• August 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Not So Sweet

    Is Mexico forcing the country's soft drink manufacturers to use local cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup made by American producers? Several U.S. compani

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  • October 1, 2012 | National Law Journal

    D.C. MOVES

    BAKER & MCKENZIE Rafic Barrage, 38, has joined Baker & McKenzie's Washington office as a partner in the firm's tax

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  • September 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Desperately Seeking Seniors

    When Howrey decided to open a New York office, CEO Robert Ruyak knew that the firm needed lawyers wise to the ways of the city. So three months after the November launch, Ruyak convinced three

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  • December 5, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Roberts Takes Swing at Solicitor General's Office

    Ouch! For the second time in one week, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. chastised the Office of Solicitor General for not being more forthcoming, this time in a case involving the logging indus

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  • March 16, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    A Full-Court Press for Patent Credibility

    Chief Judge Paul Michel and his brethren on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit are not going to take it anymore. In speeches to various groups in the patent bar over

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  • September 14, 2009 | The Recorder

    Pair of Small IP Firms Take Root in Valley

    SAN FRANCISCO — A few Silicon Valley lawyers are trying to prove that small is the new big in IP litigation. Two former Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges senior associates

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  • July 9, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Four Hot Practice Areas From 2001 Retain Warmth

    Bankruptcy, energy, labor and employment and litigation lawyers are having a banner year in 2002, according to the midyear update of "What's Hot and What's Not in the Legal Profession,"

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  • April 19, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Text Messaging Heads to the Supreme Court

    The Supreme Court leaps today into the high-tech world of text messaging in a challenge with potentially huge implications for the privacy rights of senders and receivers and for workplace communic

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  • February 1, 2008 | Legaltech News

    Almost Like Being There

    Ever since cartoon character Jane Jetson chatted away on her videophone in 1962, teleconferencing has been on the wish list of just about everybody. While the legal community has always been a prim

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  • June 16, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Water turns to gold

    No spectators crowded the San Bernardino County Courthouse last summer to watch a six-week bench trial more likely to induce drowsiness than public outrage. Expert witne

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