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  • June 1, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    ChippingAway

    John Danforth was late getting ready for work on April 4. His face was covered in shaving cream when the phones in his house started to ring. Unable to reach any in time, Danforth headed for h

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  • March 1, 2001 | National Law Journal

    Standouts

    Anyone with a case and a law degree can argue before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is why the appellate practitioner is often the same man or woman who had the case at the trial

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  • February 7, 2006 | Legal Times

    D.C. Firms View China With Caution

    Political winds shape business plans, and in 1994 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld scented something in the air. With the fall of the Soviet Union and a flood of outside capital into the former c

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  • August 8, 2013 | The Recorder

    As FlatWorld Case Advances, Apple Beefs Up Defense

    Chelsea Allison writes for The Recorder, an American Lawyer affiliate.A federal judge has rejected Apple's motion to disqualify opposing counsel in a Northern Distri

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  • May 24, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    California Law Firms Want Bite of the Big Apple

    Now, with the technology bubble burst and Silicon Alley at a dead end, the competitive prospects of the major California firms in New York seem governed by the limits of their exposure to tech wrec

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  • September 28, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Corporate Disputes Dominate Docket

    WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court begins its term Oct. 5 with new Justice Sonia Sotomayor on board and a business-heavy docket that seems almost tailor-made to engage and challenge her.

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  • December 28, 2004 |

    Perseverance Gets Genentech Back to Agensys' Table

    Survival for biotech companies like Agensys Inc. often boils down to two factors: intellectual property and cash.In 2002 Alan Mendelson ensured that Agensys had enough of the latter. T

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  • July 24, 2007 | Legal Times

    Three Heads Better than One?

    WASHINGTON � Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw is somewhere between the West of its youth and the East of its future.To the west is Chicago, the firm's founding city, where a powerful vangu

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  • September 7, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Gibson Dunn, Seyfarth, and Allen Ruby Press HP's Suit Against Hurd

    You might think that Hewlett-Packard would just want to put the whole Mark Hurd debacle behind it, and never again bring up the name of its disgraced former chief executive officer. But no. The compan

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  • July 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Rise of the Right

    They are not the poor, the infirm, or the otherwise dispossessed. Instead, Harry Korrell III's pro bono clients are parents-predominantly white-from a comfortable suburb of Seattle. Last fall,

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