• June 16, 2000 | The Recorder

    Women Making Progress, but Not Enough

    Congratulations to Donna Petkanics on her promotion to Palo Alto, Calif.-based Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's managing director of operations.Petkanics' step up the ladder stre

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  • July 25, 2001 | The Recorder

    Stop the Clock

    When Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison boosted salaries for its first-year associates by a hefty $10,000 in January, one of the San Francisco Bay Area's largest consumers of legal services decid

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  • June 9, 2005 | The Recorder

    Brobeck Fight Turns to Venue Choice

    A public sparring match is set to take place between Tower Snow Jr., the former chairman of now-defunct Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, and Ronald Greenspan, the firm's bankruptcy trustee.

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  • August 25, 2006 | The Recorder

    Q&A

    Silicon Valley veteran Mary Doyle came to Palm Inc. during a period in 2003 when competitor RIM was locking horns with NTP in a patent dispute that would later be resolved by a $612 million se

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  • June 20, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Facebook Agrees to $10 Mil. Fund to Settle Privacy Suit

    Facebook Inc. and plaintiffs attorneys haveagreed to put $10 million into a fund forprivacy foundations to settle a proposed classaction over the site's "Sponsored Stories" feature, a

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  • Jason Scott Hearst v. Progressive Foam Technologies, Inc.; Bill Larman

    Publication Date: 2011-06-08
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2011-06-08
    Court: 8th Cir.
    Judge: Wollman, Circuit Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 10-1253

    Submitted: January 11, 2011Before WOLLMAN, LOKEN, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.On May 1, 2007, Progressive Foam Technologies (PFT) fired Jason Hearst for job abandonment. Hearst-who had been

  • April 21, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Clemens' Lawyers Dispute Claims of Privilege

    Houston-based criminal defense lawyer Russell Hardin Jr. warned a federal judge in Washington in December that the congressional committee and law firm that investigated drug use in Major League Ba

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  • October 21, 2003 | Alm

    Getting the Most From a Merger: Firms Play the Mating Game

    The ink was barely dry on their merger agreement when the heads of Reed Smith and Crosby Heafey Roach & May began trekking around the country together to woo each other's clients.

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  • December 13, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Inadmissible

    ON CERTS, SOTOMAYOR IS LEADING DISSENTER In her second term on the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Sonia Sotomayor is dusting off a little-used tradition as

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  • August 1, 2012 | Legaltech News

    iSpy 2012

    Veteran attendees of LegalTech and other legal technology conferences inevitably end up discussing the nuanced

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