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  • June 23, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Tossing out the clock

    special to the national law journal State legislatures across the nation will be scrambling this summer to undo centuries of tradition by eliminating statutes of limitations and

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  • June 21, 2005 | The Recorder

    Sweepstakes Firm Wins New Partners

    Last year, Tsan Abrahamson jumped from her post as worldwide IP and licensing counsel at LeapFrog Enterprises Inc. to start her own firm focused on sweepstakes and trademark law.Now sh

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  • December 22, 2009 | The Recorder

    Wooing Clients With Subscriptions

    SAN FRANCISCO — When San Francisco lawyers Todd Smithline and Raj Jha negotiate terms with a new client, they never bring up the billable hour anymore. For the last two years, their five-

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  • November 10, 2009 | The Recorder

    Firms Shrink in State and Across the Country

    SAN FRANCISCO — This year was the worst year ever for lawyer headcount at the nation's largest firms, and California firms were not immune. Layoffs wracked the industry in the spring, but

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  • January 4, 2002 | The Recorder

    Another Valley Firm Lays Off Lawyers, Staff

    Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich laid off 46 associates and 68 staff Thursday, joining the long list of Bay Area law firms forced to cut the payroll as the economy continues to lang

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  • August 1, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Former N.D. Attorney General Sues Law School Alleging Age Bias in Hiring

    Nicholas Spaeth, the former state attorney general for North Dakota, filed suit Thursday in Washington, D.C., federal court against the Michigan State University College of Law, accusing school off

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  • December 12, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Panel Gives Bribery Defense Cool Review

    James Giffen received some good news and some bad news when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit dismissed a government's appeal last week. The good news was the circuit fo

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  • July 1, 2004 | Legaltech News

    Checks and More Checks

    Like most major law firms, managing professional liability issues at Pillsbury Winthrop is a challenge. We are an international law firm with more than 600 lawyers located in 13 U.S. offices and four

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  • September 11, 2006 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    UPDATESMayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw has appointed Brian Trust as the partner-in-charge of the New York office. Trust, co-head of the firm�s financ

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  • November 1, 2001 | The Recorder

    Dead Pooling

    Two years ago, Silicon Valley lawyers feared that nixing the "pooling of interest" accounting rule could doom most technology company deals.But now that the rule has been officially ab

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