• March 20, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS . . . Eric Groten has joined Vinson & Elkins in Austin as an administrative and environmental partner. . . . George S. Christian has joined Cantey & Hange

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  • July 24, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Law Schools Brace for Challenging Recruiting Season

    The dog days of summer haven't hit yet, but already there's a chill in the air on law school campuses. As firms backtrack on promises to recruit summer associates, law schools are working ov

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  • September 1, 2009 |

    Big Suits

    Abbott Laboratories v. Lupin Ltd In May the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit resolved a two-decade-plus internal split over the issue of product-by-process claims. S

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  • February 28, 2013 | National Law Journal

    New York real estate boutique hires Cooley partners

    Four real estate attorneys have jumped from Cooley to 60-lawyer Duval & Stachenfeld in New York, including a former chairman of its real estate practice and a senior partner.

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  • July 1, 2011 | Focus Europe

    Arbitration Scorecard: Contract Disputes

    A listing of contract arbitrations active in 2009-10 in which at least $500 million was at stake. Correction, 6/30/11: Due to a datab

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  • May 13, 2009 | The Recorder

    Tech companies taking more patent fights to trial

    Yahoo Inc. headed to trial in Texas this week against patent holding company Creative Internet Advertising Corp.-and if it feels like the very first time, it's because the last time the Inter

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  • February 12, 2013 | The Recorder

    Future Is Bright for Silicon Valley's In-House Lawyers

    Leonard Stein started at data management company Splunk Inc. in April 2011 as the company's general counsel and only lawyer. Since then, he's hired nine more and is looking now for anothe

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  • February 9, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    The Sports Authority, Inc., a sporting goods retailer based in Englewood, Colo., has been acquired by an investment group affiliated with Leonard Green & Partners, L.P., a Lo

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  • October 1, 2012 | National Law Journal

    In Campaign Donations, DLA Piper Skews Toward Obama

    Lawyers at the nation’s biggest law firms are voting with their wallets — and President Obama is the clear winner. His biggest supporters? Lawyers at DLA Piper, who have given Obama

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  • July 29, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Coors Merger Involves Weil Gotshal, Simpson Thacher, Shearman & SterlingAdolph Coors Co. and Molson Inc. announced a merger of equals July 22 to create the wor

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