• August 21, 2013 | The Recorder

    Legal Pad: Scalia, in S.F., Talks Textualism, Touches on 'Argle-Bargle'

    Justice Antonin Scalia would like to set the record straight: He does not consider himself a strict constructionist. Discussing his book a href="http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Law-Int

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  • March 16, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    IP litigators: Worth their weight in gold?

    As a senior patent litigation associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Jeremy Pitcock was wooed by firms offering partnerships, $75,000 signing bonuses and, on top of his partner paycheck, 5

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  • July 8, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Ropes & Gray Wins Patent Ruling Under Bilski Test

    The Supreme Court has yet to rule on Bilski v. Doll, the blockbuster IP case expected to clarify the standards required to patent a business method. But that didn't stop Santa Ana, Calif., federal dis

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  • October 30, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    IOLTA Ineligible List

    The Supreme Court has entered an Order declaring attorneys who have not complied with the mandatory IOLTA program to be administratively ineligible to practice law. The Court's Order, which ta

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  • April 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    U.S. et al. v.Merck In one of the largest Medicaid fraud recoveries in history, Merck & Co., Inc., agreed February 7 to pay $671 million to resolve allegations that it

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  • April 3, 2007 | Legal Times

    New Ethics Officer Helping HP Move Forward

    Last October, Jon Hoak, 57, was appointed vice president and chief ethics and compliance officer for Hewlett-Packard, the scandal-plagued California technology company that made the news last ye

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  • People v. Arancibia

    Publication Date: 2013-02-28
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    Date Filed: 2013-02-27
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Assistant Attorney General, Steven D. Matthews and David E. Madeo, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: David H. Goodwin, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. B240341

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 2215THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent,v.JORGE ARANCIBIA, Defendant and Appella

  • December 3, 2012 | The Recorder

    In 4-3 Ruling, Justices Lay out What to Do When Expert Recants

    SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court set down new rules Monday for expert testimony whose scientific basis is later called into question by new technology. The new rules r

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  • Native Village of Kivalina IRA Council v. Environmental Protection Agency

    Publication Date: 2012-08-09
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    Date Filed: 2012-08-09
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Before: Alfred T. Goodwin, William A. Fletcher, and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Victoria Clark, Brook Brisson, Trustees for Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska, for petitioners Native Village of Point Hope IRA Council, Alaska Community Action on Toxics, and Northern Alaska Environmental Center. Brent Newell (argued), Sofia Parino, Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment, San Francisco, California, for petitioner Native Village of Kivalina IRA Council.
    for defendant: Ignacia S. Moreno, Paul Cirino (argued), Kimberly A. Owens, Pooja S. Parikh, United States Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C., for the respondents. Jeffrey W. Leppo (argued), Jason T. Morgan, Stoel Rives LLP, Seattle, Washington, for intervenor NANA Regional Corporation, Inc. Eric B. Fjelstad, James N. Leik (argued), Perkins Coie LLP, Anchorage, Alaska, for intervenor Teck Alaska Incorporated.

    Case Number: No. 11-70776

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 9054 NATIVE VILLAGE OF KIVALINA IRA COUNCIL; NATIVE VILLAGE OF POINT HOPE IRA COUNCIL; ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION ON TOXICS; NORTHERN ALA

  • April 27, 2007 | The Minority Law Journal

    Mixing It Up

    When Solomon Watson IV joined Boston's Bingham Dana & Gould in 1971, he was the firm's first African-American lawyer. "It was not much of an issue," Watson says. "My style is to get along with

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