• June 17, 2003 | The Recorder

    News Briefs

    CHRONICLE TAPS OLSON AS OUTSIDE COUNSELThe San Francisco Chronicle has named Karl Olson, a partner at Levy, Ram & Olson, the newsroom's new outside counsel.Ph

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  • November 13, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Personal Notes on Lawyers

    • Cooley has added intellectual property lawyers Walter Hanchuk and John Kheit as partners. Hanchuk joins

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  • December 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    When Decency Fails

    Michael Stern, a former newspaper reporter and English professor, is the head of Cooley Godward Kronish's technology transactions group. E-mail: stern

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  • October 16, 2006 | The Recorder

    Small Is Beautiful

    Two years ago, Mary Doyle, general counsel at Palm Inc., spent 20 hours combing the Web for patent lawyers. She was looking for small IP boutiques, with no more than three to six lawyers each.

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  • August 30, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Facebook Sues to Teach Website a Lesson About '-book'

    Facebook doesn't want to be friends with websites that share part of its name. The social networking giant has f

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  • March 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Same Facts-Different Stories

    This is a story about two trials that arose out of the same set of facts. It's about how, nonetheless, those trials had totally different outcomes. The trials involved one plaintiff-Rambus, In

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  • July 17, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

    Why Legal Needs to Ease Out of Legalese

    Prior to the termination of this document, refer to the following paragraphs of which, inter alia, seek to indicate it is apparent that the utilization of plain language is exceedin

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  • July 16, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

    Why Legal Needs to Ease Out of Legalese

    Prior to the termination of this document, refer to the following paragraphs of which, inter alia, seek to indicate it is apparent that the utilization of plain language is exceedin

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  • July 1, 2008 |

    CV Therapeutics and TPG -- Axon

    The economy may be struggling, but royalty stream deals are still hot. Biotech company CV Therapeutics, Inc., based in Palo Alto, scored $175 million in April, with another $10 million mil

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  • January 25, 2010 | The Recorder

    By Paring Back Pay and People, Firms Held the Line on Profits

    SAN FRANCISCO — Eyes fixed on costs, Northern California's leaner and meaner big law firms saw revenues, and profits, remain mostly flat in 2009. Gone are the days of double-digit

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