• December 18, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Circuit Rules on Experimental Drug Case

    Jacob Gunvalson is a 17-year-old boy with a terminal genetic disease called Duchenne muscular dystrophy, but he was not allowed to participate in a drug company's trial of an experimental drug that

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  • October 13, 2011 | The Recorder

    9th Circuit Upholds Reyes' Backdating Conviction

    SAN FRANCISCO — On the second go-round, Gregory Reyes wasn't so lucky. The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Thursday a href="http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2

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  • February 22, 2005 | The Recorder

    Judicial Profile: Thomas Mellon Jr.

    COURT: San Francisco Superior APPOINTED: Jan. 20, 1994 DATE OF BIRTH: Jan. 25, 1943 LAW SCHOOL: New York Universit

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  • January 24, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New Partners King & Spalding (Atlanta): James M. Griffin joins the antitrust practice group as partner in the firm's Washington office. He was previously deputy ass

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  • March 31, 2004 | Alm

    Justices to Hear Challenge Of Alien Tort Claims Act

    The business community, feeling the sting of international human rights litigation, and the Bush administration will try to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court this week to eliminate tort liabilit

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  • July 2, 2013 | International

    Former Orrick Asia Head Joins Jones Day

    Former Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Asia managing partner Michelle Taylor has resigned from the firm to join Jones Day as partner in Hong Kong. Taylor specializes in structured

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  • June 30, 2003 | Legal Times

    How University Got Support of Military Leaders

    It began four years ago in a private conversation between James Cannon, a retired journalist and political operative, and former President Gerald Ford, whom Cannon served as a domestic a

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  • May 10, 2010 | National Law Journal

    D.C. MOVES

    KING & SPALDING Patrick Morrisey, 42, has moved to King & Spalding in Washington as a partner and co-chairman of the FDA and life scien

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  • September 14, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Another One Bites the Dust for K&E's Desmarais

    Kirkland & Ellis's IP trial star John Desmarais has racked up nearly $1.9 billion in jury verdicts for Alcatel-Lucent in two trials against Microsoft. But not a penny has made it into Alcatel-

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  • November 16, 2009 | National Law Journal

    No quiet time for new justice

    Bryan Stevenson, a superhero in the pantheon of the liberal public interest bar, was standing before the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 9, a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?i

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