• March 1, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    Gilead Pharmasset Gilead Sciences, Inc., agreed to pay $11 billion in cash for Pharmasset, Inc., on November 21, 2011, to acquire the target's treatments for hepatitis C, also

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  • July 31, 2008 | Law.com

    Associates Survey 2008

    Ranking The Firms: National Rank

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  • October 24, 2007 | The Recorder

    Calif. Wildfires Drive Lawyers From Homes, Offices

    As a brown haze shrouded Southern California on Tuesday, law firms in San Diego's Carmel Valley region remained shuttered, and more and more local attorneys were forced to leave their homes.

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  • July 18, 2005 | The Recorder

    The Waiver Dilemma

    Although corporations have long relied on internal investigations by outside counsel to discover the scope of -- and assess responsibility for -- financial fraud, accounting irregularities and

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  • November 19, 2001 | The Recorder

    Brobeck Gives Some Associates Buyout Offer

    In a last-ditch effort to avoid layoffs, San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison is offering to pay underperforming associates in its business and technology group as much as five

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  • March 15, 2006 | The Recorder

    TiVo Against the Giants

    TiVo Inc. has market presence that companies 10 times its size can only dream of. The little black box that it sells gives viewers control over when they watch their favorite TV shows, making it th

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  • June 9, 2005 | The Recorder

    Brobeck Fight Turns to Venue Choice

    A public sparring match is set to take place between Tower Snow Jr., the former chairman of now-defunct Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, and Ronald Greenspan, the firm's bankruptcy trustee.

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  • July 23, 2004 | The Recorder

    Ebay Ruling Punctures Web Liability Shield

    EBay Inc.'s savvy user agreement protects it from liability for defamatory postings on its Web site, an appeal court has ruled. But the court's decision left vulnerable other online content pr

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  • February 1, 2000 | The Recorder

    Taking Root

    Valerie Dawson took six months of maternity leave last year, and when she got back to Fenwick & West, she found that her practice had changed quite radically. The litigator continued to deal w

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  • February 25, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Top Litigator Bids Farewell to Pennie & Edmonds

    If any two partners can be said to symbolize a firm, S. Leslie Misrock and Jonathan A. Marshall symbolized New York's Pennie & Edmonds. Both top trial lawyers in the field of intellectua

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