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  • October 18, 1999 | The Recorder

    At Last: A 'Smart,' Fast Worker That Doesn't Eat

    More and more lawyers are getting help on the job from artificial intelligence. But they still have a problem calling it that. Lawyers, it seems, are leery of a concept that seems to hint th

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  • April 30, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Lawyers, Firms Get Top Honors

    Two name partners from the same firm were among 12 extraordinary legal talents to garner Lifetime Achievement Awards Wednesday from The American Lawyer magazine.In addition, 20

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  • August 29, 2005 |

    D&O � Check the Fine Print

    People assume that the SEC only sues bad guys. Not so. Innocent directors and officers can just as easily wind up as targets of overzealous SEC enforcement staff. It is foolish for any general

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  • June 4, 2007 | The Recorder

    SEC Scrutiny of Stock Plans Could Spell Trouble

    In January 2004, Mark Webbink, then-general counsel for software maker Red Hat Inc., entered into a plan designed to put his stock trades on autopilot. Broadcom Corp.'s general counsel

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  • March 7, 2005 | Alm

    Law Firms Mull the 'Gen Y' Equation

    Some call them slackers. Others are more diplomatic. But whatever the moniker, "Generation Y" associates are getting a bad rap for what some say is a flabby work ethic and an off-putting sense

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  • April 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    Target of Opportunity

    Through careful negotiations and tactical lawsuits, plaintiffs attorneys have won greater access for the blind to essential twenty-first-century technologies, such as ATMs and voting machines.

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  • November 16, 2000 | The Recorder

    Recruiters on the Rise

    Firms vie for them. Attorneys rely on them. Headhunters bank on them.They're the individuals in charge of attorney recruiting at major law firms. And as firms have hired more and more

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  • December 18, 2000 | The Standard

    The Dark Side of Employee Stock Options

    There's a dark side to employee stock options under federal and state law, and it's called the alternative minimum tax.Consider, as an example, the case of a network engineer at a Palo

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  • March 24, 2005 | The Recorder

    News Briefs

    FIRED LAB EMPLOYEE AWARDED $2 MILLIONA former computer technician who said she was fired from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for siding with a co-worker claiming sex

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  • June 9, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

    No Lanham Act Copyright Protection For Materials in the Public Domain

    In a major narrowing of the Lanham Act, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously that the law allows the copying of public domain material without giving credit to its source. The

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