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  • July 5, 2012 | The Recorder

    Vincent Maffeo

    If you wanted to build an impenetrable space shield capable of destroying flocks of incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles, who would you call? You might try Scientific Applications Int

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  • September 22, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Win Goes Sour for Biotech Firm

    The U.S. court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit appears to have written the end to a long-standing and hard-fought patent battle between two competing biotech companies.In a ruling h

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  • January 3, 2002 | The Recorder

    Profit Plunge

    Silicon Valley law firms saw profits plummet in 2001, and the biggest of them took the hardest hit of all.San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison said Thursday its profit

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  • November 29, 2004 | The Recorder

    Sidebar

    FOR THESE LITIGATORS, POKER IS ALL ACESThey were part of the poker scene long before cable TV and the Internet made it a national craze.Local litigators Lawrence Kern, J

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  • September 20, 2012 | The Recorder

    Illston Imposes $500 Million Fine in LCD Price-Fixing Case

    SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco federal judge ordered Taiwanese electronics manufacturer AU Optronics Corp. on Thursday to pay $500 million for its role in a long-running global conspira

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  • August 2, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn: Lateral Moves in The Am Law 200

    Blank Rome has absorbed the entirety of Houston-based law firm Bell, Ryniker & Letourneau. The acquisition has brought all eight of the maritime boutiqu rsquo;s lawyers to Blank Rom

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  • December 3, 1999 | The American Lawyer

    The Unlikely Radical

    It was 1892, and the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Company was hastily constructing walls around its plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania. Carnegie had first declined to renew its workers' contracts and then

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  • June 14, 2011 | Daily Business Review

    Federal Election Commission just wants its name right

    When lawyers from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr filed a complaint against federal election regulators, it may have been just another lawsuit against a beleaguered

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  • March 16, 2006 | The Recorder

    Snow Reaches Settlement in Brobeck Suit

    Former Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison Chairman Tower Snow Jr. has agreed to settle claims brought against him by a bankruptcy trustee in the 2003 implosion of the now infamous law firm.

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  • April 19, 2012 | The Recorder

    Privacy Suits Slamming App Developers

    Even the slickest mobile app can get caught in a privacy debacle. The blogosphere erupted in outrage in February after a blogger discovered San Francisco photo-sharing app Path was downloadin

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