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March 17, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Judge Blocks Rival's Effort to Learn Value of Facebook's Stock

In a fee dispute between Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and the former owners of ConnectU Inc., a New York judge has blocked an attempt by ConnectU to force rival Facebook Inc. to answer sub

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Larsen v. Soto

Publication Date: 2013-09-16
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Date Filed: 2013-09-16
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: Christina A. Snyder, District Judge, Presiding Before: William C. Canby, Jr., Stephen Reinhardt, and Kim McLane Wardlaw, Circuit Judges.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jan Stiglitz (argued), Alissa Bjerkhoel, Justin Brooks, and Alexander Simpson, California Innocence Project, San Diego, California, for Petitioner-Appellee.
for defendant: Stephanie C. Brenan (argued), Deputy Attorney General; Xiomara Costello, Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General; Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General; Michael R. Johnsen, Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Richard S. Moskowitz, Deputy Attorney General; and Lance E. Winters, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Los Angeles, California, for Respondent-Appellant. Benjamin G. Damstedt and Lori R. Mason, Cooley LLP, Palo Alto, California; Scott A. Cole, Cooley LLP, Reston, Virginia, for Amicus Curiae.
Case Number: No. 10-56118

Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 10312 DANIEL LARSEN, Petitioner-Appellee, v. JOHN SOTO, Respondent-A

April 4, 2006 | The Recorder

State of the Legal Pro

Garrin Sax started out as a case clerk at Morrison & Foerster in 1989.Over the course of the next nine years, he took advantage of the firm's on-site and off-site training programs

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June 11, 2007 | The Recorder

This Week in Recorder History

FIVE YEARS AGOThe Senate confirmed Kevin Ryan as U.S. attorney for San Francisco. "The president could not have made a better choice," First District Justice Carol Corrigan told

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June 29, 2000 | The American Lawyer

The Way We Were

Ten years ago, gloom and doom prevailed in the nation's law offices. More than half the Am Law 100 firms saw their profits per partner sink or stagnate in 1990, and firms were routinely laying

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People v. Mason

Publication Date: 2012-06-05
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Date Filed: 2012-06-05
Court: C.A. 6th
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Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for Plaintiff and Respondent The People: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General; Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General; Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Eric D. Share, Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Christina Vom Saal, Deputy Attorney General
for defendant: Attorney for Defendant and Appellant Jeffrey Allen Mason: Syda Kosofsky, under appointment by the Court of Appeal for Appellant
Case Number: No. H036598

Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 6161 THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JEFFREY ALLEN MASON, Defendant and Appe

March 16, 2009 | The Recorder

On the Move

San Francisco Martin Quinn has been elected president of the Academy of Court Appointed Special Masters, and Fern Smith has b

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July 18, 2011 | National Law Journal

ABA again confronts the diversity dilemma

Nearly 70% of the entering class at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law was black in 1998. A decade later, that figure hovered at around 30% — the l

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May 24, 2011 | The Recorder

LinkedIn GC Worth a Cool $27 Million

Looking for a good reason to move in house? Look no further than Erika Rottenberg, general counsel for LinkedIn. Rottenberg took a chance on the social networking startup three years ago, an

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December 31, 2008 | The American Lawyer

Legal OnRamp Founder Sells Its Virtues

"Success is not correlated with legal quality. Because no one knows what that is." Paul Lippe is at it again, jabbing at the conventions of the legal profession. This time it's th

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