• October 13, 2003 | Legal Times

    Civil Actions

    The following selected cases were recently filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria divi

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  • August 6, 2002 | The Recorder

    News Briefs

    PILLSBURY DOWNSIZES IN VIRGINIA OFFICEPillsbury Winthrop's Northern Virginia office has lost the key players in its corporate practice.Two partners and two associa

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  • May 23, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New arrivals Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld: Vic Fazio, former Democratic congressman from California, has come aboard as a senior advisor in Washington. He will a

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  • August 21, 2006 | National Law Journal

    U.S. law trumps state's regulation of gift cards

    In one of the few court decisions involving the regulation of gift cards, a federal judge has ruled that a newly drafted New Hampshire statute is pre-empted by federal laws because finan

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  • March 8, 2006 | The Recorder

    Partner's Move From Wilson to Kirkland Tripped Up

    Yet another high-profile lateral partner has apparently stumbled into a conflicts problem.Bruce Vanyo, a prominent securities litigator who'd been one of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

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  • July 15, 2013 | The Recorder

    Orrick Takes Securities Partner from MoFo

    SAN FRANCISCO &m Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has bolstered its capital markets group in San Francisco with a partner from Morrison & Foerster. Andrew Thorpe &m

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  • December 6, 2010 | National Law Journal

    In prison case, a special appeal to Justice Alito

    Supreme Court advocates take a risk when they refer to a justice's past writings in a brief or at oral argument. The justice you name might not want to be reminded, and the other eight ma

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  • August 18, 2006 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    SAN FRANCISCOAllan Joseph, founding partner of Rogers Joseph O'Donnell & Phillips, has been appointed to the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Fed

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  • November 15, 2011 | Daily Business Review

    Firm sues two former lawyers over lost clients

    It's a scene that is played out on a daily basis — an attorney decides to leave a law firm and takes a client or multiple clients with him. Occasionally, firms get into a spat with a form

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  • June 24, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Johnson v. Glassman et al

    N.J. SUPERIOR COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION Under applicable Delaware law, to proceed with a shareholder derivative suit, the plaintiff must plead demand futility with particula

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