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  • January 25, 2000 | The Recorder

    LAW IN THE FAMILY

    Here's a glimpse of family ties among Silicon Valley lawyers: Rachel Rosati is the most recent addition to the network, having summered at Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich in Palo Alto. According to h

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  • May 22, 2012 | The Recorder

    Facebook to Settle Privacy Lawsuit Over Ads

    SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook Inc. is settling one of the only privacy-related class actions facing the newly public company that hasn't been dismissed by a judge for lack of standing, accord

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  • March 1, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Communicator

    ON A QWEST Rich Baer is chief legal officer at Denver-based Qwest Communications International Inc., the nation's third-largest telecommunications company. Within Qwest's 14

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  • March 1, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    The New New Math

    Suddenly we're famous. I can't remember a time when newspapers paid more attention to the legal profession than they have in the past few weeks, as they covered the spike in associate salar

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  • April 30, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Legal Business Falls With Plunge in IPOs

    A dire market for initial public offerings this year has triggered an abrupt halt in work for corporate lawyers who regularly handle issues associated with those financings.

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  • May 12, 2006 | The Recorder

    Six Days, Six Lawyers, $24 Billion

    Golden West Financial Corp. General Counsel Michael Roster used to tell outside lawyers in speeches that there were certain firms he would call in to do a major transaction, or ("God forbid") a maj

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  • August 23, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Closely Watched Hyperlink Patent Case Dismissed

    A British Telecommunications Inc. patent issued prior to the advent of the Internet does not cover hyperlinking, a New York federal judge has ruled.Tossing out British Telecom's infringement

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  • September 3, 2013 | The Recorder

    Lawyers Say Desperate HP Execs to Blame for Autonomy Fiasco

    SAN FRANCISCO — Desperate to shore up Hewlett-Packard, former CEO Leo Apotheker rushed the purchase of Autonomy and his successor, Meg Whitman, duped shareholders about the success

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  • November 8, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Medarex CEO Resigns Amid Probe, Litigation Over Backdated Options

    The chief executive of New Jersey's fourth-largest biotech company resigned on Monday, done in by backdated executive stock options that have sparked a shareholders suit, a grand jury subpoena and

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  • January 7, 2002 | Legal Times

    Lessons of the Last Recession

    "If the performance in the first quarter continues, the firm will not be able to survive in its present form."The managing partner of a large D.C. firm issued that grim warning to his collea

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