• May 2, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

    Parlez-Vous Global Marketing?

    Rapid economic growth in many countries is fueling big growth opportunities these days for U.S. firms. In good times and bad, legal services are required at nearly every step of the internatio

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  • January 9, 2003 |

    Practicing in ... San Francisco

    Yes, the dot-com era is over. Yes, local law firms have laid off scores of lawyers. No, there are no tumbleweeds tumbling down San Francisco's famously hilly streets. While firms heavily depen

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  • October 7, 2013 | The Recorder

    Patent Troll Debate Rages, Firms Pressed to Pick Sides

    As the rhetoric over patent trolling reaches a fevered pitch, litigation clients — on both sides — are demanding greater allegiance from their outside counsel. At

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  • March 8, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    'No-Fault' Federal System Held to Bar Vaccine Injury Action

    A "failure to warn" claim initiated on behalf of an infant who sustained severe brain damage shortly after being vaccinated is barred by the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, New York'

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  • April 16, 2007 | The Recorder

    Federal Judge Axes CNET Stock Option Claims

    A federal judge has dismissed most of a shareholder derivative complaint against CNET in a decision that, observers say, shows how difficult it may be for plaintiffs to succeed in numerous similar

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  • April 21, 2006 | Alm

    Litigators Predict Merck Will Stay the Course

    The split verdict in the first trial of a pair of long-term Vioxx users' cases against Merck & Co. would support its strategy of battling each claim rather than settling the more than 10,0

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  • February 21, 2003 | The Recorder

    William Anderson, 50, Was a Longtime Partner at Brobeck

    William Anderson, a longtime labor and employment partner at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, died Wednesday following a two-year battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He was 50.Anderson

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  • February 1, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

    Enron Mess Gives a Boost to MDP Foes

    The controversy over Arthur Andersen's handling of Enron Corp.'s books may not only stain the accounting giant's reputation but also could be a fatal blow to an often talked-about marriage of the a

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  • April 19, 2012 | The Recorder

    Privacy Suits Slamming App Developers

    Even the slickest mobile app can get caught in a privacy debacle. The blogosphere erupted in outrage in February after a blogger discovered San Francisco photo-sharing app Path was downloadin

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  • September 2, 2005 | Alm

    Judges Meet in Calif. to Focus on Attacks

    Angry voters push for a recall of a Sacramento judge. Congressmen scream for the impeachment of a U.S. Supreme Court justice. And judges of both political stripes are denounced for refusing to

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