• October 26, 2012 | The Recorder

    Market for Tech Transactions Lawyers Is Heating Up

    SAN FRANCISCO — Technology transaction practices have hit the big time. And lawyers like Shearman & Sterling's Richard Hsu have the rise of multimillion-dollar patent deals an

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  • November 17, 2003 | Legal Times

    On the Record: Robert Stern

    Robert Stern is senior vice president and general counsel of Sodexho Inc. He supervises about 15 attorneys in the law depar as well as two attorneys in the government affairs depar

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  • August 3, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Rumble in the Alley

    When it came time for Silicon Alley-based MaxManager Corp., an online shopping organizer, to hire an outside law firm, chief executive Mordechai Beizer knew who he wanted. "Our very short list

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  • June 16, 2008 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    San Francisco Eugene Chung has joined San Francisco's STEIN & LUBIN as an associate. He practices corporate,

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  • May 11, 2012 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    SAN FRANCISCO Drew Williamson has joined Cooley as a partner. Williamson, who was previously with Lath

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  • February 13, 2009 | The Recorder

    One Day, 800 Jobs Lost

    SAN FRANCISCO — Almost 800 associates and legal staff nationwide returned home jobless Thursday after eight firms conducted mass layoffs, citing an unprecedented downturn in de

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  • January 23, 2002 | The Recorder

    Enron Mess Gives a Boost To MDP Foes

    The controversy over Arthur Andersen's handling of Enron Corp.'s books may not only stain the accounting giant's reputation, but could be a fatal blow to a marriage between the acco

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  • March 22, 2007 | The Recorder

    Silicon Valley IP lawyers are cleaning up with clean-tech clients

    When Morrison & Foerster's veteran intellectual property law partner Thomas Ciotti sat down at the MoFo energy group's annual partners meeting in late October, it raised some eyebrows. "Every

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  • December 12, 2011 | National Law Journal

    The decline continues

    The headcount among Washington firms continued to decline, but not as sharply as it did last year — the biggest recorded drop in 25 years. According to the Legal Times 150, our annual r

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  • December 8, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Law Firm Fees Defy Gravity

    Despite the rancid economy of 2008, attorney billing rates continued their escalation trend, with nearly 71% of law firms reporting an increase in the amount that they charged clients com

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