• August 31, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Securities Fraud

    The number of securities fraud class action lawsuits filed in the first half of this year dipped to the lowest total for any six-month period in a decade, according to a recent report by the S

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  • October 2, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Nowadays, Law Firms Dream of Dubai

    Along Dubai's Sheikh Zayed Road, construction cranes seem almost as plentiful as sand. Hotels and office buildings are going up by the dozen, and already some of the world's most recognizable

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  • November 23, 2009 | The Recorder

    Gay Marriage Gets Boost From 9th Circuit

    Not one to be left out of a constitutional thicket, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Alex Kozinski granted health benefits Thursday to the same-sex partners of court employees.

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  • October 25, 1999 | Legal Times

    Envisioning A Big 5 Firm

    Has Ernst & Young, the accounting giant, figured out how to get into the lawfirm business?The Big Five accounting firms have already emerged as powerful competitorsto law firms for tax c

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  • April 20, 2000 | The Recorder

    Slapping Handcuffs on the SEC

    Feel free to remove the earplugs, Silicon Valley minions.More importantly, keep playing the stock market like a fiddle, even if it involves your own company.That was the message last week fro

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  • May 7, 2003 | National Law Journal

    New Battleground in File-Sharing

    The war over file-sharing may be moving into a new phase.For years, the music and film industries have waged a crusade against Internet-based file-sharing systems, such as Napster, whi

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  • March 3, 2004 | The Recorder

    Deja Vu on M&A

    If you went to sleep in 2000 and woke up today, you'd find virtually the same frenzied mergers and acquisition market of four years ago. "Your initial reaction might be that very littl

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  • January 25, 2008 | The Recorder

    Former Pharmaceutical Company Execs Face Federal Probe

    Scott Harkonen may have thought he could move on.Fifteen months ago, the Department of Justice signed a d

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  • April 23, 2010 | The Recorder

    No Headline

    In BriefCourt denies quick ruling on furloughsSACRAMENTO &mda

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  • December 10, 2003 | The Recorder

    China Town

    Autodesk isn't exactly a first-time visitor to China. The San Rafael software company established a modest in-house legal division in Hong Kong several years ago as part of its battle against

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