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  • January 8, 2004 | The Recorder

    No Clearance Prices as Cable Giant Sells Off Stake in QVC

    Davis Polk & Wardwell helped Comcast Holdings Corp. sell its stake in the television home shopping company QVC Inc. to Liberty Media Corp. for $7.9 billion.Comcast and Libe

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  • April 10, 2007 | Alm

    Microsoft: Looking for Another Patent Litigator

    It's been a busy winter for Microsoft's four-lawyer patent litigation team. On Feb. 10, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in AT&T v. Microsoft to determine whether the sof

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  • September 12, 2006 |

    Upping the Dosage

    AstraZeneca called Prilosec "the Purple Pill," but the heartburn medication was more than just a colorful tablet. Considered one of the most successful prescription drugs of all time, Prilosec glob

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  • February 21, 2006 | Legal Times

    Parsing Alito's Clerk Picks

    Two of Justice Samuel Alito Jr.'s former law clerks stopped in at his chambers earlier this month to congratulate him on winning confirmation.Alito was so happy to see them, apparently, that

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  • January 25, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Assembly Passes Bill to Create Judicial Selection Process The state Assembly yesterday passed legislation that would create a new judicial selection process for Supreme C

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  • April 13, 2004 | Legal Times

    Business Lobby Seeks China Trade Accord

    Lawyers for American businesses are in the midst of intense negotiations to settle trade differences with China in advance of a high-stakes meeting between top U.S. and Chinese trade officials

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  • September 14, 2007 | The Recorder

    Calif. Law School Dumps Chemerinsky as Founding Dean

    Erwin Chemerinsky, the prominent legal scholar slated to be founding dean at University of California, Irvine's new law school, had his offer withdrawn because of controversy created by his we

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  • September 23, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Biotech Patent Cases May Tank

    More than 100 biotech patent applications -- part of a land rush to protect bits of identifiable genetic markers -- will most likely be thrown out as inventions lacking practical use, as a res

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  • November 24, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Firm Growth Slowed in 2003 And Associate Ranks Declined

    Still showing the impact of the poor economy, the country's 250 largest law firms grew by only 1.6 percent in the past year � the lowest rate since 1994. The number of associates they employed

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  • July 9, 2012 | National Law Journal

    The Legal Times Awards: Champions & Visionaries

    For the fifth year, we're recognizing Washington lawyers for work that has advanced the practice of law. The trailblazers profiled here have won cases at the U.S. Supreme Court and influenced

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