• February 3, 2000 | The Recorder

    The Fine Print

    Let's do the math. A fifth-year McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen associate could take home as much as $185,000 in base salary a year -- or as little as $140,000. The profit-shari

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  • April 21, 2006 | National Law Journal

    California-Based Quinn Emanuel Sharpens N.Y. Edge

    The lawyers at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges occasionally wear T-shirts and jeans to work, but they have a decidedly New York style. The Los Angeles-based law firm is gearing up

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  • January 5, 2010 | The Recorder

    Pillsbury Adds Two Health Care Attorneys

    SAN FRANCISCO — Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman picked up two top health care attorneys from Davis Wright Tremaine on Monday. Gerald Hinkley joined as a partner and co-chairman of

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  • September 9, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Will Bennett's Departure Hurt Skadden Arps?

    Robert Bennett's decision to

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  • June 23, 2003 | The Recorder

    Diversity Adversity

    At least one California law firm's effort to diversify its ranks has been hampered by the economic downturn.J. Terence O'Malley, chairman and chief executive officer of Gray Cary Ware

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  • April 13, 2004 | The Recorder

    Microsoft Wipes Another Suit off List of Legal Woes

    With its weekend announcement that Microsoft has settled a second big piece of local litigation, it may appear the company is trying to clear its legal plate. But it's just a coinciden

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  • February 15, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Question of Degree

    The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear a case that could have a broad impact on patent law, defining the boundaries for researchers who use competitors' patents to develop new products and inno

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  • August 29, 2001 | The Recorder

    Firms Quietly Lose Lawyer Weight

    Last Thursday's decision by Cooley Godward to lay off 86 associates was a very public step in a year-long effort by San Francisco Bay Area firms to trim their attorney ranks in the wake of the

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  • October 7, 2003 | The Recorder

    Judicial Profile: Leslie Tchaikovsky

    COURT: Northern District of California Bankruptcy Court, Oakland DivisionAPPOINTED: April 14, 1988, by Judge James BrowningDATE OF BIRTH: Aug. 6, 1943

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  • March 12, 2007 | Alm

    Panel: Top Law Firms May Face Rough Future

    Will the good times cease to roll for leading law firms? With some gloom - though not so much doom - industry observers forecasted a cooling of the legal market over the next five years at the

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