• November 6, 2000 | The Recorder

    Pillsbury Wins Beauty Contest

    On the sunny Wednesday after Labor Day in a hotel conference room near Chicago's O'Hare Airport, a selection committee of lawyers for the nation's top retailers gathered to decide which of the

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  • August 13, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Is Self-Help Discovery by Employees Protected Activity?

    It is increasingly common for employees pursuing claims against their employer to use their access to files and databases to gather, in blatant violation of company policy, confidential docum

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  • February 29, 2000 | Legal Times

    Chasing the Biotech Balloon

    Taking a bus tour around Montgomery County, Md., isn't the way most lawyers would choose to spend their day. But for Brent Rushforth, managing partner of the D.C. office of San Francisco's H

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  • September 5, 2000 | The Recorder

    Pool Party

    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Cooley Godward, both based in Palo Alto, Calif., are leading the way in creating venture capital-like investment pools for their legions of associates.

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  • December 26, 2012 | The Recorder

    High Bid Goes to eBay's General Counsel

    TITLE: Senior vice president, legal affairs, general counsel, and secretary COMPANY: eBay Inc. JOINED COMPANY: 1998 AGE: 58 'I was gene

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  • November 1, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Stop, Hey What's That Sound?

    The significance of the first whistle-blower payment from the Securities and Exchange Commission wasn't the size of the payout—a paltry $50,000. It was the clear message the agency added

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  • December 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    The Change Agenda: The Provocateur

    "Success is not correlated with legal quality. Because no one knows what that is." Paul Lippe is at it again, jabbing at the conventions of the legal profession.

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  • March 17, 2000 | The Recorder

    The Poaching Pecking Order

    Competition for laterals may be tough among the Bay Area's top technology firms, but it's nothing like the hardscrabble for lawyers among firms still hoping to bulk up their Silicon Valley practice

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  • July 7, 2005 | The Recorder

    Howard Rice Sees Change at the Top

    After nearly seven years as managing director at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin in San Francisco, Stuart Lipton has told partners he'll be stepping down. "The way firms work

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  • April 27, 2005 | The Recorder

    Deal Between Adobe and Macromedia Shows Allure of the Macromerger

    M&A lawyers like their mergers large, and not just to increase their billable hours.Fenwick & West managing partner Gordon Davidson says they're simpler, especially when the co

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