• January 16, 2003 |

    Search and Destroy

    When Gator Corp. was founded in 1998, the Redwood, Calif., company billed itself as a vehicle for consumer choice. Gator offered consumers a free "digital wallet." This wallet conveniently rem

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  • November 21, 2001 | The Recorder

    Buyer Beware

    Valuations are through the floor, the stock market is floundering, and no one knows where the technology industry is headed.But thanks to a summer court ruling, tech company executives

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  • May 3, 2013 | The Recorder

    Firms Use Apps to Burnish Brands

    SAN FRANCISCO — Clients looking to learn more about the anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws overseas don't need to track down their lawyers. They can just whip out their smart pho

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  • January 11, 2012 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    Laster Creates Formula for Attorney Fees in Shareholder Suits With No Monetary Reward

    In a December decision, Delaware Chancery Court Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster crafted a formula for evaluating attorney fees in shareholder suits where the plaintiffs successfully challeng

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  • May 15, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Manatt Investment Fund Lands on 'Silicon Beach'

    Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has launched a division to counsel clients on business opportunities associated with digital media based in Los Angeles' "Silicon Beach." Moreove

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  • April 14, 2005 | Legal Times

    Troubles Mount for Burns Doane

    As partners at Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis gathered over the weekend for a three-day retreat, they were sure to be haunted by the ghosts of the disappeared. The Alexandria,

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  • December 3, 1999 | The American Lawyer

    The Unlikely Radical

    It was 1892, and the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Company was hastily constructing walls around its plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania. Carnegie had first declined to renew its workers' contracts and then

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  • June 14, 2011 | Daily Business Review

    Federal Election Commission just wants its name right

    When lawyers from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr filed a complaint against federal election regulators, it may have been just another lawsuit against a beleaguered

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  • March 16, 2006 | The Recorder

    Snow Reaches Settlement in Brobeck Suit

    Former Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison Chairman Tower Snow Jr. has agreed to settle claims brought against him by a bankruptcy trustee in the 2003 implosion of the now infamous law firm.

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  • May 18, 2006 | Law.com

    GC Mary Doyle Has the World in Her Palm

    Silicon Valley veteran Mary Doyle came to Palm Inc. during a period in 2003 when competitor RIM was locking horns with NTP in what would later resolve in the $612 million landmark settlement over p

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