• September 25, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Wilson Sonsini Slashes 35 Secretarial Jobs

    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati announced Wednesday that it is eliminating about 35 secretarial positions primarily in its Palo Alto office. Co-managing partners Douglas Clark and Jack

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  • Professional Engineers in California Government v. Schwarzenegger

    Publication Date: 2010-10-04
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    Date Filed: 2010-10-04
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Law Offices of Brooks Ellison and Patrick J. Whalen for Plaintiffs and Appellants California Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges and Hearing Officers in State Employment. Paul Harris and Anne M. Giese for Plaintiff and Appellant Service Employees International Union Local 1000. Gerald A. James; Altshuler Berzon, Stephen P. Berzon and Danielle Leonard for Plaintiffs and Appellants Professional Engineers in California Government and California Association of Professional Scientists. Reed Smith, Harvey L. Leiderman and Jeffrey R. Rieger for Teachers? Retirement Board of the California State Teachers? Retirement System as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants. Kelly Vent as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Richard J. Chivaro, Ronald V. Placet, Shawn D. Silva, Ana Maria Garza; Remcho, Johansen & Purcell, Robin B. Johansen and Margaret R. Prinzing for Defendant and Appellant. K. William Curtis, Warren C. Stracener, Linda A. Mayhew, Will M. Yamada; Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, David W. Tyra, Kristianne T. Seargeant and Meredith H. Packer for Defendants and Respondents. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Gordon B. Burns, Deputy State Solicitor General, Jonathan K. Renner, Assistant Attorney General, James M. Humes Stephen P. Acquisto and Mark R. Beckington, Deputy Attorneys General, for California Constitutional Officers as Amicus Curiae.

    Case Number: No. S183411

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 12808PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS IN CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT, et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. p class="casenam

  • November 7, 2005 | Alm

    Private Firms Hired by States for High Court

    Georgia is paying $80,000 to a lawyer at one of the nation's largest firms to handle the state's side in an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case. Attorney General Thurbert Baker accepted t

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  • Bowles v. New York City Transit Authority, 00 Civ 4213

    Publication Date: 2006-06-13
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    Date Filed: 2006-05-23
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District
    Judge: Barbara Jones
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    Case Number: 00 Civ 4213

    U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Attorney for Plaintiff: Samuel Racer, Esq. and Steven Savva, Esq. Attorney for Defendant: Robert K. Drinan, Esq.

  • February 6, 2002 | National Law Journal

    Top Defense Verdicts

    Plaintiffs' huge victories make headlines. Defendants often dodge disaster in obscurity. Yet many of the wins by defendants are as noteworthy as the megamillion judgments won by plainti

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  • November 8, 2007 | International Edition

    Wal-Mart Memo Slams Associate Pay Hikes

    Wal-Mart has demanded a freeze on across-the-board rate increases from its outside counsel, claiming that associate salary hikes have had an unacceptable impact on law firm billing rates.A m

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  • March 22, 2004 | Daily Business Review

    Tough Judge Spars With Prosecutor

    With Attorney General John Ashcroft watching their sentencing patterns to make sure they're tough enough, many federal judges around the country are unhappy and on edge. For smal

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  • October 14, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Immigration Law

    The latest spate of merger deals is another promising harbinger of better economic times.1 They may also illustrate economist Joseph Schumpeter's principle of "creative destruction&

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  • Pemex-Refinacion v. Tbilisi Shipping Co. Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2004-09-16
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    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District
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    U.S. District Court Southern District of New York Judge Baer Plaintiff Petroleos Mexicanos Refinancion ("Pemex") moves for an order pursuant to 9 U.S.C. §§4,

  • May 1, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    At Dewey, More Partners Scatter, Leaders Scramble, and Holdouts Confront a Grim Reality

    A heightened sense of urgency gripped Dewey & LeBoeuf Tuesday as its remaining attorneys and staff awoke to confront the grim prosp

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