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  • July 21, 2006 | The Recorder

    In Backdating Scandal, Wilson Sonsini Is Center Stage

    Of the 32 Silicon Valley companies publicly implicated in a backdating scandal that's gained steam since the Wall Street Journal reported on the issue earlier this year, Wilson Sonsini Goodr

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  • September 15, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    HP Scandal Could Be Wake-Up Call for Companies, Lawyers

    With details of the scandal that has rocked Hewlett-Packard slowly leaking out and seeming confusion over who will be charged with what, local lawyers can only offer educated guesses as to wha

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  • September 29, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Supreme Court Vacates Classwide Awards

    On June 23, in Green Tree Fin. Corp. v. Bazzle, 123 S. Ct. 2402 (2003), the U.S. Supreme Court overturned two multimillion-dollar classwide awards, holding that where a mandatory arbitr

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  • July 10, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Elected and AppointedPeter J. Hoffman, a shareholder at McKissock & Hoffman, has been appointed by Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ralph J. Cappy to the committe

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  • November 20, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Airlines Hit by Antitrust Actions Over Fuel Surcharges

    More than 70 antitrust class actions have been filed against Korean Air Lines Co. in the wake of its agreement to pay a $300 million fine to the U.S. Department of Justice and plead guilty to f

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  • May 4, 2006 | National Law Journal

    New Pay Rules Worry Companies

    Employment attorneys say corporations are bracing themselves for audits that could disclose flaws in how they pay employees and trigger future discrimination lawsuits. The anticipated audits

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  • February 2, 2004 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    San FranciscoPiper Rudnick has elevated 16 to partner, including Rachel Matteo-Boehm in San Francisco. Matteo-Boehm's practice focuses on media law and inte

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  • July 19, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Six Firms Handle $3 Billion Deal For Huma me Sciences British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline will acquire biopharmaceutical corporation Huma

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  • July 29, 2003 | The Recorder

    State Bar OKs Easing Restrictions on Out-of-State Lawyers

    LOS ANGELES -- State Bar leaders on Saturday endorsed proposed rules that would open the practice of law to out-of-state attorneys, but only over the protests of a vocal minority who say the c

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  • November 16, 1999 | Legal Times

    Deal Review: Raising the Bar

    In 1976, Elvis was still alive, computers ran on punch cards, and $15 million was a lot of money. Times have changed - but not the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act. A cornerstone of antitrust l

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