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  • December 28, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Big Suits

    VirnetX v. AppleOn November 6, a federal jury in Tyler, Texas, ordered Apple Inc. to pay $368 million for infringing four p

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  • May 21, 2007 | National Law Journal

    The rise of the new model firm

    As far as Mark Harris is concerned, the recent round of pay hikes for first-year associates at some of the nation's biggest law firms is the equivalent of applying a Band-Aid to a head w

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  • Smith v. Almada

    Publication Date: 2010-10-19
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    Date Filed: 2010-10-19
    Court: 9th Cir.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brett J. Votterro, Springfield, Massachusetts, for the appellant.
    for defendant: Anthony P. Serritella, Deputy City Attorney, Santa Monica, California, for the appellee.
    Case Number: 09-55334

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 13275ANTHONY W. SMITH; TERESA SMITH, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ROBERT ALMADA, Santa Monica

  • May 18, 2007 | Lawfirminc.

    The Data Boom: Can Law Firms Profit?

    In the fall of 2005, a small Israeli technology startup came to San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster with a lawsuit -- and, soon enough, a problem. The company had been mired in a contrac

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  • October 20, 2011 | Alm

    As Lateral Losses Mount, McDermott Leaders Focus on Growth

    More than two years into its current management regime, McDermott Will & Emery has seen at least 38 partners-including several practice group leaders-leave in 2011. The latest defe

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  • September 10, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Latham, Gardere Grab Roles on BP's Gulf of Mexico Asset Sale

    London-based energy giant BP has agreed to sell some of its deepwater oil and gas assets in the Gulf of Mexico to Houston-based Plains Exploration and Production in a a href="http://www.la

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  • April 6, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Impact of the Auction Rate Securities Market Collapse

    The collapse of the $330 billion Auction Rate Securities (ARS) market in February 2008 has been eclipsed in the media by a string of other dramatic collapses (and near collapses) on Wall

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  • October 14, 2008 | Legaltech News

    India Lures Corporate Outsourcing

    While you might expect the production of a button-down shirt to be outsourced to Guadalajara, most lawyers would not expect their caseloads to be shipped overseas. Should lawyers worry about outsou

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  • May 31, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Judge OKs Davis Settlement in Dewey Bankruptcy

    UPDATE: 6/2/13, 10:17 p.m. EDT. The sixth paragraph of this story has been revised to include comment from the attorney representing former Dewey & LeBoeuf e

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  • December 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn

    While the unemployment rate hovers near 10 percent and the U.S. economy struggles to right itself, it's no surprise that firms are leaning on their most reliable ­practice areas. This mont

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