• September 18, 2009 | The Recorder

    Thelen Files for Bankruptcy

    SAN FRANCISCO — Thelen LLP filed (.pdf) for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the Southern District of New York on Thursday night, almost

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  • January 2, 2006 | National Law Journal

    'Home run' hitters set legal milestone

    When Seth Waxman argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that juveniles should never be executed, at his counsel table were a solo practitioner from Missouri and two colleagues from his hig

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  • September 13, 2013 | The Recorder

    Dealmakers Shaken by DOJ's Bid to Pry Apart Software Merger

    SAN FRANCISCO — As the U.S. Department of Justice tries to thwart the $11 billion merger of U.S. Airways and American Airlines, the Antitrust Division's unusual fight to un

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  • September 26, 2013 | The Recorder

    Koh Clears Path for Privacy Suits Over Gmail

    SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge has rejected Google's main lines of defense to accusations the company illegally mined personal data from Gmail messages without users' con

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  • February 23, 2005 | The Recorder

    Ernst & Young Prevails in Rare Class Fraud Trial

    Sometimes it pays to go to trial, even when popular opinion seems to be against you. That was the lesson Latham & Watkins partner Peter Wald learned last week when his trial te

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  • July 20, 2007 | The Recorder

    Big firms embrace alternative fee deals

    LOOKING DOWN THE BARREL of a threatening patent infringement action from Sanyo, Chinese cell phone battery maker BYD wanted the IP heavyweights at Howrey-but not their heavy rates. Th

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  • February 12, 2008 | The Recorder

    Facebook 'friends' new law firms

    A lot has changed for high-flying Facebook in the last year including its outside corporate lawyers. Since the early days, when the social networking Web site was just a startup run

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  • March 22, 2007 |

    Silicon Valley IP Lawyers Are Cleaning Up With Clean-Tech Clients

    When Morrison & Foerster's veteran intellectual property law partner Thomas Ciotti sat down at the MoFo energy group's annual partners meeting in late October, it raised some eyebrows. "Everyon

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  • October 16, 2006 | The Recorder

    Welcome to California

    When an Indiana newspaper editorial writer named John B.L. Soule offered up his famous advice, "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country," he most certainly did not have intellectual p

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  • September 22, 2005 | The Recorder

    In Brief

    JUDGE TRIMS FEES IN WHISTLE-BLOWER SUITAn Alameda County judge has lopped almost $2 million off of attorney Gary Gwilliam's fee request in a successful whistle-blower suit again

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