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  • June 11, 2012 | Texas Lawyer

    Inadmissible

    Pro Bono Awards For her contributions to developing San Antonio's Community Justice Program, 4th Court of Appeals Justice Phylis Speedlin has become the first to win a new State Bar

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  • June 8, 2005 | The Recorder

    Cisco's Chief Patent Counsel Heads to Boalt

    Robert Barr, Cisco Systems Inc.'s longtime chief patent counsel, is leaving to become executive director of Boalt Hall School of Law's Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. Barr, w

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  • May 20, 2004 | The Recorder

    Directv Surrenders Assets to French Electronics Firm

    Morrison & Foerster is helping Thomson SA satisfy its urge to converge.The French electronics company will acquire manufacturing assets from The DirecTV Group Inc. in a deal

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  • March 18, 2011 | The Recorder

    The Psychic Rewards of Law Firm Partnership

    A commercial litigator with eight years in practice, Jessica Valenzuela Santamaria said she "felt really incredible" when she was told that she had made partner at Cooley in November afte

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  • December 22, 2008 | Daily Report Online

    Small firms hold, cut rates for '09

    Two local boutique firms have announced that they are holding the line on rates for 2009, even as larger firms say they're raising rates for clients already beleaguered by the dismal eco

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  • May 21, 2009 |

    Call Him Dr. No.

    Bob Shafer is one unhappy doctor. An expert in bioinformatics — the science of using computers to enhance medical treatment and decision making — Shafer has learned more

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  • May 1, 2008 |

    Editor's Note

    I have never sat on an admissions committee for Harvard or Princeton, but I now have much more empathy for their difficult task. How do you make the cut among so many qualified applicants? We began

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  • November 30, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Diversity Efforts at Largest Dallas Law Firms Stall

    Nearly all of the 20 largest law firms in Dallas are trying to improve the racial and ethnic diversity of their staffs -- but few are succeeding, according to a survey released last week. Th

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  • December 9, 2003 | The Recorder

    Rates on the Rise

    Fenwick & West is wasting no time cashing in on the possibility of an economic recovery in Silicon Valley.After two years of holding billable hour rates for partners steady, Fenw

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  • October 19, 2001 | New York Law Journal

    Minority Law Student Program Aids New York Firms Seeking Diversity

    As second-year law school students around New York City prepare for on-campus interviews for next year's summer associate classes, several minority students will be able to boast of havi

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