• April 27, 2005 | The Recorder

    Heller Ponders British Invasion

    Barry Levin and Matthew Larrabee, the former and current chairs of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe, have long talked of opening a Heller office in Europe -- preferably in the U.K.

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  • December 1, 2005 | The American Lawyer

    Law Firm Leaders: Conservatively Optimistic

    No doubt about it, leaders of Am Law 200 firms are upbeat about the future. Eighty-nine percent of respondents to our annual firm leaders survey said they are optimistic about 2006, almost exa

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  • January 11, 2000 | The Recorder

    Boom Time in the North

    Silicon Valley continued to pump a cascade of cash into the Bay Area's biggest law firms in 1999, powering soaring revenues and profits for all but a few of the top 10 firms, a survey by The Record

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  • December 6, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Huge IPO Case Hits Big Snag at 2nd Circuit

    A federal appeals court Tuesday vacated class certification in six key cases in the massive litigation over dot-com era initial public offerings -- a potentially devastating setback for plaintiffs

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  • September 6, 2001 | Legal Times

    The Layoffs: Fallout in Northern Virginia

    A dozen gone from Cooley Godward's Reston, Va., office in one fell swoop.Across all of the Palo Alto, Calif., firm's offices, a total of 85 associates and special counsel lost their jo

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  • February 7, 2001 | The Recorder

    Vague Hague Treaty Causes a Stir

    There's one thing about the Hague Convention that everyone can agree on: It's darn confusing.The treaty, being negotiated by the United States and 46 other countries, would essentially

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  • January 23, 2002 | The Recorder

    Enron Accounting Scandal Seen as Damaging to MDPs

    THE CONTROVERSY over Arthur Andersen's handling of Enron Corp.'s books may not only stain the accounting giant's reputation, but could be a fatal blow to a marriage between the accounting industry

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  • August 2, 2007 | The Recorder

    Rambus CEO's Wife Used Online Alias to Criticize Former GC

    In these days of close corporate scrutiny, companies frequently investigate their own employees' conduct. But one highly litigious Silicon Valley company has taken the internal probe in a ne

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  • January 31, 2007 | The Recorder

    Calif. Firms Not Matching N.Y. Associates' Pay

    More California-based firms are opting for a segmented associate salary scale, hiking pay to a $160,000 base in their New York offices but implementing a $145,000 scale in California. The sa

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  • October 4, 1999 | The Recorder

    Growing Ventures

    Two career mortgage lenders walked into Hazim Ansari's Newport Beach office at O'Melveny & Myers six months ago with a veteran Internet technologist and a plan to go online. Despite ha

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