• March 23, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Damages a hurdle to patent reform

    WASHINGTON — If powerful congressional sponsors were the measure of ultimate legislative success, then patent reform this year would be a done deal. But when damages awards —

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  • May 8, 2013 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    No Surprises Expected in Arbitration Program Oral Arguments

    No new themes are expected on either side of the debate next week when the Delaware Court of Chancery is set to make its argument that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit should r

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  • February 8, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    Lawyer helps paper-maker merge with rival

    OVERSEEING THE LEGAL ISSUES in the combination of paper companies in South Carolina and Quebec was a lot like "herding cats," said Troutman Sanders partner William C. "Cal" Smith. Smit

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  • July 8, 2008 | Legal Times

    Next term, court will have fatter, faster calendar

    The current term is history, so what's up for the Supreme Court's next term, which begins Oct. 6 More cases, heard more quickly, and possibly decided with more division among the justices tha

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  • November 2, 2009 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    San Francisco John Feeney has been named a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Feeney, a partner at Murphy, Pearson,

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  • March 7, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    Justices raise the bar on antitrust

    By Marcia Coyle, The National Law Journal The U.S. Supreme Court last week, ruling in the final two of a trio of antitrust challenges this term, significantly raised the bar for those

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  • July 18, 2007 | Legal Times

    High Court's New Rules Address Critics' Privacy Concerns

    The Supreme Court appears to have backed away from a controversial proposed rule change that critics said would have threatened the privacy of groups that file amicus curiae or friend-of-the-court

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  • Sonic-Calabasas A, Inc. v. Moreno

    Publication Date: 2013-10-17
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2013-10-17
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fine, Boggs & Perkins, John P. Boggs and David J. Reese for Plaintiff and Appellant. Mayer Brown, Evan M. Tager, Archis A. Parasharami, Brian J. Wong, Donald M. Falk; National Chamber Litigation Center, Inc., and Robin S. Conrad for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant. Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, Richard J. Simmons, Karin Dougan Vogel and Matthew M. Sonne for Employers Group as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant. Horvitz & Levy, Lisa Perrochet, Felix Shafir and James A. Sonne for California New Car Dealers Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Locker Folberg, Miles E. Locker and Rachel Folberg for Defendant and Respondent. Hina B. Shah; Cynthia Rice; Jose Tello; Miye Goishi; Silas Shawver; Fernando Flores and Charlotte Noss for Asian Law Caucus, Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Bet Tzedek Legal Services, California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc., Centro Legal de La Raza, Garment Worker Center, Hastings Civil Justice Clinic, Katharine and George Alexander Community Law Center, La Raza Centro Legal, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center, Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund, National Employment Law Project, National Lawyers Guild Labor and Employment Committee, Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County, Wage Justice Center, Women's Employment Rights Clinic of Golden Gate University School of Law and Worksafe Law Center as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent. McGuinn, Hillsman & Palefsky, Cliff Palefsky, Keith Ehrman; Smith & McGinty and Valerie T. McGinty for California Employment Lawyers Association and Consumers Attorneys of California as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent. William A. Reich and Anne Hipshman for California Labor Commissioner Julie A. Su as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.

    Case Number: No. S174475

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 11453 SONIC-CALABASAS A, INC., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. FRANK M

  • June 28, 2010 | National Law Journal

    D.C. Calendar

    Wednesday, June 30 Government Ethics: The D.C. Bar's CLE Program and eight bar sections present "Ethics and the Government Lawyer 2010: Hot Topi

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  • May 4, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    2008 was Am Law 100's worst in 17 years

    Nothing grows forever. For the first time since 1991, both average profits per partner and revenue per lawyer dipped last year among the Am Law 100 firms, the top-grossing firms in the nation

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