• September 21, 2011 | The Recorder

    For Oracle, Google Lawyers, a Trial by Fire

    U.S. District Judge William Alsup has tossed a lot of curve balls at the 42 lawyers toiling away on Oracle Corp.'s giant patent suit against Google Inc. They'll probably see a few more as the cas

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  • October 15, 2004 | The Recorder

    News Briefs

    TENTATIVE RULING HITS BOFA WITH FURTHER FEESLawyers representing a class of approximately 1.3 million Californians suing Bank of America for seizing exempt social security funds

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  • April 30, 2003 | The Recorder

    Settlement With Analysts Could Fuel Litigation

    The California Department of Corporations expects a new wave of securities litigation now that regulators have reached a historic settlement with investment banks over analyst conflicts of int

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  • June 1, 2005 | The Recorder

    Ex-Football Player Romanowski Settles Suit With Teammate

    As former Oakland Raider Bill Romanowski's movie career took off last month, a chapter in his legal travails was quietly laid to rest. Romanowski, who currently plays a sadistic pr

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  • November 20, 2009 | The Recorder

    Gay Marriage Gets Boost from Ninth Circuit

    SAN FRANCISCO — Not one to be left out of a constitutional thicket, Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Chief Judge Alex Kozinski granted health benefits Thursday to the same-sex partners

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  • February 4, 2000 | The Recorder

    Judge Boosts Motion Picture Industry's DVD Case

    A federal judge in New York says the motion picture industry is likely to prevail in its copyright infringement claim against individuals distributing DVD decryption software over the Internet.

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  • July 21, 2006 | The Recorder

    Cash Cow

    In the late 1970s scientists at the University of California figured out a way to increase milk production in dairy cows. But it wasn't until February of this year that UC was finally able to

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  • December 12, 2007 | The Recorder

    Quinn Emanuel Launches Tokyo Office

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges is hoping the firm's new Tokyo office -- its first stake overseas -- will help it court new Japanese clients litigating in the United States."We ha

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  • April 5, 2000 | The Recorder

    Sequel to Cyber Copyright Fight

    Call it Episode 2 in the copyright cyber wars.Copyright holders, libraries and universities and others are now battling over a provision in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 199

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  • August 8, 2002 | The Recorder

    Pro Bono Bonanza

    In law school, George Parker envisioned himself doing a satisfying mix of pro bono projects and billable mergers and acquisitions work.But the Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati co

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