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  • May 29, 2001 | The Recorder

    Summertime Blues

    As part of the first batch of summer associates at Fenwick & West's Palo Alto, Calif., office this year, Catherine Bernard was welcomed by firm chairman Gordon Davidson and hiring partner

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  • June 9, 2004 | The Recorder

    Law Firms Hope to Grow Clients at Biotech Conference

    It was tough to tell which group boasted the more overwhelming presence at the Bio 2004 conference Tuesday -- the police or the lawyers.San Francisco's finest were out in force, a raw

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  • December 13, 1999 | The Recorder

    Wilson Cashes In as Linux IPO Explodes

    Some days are good, and some days are very good. Take Thursday, when Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati saw its ownership in Sunnyvale-based VA Linux Systems Inc. soar in value to $

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  • April 4, 2006 | The Recorder

    Mintz, Levin Pushes Into Palo Alto

    Boston-based Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo wants to make a big push into California, and it is getting started with the acquisition of the Palo Alto-based Reed Intellectual Pro

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  • December 11, 2006 | The Recorder

    Lerach Coughlin Partner Opening Small Firm

    When Reed Kathrein opened a San Francisco office for the country's biggest plaintiffs firm 12 years ago, he was a solo with a couple of big cases. When he departs the firm now known as Lerac

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  • April 19, 2004 |

    Life on the Frontier

    If Fred von Lohmann had been born 100 years ago, "he would have had more insight into electric light bulbs and the legal issues they raised than anyone else in his time," says William Schwartz

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  • July 30, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

    Protect the Business From Discrimination Class Actions

    Texas executives who have had a rotten day or a rotten couple of months can take heart. Their situations cannot under any circumstances be as dire as that experienced in January and February b

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  • June 9, 2003 | The Minority Law Journal

    Familiar Faces

    Stability is the big theme of the latest Diversity Scorecard, our third annual survey of minority hiring at the nation's largest law firms. A total of 215 firms gave us numbers on their minori

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  • July 12, 1999 | New York Law Journal

    Leaving the Law in Search of Net Riches

    In January, Josh Rochlin, a 32-year-old associate at Rubin Baum Levin Constant & Friedman, announced that he was leaving the law to jump on the Internet bandwagon. For months, the corporate law

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  • July 10, 2003 | The Recorder

    Getting Back to Those Law Firm Roots

    Diane Savage left Cooley Godward at the height of the tech boom in 2000, looking for a slower pace and a more manageable life. She took a gig at Stanford University's business school a

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