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  • June 7, 2007 |

    TTAB Disregards Subjective Intent Element

    Continuing a recent trend of toughening its position on fraud, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) has cancelled yet another registration because the registrant had failed to us

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  • April 27, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Ralph...Has Left the Building

    “I got an offer on this space this morning,” says Ralph Baxter as he strides through the glass-walled conference rooms that make up the top floor of the ten-story Orrick, Herrington

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  • December 21, 2006 | The Recorder

    Still Billing After All These Years

    At age 70, Morrison & Foerster partner Melvin Goldman is still vigorously defending clients in securities cases."The idea of peaking in your practice and then tailing off as you gr

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  • May 2, 2008 | Legal Times

    How To Bribe With a House

    Legal Pad rejected "Sino-the-times" as a headline for the Inter-Pacific Bar item. Our internal editor is improving ... Read the latest posts on the a href="http://legalpad.typepad.co

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  • October 8, 2012 | National Law Journal

    For law firms, revolving door is speeding up

    To law firms, a presidential election means more than debates and conventions and bumper stickers. It's also a chance to acquire talent. The revolving door between law firms and the fe

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  • November 11, 2003 | The Recorder

    Lawyers Stump for End to Tough Patent Policy

    Patent lawyers have long chafed under rules that require them to relinquish attorney-client privilege in certain patent cases. But that may change soon. The U.S. Court of Appeals for t

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  • November 27, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Law Firms Bracing for Hedge Fund Suits

    The hedge fund industry is on edge. Securities regulators in New York have 30 hedge funds in their sights, while California regulators are moving to require registration of the unregulat

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  • January 31, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Pro Bono Hotlist

    Esther Lardent didn't mince words. The pro bono situation — and access to justice for the poor — is "hideous," Lardent, president of the Pro Bono Institute, said during

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  • March 10, 2003 | Legal Times

    D.C.'s New Partners 2003

    AKIN GUMPAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld announced that two lawyers in its D.C. office -- Paul Mirengoff and Daniel McInnis -- were elected partner.Mirengoff, 5

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  • October 29, 2004 | The Recorder

    Buddy, Can You Spare a Lawyer?

    Applied Materials Inc.'s legal department was in a bit of a bind.One of its corporate attorneys was scheduled to go on maternity leave during an unusually hectic time for the departmen

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