• February 9, 2005 | The Recorder

    News Briefs

    PIVOTAL PATENT CASE HITS FEDERAL CIRCUITHundreds of people flocked to the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday to listen to arguments in a case that could affect how

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  • October 13, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Coudert Finance Co-Chair Joins DLA Piper The former co-chair of the finance practice at Coudert Brothers has joined DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary in New York. Richard M. Ornitz fo

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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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