• November 26, 2008 | National Law Journal

    How One Small Firm Is Coping With the Economic Crisis

    On a recent Monday, Nimish Patel walked into the offices of five of his associates to deliver the bad news: They were laid off. His Los Angeles law firm, a target="new" href="htt

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  • October 23, 2001 | The Minority Law Journal

    Staying Power

    Alice Young has often confounded expectations throughout her career. Though born of Chinese parents in America, she's frequently assumed to be Japanese because of her fluency in the lang

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  • September 2, 2013 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    LATERALS Murtha Cullina (Hartford, Conn.): Karen Kepler joins the firm's business and fin­ance department

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  • June 5, 2009 | National Law Journal

    SEC Goes After Countrywide CEO and Other Top Execs

    The Securities and Exchange Commission is going after its highest-profile target yet as it sorts through the wreckage of the subprime mortgage meltdown: former chief executive officer of Country

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  • June 28, 2013 | Commercial Litigation Insider

    Divergent RMBS Rulings Highlight Issue of Uniformity

    Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in The New York Law Journal on June 13. This is an updated version of the story that includes

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  • February 2, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    So Who Are the Top Legal Contributors to America's Super PACs?

    On Tuesday, The New York Times tracked the top donors to the so-called super political action committees, or super PACs, that came to life in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens Uni

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  • June 18, 2007 | The Recorder

    Boston Firms Carve Tech Niches Out West

    Steven Rosenthal is getting used to the "one-day, Boston to California, red-eye back to Boston" trip. The co-managing partner at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo has been making

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  • Mattel, Inc. v. MGA Entertainment, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-07-22
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2010-07-22
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel P. Collins (argued), Kelly M. Klaus, Aimee Feinberg and Mark Yohalem, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, California; and John B. Quinn, Susan R. Estrich, Michael T. Zeller and B. Dylan Proctor, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, Los Angeles, California, for the appellee. Simon J. Frankel, Margaret D. Wilkinson and Steven D. Sassaman, Covington & Burling LLP, San Francisco, California; Steven M. Freeman and Steven C. Sheinberg, Anti-Defamation League, New York, New York; and Michelle N. Deutchman, Anti-Defamation League, Los Angeles, California, for amici Anti-Defamation League et al.
    for defendant: E. Joshua Rosenkranz (argued) and Lisa T. Simpson, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, New York, New York; Annette L. Hurst and Warrington S. Parker III, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, San Francisco, California; and Thomas J. Nolan and Jason D. Russell, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Los Angeles, California, for the appellants.

    Case Number: No. 09-55673

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 9316MATTEL, INC., a Delaware corporation, Defendant-counter-claimantAppellee, v.MGA ENTERTAI

  • July 1, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Ready to Commit

    Ashurst wants a transatlantic merger. This is nothing new. Many partners at the London-based firm still refer to Latham & Watkins as "the one that got away," after a proposed merg

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  • November 28, 2005 | The Recorder

    Sidebar

    LAWYER TAKES ON 'BIG SACRIFICE' WITH ASSEMBLY BIDIf San Francisco plaintiff lawyer Terrence Coleman manages to win the state Assembly seat he's gunning for next year, you might

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