After all, as tech-focused firms saw their corporate work plu

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