• November 7, 2005 | The Recorder

    Taking Alumni Networks to the Next Level

    More than 500 former and current Latham & Watkins lawyers spent an evening getting acquainted and reacquainted while examining artifacts from King Tut's tomb this summer. The Los Angeles C

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  • February 25, 2010 | The Recorder

    But My Lawyer Said I Could! Ex-Brocade CEO's Backdating Retrial Opens

    SAN FRANCISCO — It's not often that the chairman of one major Silicon Valley law firm kicks dirt in open court on a fellow chairman/business rival. But in part of his opening state

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  • March 3, 2008 |

    When Class Was In Session

    A Lawrence County Common Pleas Court judge rejected a defense argument in a class action that the claim of a putative class representative was not tolled while a putative class representative's cla

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  • November 3, 2010 | The Recorder

    Harris Win Opens Up Scrum for Her Old Job

    Kamala Harris appears to have won the AG's race, holding a thin 15,000 vote lead late Wednesday with all precincts reporting. There are still an undetermined number of late absentee and provisional

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  • April 6, 2009 | National Law Journal

    For Some Firms, M&A Activity Is Up

    While mergers and acquisitions worldwide continue to plummet, several U.S. law firms, including Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, saw the value of the

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  • July 24, 2008 | The Recorder

    Silicon Scene

    Managing the legal team on one of the biggest Silicon Valley deals this year wasn't exactly an easy task. "Some might be inclined to call it a three-ring circus,"

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  • July 15, 2013 | The Recorder

    Jones Day, Cooley Help Ink Medical Device Deal

    When Chicago-area Abbott Laboratories cast its eye over IDEV Technologies, headquartered in Webster, Texas, as a possible subsidiary, the companies looked West for counsel, tapping teams fro

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  • October 2, 2006 | The Recorder

    James Batchelder

    Kicking back, sleeves rolled up, chatting casually on the phone, James Batchelder is the picture of the laid-back Silicon Valley lawyer on the Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder Web site.br

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  • July 17, 2008 | The Recorder

    Silicon Scene

    A $95 million merger between two Bay Area skin treatment companies is more than a cosmetic change, says a COOLEY GODWARD KRONISH partner involved in the deal. br

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  • October 30, 2006 | Legal Times

    California Firms Expand in D.C.

    For those in Washington feeling like the ugly stepsister in the face of two New York-California law firm couples at the altar, there's good news. California does care about the D.C. lega

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