• August 8, 2005 | The Recorder

    Santa Clara Inmates Have Place to Turn

    Inmates released from Santa Clara County jails are known to pass along a valuable piece of property to those they leave behind: the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley's business card.Inm

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  • May 5, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Unbillable Hours: A True Story

    by Ian Graham, Kaplan, New York, N.Y. 320 pages, $24.95 Less than a year into his career as an L.A.-based litigation associate at Latham & Watkins, Ian Graham in 2002 was already a dissa

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  • July 22, 2008 | The Recorder

    Gov Fills 30 Bench Openings — Just 54 to Go

    SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed 30 trial court judges on Monday, easing a growing number of jurist vacancies that had grown to 84 in June, according to the Ju

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  • September 9, 2010 | The Recorder

    HP Faces Uphill Fight to Stop Hurd From Taking Oracle Position

    SAN FRANCISCO — Hewlett-Packard's legal team will have a hard time persuading a state court judge to stop former CEO Mark Hurd from becoming co-president ofa class="linelink" target="new" h

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  • October 22, 2002 | The Recorder

    News Briefs

    ANOTHER CHALLENGE TO PG&E ATTORNEYS FEES The United States trustee overseeing Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case has challenged millions of dollars

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  • November 18, 2002 | The Recorder

    Power Struggle

    After 18 months of intermittent hearings, $64 million in professional fees and some 11,000 documents on the docket, the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. is abou

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  • August 8, 2008 | The Recorder

    Court Brightens Rule Against Non-Compete Pacts

    SACRAMENTO — In a ruling long-awaited by the employment law sector, the state Supreme Court on Thursday effectively rejected the use of most non-competition agreements in Calif

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  • November 3, 2008 | The Recorder

    Weighing Attorney-Client Arbitration

    SAN FRANCISCO — La Jolla physician Richard Schatz wants his $170,000 fee dispute with Los Angeles' Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis to go before a jury. But the l

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  • Northern California River Watch v. Wilcox

    Publication Date: 2010-08-25
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2010-08-25
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jack Silver, Law Office of Jack Silver, Santa Rosa, California, for plaintiffs-appellants Northern California River Watch and Robert G. Evans.
    for defendant: Christopher J. Carr, Shaye Diveley, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, California, for defendants-appellees William R. Schellinger and Frank H. Schellinger, dba Schellinger Brothers, and Scott Schellinger. Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General of the State of California, James Humes, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Matt Rodriguez, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary E. Hackenbracht, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Robert W. Byrne, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Michael W. Neville, Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, California, for defendants-appellees Carl Wilcox, Gene Cooley, and Robert Floerke. Ronald J. Tenpas, Assistant Attorney General, Andrew Mergen, Attorney, Ellen Durkee, Attorney, Bradford T. McLane, Attorney, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, David Gayer, of Counsel, Office of the Solicitor, United States Department of the Interior, Washington, DC, for amicus curiae United States of America.

    Case Number: No. 08-15780

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 11129NORTHERN CALIFORNIA RIVER WATCH, a non-profit corporation; ROBERT G. EVANS, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. p c

  • February 9, 2010 | Daily Business Review

    Shareholder lawsuits up 50 percent

    Securities defense lawyers at big firms have noticed an uptick in shareholder lawsuits over mergers and acquisitions, even those worth under $100 million, a reflection of both increased deal activi

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