• April 20, 2007 | The Recorder

    Amicus Brief in Calif. Tobacco Case Challenges Limit on Private Attorney General Suits

    When California voters passed Proposition 64 three years ago, many were responding to proponents' arguments that the controversial measure would stop shakedown suits against small businesses.

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  • March 6, 2001 | The Recorder

    Pillsbury Bulks Up in Virginia

    Eager to be a part of Northern Virginia's technology explosion, Pillsbury Winthrop is expanding its presence in the region to 100 lawyers."A lot of people are putting satellites out th

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  • February 13, 2003 | The Recorder

    Space Case

    While riding the Tiburon ferry one recent morning, Ira Rosenberg met a fellow lawyer and happened to mention he was looking for office space.The other lawyer was only too happy to obli

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  • September 13, 2000 | The Recorder

    States May Lose IP Immunity

    Congress is maneuvering to make an end run around last year's Supreme Court decision that gave states and state universities special status in the IP arena.The Court ruled in June

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  • February 16, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    IPO Settlement Wins Tentative Court Approval

    A federal judge has given a preliminary green light on a settlement for hundreds of class actions alleging the fraudulent inflation of technology stocks by companies bringing their shares to m

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  • April 20, 2007 | The Recorder

    Nonpracticing Department Heads Leave Lawyers Free to Succeed

    Colleen Davies heads Reed Smith's 750-lawyer litigation department and maintains a busy practice, so she doesn't have time to make sure each practice group leader has an up-to-the-minute accounting

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  • October 25, 2005 | The Recorder

    In Camera

    CHRISTIAN GROUP FAILS TO BLOCK LESSON ON ISLAMHow do you distinguish teaching about religion from, say, forcing students to practice a religion?That was the question for

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  • June 7, 1999 | Legal Times

    The Promised Land Beckons

    Where high-tech communities flourish, law firms follow. Look no further than the Washington market's burgeoning Dulles Corridor, which has recently welcomed an influx of Northern California firms.

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  • September 17, 2002 | The Recorder

    In Camera

    DURING FLIGHT, PLEASE STOW VALUABLES IN SECURE LOCATIONA woman who claims she's being deemed guilty simply by association brought her case recently to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court

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  • April 15, 2010 | The Recorder

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    San FranciscoFriday, April 16Meet Philip Kearney, Author of "Under The Blue Flag: My Mission in Kosovo." Lawyers' Club of San Francisco event. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

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