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  • October 26, 2009 | The Recorder

    Stimulus Plan Energizes Tax Lawyers' Practices

    Tax attorneys are seeing their roles expand because of valuable tax incentives for renewable energy projects provided by the federal economic stimulus package. Tax attorneys have always bee

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  • May 15, 2007 | The Recorder

    GCs May Have to Answer for Stock Plans

    In January 2004, Mark Webbink, then-general counsel for software maker Red Hat Inc., entered into a plan designed to put his stock trades on autopilot.Broadcom Corp.'s general counsel,

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  • January 26, 2004 | The Recorder

    In High-Stakes Case, Echostar Scores TRO

    The Super Bowl has taken center stage in an increasingly contentious antitrust battle between EchoStar Satellite Corp. and CBS parent Viacom Inc. Responding to concerns that some fans

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  • May 9, 2006 | The Recorder

    Murphy Moving On Up

    Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has poached prominent land use partner Mary Murphy from Farella Braun & Martel.

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  • December 12, 2007 | The Recorder

    Quinn Emanuel Launches Tokyo Office

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges is hoping the firm's new Tokyo office -- its first stake overseas -- will help it court new Japanese clients litigating in the United States."We ha

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  • January 26, 2004 | The Recorder

    The China Syndrome

    Autodesk isn't exactly a first-time visitor to China. The software company, headquartered in San Rafael, California, established a modest in-house legal division in Hong Kong several years ago

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  • April 30, 2004 | Legal Times

    After Wilmer-Hale Merger, Who's Next?

    Wilmer Cutler Pickering's merger with Boston's Hale and Dorr has lawyers buzzing about the possibility of a string of similar unions involving D.C. firms.Law firm managers and consulta

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  • March 19, 2002 | Legal Times

    Lost in Space

    No one planned it this way. Less than two years ago, Silicon Valley firms and many others couldn't expand fast enough in Northern Virginia. They hardly expected the downturn in the tech market that

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  • May 4, 2001 | The Recorder

    A Legal Life on the Stage? That's Just 'Shear Madness'

    Civil rights attorney John Burris made a valiant effort to get his client off the hook, but a jury a few weeks ago found the man guilty of murder.After all, they saw the antique dealer

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  • May 17, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Executives` Function Expanding in Firms

    S EXECUTIVE director of New York's Dewey Ballantine LLP, Dennis D'Alessandro draws up the firm's budget, negotiates its key operational contracts and oversees its entire administrative staff.

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