• February 6, 2007 | The Recorder

    Keeping Up With the Joneses

    LOS ANGELES � Jones Day and Weil, Gotshal & Manges joined the list of firms paying California first-years $160,000, rather than the $145,000 embraced by most homegrown firms. But homegrown

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  • July 11, 2007 | The Recorder

    Are Big Firms Warming Up to 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. The A

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  • September 6, 2000 | New York Law Journal

    MP3.com Loses Copyright Case

    MP3.com willfully infringed on the copyrights of the Universal Music Group when it assembled a database of compact discs and allowed its customers to download music from the Internet, Judge Je

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  • January 6, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    The Bankruptcy Files: A Big Start to 2012

    Signs that the economy is improving notwithstanding, the number and size of large corporate bankruptcies could double in 2012, according to a new Fitch Ratings report covered by CNNMon

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  • November 19, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    SUMMER ASSOCIATES SURVEY 2007: Size Does Matter

    Small is beautiful, at least in the eyes of 2007's summer associates. While respondents to our a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=900005558549" class="linelink" tar

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  • People v. E*Poly Star, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2012-05-15
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2012-05-14
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steve Cooley, Los Angeles District Attorney, Stanley P. Williams, Leslie A. Hanke, Thomas�R. Wenke, Deputy District Attorneys; Elizabeth A. Egan, Fresno County District Attorney, Michael Brummel, Deputy District Attorney; Edward S. Berberian, County of Marin District Attorney, and Robert E. Nichols, Deputy District Attorney, for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Patton Martin & Sullivan, John H. Patton; Tod M. Ratfield, APC, and Tod M. Ratfield, for E*Poly Star, Inc., Zhi Zhong Sun, Steven Choi and Donald V. Schmahl, Defendants and Respondents.

    Case Number: No. B233008

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 5266 THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. E*POLY STAR, INC., et al., Defendants and

  • July 11, 2007 | The Recorder

    Are Big Firms Warming Up to 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. The A

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  • MHC Financing Limited Partnership v. City of San Rafael

    Publication Date: 2013-04-17
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2013-04-17
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Vaughn R. Walker, District Judge, Presiding Before: Jerome Farris, Sidney R. Thomas, and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David J. Bradford (argued), Barry Levenstam, Lisa T. Scruggs, and Bradley M. Yusim, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants­-Appellants.
    for defendant: Michael von Loewenfeldt (argued) and James M. Wagstaffe, Kerr & Wagstaffe LLP, San Francisco, California; Robert F. Epstein, Ragghianti Freitas LLP, San Rafael, California, for Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee-Appellee City of San Rafael. Gordon C. Atkinson (argued), Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, San Francisco, California, for Defendant-Intervenor-Appellant-Cross-Appellee-Appellee Contempo Marin Homeowners Association. R.S. Radford, Pacific Legal Foundation Sacramento, California, for Amicus Curiae Pacific Legal Foundation. Elliot L. Bien and Amy E. Margolin, Bien & Summers, Novato, California, for Amicus Curiae Western Manufactured Housing Association. Andrew W. Schwartz, Fran M. Layton, Matthew D. Zinn, and Amanda R. Garcia, Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP, San Francisco, California, for Amicus Curiae League of California Cities and California State Association of Counties. Bruce E. Stanton, Law Offices of Bruce E. Stanton, San Jose, California, for Amicus Curiae Golden State Manufactured-Home Owners' League, Inc.

    Case Number: No. 07-15982 No. 09-16447 No. 09-16451 No. 09-16612 No. 09-16613

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 3839MHC FINANCING LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, an Illinois limited partnership; GRAPELAND VISTAS, INC., a California corporation, Plaintiff

  • August 11, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Genetic Information

    The ink is barely dry on new employment laws before summaries, citations and warnings land in corporate e-mails around the country. So too with "GINA," the a target="new" href

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  • March 29, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    The Bankruptcy Files: AMR-US Airways Merger Seeks Liftoff

    UPDATE: 4/1/13, 3:40 p.m. EDT. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has registered to lobby for U.S. Airways on its potential merger with AMR, a href="http://legalti

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