• April 15, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Intellectual Property Litigation

    Is the patent system in need of "reform"? And what would reform look like? Those issues are the subject of an ongoing series of "Town Meetings" on the patent system initiated by the Federal Tr

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  • February 3, 2006 | Legal Times

    Google Searches for D.C. Presence

    Google. It's a noun. It's a verb. It's what people do before they do anything else on the Web. Google, it sometimes seems, is everywhere. Everywhere, that is, except Washington. Although the com

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  • July 12, 2004 | National Law Journal

    VERDICTS & SETTLEMENTS

    ANTITRUST Microsoft to pay $1.1B to settle California claims San Francisco (AP)-A judge granted final approval o

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  • December 29, 2011 | Special To Law.Com

    The Next Step for Lowering Law Firm Operating Expenses

    As the legal industry is approaching the close of the second year following what has become known as the worst global recession in decades, most firms have completed several rounds of operating c

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  • January 1, 2008 | Legaltech News

    Beyond English

    As global corporate communication becomes an everyday reality, there has been a sharp increase in the amount of relevant electronic data discovery in multiple languages.The software wo

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  • April 21, 2005 | The Recorder

    Ex-Partners Sue Townsend for Cut of Fees

    Two former equity partners are dueling with Townsend and Townsend and Crew over whether they should get a cut of the firm's bounty from an antitrust class action against Microsoft Corp.

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  • 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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  • February 22, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

    Brobeck Battles a Bug - and Wins

    When Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's chief information officer, Martin Metz, left the San Francisco firm to start his own company in August 1999, Brobeck had a hard time filling his shoes. Metz k

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  • October 14, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

    Court Says Firm Owns Idea in Worker's Head

    Does a company own your thoughts? Maybe. On July 26, Alcatel USA prevailed in a suit against former employee Evan Brown, who claimed that he -- rather than the company -- owned rights to a sof

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  • August 9, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

    Idea in Former Employee`s Head Belongs to Alcatel

    Does a company own your thoughts? Maybe. On July 26, Alcatel USA Inc., based in Plano, prevailed in a suit against former employee Evan Brown, who claimed that he -- rather than the company -

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