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  • July 13, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Options 'Giveback' Settlements Could Become Trend

    Defense and plaintiffs lawyers are pointing to the recent settlement of a stock-options backdating case -- which featured options "givebacks" from executives -- as a model likely to be followed

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  • May 24, 2006 | The Recorder

    Wine Trademark Leaves Big Ass Hangover

    A glass of Big Ass wine is not just any big-ass glass of wine, and two vintners are going to court to prove it. Wine connoisseurs may not have heard of a wine (or rather, wines) called Big A

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  • May 14, 2001 | The Recorder

    Legal Secretary Snags Sitcom Tickets During Staff Appreciation Week

    Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's Hollywood connections added a touch of glamour to Staff Appreciation Week in its Palo Alto, Calif., office.The grand prize was a trip for two to see a

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  • August 28, 2000 | The Recorder

    Packing It On, Firms Fatten Up

    Associate salary hikes have done little to curb the appetite of San Francisco Bay Area firms for more lawyers.In fact, they're as hungry as ever."You'd think that when you incr

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  • March 15, 2006 | The Recorder

    TiVo Against the Giants

    TiVo Inc. has market presence that companies 10 times its size can only dream of. The little black box that it sells gives viewers control over when they watch their favorite TV shows, making it th

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  • March 24, 2006 | The Recorder

    Cooley Scoops Up Former Assistant U.S. Attorney

    Ross Nadel, the former criminal chief of the San Francisco U.S. Attorney's Office, starts Monday as a partner at Cooley Godward.Nadel, who also founded and led the highly regarded Computer H

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  • October 13, 2005 | The Recorder

    Teaming Up For a Second Chance

    SAN JOSE � Dorsey Nunn spent more than a decade behind bars for his involvement in a fatal bank robbery. He was 31 when he got out more than a decade ago, but he quickly discovered his prison

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  • July 1, 2003 | The Recorder

    Bay Area Backslide

    Hammered by the sour stock market and dismal economy, California's elite technology firms continued their

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  • December 28, 2000 | The Recorder

    The Paralegal Name Game

    Signs hanging in the windows of Sylvia Cherry's second floor office on the corner of South B and Third streets in San Mateo, Calif., advertise "Paralegal Services" and her phone number.

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  • June 23, 2006 | Legal Times

    Supreme Court Sides With Employees in Discrimination Case

    The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday to give broad protection under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act to employees who suffer retaliation for complaining about workplace discrimination.

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