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  • July 17, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Court Raises Hurdle on Fees

    A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision barring attorney fees for those who win preliminary injunctions if they later lose on the merits of their cases raises an already high hurdle for fee award

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  • December 5, 2005 | Legal Times

    Pushing Back On Patents

    For years, Chinese companies dared their competitors to sue them by flooding the United States with counterfeit goods and then failing to show up in court to defend themselves. The resul

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  • December 9, 2011 | The Recorder

    Why Howard Rice Changed Its Mind on Merging

    SAN FRANCISCO — Soon after the financial crisis hit, the retreats and focus groups started. Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, a fiercely independent firm that has prided it

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  • October 19, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Diversity slow to grow in nation's capitol

    Washington-based managing partners say increasing diversity at their firms has been a top priority. Yet the percentage of minority lawyers at the city's larger law offices isn't rising. Accor

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  • November 6, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Clifford Chance lays off six structured finance associates

    In one of the first clear signs that slumping credit markets are causing economic pain at law firms, Clifford Chance Monday laid off a group of associates in the structured finance are

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  • June 6, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Litigants, Creditors Ask Circuit to Review Rigas Settlement The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard oral arguments on Friday for a writ of mandamus request

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  • April 17, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Justices may hash out 'R' word

    Washington-For more than four decades, federal law has barred employers from retaliating against employees who complain of workplace discrimination. This year, the U.S. Supreme Court may

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  • March 27, 2006 | Legal Times

    Firms Buying Their Way Into the High Court Club

    It is billed as the most important patent case of the decade, and the companies on each side, eBay Inc. and MercExchange, a one-time online auction site, have fought tooth and nail. Both hired top

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  • September 1, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

    The Great Cross-Border Audit Trail

    Call it a crack in the Great Wall. The Securities and Exchange Commission has long been investigating scores of U.S.–listed Chinese companies embroiled in accounting scandals. The

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  • September 24, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Wyeth Sues FDA Over Generic Drug

    Drugmaker Wyeth on Wednesday sued regulators at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in an attempt to block the sale of a recently approved generic version of its intravenous antibiotic Zosyn. In

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