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  • December 12, 2002 | The Recorder

    News Briefs

    VENTURE LAW GROUP NAMES TWO PARTNERSMenlo Park's Venture Law Group announced two new partners Wednesday, bringing to 27 the number of partners at the 75-lawyer corporate boutiqu

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  • December 7, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    IPO Plaintiffs Denied Class Certification

    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 plainti

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  • May 19, 2004 | The Recorder

    BASF Gets Behind Harris On Death Penalty Decision

    If District Attorney Kamala Harris can't assuage critics who say she should seek the death penalty for an accused cop killer, the Bar Association of San Francisco will try to do it for her.

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  • April 20, 1999 | The Recorder

    Stating the Case for Immunity

    Through the hard work of leading scientists at university labs, states have managed to amass millions of dollars in royalties from patents in biotechnology, software and numerous other fields. So h

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  • December 21, 2006 | Alm

    McAfee Employees' Suit Over Contract Reveals New Options Dynamic

    A new breach-of-contract lawsuit against McAfee may be the first in a wave of similar actions against companies that are barring current and former employees from exercising stock options duri

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  • June 8, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    You Know About the Spill, But Who Are They ... ? BP GC Rupert Bondy

    [EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first in a series of stories profiling the in-house lawyers at the companies involved in the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Come back to CorpCouns

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  • February 26, 2003 | The Recorder

    The New Reality

    With few indications of economic recovery on the horizon, partner classes at Bay Area law firms in 2002-03 held to their post-boom levels.But some firms were able to reward the hottest

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  • December 7, 2006 | The Recorder

    Kathrein Broadens His Horizons

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

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  • January 5, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Late Surge in Billion Dollar Deals Hints at Rosy 2011 for BigLaw

    Almost 20 deals in the $1 billion range were announced during the week that The Am Law Daily took its holiday break and the short period before. We couldn't let them pass by without offering a quic

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  • January 6, 2006 | Legal Times

    Five Questions Law Firms Face in 2006

    Mergers. Firm dissolutions. Associate salary hikes. Last year was anything but docile in the legal market. With ever-increasing competition among firms, 2006 looks to be equally challenging. With t

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