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  • January 26, 2010 | The Recorder

    Smart-Phone Rivals Fight With Patent Suits

    SAN FRANCISCO — The latest hot spot for patent litigation is in your pocket. Smart-phone makers like Apple Inc. and Research in Motion are the target of a recent volley of patent i

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  • January 29, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Judge approves $4 billion criminal plea over BP oil spill

    A U.S. district judge in New Orleans has accepted a $4 billion criminal guilty plea by BP plc over its role in the cata

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  • September 26, 2002 | National Law Journal

    Webcasters Face Retroactive Royalties in October

    Amid much controversy, radio stations attempt to continue to stream their radio broadcasts over the Internet without the consent of the record companies and artists that own the performance ri

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  • November 19, 2012 | National Law Journal

    BP Agrees to Record Penalty in Gulf Oil Spill

    In the summer of 2010, several months after an explosion and fire on an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana killed 11 crew members, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. publicly declared, "We

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  • July 13, 2006 | The Associated Press

    ConAgra Recommends PETA-Approved Way to Kill Fowl

    ConAgra Foods Inc., one of the nation's largest packaged foods companies, said Monday it is urging its poultry suppliers to consider slaughtering chickens in a way the People for the Ethical Treatm

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  • Dicon Fiberoptics, Inc. v. Franchise Tax Board

    Publication Date: 2012-04-26
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    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2012-04-26
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, Drooks & Lincenberg, Thomas R. Freeman, Paul S. Chan; Dakessian Law Firm, Akerman Senterfitt, Reed Smith, Mardiros H. Dakessian; The California Credits Group, LaShelle T. Wilson and Mark Danscecs for Plaintiff and Appellant. Winston & Strawn, Charles J. Moll III, Krista M. Enns and Linda T. Coberly for California Taxpayers? Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant. Silverstein & Pomerantz, Amy L. Silverstein and Edwin P. Antolin for Deluxe Corp. as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Edmund G. Brown, Jr., and Kamala D. Harris, Attorneys General, David S. Chaney and Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Gordon Burns, State Deputy Solicitor General, Paul D. Gifford and Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorneys General, W. Dean Freeman, Felix E. Leatherwood, Mark P. Richelson and Ronald N. Ito, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendant and Respondent.
    Case Number: No. S173860

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 4569 DICON FIBEROPTICS, INC. Plaintiff and Appellant, v. FRANCHISE TAX BOARD, Defendan

  • August 14, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Firms start mad dash for fresh talent

    IT'S A SCARY PROSPECT, meeting with partners at a big firm about a job. But, as one law student who landed a summer position at Latham & Watkins quickly realized, the preinterview jitters

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  • March 4, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Jenkens & Gilchrist In New York Joins Troutman Firm

    Atlanta-based Troutman Sanders has acquired the 91-lawyer New York office of Dallas' Jenkens & Gilchrist. The acquisition is a bold move for Troutman Sanders, which has about 600 l

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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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  • November 5, 2008 | Legal Times

    Justices and lawyers debate TV expletives, without uttering any

    The Supreme Court appeared far from a consensus Tuesday on whether the Federal Communication Commission's crackdown on broadcasters who allow "fleeting expletives" to reach the airwaves shoul

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