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  • February 18, 2003 | The Recorder

    Quiet End as Brobeck Shuts Its Doors

    Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison quietly trudged through its final day Friday with departing lawyers setting up shop at new firms and glum staffers simply hoping they would get paid for their u

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  • March 2, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Little-Noticed SOX Provision Gains Traction

    Two-and-a-half years after the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a little noticed provision on whistleblowing is gaining traction.Within the sweeping corporate governance measures int

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  • March 12, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Law Firm Roundup

    SonicBlue Case Costs Pillsbury $10 Million Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has reached a $10 million settlement in a malpractice dispute with bankrupt clien

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  • January 23, 2002 | The Recorder

    Enron Mess Gives a Boost to MDP Foes

    The controversy over Arthur Andersen's handling of Enron Corp.'s books may not only stain the accounting giant's reputation, but could be a fatal blow to a marriage between the accountin

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  • July 20, 2005 | The Recorder

    Orders in the Court

    When U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White recently fined attorneys for violating his standing orders, the reaction around the courthouse ran from they-shoulda-known-better to eye-rolling over the

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  • March 2, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Top Law Firms Undergo a Rainbow Revolution

    In his famous dissent in Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down Texas's same-sex sodomy law, Antonin Scalia railed against the legal profession for embracin

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  • November 28, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Accolades

    Two law firms, an accounting firm and nine individual attorneys were recognized for outstanding pro bono legal services to nonprofit organizations with Cornerstone Awards, given by stro

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  • December 6, 2004 | The Recorder

    Cutting Litigation Off at the Pass

    Over the course of the last decade, employment cases have increasingly turned into bet-the-company lawsuits with millions (and sometimes tens of millions) of dollars at issue. Plaintiffs have

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  • April 5, 2012 | The Recorder

    Emily Ward

    Every second, people around the world trade about $2,100 worth of goods and services on eBay Inc. That adds up to a mountain of sales for the online auction site founded in 1995. Last

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  • August 2, 2000 | The Recorder

    California Court Allows Stock Fraud Case to Continue

    California's First District Court of Appeal ruled July 28 that a common law fraud case is not trumped by regulations in the field of securities fraud litigation, allowing a class action compla

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