• May 30, 2006 |

    Defending Retaliation Claims

    What is the most dangerous single-employee case filed today? Most defense lawyers could answer that quickly and definitively. In today's environment, that label fits a retaliation or whistle-b

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  • April 18, 2000 | The Recorder

    After Uproar, Cal Supremes Depublish Trade Secrets Ruling

    California employees may be able to roam more freely between competing companies, thanks to a move taken by the California Supreme Court last week.The court erased a Second District Court of App

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  • February 20, 2007 | The Recorder

    Bankruptcy Boutique's Lawyers Depart for Larger Firms

    If it's tough to be tiny, it's even tougher to be small and specializing in insolvency. San Francisco bankruptcy boutique McNutt & Litteneker began shedding attorneys in the summer of 20

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  • December 14, 2009 | The Recorder

    Making Adjustments

    Over the course of the past two years, aggregate demand by companies for legal services has declined. Companies, too, are pushing back on paying ever higher hourly rates for attorney services, part

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  • December 20, 2004 | The Recorder

    Options Crackdown a Likely Boon for Compensation Bar

    A new accounting rule that has tech companies cringing looks like good news for their lawyers.The Federal Accounting Standards Board announced Thursday that companies must deduct the v

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  • November 4, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Marketplace

    Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo is the most recent law firm to sign a long-term renewal in New York. The general practice will remain in its 85,000-square-f

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  • June 20, 2007 | The Recorder

    Brocade Witness Surprises Defense Team

    Lawyers for ex-Brocade CEO Gregory Reyes got kneecapped Tuesday.In the first trial for backdating stock options, the defense has been that Reyes had no idea the practice was wrong. So it cou

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  • February 26, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Interest in Copyright Issue Makes Breyer Key in Case

    That professor, Stephen G. Breyer, is now a high court justice. But more than three decades ago, he published an article in the Harvard Law Review saying that courts should "hesitate to extend or s

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  • June 18, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    Thermo Fisher
 Life Technologies Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. agreed to acquire rival laboratory equipment manufacturer Life Technologies Corp. for $13

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  • June 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    The Am Law Second Hundred-2008: The Law Firm Investor's Guide

    The prospect of taking law firms public is back on the agenda of the profession's chattering class. Georgetown's law school held a recent conference; Bruce MacEwen, writing as Adam Smith, blogged o

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