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  • October 29, 2008 | The Recorder

    Thelen Launches Dissolution Vote, Nixon Launches Offers

    SAN FRANCISCO — Thelen's Partnership Council recommended on Tuesday that the firm's partnership vote to dissolve the firm, informing staff that a dissolution committee had been

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  • October 17, 2006 | The Recorder

    Judicial Profile: Eileen Barker

    MEDIATOR: MORE THAN MONEY MATTERSBORN: Dec. 7, 1954LAW SCHOOL: Georgetown University Law Center, 1978For Eileen Barker, the problem with law

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  • March 31, 2008 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    SAN FRANCISCO Sara Brody has been named chair of Heller Ehrman's securities litigation practice group. Brody, who joined the firm in 2004, graduated from Emory Uni

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  • March 6, 2009 | The Recorder

    Tower Snow Joins S.F.'s Howard, Rice

    SAN FRANCISCO — Lawyers at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin weren't looking to add a securities litigator, and Tower Snow Jr. wasn't talking to smaller firms during a

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  • December 9, 2005 | Legal Times

    Bingham Plans Merger With D.C.'s Swidler

    Boston-based Bingham McCutchen plans to acquire the ailing D.C. law firm Swidler Berlin by the beginning of next year, a Bingham spokesman confirmed today.The deal awaits approval by b

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  • September 6, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New partners Manatt, Phelps & Phillips ( geles): Valentin G. Aguilar II joins the real estate and land use group in the firm's home office. He was previously in the

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  • October 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Bratz CEO Churns Through Firms in Fight Against Mattel

    Bratz dolls are known for their pouty demeanor. But pouty might also best describe Isaac Larian, chief executive of Bratz maker MGA Entertainment Inc., when dealing with the lawyers who have repres

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  • February 14, 2005 | Legal Times

    They Might Be Giants

    It began, perhaps appropriately enough, at Arabelle, a romantic Manhattan restaurant best known for its role as a "Sex and the City" set.Mary Cranston, the chair of San Francisco

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  • April 27, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Recession Has Some Firms Rethinking Growth Strategies

    PHILADELPHIA - The largest firms in the state have long called Pittsburgh and Philadelphia — and sometimes both — home, but their focus on growth opportunities ha

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  • April 19, 2004 | The American Lawyer

    Keeping e-Discovery Under Control

    Affymetrix Inc. is a successful biotechnology company, making tools that help scientists analyze genes. Unlike most of its rivals, it made money last year. But like many of its r

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