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  • March 4, 2005 | The Recorder

    Verdict In Varian Thrown Out and New Trial Ordered

    California's anti-SLAPP statute got a boost from the state Supreme Court on Thursday when justices decided that appeals based on the landmark First Amendment law must be decided before a case

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  • November 14, 2011 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    LATERALS MARTEN LAW (Seattle): Robert Lawrence joins the firm as partner in its new San Francisco office, where he will focus on ener

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  • June 20, 2003 | The Recorder

    PG&E, CPUC Craft Agreement on Bankruptcy

    Nearly four months after being ordered into judicially supervised settlement talks, state regulators and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. have resolved their differences and have agreed to a pla

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  • May 2, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

    Parlez-Vous Global Marketing?

    Rapid economic growth in many countries is fueling big growth opportunities these days for U.S. firms. In good times and bad, legal services are required at nearly every step of the internatio

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  • August 29, 2001 | The Recorder

    Firms Quietly Lose Lawyer Weight

    Last Thursday's decision by Cooley Godward to lay off 86 associates was a very public step in a year-long effort by San Francisco Bay Area firms to trim their attorney ranks in the wake of the

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  • December 10, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Law Firms Face Gray Area as Boomers Age

    Getting old has never been so good. If you're healthy and productive and eager to keep working, there's a law firm out there that wants you. Need work/life balance? No problem. Fancy setting your o

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  • July 11, 2007 | The Recorder

    Are Big Firms Warming Up to Alternative Fee Deals?

    Looking down the barrel of a threatening patent infringement action from Sanyo, Chinese cell phone battery maker BYD wanted the IP heavyweights at Howrey -- but not their heavy rates. The A

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  • September 7, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Slowdown in Filings Fuels Competition for Bankruptcy Cases

    Something new is facing New York's bankruptcy bar—a slowdown in business. Just two years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., the number of businesses filing for Ch

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  • June 21, 2001 | The American Lawyer

    Space Odyssey

    If only these walls could speak, they'd be saying: Bet your old man didn't have zebra stripes on his office walls!If your old man was a lawyer, he didn't have to. The design of his off

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  • April 24, 2000 | The Recorder

    Signs of Change

    Law firm partners arriving at Boalt Hall School of Law to conduct job interviews three years ago got a surprise when they entered the room occupied by student Kirstin Wolf.They had not been told

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