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  • December 28, 2005 | The Recorder

    Mentor for Hire

    A partner at a prominent Bay Area law firm found herself in an unenviable predicament: How could she better manage a difficult client relationship?The answer didn't come from the firm'

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  • July 13, 2000 | The Recorder

    Class Loses in National Semiconductor Securities Fraud Suit

    A Santa Clara County Superior Court jury in San Jose, Calif., Tuesday rejected a $240 million class action securities fraud claim by shareholders who alleged National Semiconductor Corp. lied

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  • September 26, 2013 | Litigation Daily

    Judge Clears Path for Privacy Suits Over Gmail

    Julia Love writes for The Recorder, an American Lawyer affiliate.A federal judge has rejected Google's main lines of defense to accusations the company illegally mined p

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  • April 4, 2013 | The Recorder

    Corporate Governance Risk in Overlapping Roles

    Perhaps nothing illustrates the clubby atmosphere of Silicon Valley quite like the tangled web of directors and consultants at many of the area's companies.The many concurrent roles th

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  • April 26, 1999 | National Law Journal

    School Shootings Raise Liability Issue

    As anger follows grief in the Littleton, Colo., school shootings, people have begun to ask who is legally responsible for the killings. Litigation in earlier school shootings has already beg

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  • August 22, 2003 | The Recorder

    Fights Loom Over Changes in Sentencing

    It doesn't quite rival Napoleon versus the Duke of Wellington, but it could come close.Defense attorneys in the Northern District are gearing up for a fight over the so-called Feeney A

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  • February 4, 2010 | The Recorder

    Shareholder Suits Fly as Deals Flourish

    Securities defense lawyers at big firms have noticed an uptick in shareholder lawsuits over mergers and acquisitions, even those worth under $100 million, a reflection of both increased deal activi

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  • May 1, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Big Suits

    GE v. Mitsubishi A federal jury in Dallas ruled on March 8 that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., had infringed one of General Electric Company's wind turbine patents

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  • September 22, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Win Goes Sour for Biotech Firm

    The U.S. court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit appears to have written the end to a long-standing and hard-fought patent battle between two competing biotech companies.In a ruling h

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  • December 27, 2005 | The Recorder

    Driven to Diversity

    SAN JOSE � Following on the heels of a successful pro bono campaign, incoming Santa Clara County Bar Association President Christopher Arriola hopes to begin the year riding the wave with anot

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