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  • January 14, 2008 | Legal Times

    In Liberty's Two Arms

    To understand the Second Amendment, it helps to consult Justice Stephen Breyer's book Active Liberty.This is not because the book reveals specifically how Breyer would vo

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  • October 19, 2012 | The Recorder

    If Prop 34 Fails, California Could See a Wave of Executions

    SAN FRANCISCO — For nearly a decade, the state of Arizona didn't execute a soul. Judicial decisions and a dispute over lethal injection protocols had put the death penalty on hold

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  • January 24, 2002 | The Recorder

    Taking a Tumble

    Pity the poor Silicon Valley corporate lawyer: These days, it's a lot harder to get rich.After several years of spectacular returns, the bottom fell out of their client equity po

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  • September 1, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    LATERALS Alston & Bird (Atlanta): Dennis O. Garris has joined the firm's Washington office as a partner, after 10 years with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Garris

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  • December 28, 2000 | The Recorder

    The Paralegal Name Game

    Signs hanging in the windows of Sylvia Cherry's second floor office on the corner of South B and Third streets in San Mateo, Calif., advertise "Paralegal Services" and her phone number.

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  • February 28, 2002 | The Recorder

    Pointing Fingers

    The spring of 2000 was an exciting time for John Clarey. The Internet communications company he founded four years earlier had just moved into a brand new office at the coveted UC-Irvine

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  • January 5, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    New York Firms Hold Line on Bonuses

    Scotching hopes raised by the recent uptick in corporate transactions, large New York law firms declined to increase their year-end associate bonuses in 2003, reflecting what several man

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  • September 22, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Judge Sides With NYU in Deciding to Withhold MBA From Convicted Felon

    New York University did not breach its implied contract with a business student by refusing to grant him an MBA degree after he was implicated in insider trading, a federal judge has ruled. p

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  • January 31, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Cooley Is Third Bay Area Firm to Freeze Pay for Associates

    ooley Godward has announced it is freezing associate lock-step salaries this year at 2001 levels, but gave its second-year associates a modest raise. The firm is the third in the San Francis

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  • March 13, 2012 | The Recorder

    Zynga Wins Latest Round in Fight over Secondary-Market Share Sale

    SAN FRANCISCO — Zynga Inc. has won the latest round in its legal battle with an Abu Dhabi investment firm that claims it was denied the chance to buy a stake in the gamemaker on a priva

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