• October 31, 2001 | The Recorder

    Perkins Coie Cuts 7 Bay Area Corporate Associates

    Seattle-based Perkins Coie trimmed the associate ranks of its Bay Area corporate finance group by 33 percent Tuesday, becoming the latest law firm to succumb to the weak economic cl

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  • February 10, 2000 | Legal Times

    High Stakes

    It's a wonder D.C. lawyers got any work done last week. Across town, partners and associates alike were grabbing colleagues in the corridors, calling emergency meetings, and swapping gossip by phon

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  • April 1, 2010 | National Law Journal

    ASSOCIATE MOVERS

    ASSOCIATE PROMOTIONS TO PARTNER Plunkett Cooney (Detroit): Peter Cronk Jr. has been promoted to partnership at the firm. Cronk pract

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  • February 21, 2013 | The Recorder

    Hooman Shahlavi

    Sofinnova Ventures Inc. is a marquee Sand Hill Road firm. Founded in 1974 and on its eighth fund, it manages approximately $1.4 billion in active client assets. In 2011 the company raised about $44

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  • April 25, 2005 | The Recorder

    Hidden in Plain Sight

    SACRAMENTO -- He is, by most accounts, an unassuming guy -- a diligent lawmaker who has worked largely behind the scenes for two governors and served in both legislative houses, thanks to a co

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  • June 20, 2013 | The Recorder

    Obama Nominates Two for Bay Area Federal Judgeships

    SAN FRANCISCO — At long last, the names are in for two vacancies on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The White House on Thursday announced th

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  • May 24, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Ex-Dewey Partners Face New Foe in Firm's Bankruptcy

    Most law firms are wary of suing lawyers. Diamond McCarthy is not one of them.The Texas-based litigation shop has been hired by Dewey & LeBoeuf's liquidation trustee, Alan Jacobs,

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  • October 2, 2013 | The Recorder

    Cotchett Firm Sues Yahoo for Email Snooping

    SAN FRANCISCO — After last week's win for plaintiffs in a privacy lawsuit against Google Inc., the Burlingame firm of Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy filed a similar class actio

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  • November 11, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

    Verdicts & Settlements

    The following verdict summaries were reported in Texas Blue Sheet, a weekly publication of The National Law Journal's Litigation Services Network and an affiliate of Texas Law

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  • June 13, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Justices Reject Human Gene Patents; Fallout May Be Limited

    Reversing decades of federal patent awards, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled that human genes and the information they encode are not patent-eligible. 

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