• October 12, 2009 | The Recorder

    Young MoFo Partner Lands Hot Silicon Valley GC Gig

    Dawn Smith made partner two years ago at Morrison & Foerster. Now she'll be general counsel at one of Silicon Valley's biggest new companies, VMWare Inc. The virtualization software comp

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  • October 9, 2009 | The Recorder

    Morrison & Foerster Partner Tapped to Be GC at Silicon Valley's VMWare

    Dawn Smith made partner two years ago at Morrison & Foerster. Now she'll be general counsel at one of Silicon Valley's biggest new companies, VMWar

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  • October 9, 2009 | The Recorder

    Young MoFo Partner Lands Hot GC Gig

    SAN FRANCISCO — Dawn Smith made partner two years ago at Morrison & Foerster. Now she'll be general counsel at one of Silicon Valley's biggest new companies, VMWare Inc. The vi

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  • February 28, 2013 | Bloomberg

    Obama's SEC pick wary of zealous Wall Street prosecutions

    As Manhattan's top federal prosecutor during the 1990s, Mary Jo White could have sought the corporate equivalent of the death penalty: indicting Prudential Securities Inc. for fraudulently ma

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  • April 25, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    The 2013 Am Law 100

    Well, now we know which firms were swimming naked after all. In fiscal 2012, The Am Law 100—which welcomes new members Bracewell & Guiliani; Faegre Baker Daniels; Fragomen, Del R

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  • October 27, 2008 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    SAN FRANCISCO Veena Beglinger has been admitted to the State Bar of Arizona. Beglinger is a special counsel at LUCE, FORWARD, HAMI

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  • October 19, 2012 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    SAN FRANCISCO Eliot Jubelirer has been elected to the San Francisco Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. Jubelirer, a partner at Schiff

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  • August 8, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Firms starving for class action

    THE ERA WAS marked by mysterious envelopes. When opened, the official-looking documents inside informed the reader that, because he owned three shares of, say, Microsoft Corp. stock some year

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  • October 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    A Break with the Past

    In July, London's Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer faced an unwelcome milestone in its 264-year history: getting sued by a former partner, for the first time ever. In an employment claim, Peter

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  • May 4, 2010 | Daily Business Review

    Hogan & Hartson links up with Lovells

    Hogan Lovells is a reality - a 2,500-lawyer, 47-office megafirm that spans four continents. As of Saturday, the merged firm's leaders have to manage their leviathan and clean up the mass of

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