• May 5, 2003 | Legal Times

    FTC Opens Huge Trial of Chip Designer

    In a bet-the-company case with more than $1 billion on the line, lawyers for memory chip designer Rambus Inc. squared off against the Federal Trade Commission last week in the opening round of

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  • May 19, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Inadmissible

    Bracewell RememberedSearcy Bracewell, a founding partner of Houston-based Bracewell & Patterson and former Texas legislator, died on May 13. He was 85. The people who knew h

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  • February 1, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Divorce Documents Can't Be Sealed

    LOS ANGELES - A recent state appellate court ruling in the divorce of a Los Angeles billionaire has declared a California statute unconstitutional because it allows spouses to seal entire docu

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  • May 26, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Tracking the Boom in Prescription Drug Litigation

    Twenty years ago, Congress wrote a prescription for the high cost of medicine. The Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984 virtually created the modern generic drug industry, reducing prices for many

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  • June 6, 2000 | Alm

    Compatibility Required

    Two New England business law firms -- one of them the 35-attorney Roche, Carens & DeGiacomo in Boston -- announced they have merged to become Murtha, Cullina, Roche, Carens & DeGiacomo

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  • May 9, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Commissioner`s Revocation Of Test Alternative Upheld

    ALBANY - An appellate panel yesterday upheld a determination of the State Education Commissioner to revoke a variance that had allowed 28 alternative public schools, mostly in New York City, to sub

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  • April 30, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Lawyers, Firms Get Top Honors

    Two name partners from the same firm were among 12 extraordinary legal talents to garner Lifetime Achievement Awards Wednesday from The American Lawyer magazine.In addition, 20

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  • July 12, 2001 | The Recorder

    California Court Seems Set on Keeping Net Case Local

    A panel of judges for California's 6th District Court of Appeal remained skeptical Thursday that a former Indiana college student accused of posting proprietary code for DVD encryption should

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  • September 6, 2002 | The Recorder

    Rockets Fly Over DVD encryption Case Jurisdiction

    The state Supreme Court seemed skeptical Thursday of arguments that an Indiana college student was immune from California law for posting computer code on the Web that unscrambles DVD encrypti

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  • April 28, 2003 | The Recorder

    The Cisco Switch

    One big question for technology lawyers in the wake of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's demise appears to have been answered: The firm's biggest client, Cisco Systems Inc., is taking its corp

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