• June 2, 2006 | The Recorder

    Court Partial to State's Call-Record Law

    Reaching out and touching someone with a telephone call is one thing. Recording the conversation is another.That's what the state Supreme Court indicated Thursday during oral arguments

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  • November 24, 2009 | Daily Report Online

    Sutherland to Jettison Lockstep Associate Pay

    Sutherland will shift from lockstep associate compensation to a performance-based system in January. Sutherland's roughly 175 associates will be grouped into three tiers — junior,

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  • June 21, 2013 | The Recorder

    Facebook Promotes Colin Stretch to GC

    SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook has tapped deputy general counsel Colin Stretch to serve as its next top lawyer. Stretch, a former partner at Kellogg Huber Hansen Todd Evans &

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  • May 1, 2002 | The Recorder

    A Silicon Valley Law School Is on a Roll

    When Mack Player became dean eight years ago, Santa Clara University School of Law was ranked in the often-forgotten fourth tier of U.S. News & World Report's annual law school s

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  • October 27, 2009 | The Recorder

    Galleon Insider-Trading Case Feeds Silicon Valley White-Collar Bar

    The Galleon Group insider-trading case has put an army of New York lawyers to work, but with the tentacles of the alleged insider-trading ring reaching into Silicon Valley, the local white-collar b

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  • February 16, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    How Scrushy lost round two

    IT IS A WARM FALL MORNING in Birmingham, and Donald Watkins is in town for a meeting. The hotel-like condition of his office in the back of a bank he founded suggests that this is a rare occu

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  • November 1, 2007 | The Recorder

    Battle of the Blogs

    The millions of blogs littering the Internet prove that everyone has an opinion. But you won't often find the general counsel of a major tech company shooting his mouth off about ongoing patent lit

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  • December 29, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Video Trains Lawyers Not to Be Boors

    The scene is a client development meeting for which the four big-firm lawyers have arrived late. One of the lawyers launches into a canned spiel about the firm's capabilities. But as he contin

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  • June 18, 2004 | The Recorder

    Media Weighs In on Web Libel Appeal

    California's largest newspapers have filed an amicus curiae brief in a libel case on behalf of two former employees sued by Varian Medical Systems Inc.At issue in the upcoming Californ

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  • August 27, 2003 | The Recorder

    Trade Secrets Triumph in DVD Code Fight

    California courts can prevent Web sites from posting computer code revealing trade secrets without fear of trampling basic free speech rights, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday.The

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