• December 28, 2001 | The Recorder

    Alameda County Gets New Judge

    A flurry of year-end judicial appointments from Gov. Gray Davis continued this week with the appointment of Jon Tigar to the Alameda County Superior Court. Tigar is a 39-year-old

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  • January 23, 2001 | New York Law Journal

    Associates Turn to Web for Take-Out

    Inspiration came for Jason Finger and Paul Appelbaum in a shabby pile of late-night restaurant delivery receipts.Law school classmates with shared entrepreneurial ambitions, Finger and

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  • March 1, 2010 | The Recorder

    Patel Gives Lawyer/Entrepreneur an Earful

    There's nothing like a sprinkling of Judge Marilyn Hall Patel's blunt assessments to salt a lawyer's entrepreneurial ambitions. Edward Durney, a patent lawyer who hit it big during the dot-c

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  • July 14, 2003 | The American Lawyer

    The Trials of Jesselyn Radack

    Sitting in her well-appointed living room in a leafy northwest Washington, D.C., neighborhood, Jesselyn Radack seems an unlikely candidate for martyrdom in the war on terror. For three years t

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  • February 25, 2002 | Legal Times

    Technology Emergency!

    There you were, content with your firm's technology, comfortable that things were running well. You were almost smug with confidence. And then it happened-something so far out of the ordinary that

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  • June 26, 2000 | The Recorder

    Hot Commodity

    All that was missing was soft music and candlelight.Fourteen UC-Berkeley grads were on a date of sorts -- invited to Fenwick & West's Palo Alto headquarters to be courted by Gordon

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  • May 3, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Associates: Printers Cater to the Sleep-Deprived

    Do you suffer from excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS)? If you're one of this column's target readers, it's a pretty good bet you do. In honor of the National Sleep Foundation's National Sleep Aware

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  • November 16, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Internet Innovator

    Name and title: Michael J. Callahan, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary Age: 37 The firm: Yahoo Inc., founded in 1994 by Stanford Unive

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  • May 14, 2007 | The Recorder

    Big Firms Say They'll Eat Cost of Raises

    For everyone but the newly wealthy associates, the question is: How are the biggest law firms going to pay for their latest round of associate salary raises? While clients expect that they'l

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  • August 23, 2005 | The Recorder

    Coudert Meltdown May Refuel Firms' China Plans

    As Silicon Valley firms finally take an interest in China, the unraveling of Coudert Brothers may provide a quick way into the market.The decision last week to break up Coudert leaves

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