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  • August 17, 2005 | The Recorder

    'Grokster' Has Patent Bar Taking Notice

    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios v. Grokster is obviously one of the most important copyright law decisions in recent memory. Less obviously, it has the potential to influence patent law sig

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  • May 27, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Firms Take Hard Line on Law Directories

    What is the single biggest marketing expense at many large law firms? Not hip, computer-animated television commercials. Not bold, full-page ads in The New York Times or The Wall Str

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  • May 30, 2003 | The Recorder

    High Court Hears Clash of Speech, Trade Secrets Law

    In only his second appearance before the California Supreme Court as attorney general, Bill Lockyer had it easy on Thursday.A total of two questions were lobbed his way during his 10 m

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  • November 11, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

    ABA Offers Firm-Switching Lawyers Guidance on Avoiding Conflicts

    When lawyers change firms, they should disclose limited information about prior clients in order to prevent conflicts, an American Bar Association panel says in an opinion aimed at resolving a clas

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  • January 7, 2002 | Law.com

    Outside Counsel

    Reforms Raise Hurdle in Securities Class ActionsIn an unusual interlocutory appeal under Rule 23(f) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Ci

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  • March 21, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Municipal Law

    Jeffrey D. Friedlander is First Assistant Corporation Counsel of the City of New York. Steven Goulden, an assistant corporation counsel in the law department, provided assistance in

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  • June 25, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Pace of New Law Firm Offices Is Brisk

    Despite the economic downturn in 2008, law firms have opened new offices at a brisk pace so far this year. Dozens of law firms have planted flags on the West Coast, in the Midwest and

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  • April 9, 2007 | Daily Business Review

    Is the Class Action Fairness Act Burdening Federal Courts?

    Congressional Republicans who pushed through a class action overhaul bill in 2005 said they hoped to block plaintiffs attorneys from forum shopping and obtaining settlements in which consumers rece

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  • December 20, 2001 | The Recorder

    Going It Alone

    When Micah Jacobs got a pink slip from Cooley Godward in August, he could have used it as a ticket to depression. But instead of sitting on the couch eating Dove Bars and watchin

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  • August 25, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Fortune 250's Go-To Firms

    When Joseph Ryan arrived at Marriott International Inc. back in December 1994 as its new general counsel, he inherited an Augean stable of well over 200 law firms. At the time, the bloated leg

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