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  • December 4, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    New Deals

    GENENTECH INC. TO ACQUIRE TANOX INC. Winstead Sechrest & Minick represents Houston biotechnology company Tanox Inc. in its pending acquisition by Genentech Inc. for about $919 mill

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  • August 20, 2002 | The Recorder

    Brobeck Pays to Keep First-Year Associates at Bay

    Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison is offering to pay some first-year associates as much as $3,000 per month not to show up for work until January 2004.To deal with the decline in work ov

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  • June 2, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Morrison & Foerster, Fried Frank In Telecommunications Purchase JDS Uniphase Corp said May 23 it would buy Acterna Corp. for $760 million in cash and stock

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  • October 2, 2009 | The Recorder

    Stanford University Loses Appeal on Patents for HIV Test

    Stanford spent a lot of time pursuing a patent case against Roche for its HIV test kits. Unfortunately for the university, it's also spent a lot of time losing. On Wednesday, the U.S. Cour

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  • June 15, 2001 | The Recorder

    Big Legal Tab in Battle Over Avant

    Avant Corp. spent nearly $50 million in legal fees over a six-year period, sinking most of that into its defense in a trade secrets theft battle with Cadence Design Systems Inc. and the Santa Clara Co

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  • May 12, 2006 | The Recorder

    Six Days, Six Lawyers, $24 Billion

    Golden West Financial Corp. General Counsel Michael Roster used to tell outside lawyers in speeches that there were certain firms he would call in to do a major transaction, or ("God forbid") a maj

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  • March 29, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

    PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

    Elected and Appointed Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads elected three lawyers to its partnership — R. Monica Hennessy , Karen M. Ibach and Tricia J

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  • Merkle v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

    Publication Date: 2002-04-24
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    Date Filed: 2002-04-23
    Court: Pa. Commw. Ct.
    Judge: Judge Friedman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 2124 C.D. 2001

    Submitted: February 1, 2002OPINIONJeffrey D. Merkle (Claimant) petitions for review of the August 17, 2001 order of the Workers' Compensation Appeal Board (WCAB), affirming the decision of the w

  • October 9, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Law Firm Blogs Raising Prickly Ethical Issues

    For many lawyers, blogs have become a popular marketing tool to catapult their firms' names into the World Wide Web. For others, they have become a convenient mechanism for discussing an array

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  • September 18, 2002 | The Recorder

    O'Melveny Hit With Another Belmont Suit

    O'Melveny & Myers has been named in a $150 million suit for its role in a controversial Los Angeles high school construction project.The firm is among 17 defendants alleged to have

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