• 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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  • March 15, 2010 | The Recorder

    Outside the Box

    Michael McFadden joined the U.S. Navy just days after his 18th birthday. It was 1982. His father was in the Navy. He always thought he'd spend his life there, too. "Neither of my parent

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  • September 20, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Colorado Intellectual Property Practices Soar to New Heights

    A number of big firms are beefing up their intellectual property practices in the Denver-Boulder area, where a thriving tech industry of local startups and national companies is fueling deman

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  • September 9, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    DEALS & SUITS

    Apache, Ecopetrol & Talisman BP Apache Corporation agreed to pay BP p.l.c. $7 billion for oil and gas assets in Texas, New Mexico, Canada, and Egypt

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