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  • September 4, 2007 | The Recorder

    Bosses in California Lose on Class Waivers

    Employers took a shot to the solar plexus Thursday when the California Supreme Court ruled that some employment arbitration agreements prohibiting class actions are unenforceable.The cou

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  • February 14, 2003 | The Recorder

    Brobeck Searches for Way to Resolve Debt

    Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison is set to close its doors today, ending its 77 years as one of San Francisco's elite law firms by working to avoid bankruptcy and facing an ever-growing list of

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  • January 17, 2002 | Law.com

    Outside Counsel

    'Manifest Disregard' Comes to New York LawIn In re UBS Warburg LLC & Auerbach, Pollak & Richardson, Inc., New York Law Journal, Oct. 22, 2001, p. 24, col. 4

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  • Astoria Financial Corp. v. Tax Appeals Tribunal of the State of New York, 504393

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    Before: Mercure, J.P.; Rose, Malone Jr., Stein and Garry, JJ. APPELLATE DIVISION THIRD DEPARTMENT Morrison & Foerster, L.L.P., New York City (Paul H. Frankel

  • June 11, 2004 | The Recorder

    California Justices Take Up New Same-Sex Case

    Barely two weeks after tackling the issue of same-sex marriage during oral arguments, the California Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously agreed to review a gay rights case that raises quest

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  • September 28, 2005 | The Recorder

    Headhunting Heats Up in China Market

    Earlier this year, New York-based recruiter Henry Lipschutz persuaded Kurt Berney, a prized partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, to join O'Melveny & Myers' China practice.

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  • April 24, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Associates: Pink Triangles in Square Holes

    When Ellen Lapointe was interviewing during law school, she asked one firm a sly question about its official recruiting form. In the space for "number of openly gay attorneys," the firm had put dow

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  • February 14, 2003 | The Recorder

    Local IP Firm Stuns City: Votes Not to Dissolve

    Harvey Siskind Jacobs, a leading intellectual property law firm and a fixture in San Francisco's Financial District for more than three years, announced today that it will not dissolve. The an

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  • August 11, 2008 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    SAN FRANCISCO Jeffrey Lyddan has joined the San Francisco office of GORDON & REES as a partner in the tort/product li

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  • May 2, 2005 | The Recorder

    Pause, Rewind, Litigate

    From Morgan Chu's law firm office in Century City, you can't help but notice the wall of windows overlooking the lush Los Angeles Country Club golf course and, in the distance, a view of the s

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