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  • March 20, 2007 | Alm

    IP Lawyers Slow To Embrace 'Fast Track'

    Call it the Patent Express. The Patent Application Superhighway. The Fast Train to Patentville. Call it what you will - the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has approved the first patent under

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  • April 23, 2007 | The Recorder

    Going Green

    When Thomas Ciotti, a veteran intellectual property partner at Morrison & Foerster, took a seat last fall at a meeting of the firm's energy group partners, it raised some eyebrows in

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  • August 18, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    Laterals Baker & Hostetler (Cleveland): James A. Mercadante and Steven H. Goldberg have joined as partners, resident in New York. The business transactions attorneys arriv

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  • December 21, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Martindale Faces Challenges

    PHILADELPHIA — Ten years ago it was still a rite of passage. As early as five years ago it was a tradition. But in the past two or so years, firms have started to question the usefulness

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  • April 19, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Finance Partner Leaving Drinker Biddle for Buchanan Ingersoll

    Former Drinker Biddle & Reath management committee member Peter P. Ackourey is taking his lender-based commercial finance practice to Buchanan Ingersoll. Ackourey, who has worked

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  • October 30, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Obituary: Lorraine Power Tharp

    Lorraine Power Tharp, a past president of the New York State Bar Association, died yesterday of breast cancer. She was 60. The third woman to lead the state bar, Ms. Tharp s

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  • August 29, 2007 |

    Meet an In-House Cost-Cutter Who Believes in Fixed Fees

    As general counsel of Cisco Systems Inc., Mark Chandler is required to run the company's legal department precisely how other corporate groups there are run. Despite the unique demands on in-house

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  • April 23, 2007 | Ip Magazine

    So What Do You Think?

    For the first time, starting this spring, the public will be examining patent claims and submitting prior art for pending patent applications. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will b

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  • June 16, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

    Few Large Firms Answer FMC's Calls for Help

    FMC Technologies Inc., the Houston-based oil and gas equipment company, used Legal OnRamp, the social networking site for lawyers, to spread the word last month that a target="new" href="http://ww

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  • December 20, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Martindale-Hubbell Faces Challenges

    Ten years ago it was still a rite of passage. As early as five years ago it was a tradition. But in the past two or so years, firms have started to question the usefulness of a class="linelink" hr

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