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  • August 29, 2001 | The Recorder

    Firms Quietly Lose Lawyer Weight

    Last Thursday's decision by Cooley Godward to lay off 86 associates was a very public step in a year-long effort by San Francisco Bay Area firms to trim their attorney ranks in the wake of the

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  • January 30, 2003 | The Recorder

    Brobeck Dissolving

    Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison -- just two years ago the most profitable firm in the Bay Area -- is dissolving following the collapse of merger negotiations with Philadelphia-based Morgan, Le

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  • November 24, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Lawyers Waited Too Long to Sue Pellicano, Christensen Over Wiretaps

    A trial judge has thrown out separate civil lawsuits brought against Los Angeles private investigator Anthony

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  • August 20, 2002 | The Recorder

    Brobeck Pays to Keep First-Year Associates at Bay

    Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison is offering to pay some first-year associates as much as $3,000 per month not to show up for work until January 2004.To deal with the decline in work ov

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  • September 29, 2000 | National Law Journal

    PTO Show Takes to the Road

    John Doll likes to talk about snake food.Doll, who heads the U.S Patent and Trademark Office's Biotechnology Patent Examination Group, has been the star attraction at a road show that

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  • February 7, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Suits Test Limits of Digital Copyright Act

    What if Ford designed its cars so that all replacement parts and add-ons had to come from Ford? If a consumer installed spark plugs or a radio/DVD-player that were manufactured by a third part

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  • July 5, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Rescue Worker

    NAME AND TITLE: Thomas F. Berner, executive vice president and general counsel AGE: 52 FINANCING THE SMALL GUY: First Capital -- formally known as FCC L.L.C. -- m

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  • May 12, 2006 | The Recorder

    Six Days, Six Lawyers, $24 Billion

    Golden West Financial Corp. General Counsel Michael Roster used to tell outside lawyers in speeches that there were certain firms he would call in to do a major transaction, or ("God forbid") a maj

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  • July 11, 2003 | The Recorder

    News Briefs

    PLEASANTON'S HYDE GETS FINAL HEARINGJudge D. Ronald Hyde, the Pleasanton jurist who could lose his robe for ethical lapses, will have his final Commission on Judicial Performanc

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  • February 16, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Pockets of Activity in Los Angeles Lateral Market

    Demand for lateral hires in Los Angeles has picked up in recent weeks but remained subdued compared to markets like Silicon Valley and New York. "I haven't seen a whole bunch of latera

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