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  • September 16, 2003 | The Recorder

    News Briefs

    17200 BILL FAILS IN 11TH-HOUR VOTESACRAMENTO -- The plaintiffs bar's proposal to modify the state unfair competition law has failed, opening the stage for a business-back

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  • April 11, 2005 | The Recorder

    Securities Lawyers Spar Over Use of Confidential Witnesses

    There's a reason securities fraud informants like to stay anonymous."The plaintiff view is, 'My god, if we were to tell you who they were, they'd sleep with the fishes,'" said Jordan E

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  • November 5, 2001 | The Recorder

    Local Push Puts 10,000 Books Into Kids' Hands

    Lawyers are such big fans of reading that asking them to donate books seemed like a good way to gather books for needy kids. That was the thinking behind The Bridge of Books Foun

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  • June 30, 2005 | The Recorder

    Cable, Porn Industries Run Into Acacia

    For years adult entertainment Web sites fought alone against a patent enforcer that demanded a portion of their profits.Now they've been joined on the battlefield by more than a dozen

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  • July 9, 2001 | The Recorder

    Full Steam Ahead

    The party switch in the U.S. Senate may have rattled most political insiders -- with at least one notable exception.The IP community seems just as happy with Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.,

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  • March 13, 2000 | National Law Journal

    U.K.-U.S. Faceoff on Patent

    In late February, a patent for an Internet-based customer referral system issued to Amazon.com. Not long afterward, a British company sent out a press release claiming to have put similar technolog

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  • January 22, 2001 | The Recorder

    Wilson Just Says No to Pay Hikes

    Digging in its heels on associate pay raises, Palo Alto, Calif.'s Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati announced last Friday that it won't match San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harr

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  • August 17, 2000 | The Recorder

    Getting Wired to Wow Jurors

    Plaintiffs attorney Alan Exelrod grabbed the remote control-like device, scanned a bar code from a sheet of paper, and shot the data into a DVD player.Instantly, a huge video screen fl

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  • October 25, 2000 | Legal Times

    Long Odds For Software Law

    The chips are down for software manufacturers.What once seemed a sure bet -- passage of a controversial bill that would give the industry almost absolute power in determining the terms

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  • March 8, 2005 | The Recorder

    Orrick Snatches Four More From Venture Law Group

    Marie-Anne HogarthJust two weeks after grabbing five partners from Heller Ehrman's Venture Law Group, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has nabbed four more. This time the group in

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