• January 27, 2006 | The Recorder

    Pillsbury Chair Cranston Set to Step Down

    Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman Chair Mary Cranston announced Thursday that she will not run again after her third term ends in December. The firm's managing partner, Marina Park, said she too is p

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  • October 23, 2008 | The Recorder

    Supremes Take 'Brinker' Break Case

    SAN FRANCISCO — Wading into one of the most hotly contested labor issues of recent years, the California Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to decide what employers must do to c

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  • December 5, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Enron Examiner Billed Estate for $100 Million

    Lawyers who worked on transactions for Enron Corp. were clearly paid handsomely, but it turns out investigating those transactions pays much better.The investigation headed by Neal Bat

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  • February 1, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    Freeport-McMoRan / Plains Exploration & Production Company / McMoRan Explorationspan style="letter-

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  • May 16, 2007 | The Recorder

    Some Firms Cutting Bonuses to Cover Cost of Rising Salaries

    Following the stampede of elephantine California firms to hike associate salaries to the New York level, several smaller Cal Law 25 firms continue to join the herd.Silicon Valley stalwarts W

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  • October 10, 2003 | The Recorder

    Davis Taps 2 New Judges in Santa Clara, 1 in Mendocino

    Outgoing Gov. Gray Davis continued filling the bench Thursday with appointments in Santa Clara and Mendocino counties.Appointed to the Santa Clara bench were Philip Pennypacker and Vin

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  • February 13, 2003 | The Recorder

    Espionage Engineers?

    Two Silicon Valley engineers have gained the notorious distinction of becoming only the second defendants in the nation to be indicted for economic espionage under a 1996 federal statute.

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  • February 1, 2000 | The Recorder

    Taking Root

    Valerie Dawson took six months of maternity leave last year, and when she got back to Fenwick & West, she found that her practice had changed quite radically. The litigator continued to deal w

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  • September 27, 2005 | Corporate Counsel

    I Want My HDTV

    In 1978, 7-year-old Michelle Kim had no problem deciding which television show to watch each evening. Her family had just moved from Chicago to Korea, where her father grew up. Because she cou

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  • December 22, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Judge Rejects Guilty Plea in AOL Spam Case A federal judge yesterday refused to accept a guilty plea from a former America Online software engineer accused of stealing 92

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