• May 4, 1999 | The Recorder

    A Year Later, Merger Sinks In

    One year ago, banking behemoths NationsBank and Bank of America announcedthey would merge in a $61 billion deal creating the largest bank in thecountry. It was news that caused hand-wringing among

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  • April 3, 2006 | Legaltech News

    Video Can Be Risky Business

    In the courtroom, a picture is still worth a thousand words, but video can be priceless. Often, "what" was said is not nearly as important as "how" it was said. Video can illuminate the nuan

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  • April 14, 2006 | The Recorder

    Partnering Deals Drive Biotech Boom

    Unlike many of his Silicon Valley colleagues who abandoned the life sciences practice for Internet law in the mid- to late '90s, Kenneth Clark stuck it out with his biotech clients, which were then

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  • October 20, 2003 | The Recorder

    On The Move

    SAN FRANCISCOGordon & Rees has added Mark Lasser and Stephen Lawniczak as associates.Lasser previously worked for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich

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  • June 30, 2005 | The Associated Press

    Tech Entrepreneurs: High Court Rulings Endanger Internet as Digital Commons

    A pair of Supreme Court rulings this week is stoking fears that the Internet is becoming an ever-more centralized platform for entrenched corporate interests -- the antithesis of the digital c

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  • February 25, 2002 | Legal Times

    Changing Gears

    By Anthony LinAmerican Lawyer MediaAs lucrative as financial restructuring is for law firms these days, not many lawyers would think to joke about it to potential clients.Bingham

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  • October 9, 2001 | The Recorder

    Judicial Profile: William Elfving

    Court: Santa Clara Superior CourtAppointed: November 1997 by Gov. Pete WilsonDate of Birth:

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  • March 12, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Disney Enterprises 'Unitary Group' Held Subject to Tax, No $1.3M Refund

    An upstate appellate court has rebuffed Disney Enterprises' efforts to receive a refund of $1.3 million in New York state corporate franchise taxes it paid in the 1990s. The Appellate Di

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  • December 11, 2007 | The Recorder

    Indicted McAfee GC Wants Discovery From Howrey

    Defense lawyers for former McAfee general counsel Kent Roberts might put Howrey on the hot seat.Cooley Godward Kronish partner William Freeman -- who represents Roberts against SEC charges s

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  • April 21, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Tech Lawyers on a Coaster Ride

    It was only play money to begin with.High-tech lawyer Jim Verdonik recounts a scenario all too typical for the high-flying dot-com world before the tech-heavy Nasdaq market plummeted in mid-Apri

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