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  • November 30, 2006 | The Recorder

    FDA Approval Complicates $1.4 Billion Sale

    When Johnson & Johnson agreed to shell out $1.4 billion in cash for Menlo Park's Conor Medsystems Inc., the company bought a product that faces about as much challenge as promise."

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  • February 1, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Fresh round of litigation targets 12 law schools over jobs data

    Note: This report has been updated to include comments by plaintiffs, their attorneys and two of the targeted law schools. The team of lawyers behind proposed class ac

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  • May 15, 2006 | The Recorder

    The Top M&A Deals of 2005

    With the economy purring along, the deal mill has picked up across the Golden State. To hear local lawyers tell it, last year was a robust one for M&A activity, and the spring of 2006 show

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  • September 9, 2004 | The Recorder

    Latham & Watkins' Conflict Creates Cooley Godward's Opportunity

    Conflicts can be great for business -- when they're someone else's, of course.Cooley Godward picked up a new client when Latham & Watkins found itself representing bo

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  • August 30, 2007 | The Recorder

    Silicon Scene

    COOLEY TEAM GOES 6,000 MILES TO TALK TO WILSON SONSINI COOLEY GODWARD KRONISH partner Keith Flaum flew 6,000 miles "to negotiate with people across the stre

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  • March 19, 2009 | The Recorder

    Silicon Scene

    SAN FRANCISCO — Like a defibrillator shock for flat-lined M&A lawyers, a string of multibillion-dollar deals among pharmaceutical companies has given new life to Silicon Valley deal

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  • May 24, 2010 | The Recorder

    Making Green From Clean Technology

    Susan Mac Cormac made partner in late 2000, just when the dot-com bubble burst. Legal work was scarce and the young Morrison & Foerster deals lawyer was assigned to come up with a busines

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  • July 28, 2003 | Legal Times

    Inadmissible

    FREDDIE MAC REPORT OUTLINES ROLE OF IN-HOUSE COUNSELA portrait of an uninquisitive and sometimes uninformed legal department emerges in a report issued July 23 on the acco

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  • April 30, 2003 | The Recorder

    Bank Withdrawal

    Ten years ago, a technology deal often started with a simple phone call between friends.A lawyer would call a banking buddy at one of San Francisco's A HREF=http://www.law.com/s

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  • July 13, 2012 | The Recorder

    Managing Expectations in a Post-Facebook World

    SAN FRANCISCO — Every time the phone rings, Peter Buckland tells himself it could be the next Mark Zuckerberg. These days, Silicon Valley startup lawyers like Wilmer Cutler Picker

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