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  • June 22, 2006 | The Recorder

    Lieff Cabraser in Talks to Take Some Milberg Partners

    Any law firm can poach partners from an imploding rival, but it takes extra talent to get a competitor's consent to loot its talent trove.Ask Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein. The San

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  • June 2, 2008 | National Law Journal

    The 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America

    First, a reality check: At last count, a mere 5.4 percent of partners at U.S. law firms were members of minority groups. For women of color, the figure was fewer than 1.7 percent, according to

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  • June 26, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    UPDATESWilliam H. Webster, a consulting partner in the Washington office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy, has been appointed chair of the

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  • September 15, 2008 | The Recorder

    Sunny Side Up

    As the hot, young clean-tech industry matures, companies are hiring and searching for general counsel that have the hard-to-come-by blend of energy business and startup lawyer skills. b

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  • Barnes-Wallace v. City of San Diego

    Publication Date: 2012-12-20
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    Date Filed: 2012-12-20
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Napoleon A. Jones, Jr., District Judge, Presiding Before: William C. Canby, Jr., Andrew J. Kleinfeld, and Marsha S. Berzon, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark W. Danis, Morrison & Foerster, LLP, San Francisco, California; M. Andrew Woodmansee, Morrison & Foerster, LLP, San Diego, California, for Plaintiffs-Appellants–Cross-Appellees.
    for defendant: Scott H. Christensen, Hughes Hubbard & Reed, LLP, Washington, D.C.; George A. Davidson and Carla A. Kerr, Hughes Hubbard & Reed, LLP, New York, New York, for Defendants-Appellees–Cross-Appellants. Sheldon T. Bradshaw, David K. Flynn, Eric W. Treene and Angela Miller, United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae United States. Paul Rosenzweig, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae American Legion. Matthew F. Stowe, Office of the Attorney General, Austin, Texas, for Amici Curiae States of Texas, Alabama, Kansas, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Virginia. Anthony R. Picarello, Jr., Derek L. Gaubatz and Roger T. Severino, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. John C. Eastman, Orange, California, for Amicus Curiae Claremont Institute Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence. Peter Ferrara, McLean, Virginia, for Amicus Curiae American Civil Rights Union. Eric Alan Isaacson, Michelle M. Ciccarelli and Alreen Haeggquist, San Diego, California; Rev. Silvio Nardoni, Glendale, California; Susan Kay Weaver, El Cajon, California, for Amici Curiae Social Justice Committee and Board of Trustees of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego; its Ministers, the Rev. Arvid Straube and the Rev. Julie Kain; its Director of Religious Education, Elizabeth Motander Jones; the Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry California; the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. Angela Sierra, Office of the Attorney General for the State of California, for Amicus Curiae State of California. Ayesha N. Khan and Alex J. Luchenitser, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Americans United for Separation of Church and State. John H. Findley and Harold E. Johnson, Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, California, for Amici Curiae Pacific Legal Foundation and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Robert J. Muise and Julie Schotzbarger, Ann Arbor, Michigan, for Amicus Curiae Thomas More Law Center. Paul A. Hoffman, Santa Ana, California, for Amicus Curiae Individual Rights Foundation.
    Case Number: No. 04-55732 No. 04-56167

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 13859MITCHELL BARNES-W ; MAXWELL BREEN; LORI BARNES W ; LYNN BARNES W

  • September 25, 2008 | The Recorder

    Legal Departments, Law Firms Weighing Wikis

    A little over a year and a half ago, Sun Microsystems' in-house legal department was in the midst of overhauling its internal Web site. Gregory Bennett, a program manager in charge of Su

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  • March 7, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Smart Alecks or Smart?

    Some call them slackers. Others are more diplomatic. But whatever the moniker, "Generation Y" associates are getting a bad rap for what some say is a flabby work ethic and an off-putting

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  • October 13, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Seven Firms Handle $1.6 Billion 99 Cents Only Stores Acquisition The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and asset manager Ares Management will acquire 99 Cents Only St

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  • April 13, 2011 | New York Lawyer

    BigLaw Firm Crowns New London Leader

    Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker has appointed corporate vice chairman Ronan O'Sullivan as managing partner of the US firm's London office, following the anno

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  • August 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    Intellectual Property: Don't Trade on My Mark

    The Internet was once hailed as the fastest way for a company to market its brand. Now it turns out to be the fastest way to kill one, too. Tech magazine publisher CMP Media found this

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