• September 20, 2006 | The Recorder

    Pushing Legal Research Beyond Google

    When it comes to sleuthing for information there are no hard and fast rules for paralegals, except maybe this one: Don't ignore the Internet.The courts may notice if you do.Last y

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  • May 31, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Frustrations Abound for Corporate Spycatchers

    In 1997, the FBI videotaped the chairman of a Taiwanese company, Four Pillars Enterprise Co., in an Ohio hotel accepting secret documents about Avery Dennison Corp.'s formulas for its adhesive prod

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  • January 26, 2004 | The Recorder

    The China Syndrome

    Autodesk isn't exactly a first-time visitor to China. The software company, headquartered in San Rafael, California, established a modest in-house legal division in Hong Kong several years ago

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  • February 10, 2005 | The Recorder

    Ex-Lab Scientist Helps Latham Clinch Pharma Deal

    Before he became a lawyer, Latham & Watkins partner Charles Hoyng was a scientist at Genentech working to develop Activase -- an important drug in the treatment of heart atta

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  • March 19, 2002 | Legal Times

    Lost in Space

    No one planned it this way. Less than two years ago, Silicon Valley firms and many others couldn't expand fast enough in Northern Virginia. They hardly expected the downturn in the tech market that

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  • May 6, 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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  • February 27, 2001 | The Recorder

    Electrical Storm

    The 70 attorneys at San Francisco-based Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s law department feel under siege.They've got their regular caseload of more than 500 cases. Then there's the Cal

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  • February 11, 2005 | The Recorder

    Ex-Lab Scientist Helps Latham Clinch $270M Pharma Deal

    Before he became a lawyer, Latham & Watkins partner Charles Hoyng was a scientist at Genentech working to develop Activase -- an important drug in the treatment of heart attacks and stroke

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  • September 16, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    Pro Bono Requirement Modified to Help LL.M. Students

    ALBANY - Responding to concerns voiced by law school deans, New York will give foreign master of law degree students more time to meet the requirement that new lawyers perform 50 hours of pr

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  • April 11, 2011 | The Recorder

    Dewey & LeBoeuf Adds M&A Partner

    SAN FRANCISCO — Mergers and acquisitions partner James Griffin has left Fulbright & Jaworski in Dallas to join Dewey & LeBoeuf in Silicon Valley. Griffin, 42, represents bo

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